Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-10-24

Ell PAso, Oct, ia special to the
Times from Camp Edward Powers, near
San Diego says: The government rain
making expedition, under charge of
John L. Ellis, is still hard at work try
ing to make clouds come and drop rain
over this country. From 2 o'clock yes
terday morning until late last night
they kept up heavy firing. The result
was an unprecedently heavy dew, but
not drop of rain. Today the sun rose
upon a cloudless sky and the hopes Of
the scientists were the only thing damp
ened. The earth was dry save for the
surface dew. All this morning the sky
was without clouds, bus at about 4
o'clock this afternoon light fieecy clouds
began to show themselves above the
horizon lin all directions. They were
the same kind of clouds that have been
coming up evening after evening for
three weeks, only it has entirely disap-
peared the next morning. Great prep
arations were being made today to con-
tinue the experiment this evening and
at this time, s O'Clock, the battle is rag
ing furiously. There is a continuous
roar which shakes the ground; every
now and then it is accentuated by the
terrific explosion of one Of the oxyhy-
rodes filed ballons. Old soldiers say
that it is more like real battle than
anything they have yet heard. Many
hundreds of charges of dy Mantle and
rackaroek powder are being exploded
and twelve pound cannons are being
fred as fast as they can be. Ten SOL
diers from Fort Bliss under command OF
Lieutenant S. Allen Dyer are working as
hard as they could if real enemy was
in sight and the mortars are hurting q
pound bombs high into the air and the
earth is trembling from the conclusion.
If rain comes tomorrow the rainmakers
Will probably have other engagements to
fill here and in Mexico. If tomorrow is
dry the members Of the expedition will
go back to Washington. The present
indications are for dry weather.
TERRYvILLE, Conn.,, Oct ia brutal
crime was perpetrated by Engineer Jas.
A. Bradshaw, of the Eagle Lock COM
pany late Thursday afternoon. As he
was going through the shop he ap-
preached W. A. Hough, aged IL years,
and ordered him to go to another part
of the shCp on an errand. Bradshaw
had no authority over the men in the
factory and the boy refused to obey.
Bradshaw repeated the command and
upon q second refusal, picked the boy
up In his arms and carrying him to a
vat of yitriol in the room dashed him
head downward several times before the
other employees of the room, too hor-
rtied to stir at first, could interfere.
The boys screams were agonizing. His
hair was all burned off, his scalp was
raw, his face and neck were horribly
burned and both eyes were burned out.
His recovery is doubtful. Bradshaw
returned to the engine room and was at
once discharged. He walked out Of the
shop and disappeared. He has not yet
been arrested. The employees Of the
shop, among whom Hough was a gener-
al favorite, threaten to lynch the brute
if they find him.
GUTHRIE, o. T., Oct. 19.-Hundreds
of boomers congregated in the Cherokee
strip along Black Bear river are build
ing houses for the winter, They have
organized a squatter's league and viii
resent any attempt to eject them by
securing injunctions in the courts, on
the ground that the strip is public land
by the decisions Of the courts and they
have right to settle there.