Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-08-22
WE:E.MLY CITIZEN.
LOCAL ITEM s.

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 Casa Grsnde is we'll supplied witt water at present.
 Plated Lemon Knives at Hughes Stevens & Co.
 Foundations of the university cot tages are in progress.
 Plated Lemonade Strainers at Hughes Stevens & Co.
 The Santa Cruz has nearly reached its normal proportions once more.
 Pumping has been generally sus pended by the ranchers of the county.
 Water all along the line of the rail road is reported lying in the low places.
 Voting for bonds for school im- provements takes place on the trst oi September.
 Hughes, Stevens < Go. are in receipt of large consignment ot paints, oils and vsrnishes.
 A large load of timbers left today for Maish's Deep Well ranch, to be used in improvement there.
 -One arrest by the police WAS made last night, for disturbing the peace oi the south end of town.
 Two or three small breaks occurred along the main line of the water main above town Tuesday.
 Wagon sales are not the slowests in Tucson of late. Recently seven wagons were sold by one firm to ranchers from the San Pedro valley.
 The monthly report of the agricul- tural department shows the average of exceIlence ;of crops to be: wheat. 98; barley, 97; potatoes, 97; timothy, 90.
 At Yuma wrecks of the buildings damaged by the late flood are being put in order to be utilized in new buIldings, now projected, to replace them.
 No mail has arrived from Nogales since last Saturday, owing to wash0uts on the Sonora railroad. When the read will be opened is not yet known.
 Go to Hughes, Stevens & Co. and buy some to those Electric paints re ady pre- pared for use, and fix up your home be- fore your wife comes back from Cal ifornia.
 The foreman of the Indian school farm, Mir. Thompson, left yesterday for Solomonville to appear against tEe man taking the horse from the school, and to bring back the animal.
 Band practice by the Philharmo nics could be heard to the opposite end of the city last evening. The usual weekly discourse of harmony takes place at the at the city plaza tonight, by them.
 The fine residence property on PennIrgton street, north of the Brichta store, belonging to s. Heran. has been purchased by A. V. Grossetta, for 8 consideration of sl ,350.
 -Exgmlnation of applicants for positions in the railway mail service takes place at the postoffice tomorrow. Thus far fourteen applications have been handed to the pOstD Daster. It is not unlikely that more will be received. A very angry man woke up On rorth Meyer street this morning and found that some unfeeling COW of nomadic and nocturnal proclivitles had made away with his entire shrubbery and young trees, including soms rare and costly bushes brought from Georgia.
 The Silver Pitcher saloon entire. fixtures, stock and good will, has been purchased by Julius Goldoaum, of his brother Solomon Goldbaum. J. Gold baum will run both his business at his place opposite, and the newly purchased establishment.
 Trade with the Indians from the Casa GIande and the Maricopa region, and even so far as Tempe is good in the city at present. This is due to the wheat crop, which they have just sold, and to free transportation given them by the Southern Pacific on the top of freight trains.
 Repairs are in progress ct the recent washout, eight Eoiles below RlllIto. The track was slightly misplaced by the water for half mile and is now being cribbed. Trains pass ever 1t at about four miles an hour.
 Tuesday afternoon party of boys at Yuma were swimming near the bridge, when one of them, Mexican offourteen years, swan into a small whirlpool, which took him under. He was found . half hour later, dead, all efforts at resucitstion being unevailing.
 -Order. have been received by the Tucson postoffics that in accordance every piece If mail, letter, package or paper, received for thirty days, beginning from September 1st, must be weighed
 .L aka ar.F1% the country. The office was further notified that Tucson had been selected ss one of the points where such count ing and weighing shall be held, and Postmaster Corbett and assistants are preparing for 6 big months work.
 Names of the mines in Arizona embrace about everything possible to include in nomenclature. An o,ldity has turned up in the recorders ofic-, m some miaing deeds just recorded. Evidently the locator WAS periodically inclined. They include the b. $. Grant, Ben Franklin, Grover Cleveland, James A. Garfield, Abe Lincoln, Henry Clay. Geo. Washington, Rochambeau, and Lafayette.
 The funeral of NJ. K. Mulcahy, who died at the hospital Tuesday afternoon took place thls morning at ten, under the auspices of the G. A. F.. A firing party of company D, Tucson militia were present, consisting of Privates Brophy, Bostick, W. Sullivan, Lamb Spicer, Johnson, Hughes and Morris who performed it very precisely aad ably.
 Recorders Office.