Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-08-27
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY AUGUSTA, 1892

 plaza make.
 Ram indications are good as the paper goes to press this eveing.
 Some more buildings like the new post office is now promised to Tucson
 J. P Lonergan has received large consignment of freight at the depot to- day.
 Mrs Herbert Brown and children returned from California this morning.
 James Tallmadge, out on his ranch to-day. was somewhat overcome by the heat. Dr. Fenner IS now attending hlm
 Father billy returned from Florence this morning to which point he had started on visit last week.
 The marriage of Mir. Alfredo Moreno and Miss. Ysabel Delsi was celebrated at the catholic church yesterday in this city.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ignacio Gonzales were SC renaded last night at the residence or Fred G. Hughes by the philharmonic band.
 Sullivan and Corbett are to face each other in the first days of September and New Orleans is making preparations.
 The order of the Knights of Pythias of I Ueson, have completed a handsome fence around their cemetery and pret- ty design gate.
 Mother Immaculate Superioress of St. Mary's Hospital and Sister Rose musical directoress of the Academy, ac companied by one other Sister, return ed from California this morning.
 The biennial session of the Knights Of Pythias takes place m Kansas City the 23rd to 21th of this month. The Supreme Lodge meets on this occasion. 1t is claimed that it will be grand affair.
 Messrs. Palmer & Lawton have beautiful painting of landscape scene in Arizona. 1t is from she brush of the artists of that firm on Con gress street, and does them great credit.
 There is report of several marriages soon 10 take place in Tucson, among them Is one of the city's brightest young men who has captured the heart and hand of the ideal daughter of one of the oldest families of the city.
 The new postoffice building is rear- ing Its proportions skyward and will make an imposing structure. It is said that real estate adjoining has been nego- tiated for and the chances are that a substantial business block will be the outcome of these negotiations.
 The sentiment and talk all around town Is that as these fine buildings are going up a water pressure must be Sc cured to resist the ravages of fire. 4 well equipped fire department will prove of no avail unless they are seconded by suitable water pressure.
 The progress Arizona is making is ex emDllEed by the signs over our stores even. Heretofore all fruits sold were mostly California. Now signs read, Salt River Valley Fruit Store, Mesa City Fruit Store, Santa Cruz Valley FraIt Store. Verify. Arizona is marching on with bands of music in behalf of great transformation.
 Marshal Rorhe wears upon the lappel of his coat a badge given to him by the wife of 4. G. Ruttner, who was former ly marshal of the city. The badge is beautiful solid gold che and surmount ed by the American eagle, bearing the following inscription: Presented to A. G. Buttner by the citizens of Tue son, Feby. 25th, 1881.
 Mir. Chas. T. Cornell has arrived in the city from Globe where he had been to bring his family to Tucson. Ills niece, Miss Msude Kenyon. accompani- ed him also from Globe. On his way to Tucson be stopped at the Nam moth mine and went through the work ings of the same. He speaks in most glowing terms of that truly great gold property and bears out all the kind | things that have been said about it in | the past. Constable Speedy captured Big Foot | George in Nogales and brought him to | Tucson on a charge of horse stealing. 1 George sold the horse to some one on | the road between Tucson and Nogales, | and then crossed into Sonora, but the | money he had purchased lots Of mescal. | and tie mescsl proved top-heavy and he | sought the land where floats the stars | md stripes once more and ever-watch- ful Constable Speedy speedily gobbled | him and handed him over to the courts. | A workman, 8 stranger in the city, | employed along the line of track of the | railroad was bandying words and cast ing Opprobious epithets at one of the | Workmen on the 2nd floor of the new post office building. Calling upon him 10 come down from hIs high position and he would demollsh him a la Sulli- van or la Corbett The city marshal | not pleased with the atmosphere being | clouded with wicked epitbets instead | of rain clouds, took the stranger into the city bastile
  The athletic association have met | with the highest success amongst the | business men and property owners ln this city. The committee have been | received kindly and twenty business men have subscribed. Eighteen sub | scribing for 9 shares each at one dol lar a share and the other two taking a | less number. The committee express | themselves very much pleased with the | cordial encouragement meted out to | them, and claim that they will make | the association first-class in every par ticnlar
 Mir. Sammy Hughes, the well-known | predictOr of rain and Tucson's weather | prophet, struck the right key yesterday | morning some ten hours before the rain | commenced, when be told one young | gentleman around the house, 'There IS | Lo ueCOeeltg bO loaN0 your COI out IOT 10 | night, as you will need shelter" So the | advice was taken and the prophecy proved too true. Uncle Sammy's words have become historical and there is no use for the government to have a weath- CT Obserrer here whilst the pioneer of the county lives.
 J. l.. Clark, the well known mining man and now nicely fixed American rsneher in the hills and valleys around American Flag on the other side of the Catslinas, was Tn the city yesterday even ing and started for home this morning with wagon well loaded with luxuries and substantials of life drawn by two snan nf fine hnrses Mir Clark is a onnd