Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-10-28
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
The general health Of Tucson, says
DIR. Spencer, is very fair. No epidemic
diseases are about.
The walls and adobe work for the new
Eber and Nutter store on Meyer street
are increasing rapidly.
The governor Of Sonora sends to
Tucson for his harness repairs. his
six-horse teams are driven with inch
and half lines.
A machiuist who recently was given
work at the shops had travelled he said
q thousand miles in quest OF employ
ment.
Collector Shannon is daily expecting
telegram announcing his confirmation
by the senate.
The Enterprise came out yesterday
with a change of form. 1t is now q five
column qusrto instead OF the blanket
form used heretofore.
Ben M. Crawford has been instructed
to attend to the internal revenue bust
ness hereafter of that part of New
Mexico which lies west of Lordsburg.
A car of Chinese workmen, who have
been employed in Cuba, passed through
Tucson Tuesday night for San Fran
cisco, on their way home to China.
A case placed before the grand jury
fh,o O r,rnrarnanf off,
cisl will develop something sensational
If an indictment is found.
The adobe wall on Stone avenue just
south of Congress street has been re-
moved and replaced with board
fence.
Five barrels of high-grade vinegar
were made from the watermelons of the
water works farm, in the past few weeks.
The vinegar will outsell watermelons
in Tucson.
DIED-At La Osa. Sunday, October ID,
Zschsriah II. Luckey, eldest son of Col.
l.. P. Lucky, President Grants private
secretary during both terms of his ad
ministrstion.
The Mexican who made off with
quantity of clothing and blankets,
convicted before Judge Culver yester-
day, wss given twenty days this morn
ing. His name is Miguel Ssndoval.
Matters for the new park association
are awaiting the return of Surveyor
Wolfey. Stakes will then be set and
specifications drawn up. The work will
be gotten under way very shortly.
A Mexican whose actions were
deeidedly suspicious was arrested last
night. He was riding a fine horse,
which is believed to be stolen. 1t was
branded III f or II T. He is believed to
know something of the late Phoenix
jail delivery.
Sam Katzenstein has been prospecting
in the Santa Ritas two weeks. He has
returned and brings in some free-milling
gold rock that the gold stands forth in
beautifully. He says the body Of the
rock is very large.
The pay car arrived this afternoon at
8 o'clock and dIsbursed, to the pleasure
of the railroad men and relief of bust
ness interests in the city. The pay is
for the month of August, and will be
less than usual, the reduction of days
being made the 14th of that month.
The jail has been made the recipient
of large number of old magazines by
the charitebly inclined of Tucson. The
kindness is hardly appreciated, how
ever. Most of the prisoners cannot
read, and those who can do not care to-
The magazines are thrown around the
jail and destroyed.
In district court J. M. Witcher was
found guilty OF grand Larceny and comes
up Saturday for sentence. Cruz Orosco
and Francisco Delgado plead guilty to
resisting an officer; sentence tomorrow.
@. j. Haley, for bur9larizing Sue KEGS
place was on trial today. He was
convicted and comes up tomorrow for
sentence.
The heaviest rains for Arizona during
September occurred at Fort Grant,
which last year came pear being
abandoned for lack of water. During the
month 3.S7 inches Tell there. Tucson
had 1.02; Bisbee LII; Flagstaff forty
Yuma eight hundredths; |
Los Angeles, CAL, none; Santa Fe, N.
M. three inches.
From the Sonora coal fields comes /
word that water was struck at the |
depth of fifteen feet, in the new shaft.
Below it is the layer OF bed rock,
which is impermeaDle. The stopping
Of the water at the depth attained.
small matter, has
probably been the work done since the
of the last letter.
The rise IN the Santa Cruz expected
BY the water works people about the
sge OF the summer rains in the
Mountains, failed to materialize. The
low of water is about the same. 1t is
probable that the present plan, of
of days and turning in the
river flow of nights, will be followed the
winter through.
An migrate who has been furnished
odging and otherwise aided, Miguel
5andoval, was gwen twenty days by
Judge Culver this morning for robblng
lis benefactor, Manuel Aguilar. He
ook 81 from an open trunk belonging
o Aguilar. The same man was robbed
y Juan Oontreras Of blankets, clothing
nd yalise. Contreras will come up
omorrow for sentence and will probably
'eep Saudoval company during his
onlnement.
The rumor was about yesterday that
be Canada del Orc smeltsr would start !
p Immediately, c8blegram having !,
rrived from England ordering it and
tatlng that the money was en- route.
Dir. Hamilton in charge of the smelter,
avs it is mistake. The smelter will
OF start up Immediately at any rate
,oke and ore in plenty are now on the ,
,roInd.s The ore-copper-Is from the
liver Bell properties.
The federal grand jury at Ell Paso \
as made a scorching report of the
'ay customs affairs are conducted there.
'lagrant violations of the Geary law,
lHxity, forty-one viola
ions of the United States custom laws