Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-08-19


Local wheelmen are Frightening thei
wheels with gold paint.
A colored woman known as "Dora,
was fined SO this morning by the re
corder for using vulgar and obscene
language.
At the shooting by company +, yes
terday, good records we're made. One
man made twenty one, out of possible
twenty-five.
The case against JuanR Sanchea, the
woman concerned in the case of the
Chinse charged with abducting his own
Child, comes up tomorrow.
At a faro table, night or two ago,
one Chinese claimed that another had
played his chips. A knock-down fol-
lowed. Recorder Judd fined one So the
other So.
The ranges in the Arivaca country,
says Charles Bent, in from there, could
not be better. Rains have been gen
eral and nearly continuous, grass is up
high and cattle are gleeful.
A. Provide brought in some prize
peaches from his Huachuca ranch to
day. He had some early Crawford
peaches that measured 1015 inches in
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The new militia has got to where they
can play in public. Their initial per-
Torrance has been set for the 10th OF
SCI TENDER.
Tucson city water is still from the
pumped supply. The limped Santa
Cruz will again be drawn on ere many
days.
Joe Gldbaum has not yet received the
reward in the German case. He says 1t
will probably be along after the trial OF
German, which has been set for Septem-
Der.
The Ariz ona Kicker naively remarks
that several cases of govt are reported
among cattle. 1t is due to the rich food
furnished by the bountIful rains.
The market of the San Pedro valley
has been the town of Nam moth, where
good prices were obtainable. With the
suspension of the mines has come the
loss of that market. Prices yet hold
up, however, on the expectation OF early
resumption at the mines.
At ella Bend, says j. Biitz, back
from there, land is being rapidly settled
on, both by C8litornians and easterners
One overland outfit is stuck in the mud
beyond Casa Grahde.
Ordinary people who can only know
OF rain when it has come, must not be
blamed for being caught in yesterday S
rain. The weather man himself, In
ho ~ cfo
out in yesterdays downpour.
Major Neustatter recently took two
prisoners to San Quentin, John b.
Smith, charged with adultery, who will
serve fourteen months, and George W.
Miller, convicted of cutting mail sacks
and destroying mail matter.
The cases against c. o. Brown and
q deadly weapon and set for this morn
ing before Judge Culver, has been
postponed TIL Wednesday at 9 o'clock.
Mail route changes have been ordered
as follows: Route 6S,1S9. Taylor to
Shumway. Leave Taylor Mondays and
Thursdays at 10 a. M, arriving at Shum-
way by II m. Leave Shumway Mon
days and Thursdays at a. m, arriving
at Taylor by 9 a. m.
Company F will have target practice
tomorrow at s o'clock at the hospital
range. Owing to the roaring Santa
Cruz, which the youthful soldiers OF
Tucson did not care to pontoon or swim
over, the promised practice did not take
place last Sunday.
Ed torialy the Star this morning again
has up the question of life diplomas to
teachers, evidently meaning Tucson
teachers, some not over twenty years of
age. The life diplomas in question
have never been used, and have not been
filed with the county superintendent.
The Russ house has been rented by
Chess. Aldridge, who viii move in when
the work OF Tenovating and repapering
has -Ssen completed. Fourteen appli
cations were made for the hotel. Mr..
Aldridge will call it the American
house.
The uniforms and caps of the new
militia band have arrived, and will be
made up at once. Company + also
received new uniforms, a drum and
seven saddles for hussars. The COM
pany will soon be fitted to respond to
any call at moments notice.
The rain which struck Tucson yes
terday was probably the heaviest of the
season. 1t came down at food rate,
accompanied with a wind that sent
signs a-fiying and trees bending and
breaking. Seventy hundredths OF an
inch fell, most of it within half an
hour. Again the ranges have been
helped and cattle interests have jumped
another twenty per cent.
At the HART ranch the late planting
Of beans resulted in 200 acres being put
in. Men and eight teams are now
putting in 200 acres of alfalfa. The
late floods more than filled the storage
reservoir. Water ran over the spillway
go feet wide and six feet deep. Mr..
Hartt is now engaged in putting in a
big fountain.
The health committee during the
week will make thorough inspection
OF all places liable to menace the health
of the city. By ordinance it is the duty
OF all persons having knowledge of
nuisances TO report them to the COM
mittee. The investigation is made par
tlcularly in view OF the possibilities of
cholera.
The DIR. Tenner lot, which is in part
on city land, will probably have to be
diminished TO proportions not including
the streets. A member of the street
committee says that the twenty-five feet
on the east end is on one a street, and
as such cannot be sold. The land ID
question is grown with beautiful
shruboery, besides having barn
thereon. The lot was enlarged by a
former owner, named Scott, in the in
surance business here years ago.
Trains have been running with irreg-
ularity for the past twenty-four hours.
The rain yesterday was general. from
Yuma to Texas. Two washouts &C.
Cured in eastern Arizona, one near
Bowie, the other at COchIse. Each
detained the passenger train from the
east, which did not arrive till $50 this
morning. The tram from the west was