Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-08-26
LOCAL NEWS.

Whlpple barracks.
Silver lake will be reiammed thii
fall, after the summer rains are over.
DIR. Odermatt is out with fac sign
al enlargement in gilt of his signature
The healthy people you meet have
healthy hvers. They take Simmon:
Liver Regulator.
Soup houses are being talked in 6
facetious way. Tucson has small mead
of them however, in reality.
Al FL Paso malicious persons have
tried three times to start runs on the
two banks there.
The general health of Tucson, says
DR.. Spencer, is very good. There are
no diphtheria cases and few of typhoid
The upper story of the Radulovich
block may be rented and furnished by
Landlord Heaton of the San Xavier,
anu run as a supplement 10 his hotel.
Local butchers of Phoenix who pay
license complain of competition with
butchers who kill meat raised by them
selves, therefore requiring no license.
4 report reached Albuquerque Mon
day that a drawn battle took place be-
tween cowboys aud Indians, resulting in
the killing of four Indians at Keam's
canyon.
AT the Dakota in Saginaw district
put in TO be touched off on the 2Sth,
when the vote for free silver is taken.
Jose Castro was convicted this morn
iug of using vulgar aud obscene Ian
guage before children. and will be SEN
fenced by Judge Culver tomorrow
morning.
Suit has been brought by 2. Soto
against c. E. Denton for rent of part
of his store Denton makes a counter
claim for damages done his goods AMI
tools by cat while he was out of town.
Copper is today quoted at $3.50.
Silver at is priced at seVenty-two. 1t is
noticeable that the two metals have
ratio of their own which they keep to
quite closely.
1t is now pretty late to make the an
nouncement of a nine pound boy at the
home of t. 3. Holiday, born on the
9TH, but the boy is an extra fine one and
deserves more than ordinary Dotlce.
The translucent globes on the electric
lights on the Meyer street mast have
been replaced with transparent ones.
A resident of that nei2hborhood says
the new lights are as the sun with the
moon compared to the old ones.
The following postal communication
was received from Florence this-morn-
ing: FLORENCE, Aug. 16.-(In haste
stage leaving) The Catholic church
here is burning. No chance of saving
it, as storm is raging. More tomorrow.
CHAs. w. FRENCH.
FL Paso ball club written recently
Offering games with the club Of this city
has not been heard from. The dates
named. Aug. %, 81, and % have already
been filed by FL Paso club, is they
begin a weeks series ending with those
days with the Galesburg, ILL.,, team.
The health committee we're inspecting
foul places on Meyer street yesterday.
Numerous new vaults were ordered In
consequence. One man said TO the
councilmen: "That's right; order all
the new vaults you can; I've got the
contracts for seven already" The COM
mittee took rest today.
Fl Psso has a justice of the peace
who is charged with getting all the
cases possible, and filming every one he
can. 4 certain lawyer figures on one
side or the other in most of the cases.
He is further charged with gratifying
this lawyers attempts at spite work OF
that individuals enemies.
What Arizona will grow in the way
of fine fruits was illustrated in town
today in something il that line sent in
to Colin Cameron, from the San Rafael
ranch. The fruit consisted of necta
rines, peaches and pears. The peaches
and pears are large and fine; the necta- |
rines are of good color, flavor and size. |
All were strictly No. J, high-grade fruit. |
Several merchants of Tucson have
talked of resisting the new county |
license law as unconstitutional, though |
none have yet done so. In Phoenix |
the business men arrested by the county |
for doing business without license yes
terday withdrew their pleas of not |
guilty and paid the license and costs.
The second case against G. o. and W. /
g. Brown, charging assault with a i
deadly weapon, continued from yester
day before Judge Culver. resulted in
their dismissal this noon. The decision
was on the ground that they had al
ready been punished for the same of
Tense, when Justice Scott fined them
$50 each for assault and battery.
For 80 miles south of the border
Mexico has had an abundance of rain,
one fall lasting fifteen days. The few
cattle the drouth of former years had |
not taken off are in excellent condition,
and gaining daily in pounds of beef. /
Mining interests in gold there are look
ing up.
A storm occurred lsst evening in the |
country to the southwark, according to
double evidence-a big rise in the Santa
Cruz at this morning and lightning in
that direction last night. Lightning
can be seen far beyond where thunder
can be heard. 1t is visible 100 miles.
while thunder can be heard only ten or
twenty miles. The precipitations of
late, says Weather Observer Wetmore.
are more or less due to the grass on the
ground, VIII CHI induces rain. He says
that as the grass and weeds ripen the
rain will be less frequent.
Chinese market gardeners are going
out of. business and Tucson house
wives are missing the daily calls OF the
little yellow men with their Vegetables
today" The work OF the late floods is
the cause of il ali. Three times the
river has been cut back, and the source
of the canals supplying the gardens
taken up the valley. Now the limit of
patience anyway-has sbeeD reached,
aud temporarily the work has been
Abandoned. Another canal head may
be taken up the valley, or dam where
the cut has been made put in. This
will not litsly bs done before the rainy
season is over.
The project of dammiDg the new
CanOa canal for mile or more may not
prove entirely successful. The colrs9 !
of the canal is through six-foot depth |
OF rather loose and coarse gravel. 1t is
faara6 that eapnaue fhrOuUh biS vii |