Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-06-03

postmaster at Mohawk.
Services will be held at the Epis copal
church Of evenings only after June l,
owing to the warm season.
The mail service frsm Tombstone to
| Turquoise has been ordered to continue
to June 1894.
Letters of admin ;stration in the estate
OF Facunda Gonzales have been applied
for by r. ValeZ. The estate Is valued at
$500.
Tucson's strawberry supply, from
| California, has filled. A dealer writes
that owing to the excessive heat the
berries have been damaged.
Assessors collections of personal
property collections of taxpayers OF
| Tucson having no real estate are about
all in. The work of assessing will be
| finished June !.
New baled hay is coming into town
in considerable quantities. Heretofore
it has be the custom to guy unmarked
weig Is but shortage of Wei hts created
dissatisfaction and purchasers will now
only receive the hay at actual weight.
A cowboy was bitten on the nose by
skunk. short time ago up in Arizona,
while lying asleep near camp; ana after
| lingering along for time in great agony,
the skunk has just died of delirum
tremens.-Excharge.
Tucson has new citizen and a good
ope. DIR. Wright, OF Blsbee, councilman
in the late legislature, has made his
| hcme ir this city. He will open drug
store ia the Sanford block on upper
| Congress street soon.
The Nogales school closed after
very satisfactory term OF ten months
Yesterday Many prizes were distributed,
among them fine book, offered by Mr..
| Mansfield of this city, to the best
| student. Numerous aluminium medals
were also distributed. The school had
five teachers.
Twenty-eight thousand impressions is
the size of enc lot of job printing the
| CITIZEN job department has just COM
pleted for the Arizona and New Mexico
| Commercial Co. The work is admired
as marvel of the job printers art. 1t
will REQUIRE dray TO deliver the order.
Cattle will be shipped by j. M. Holt,
of Mon ana, in May, to the extent of
200 cars OF 5000 head. representing
| purchase Of about $4,000, cash. Twenty
| cars go out today, twenty cars tomorrow,
and traiDloads OF twenty or twenty-five
cars nearly daily till the shipments are
made.
Carload lots Of ice are now shipped to
| GIla Bend. Wilcox and Nogales through
G.. F. Hoff, agent. Mr.. Hotf is also 90
ing a good business in icing through cars
of fruit shipments. In Tucson he has
of late been selling more ice than for
the corresponding months last year.
Carpenter work at the new building of
st. Mary's hospital has been indefinitely
suspended on account of defective brick
work. The brickwork in question is
veneer-a single thickness-of brick
around twenty-inch wall of adobe.
| This is proving unsatisfactory and the
sisters have ordered work stopped. Re-
pairs are being made on the hospital
| proper.
1t is now Marshal Meade and ex-
| Marshal Paul. Mr.. Meade WISE sworn
| in at Phoenix yesterday, and /. Neus
| latter and G. L. Dunavan we're sworn IN
as deputies at Florence last night. The
force leave tonight for Florence, where
| United States court, under Judge
| Rouse, is now in session. On the clos
ing of the term there the Office in this
city will be opened.
Instructions of the spring term at the
university will close next We 'nesday.
Thus far not enough advance has bes n
made by students fer graduating class.
However four sophomores are we'll along,
and should they stay with the work
from present indications would gradu-
ate credltably in %. The work Of the
year just gone has been very satisfac-
| tory and excellent progress made,
though the urse was quite rigid. Next
We II more latitude, IN choice of studies,
will be given. The university faculty
are we'll pleased with the progress OF
the students during the late school year.
One valuable feature of the univer-
sity is the irrigation bureau. Under
this department possible reservoir and
canal sites are viewed, gone over care
fully and estimates of the cost of irriga-
zion plaDt made. This is all done at no
cost 10 the promoter of the enterprise
except actual expenses. The data is then
held by the university, for reference by
capitalists. Already several plants have
be. viewed. notably the Butte propo-
sitian in Pinsl county and the Wilcox
we'll. Prof. Boggs may start soon for
the Whetstones, to view another propo-
sition there.
Cowboy feats are usual enough in
Arizona, bat frequent one at thu cattle
pens, where the Mash and Driscoll
stock are being loaded for Montana
shipment amuses sightseers. A vaquerO
will give the tail of steer a twist, as
he starts up the stockade for the car,
Jump astr de the animal and still urging
it on by spur and tail twisting, rice if
clear TO the car door. A trainload were
sent out yesterday and another today. |
The Maish and Driscoll cattle aver6gs
better than those of other brands.
4 week ago word was brought in Of |
gang of horse thieves in southern Pima |
of thirteen of them, desperate fellows. |
armed, and bad lot. A sherrf ifs pos, |
was made up TO go after them, three |
men from Tucson and four from Nog les |
The gang was not caught. In fact there |
Was no such gang. When the matter |
was sifted 1t was found that an ex-
constable, named Sardini, had seen a |
man who escaped from him three years
ago. That was the nearest mateTializa- |
ton of a gang OF horse thieves that
could be found. Having regard for the
yarns SABINE Otero, while super n
tending his roundup, provided himself |
with body guard.
Another attempt to foist Sonora in
sane on Pima county occurred yester-
day. An old Mexican woman was
brought before Judge Wood, insane,
she having teen unloaded from a ricke-
ty affair of vehicle. Il was soon drawn
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