Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-12-30

enouiu go 10 Kansas.
At the opera house tonight to Pastime
cluo VIII have an especially pretty affair
In their series of dances.
In Fort Lowell region sowing OF
oarly is in progress. Prospects for the
crops are good. The acequias are well
filled.
In Tombstone lumber is so valuable
that when a man wants to move to
another town he tears down his house
and rebuilds 1t in the other town.
School closed yesterday afternoon till
Monday Jan. s. The first week in
January will be taken for teachers
institute.
The writer is indebted TO the gener-
osity OF Mr.. S. Ii. Drachman for box
OF me Havana cigars. Many thanks
and happy Christmas to the donor.
1t is reported that Miss Hertha
Trowm of this city is in Berlin, where
she will perfect herself in music under
the old master"
The Worlds fair won't cost Arizona
$4,000, interest aside. 1t is under TODD
1 lLC S~h4LIGSiOn VIII nave CICOO w
return to the territory. So the expense
will be but S2S,5OO.
Grocer j. Ivancovich has been making
Christmas presents t. his customers of
turkeys. He gave away 800, IT is SAID
Wheeler d Perry also gave away few
barrels of turkeys.
An angling party" was given last
..xh% - E "a a,
Pennington street, by Miss Ella Corlles.
to her young people friends. A pleasant
evening is reported.
Still the tramps come through in less
number then formerly. Possibly they
may have all gone to Kansas. Seventeen
of them came in Thursday night and
were seat along. Ten more are in the
city jail
About half an inch of ram fell today,
beginning at 6 this morning. The same
storm is very heavy in California. OLD
weather makes talk of the changing of
the seasons, etc.
To the average Arlzouan a raing day
brings depression of spirits. So used is
he to perpetual good thing in Innate
thst even this needed rain, while beng
blessed as needed is endured as fleet
ing.
Rev. Mr.. Tiff, Of Phoenix, has re-
ceived a call from the Episcopal church
of Socorro to fill It's pulpit. II is almost
a certainty that he will accept and will
take charge upon the first Sunday in
January.
The December appropriation for the
county school will be made available
before the holidays, so that teachers
may draw their salaries before the fes-
tivities begin instead Of waiting until
the end OF the month.
A stage road is being built from Ash
Fork TO the Grand canyon. w. w.
Boss doing the work, will put on line
of stages with three relays, and make
the trip IN eleven hours. Every year
the canyon is becoming more popular.
In '93 many foreigners were awed by
its wonders.
Judge Burnett, editor and proprietor
of the Leader was in the city yesterday
on land Office business. The Judge is
one of the most active pencil pushers in
the territory and much good through
his efforts will result to ella Bend and
the country thereabout.
ella Bend looks like the early days of
the dam again. Trainloads of timbers
and lumber are arriving, being piled, or
forwarded to the dam. Thirty
horses are there for the work of hauling,
with more to come. The new work is
for enlarglng the dam.
Tom Borton, who is in constant COM
munication with Sonora people. says
the reports of troubles with Yaquis
there are uufounded. He says that
should Frank Dobs return to Sonora
be will have little war of his own, for
his reports of the country.
DIED-In this city last night Oh
north Meyer street, of consumption,
Mrs. Frank A. Sleeter, of Eastop,. Pa.
The body has been embalmed and will
be sent east tomorrow. Mrs. Sleeter
has been in Tucson two months. Her
lung troubles were too far gone for
more than transitory benefit from the
climate
The verdict against Tevkesbury
yesterday has met general approval IN
Tucson from those knowing the case.
Jurors say they first stood eight to four
for murder and that the recommendation
for mercy was a compromise with the
four. They say they enjoyed Tom
F'itch's speech, but were not deeply i'm
pressed by it in its bearings on the
case.
DIED-In Tucson Thursday night, of
George Edward Gommel,
aged twenty-six years. Mr.. Gommel
has been in Tucson the past year. for
his health. He has been engaged in the
rubber stamp business and photo
graphy. A sudden hemorrhage OF the
lungs took him off, be dying in fifteen
minutes after the hemoErhage began.
The home OF the diseased is Defiance,
Ohio. His father is Methodist minis
ter The hody NAV Ia can't aact