Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-09-02

"A quartz mil, cOmpiSte, capacity nVe
to eight tons per day, is said to be on
exhibition ut the Worlds fair that
wall do good work and sells for $1,000
each, aboard the cars.
The fire department is in receipt of
its 1000 feet of new rubber-lined hose,
and is now in readiness for anything in
the way of fires that may come. The
hose is quite satisfactory.
Prof. Tully, of the public school, says
that the seventh-year grade, lately a5ol-
ished, was needless, the work set for
that year being of small value. He
thinks the school work wi lose nothing
by its merging into other grades.
IL the care OF the hair were made a
part of a ladys education, we should not
see so many gray heads, and the use OF
Halls Heir Remover would be I'M
necessary.
Lowell will be a gay place tomorrow.
The Philharmonic band give picnic
there, which may include some dancing.
The band will play some during the
day, and particularly from 3 to 3 O'Clock
A good time is anticipated.
The supposed new evidence IN the
Bently case that San Francisco woman
bought strvohnine for Bentley has fallen
through. The woman in the case pub
fishes a card denying that she had any
thing to do with tho buying of poison.
At the Hartt ranch the rains, says
Mr. Hart, have been light. They come
right up to the fence and stop there.
Mr.. Bartt will have the top wire of the
fence taken of, believing that will let
in the rains.
With good feed everywhere a cattle
man says st Dck will be kept in the vici-
mites OF the ranches they belong next
season. He gives instances of finding
some of his stock that had wandered
100 miles away from the ranch.
DR.. Spencer says the late rains have
been very beneficial to the health of
Tucson, washing off many impurities
about town. The doctor says Tucson is
badly in need of a good system of sew
erage. In Tucson, at present, there are
several cases of typhoid. There are no
cases of disease of a communicable ma
ture.
Owing to dry season o. late years
calves have not been branded up as
closely as usual. A stockman says
many steers are on the range of south
ern Arizona innocent OF the marks Of
any branding iron. These will pro-
badly be sold at the neat big roundup,
for fund IN the cattlemen's association.
The baseball club went to Tombstone
last night, fairly confident of winning
l. II. - IL. fy,l
lows: Harry Drachmau, center field;
Walter Zabriskie. left field; L. Dibble,
right field, B. Zsbriskie, catcher; NJ.
Drachman, pitcher; Nose Drachman,
Iirst base; j. Gaff, second base; b. Biet
Eel, third base; Frand Smith, short stop.
Dave Hughes writes from Chicago,
where he has been seeing some league
teams play ball, that the Tucson boys
know very little about playing ball as IL
should be played. A visitor 10 FL Paso
was informed that the Tucson boys
would be given SO every time man
got to first base. Ell Paso would have
need OF more professional players before
that offer could stand.
In Tucson at present are scores of
idle men, strong, hearty, red-shirted
miners, willing TO work and scorning
idleness. They stay in Tucson as pref
cradle to being unemployed in the hills.
The suggestion has been made by a
mining man that many of them can find
taking out ore for owners
of custom and other mills, who usually
have mining properties.
Stone avenue is a good place for run
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Last evening horse propelling buggy
noted these advantages and started out
to have one himself The speed he &C
quired was frightful. The occupants of
the buggy never uttered 3 sound as they
went up the avenue like the wind. The
horse kept going after the end of the
street was reached, even though the
mesa did rot offer equal advantages, and
brought up the buggy in some brush a
half mile south Of the city limits. here
the harness gave was and the horse
continued his journey. The people
aboard the buggy were unhurt.
From time to time hand drills have
been put forth to do away with the
pounding Of mining drill, one man
with the drill the other with the sledge.
They have not been satisfactory as a
rule, from various causes. From the
Chicago exposition. however, a mining
man writes that he has found the drill
wanted. 1t is something lately out and
works to perfection, putting holes
through the hardest quartz as fast as
four men can by the old methods. The
drill has not yet been put on the market,
but will be in the fall. Should it do
what the Chicago visitor writes it will
De in big demand in Arizona ard do
good in making mining cheaper and
therefore more extensive.