Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-08-19
LOCAL NEWS.

Lie southern EdCllc GFdch Is dRdtL
clear and in very fair order.
The board of supervisors has Rp-
pointed J. III. Bennett overseer of La
Noria road district.
From Crittenden came report that
Gang, the Chinese arrested for alb
Quoting his baby, has been held there
on another charge.
The gaudy, buzzy June bug is not
harmless fellow. His kind are dong
big damage to grapes in this vicinity.
The territorial board of equalization
meets next Monday. The board may
visit Atlantic d Pacific points.
The Bisbee railroad was opened to-
day. The Clifton read, also washed out
somewhat, was reopened recently.
A homestead patent WIS received at
the land office this morning for Fred A.
Williams, of Florence.
Sheriff Joe Scott, back from CritteD-
den, says the country whereabouts Is
beautiful. He reports wilderness Of
grass. 1t is up foot aud more high.
Cattle are fattening.
A light receipt of express this morn
ing from the east would Indicate a delay
somewhere, probably due TO more wash
outs, on connections.
Yuma is growing stout on tive-cent
beer. The S. L. bar started the ball
rolling, aud the Yuma Exchange also
has the five-cent banner flung to the
breeze.
The police committee at a special
meeting notified the police that ordi-
nance eighty-one, particularly in re!a-
ton to lewd women entering saloons,
must be enforced.
The examination of the Mexican
brought in yesterday from GEeatervil e,
has been continued. The complaining
witness was In such condition as 10
require his immediate removal to the
hospital.
A Mexican who, with a companion,
was approaching f. Proctor's house
early yesterday morning, when Proctor
halted him, resulting in revolver being
drawn by the Mexican, was this morn
ing given fifty days by Judge Scott.
Lite work is being done on roads at
present, notwithstanding that some, as
the Quiiot road, are all but impossible
for being cut away by high waters. The
overseers say the present is not the time
for road repairing, as ihe next rains to
come would wash out all done.
Word was received by Trustee Orms-
by, of the Episcopal church, from JAS.
Edgar, OF Detroit, Mich, that screening
for the robing room and choir of the
church is now in preparation and will
be sent shortly. The church will be
elegantly furnished when completed.
Two Papago Indians, giving their
names as Juan and joaquin, were BE-
fore the recorder this morning for being
drunk and making disturbance at the
Eagle mills yesterday. They say Yaqui
got the whIskey for them, but did not
locate him.
Another complaint has grown of the
dog case of G. o. Brown and W. {
Brown. Conley the poundmaster has
had seconn warrant sworn out, charg-
ing assault with deadly weapon. The
case Will be heard Monday before Judge
Culver.
Through mail from the east arrived
this morning in great quantities. Most
of the delayed passengers came through
on a special, which reached here last
night at o'clock The train was filed
from end to end. The regular train,
which also came through, arrived here
three hours late.
The dreaded order, closing the Tucson
Southern Pacific shops down to four
days a week, arrived today. Hereafter
till further orders they will be run
four DAYS a week. This is notwltl-
standing that there is more than enough
work to keep the crews going full time.
The new license law has run against
a snag in Tucson. Several merchants
are talking of fighting the matter in the
courts. One man told collector, very
emphatically, that he would not pay
any such license. The stand taken is
that the license is unconstitutional,
under the Harrison act, as being dis
eliminating.
Piercing screams, continuous for ten
or fifteen minutes, evidently by
woman, attracted few indignant ones
to the northern end of the town last
night about IL o'clock. They found
mother, a piece of board and an eleven
year-old boy. That boy has lusty
lungs.
The chestnut of the Indian and Mexi-
can is now ripe. 1t is tie ballote nut,
small edible, but rather bitter acorn. 1t
grows extensively in the hill country OF
Arizona on trees of black oak of stunted
growth. The ballotes are being brought
in In great quantities by Indians. They
retail at five cents a pound. The word
is pronounced bi-yo-te.
The excavating on the Canoa canal
brought forth, from nine feet under
ground, two surveyors stakes. They
were in a good state of preservation.
When they were put there is matter
of considerable conjecture. Evidently
the sands drifted over them. They were
found in the line of the canal, 300 yards
apart. Some curious carved stones were
also found.
The big cables for the South ella canal
dam work have been transferred from
the station to the damsite, and are now
being placed. The work OF placing
them will be done soon. Then the
laying of great blocks in the dam-the.
biggest dam ia the world, il will be
will commence. Quarries OF excellent
stone are adjacent, on either bank of
the stream.
The board of supervisors have ad-
journed to the % b, when they meet to
make the tax levy. Probably the levy
will be the same as last year. The eX-
penditures of the county will be about
$1,000 less, while the the new license
will raise the income about 5000
year, estimates Deputy Sheriff Proctor.
The expenditures of the county were
$4,000 last year, $4,000 of which is
still unpaid.
During the month of August to date
rain has fallen in Tucson to the extent
of two and twenty two hundredths
inches; in July it was two and forty
four hundredths inches. Csttlemen,
while duly thankful for the favors they
have received, would like to see more !
rain. They say ''Ob, if it would only |