Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-09-16
LOCAL NEWS.

instruments OF their fall goods.
The court of private land claims vii
meet In Tucson in October.
The mule service of the Phoenix
street cars will be changed to the more
lively electricity in two weeks.
The pitchfork affray at the ice works
night before last resulted in Alcsrlc
Valencia being fined $40.
In district court this morning the
soly business done was to make citizen
of Joseph Freri.
DR.. Harrington, OF California, who
underwent the examination by the ter
ritorial dental board, passed. He filed
his certificate this morning.
The Ell Paso ball club were success
full in a series of three games at Waco
winning every game, the last one to
score of twenty-slx to one.
Always get the best, it is the cheap
est Ia the long run. Silver Coin flour is
the boss of all fours. Kept by the
Tucson Grocer company.
Wolves in many parts of New Mexico
are very bad and unusually bold and
destructive, killing calves and yearlings,
while even two year-cld colts have been
unable 70 escape their attacks.
At the Davidson ditch, on the Rillit o,
MIR. Davidson now has ten men at work
Oh an open ditch. Work Will be done
on the big redwood pipe later.
Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers
can be applied when at home, and is uni
formly successful In coloring brown or
black. Hence its great popularity.
Caterer Joe Soldini is YET. uncertain
as to his going into business at Phoenix.
He Will know what he will do In the
matter by the 18th.
A Chinese funeral, with the usual
accompaniment of gongs, roast pig,
racket, etc, took place in Chinatown
yesterday.
Cattle buyers are not yet due, but
another month will see them coming in
from California. The same time will
see the cattle fat and in readiness.
At the Grant property, near Arivaca,
Sampson &c Bent are working four men,
who continue taking out splendid rock
An assay made Sunday returned eleven
ounces in gold and thirty-two ounces in
silver.
At the Canoa canal work of develop
ing water has been ccncluded-at least
for q year or two. The labor force are
now engaged On putting in laterals and
leveling land, preparatory TO the sowing
of alfalfa shortly.
Greater fiocks of ducks never came
down on Silver lake than did list night
and this morning. One nimroad killed
fourteen this morning. He says one
shot he fired into flock almost COW
cred the earth with ducks"
The fve-months-old child of a. B.
Dodge died Monday of this week. The
child was in care of its grandmother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dodge being at the
Worlds fair.
Hereafter until further orders no lay
off will be granted to employees of tie
Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific,
and employees desiring such must call
for their time.
Surveying below the Canoa canal Will
be instituted al once. Land for ten
miles below the canal will be surveyed
for bitches. MIR. Maish thinks that
later the canal may be carried yet |
farther below.
Juan Bracamonte, arrested here last |
week for horse stealing. and taken to |
Tempe by the owner of the animal, has
been held for the grand jury in the sum
of $500. His partner was traced as far
as Kiales, where his actions attracted |
suspicion.
Pierce Ford's condition is improving, !,
says a telegram received from Chicago |
by his brother, Joseph Ford. 1t is not
unlikely that he Will recover from his
late gunshot wounds. j. Ford came in |
from Orc Blanco last night.
More trouble has grown out of the
cattle iuspectorship, which threatens to
wreck the whole law. A butcher, Da-
milan Valenzuela, refused to pay his
fees, and has been arrested. His case
comes up Friday. The grounds OF
unconstitutionality viii be made, that
it permits Imprisonment for debt
Application for letters of administra-
tion in the estate of the late Ben Parker
has been made by W. F. Woods. The
total valuation is estimated at SO 600,
consisting of lands and water rights at /
Gla Bend and real estate and personal
property n Tucson. The property will |
be in good hands should it be placed in |
Mr.. Woods charge.
Alfred Trippel, of Mesa has gone
with full crew to begin work surveying |
the thirty-siA townships, contract for |
which work was awarded to Trippel IL |
Sons some time ago. The territory to |
be surveyed lies in Graham and Co
chise counties and is said to contain
some as fertile land as there is in the
territory.
A case of intimidating a United
States witness was before Acting United
States Commissioner Scott this morning,
where Lorenzo Mccormick entered
complaint that Romulo Rios had abused
and threatened him for the part he had
taken as witness. The evidence
brough out that the hard names and |,
abuse grew out of aGother mat
ter. over an accordion, and the case was
dismissed.
HAY cutting on the mesa has been |
discontinued by Mr.. HART, over 200 tons
having been cut. The work of bal.ng |
it will be begun shortly. MIR. Hartt ex-
poets to sell most of it. He also has
loo tons of old hay. Maish & Dfiscoll,
in addition to cutting at the Abra ranch,
where forty tons are now down, today |
put men and teams on tie mesa near /
Canoa, where a hundred or two tons
will be laid low They will not bale the
hay, but use it for the teams at the
canal.
Bisbee is the banner town of Cochise |
county for attendance at the Worlds |
fair, says p. B. Zeigler, returned from |
attsnding session of the Odd Fellows |
there. Thus far it has sent twenty-five |
people to the fair, with eight more to |
go. Notwithstanding a cut in wages, |
there is plenty of life in the town and |
the people go in for enjoyment. The |
cut was of ten per cent, the former |
wages being 81 per day of twelve hours.
The lodge there is one of the most |
prosperous in the territory. The room |
is elegantly carpeted and furnished and |