Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-03-18

Phoenix.
 Hugo ZeckeDdorf arrived in the city yesterday.
 Mrs W. R. Anderson of San Marcial is registered at the Orndorff.
 Train 19 which did not arrive on 8c- count of washout has been abandoned.
 The city laborers were today engaged m much needed improvement-that of cleaning Maiden Lane.
 The contempt suit of L. NJ. Jacobs against w. F. Overton was tried thls morning in the District Court.
 Geo. T. Root San Francisco manager of the Singer Sewing Machine Go. IS iD the city.
 Phil Hughes Southern Pacific store keeper went to Phoexix where he will remain over Sunday.
 The freight care damaged week ago Sunday in the storm near Red Rock IS being re-roofed at the repair shop.
 Rufus Maker of Sacramento has sue ceeded 4. w. Gregory as foreman of the railroad round house and machine shops.
 Sol Israel will shortly go east. F. A. Stevens has left the surveyor general s office and will be storekeeper at Nam moth.
 WIS. Strrges of La Osa ranch is in ;he city. Supt Gould of the Sonora mining property has been here several days, Tom Parrish completes the trio.
 B. s. Price native of Cleveland, O., died last night at the hospital of con- sumption. Before coming to Tucson he was at Minas Prietas Sonora, Mexico. Cleveland papers please copy.
 W. K Meade was in the city yester- day and said the report that Cleveland would appoint to office as far as possible all new men and no former office holders did not worry him in the least.
 Three Aravaipa cowboys for breaking dishes and creating a general disturb ance ln a Mexican restaurant on Meyer St. this morning were fined S7 each ID Judge Scott's court which they paid willingly.
 Charles Meyer son of the judge has returned from the City of Mexico where be has been in the employ of the Wells Fargo Go. He will take a position here with the Singer Sewing Machine Go.
 It is reported that 4. V. Grossetta has ln contemplation the early erection of a handsome business block similar to that lately finished by MT. Radulovich. Such an enterprise would be but a croWnlng event of the many already successfully undertaken by him.
 W. F. Peck a rubber manufacturer of Cleveland, O. with family consisting of wife and two children having decided for climatic reasons to make his home m Tucson has taken the house recently occupied by Mrs Snyder. MT. Peck be- ing gentleman of means, enterprise and refinement will make a valuable citizen.
 There isn't a comedy before the public today that creates more real laughter than Uncle Hiram, which is to be pre- sented at the Opera House Monday Mar. 13. Mir. Woodruff does not clown the part, but gives an excellent perform Rnce Of an eccentric character, charac- ter that is entirely different from any other HOW before the public.
 E.. Drew of Casa Grande was in the city yesterday and said Jim Stowe was alive. He had not shot himself nor even shot at himself but was we'll at home with his family having been seen the day before. The story of the shoot ing grew out of his remark when Store keeper Smith refused to trust him, that man might as we'll go and shoot him- self if he was not good for sack of flour, and bis subsequent brief disap- pearance.
 The following item has been going the rounds of the press, and as our druggIst k. Fleischman & Go. handle the goods, 1t may interest our readers:
 Having had occasion to use Chamber lain's Cough Remedy, 1t gives me the pleasure to state that l found it to be the best medicine for a cough that ever used; in fact, 1t cured me of cough that had baffied several ether cough medicines.-N. R. Burnett, AtRlisss, Iowa"
 Last night the bountiful beavers opened and the rain came down. It fell plentifully and steadily. For greater part of the night the music of its falling was heard, music sweet to the ears of cattlemen, ranchmen and business men. 1t WAS not a pouring shower for few minutes and then a long Hull, but steady fine penetrating beneficent rain 1t was great thing for the country. It means good dollars in the pockets of the thousands whose living is derlved directly from the soil. It means actual life to the stock; and with the shining forth of the warm sun this morning it gives absolute promise of an early and abundant vegetable life.
 An attentive audience greeted Prof Tourney yesterday afternoon on the oc casion of his address at the university. The subject, Bits of Nature" well de- scribes the character of the lecture, winch consisted of sketches of nature, incidents of travel, anecdotes and in- structive conclusions, all tending to show the advantages arising from the study-Natural History-esDecially of plants and insects. Illustrations were drawn from various sources and all were fitted together in a most interesting and attractive mauner. The generous ap- pause of the audience at the close be- tokened the appreciation of all who listened.
 Lieut. J. B. Batchelder, Jr., with an escort of 10 soldiers from Fort Hua- chuca, an eight mule team loaded with camp utensils, rifles, shot guns, travel Ing paraphernalia, arrived iu town this afternoon. The party which is priuci- pally on hunting expedition left Hua- chuca Monday and came from Davis ranch since this morning. The lieuten- ant has been back East for four years past and has recently returned as re- crui'ing officer, and is taking trip partly of observation and pleasure. They have encountered very little game. He has been in WaehinQtOn laCRly and ex-