Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-07-15

The Mexican arrested yesterday 70
the murder in California fourteen year
ago was very vehement and demonstra
tive yesterday. Todey he is more quiet
He expected TO get out on bonds O
habeas corpus, but was disappointed.
Pima has one school in full blast
The trustees of the Greaterville schoo
have opened it for business, and the
little Mexicans of that town are scan
ming their boz ks and brushing the per
| spiration away from their eyes. S. q
| Harper is the teacher.
Tomorrow the cattle suit against sew
| eral Tucson butchers begins in good
! earnest, the one against Pusch & Zsll-
weger first. The argument thus far has
been on Attorney LowelPs demurrer
! This was Overruled this morning by
Judge Scott.
Grading and filing is being done
around the new bridges on the Silver
lake road. Around the one farthest
from town over 1000 yards of dirt will
be needed to bring the grade up to the
bridge. Overseer Lyman Smith is
uperiDtending the work. F. A. Kelly,
living near, says more dirt should be
removed from under one of the bridges,
it at pre- sent being high enough to back
flood water, which could do damage.
Cattleman Thomas Driscoll says ship
ments for this season are probably at an
end. The rains have &C. ttered the stock
to the hills, the water being now every
where with the feed. Some cattle are
yet left for sale. Mr.. Driscoll says the
next sales will probably be for the Cali
fornia market, about December. Sales
then will be less than usual, owing to
dry years having taken off many young
stock which would have then been two
years old.
From Nogales /. F. Coppel, in from
there, reports business little changed
since the drop in silver, notwithstand-
ing the money of that town is the Mex
lean dollar. However, the dollar has
not dropped in price as fast as bullion.
The death of Consul Josiah Stone was
not unexpected. He has been suffering
with consumption for year, and got
relief only IN Nogales. The Ephriam
silver property is still sending ore from
Sonora to Albuquerque. 1t employs
160 men. Few silver properties are
good enough to permit shipments now.
The enactment by the last legislature
that all misdemesnors must be laid be-
fore the district attorney before arrests
can be obtained, is declared to be per-
nicious by those in position to know.
At least half dozen escapes have
been made while the district attorney
was beng looked up. Constsbles are
IN dtConnra0od fol hot tn
make arrests, knowing that until the
can he done. 1t is positively declared
that there is hardly q night without
petty thieveries or fights which go un
punished. Certainly Of late very few
arrests have been made.
Railroad men report thst yesterday
afternoon a small cyclone and rain
storm struck ella Bend. 1t occurre
about 3 o'clock. The wind struck
everything with rush and roar and
lifted boards, signs, porches and the
like, sending them flying. its biggest
and worst work, however, was
on the railroad buildings there. The
roofs of the roundhouse ard Of the big
coalhouse there were lifted with a
crash, and landed far away. Wires were
broken and telegraph communication
cut off for an hour or more. So far as
can be learned no less OF life occurred
anG.: no one was seriously hurt.
Thus far with the boards of equ8liza-
ton of every county in the territory at
work it is too early to say what Ari-
zOna's tax valuation will be another
Year. However, it is safe to say it will
be more than this year by good deal.
In Maricopa county this years valua-
ton, according to the assessor, is 81 ,OOO,-
600. This, it is estimated, is fifth of
the total of Arizona. Thus the vaiua-
ton would be s35,0O0,O00. This is gain
of 100000 for the year, or twenty per
cent. According to assessors returns,
the increase for Yuma county for the
year has been 100000; for Pinal county
s275.0 900 and for Mar'nnra county 81 .500.-
600. In the cattle counties, owing to
stock losses, the increase will be less,
though no county will go behind last
year.