Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-01-14
LOCAL NEWS.

here Saturday night.
 Ex-Governor Ireland of Texas, I
 spending few days in the city,
 Attorney Hazard of Gila Bend, is II the city today.
 Mrs. pr. Handy is seriously sick a
 her home.
 Herman Bruen of Riverside, Cal, ar rived this morning.
 l.. Zeckendorf & Co.'S corps or cleTkl ! and accountants is taking stocK tnii week.
 Mrs. NJ. E. Morris, boarding house keeper at the Canada del Oro mlne' ls ssG town today.
 q W. c. Edes, prominent railroad CIVIL engineer is registered at the San Xavier from Benson.
 MT. Underwood of Uunderwood & GIb- bon is expected here from California to- . morrow morning.
 John Hart of the Southern Pacific saloon, has been sick abed with rheuma- tism since New Years eve.
 The installation of the officers of the tledge of Knights of Pythias will be tonight ip their hall at the Postotnce building, also work in page rank.
 The Pinal county board of supervis- ors organized Tuesday with E. o. Strat- tsn chairman and Gus Williams as clerk.
 W. P. Woods is completing the i'm provements on his property on the cor per of Church and Congress streets py laying a new plank side walk.
 JNConverse returned Saturday morn ing from trip to Phoenix and Tempe on business connected with the "Arizona's Resources.
 John E. McGee has filed with the . county recorder his affidavit of assess q ment work for 1892 on the David B. Hill Harrison, Silas White, Sherman, and Mllliard Fillmore placer mining claims.
 CIR. Drake and MT Wasson with for mer's boys, Jean and Charley, went over to ArizOla on a duck and quail Uunt yes terday and returned this morniyg with 6 bag well filled with game, having had grand days sport.
 Judge Barnes IS m Phoenix today at the hearing before Judge Gooding ID the Kibbey case. The change of venue has been granted, but the county to which the case will be carried has not yet been designated.
 Councilman Frank Miltenberg's ad- = Ged honors as city father do not pre- Event him from getting out on hls delIv- cry wagon every morning at 30. lie knows which road leads to prosperity and is bound to pitch his tent in the midst of its valley.
 As several of the principal singers who are to participate in the war concert are suffering from colds, 1t has been de- cided to postpone tha entertainment which was to have taken place to-mOr- TOW night at the opera house, to Satur- day evening, Jan. 14, to insure a more satisfactory interpretation of the pro- gram elsewhere announced.
 Albert I. Colton of Florence, is in the city today with business at the surveyor generals and the land office. He is pre- z pairing material for a large map of , Pinal county, 7x311I feet, which is to be hung iE the office of the board of super visors and which he expects will be in ished in about a month. It will be complete in every respect up to date in >cluding the latest land entries and field notes of the Unied States surveys. For few days at La Msriposa there will be an opportunity to purchase dress goods, sheetings, millinery, small wares and dry goods of every description at prices lower than ever offered in this i city. The proprietor of La Mariposa | proposes, is bound, he says, to reduce | le stock to the smallest possible size
 svious to annual stock-tRkiDg. This | firm has the reputation of being fair | ydealing and liberal one, and when 1t an | nounces a mark dowu as 1t does now, | the public may safely believe the goods | are marked down. La Maripesa is op- posite the foot of Congress, on Main l street.
 At its meeting last night the City l Council rescinded its act in approving | the bonds of the city treasurer, city re- corder aLd city tax collector and assessor. It was alleged that the bonds as filed were made payable to the Territory | whereas according to the city charter | they should have been made payable to l the city. The city treasurer was order l ed to give a bond for Sl5,000 instead of { S10,000 as accepted before; the tax col- 1 lector and assessor, and the recorder were each ordered to bring sureties for twice the amount of their former bonds. The action of the Council in | this matter was unanimous.
 The plegon shooters were out at Silver Lake range yesterday as usual. In the F bird match between James Finley | and William Reid on one side and Bob | Harrison and WIS. Sturges on the other Finley and Reid were the winners, each killing 10 out of r. live birds. In the copao match SturUee lxillad T ant Of 10 | and Harrison out of F. In the shoot 1 of betR cen Finley and Reid, the latter killing out of to Finley's l out of 2. l All of Reid's shooting was clean and clever and but few more such eXhibi- -tions will be required to place hIm in Tthe very front rank of local marksmen. Of the latter Ben Parker has the reputa- tion of being perhaps the steadiest, closely followed bp Finley and Harrison.
 The Irrigation Age will bring rout its first great Columbian issue of the year about January 20. It will deal mainly with the irrigation progress, past and prSsent, and the future possibilities Tn that line of the progressive Territory of ArIz0na. It will be notable publlca- cation in many respects. It will contain the complete statistics concerning ArI- Zona ditch developments and land re- clamation. This will be reliable and complete; and will be an encyclopedia of facts for the interested reader. In . addition to this specially prepared and splendidly illustrated department on Arizona, many important and valuable papers will be published. The proceeds of the American Society of Irrigation en- gineers will be given ample space; also fbe Darficular of the meeting held this