Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-10-14

Iramps, announcer great gang or nifty
three of them. struck Tucson this morn
, ing at 4 so o'clock in on top OF freights
They were given some bread by the cit
authorities and put aboard empty east
bound cars. They gave no trouble
G They get off at 6 o'clock.
According to the old Mexican post
age law letter from Europe and tn
2 United States will go there for tw
. cents, from Mexico to the United State!
for five cents, and between cities an,
t states in Mexico, ten cents. The new
:. law reduces the last mentioned ten-cen
/ rate to five cents.
Hitherto the cost of good four-roou
T house, whatever the material, has il
} Tucson been figured at $1,000 upwards
; j. BIddleman, however, by careful
purchasing and overseeing his own worl
has built substantial five-room adob
house, with good three-foot stone walls
complete to screen doors and paperine
for $500.
The fire on the Catalina mountains
has grown in extent. This mornlne
M. G.. SamaDiego dispatched several
vaqueros up the mountain to stop 1t
Otherwise it will continue to spread
until it reaches the mesa, now covered
everywhere with dry hay, when it viii
do inestlmable damage, in barring the
mesa, to the stock interests.
Butcher Schumacher will go into the
pork packing business this year heavier
than ever before. He will fatten and
make bacon and lard, ETC., of $50
porkers this winter. Last year he did
likewise with $50. Large loads of corn
are arriving daily from San Xavier,
which he is purchasing to turn into
pork.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Dessert of Nogales will be pleased
to learn that Mrs. Desssrt's injuries at
| Chicago are less than at first supposed.
In answer 20 Geographic inquiries by Mr..
Dessart the injured lady replied that
she is all right, and only slightly injur-
ed. That he need not come to Chicago
on that account.
The Congregational church now has
in view a gentleman from Kansas,
| highly recommended as man of ability,
for pastor 1t is not unlikely that he
will be invited to preach in Tucson for
III ocfCIdi WEEKS IhC OObkACSoliOL
may Judge for themselves If they want
| him. Rev. Mr.. Ashmun, of Albueuer-
que left yesterday morning for Nogales
on church bushes.
Eight men were hard at work yester-
day, last night and this morning put
ting out the fire on the Catalinas. The
fire started from a camp fire, and its
spread to a mountain fire was not ex-
pected. The law is very severe in
Arizona on the starting of mountain
fires. In this case, however, the young
men will probably be let off with pay
Ing the expenses of the men who put
out the fire.
A prospector named Smith in his
wanderings in the mountains in New
Mexico in August was taken i'll, and
stopped in deserted cabin. His i'll
ness was severe and he was alone and
could not leave. He had provisions
enough to last week after which time
he subsisted, for six weeks, TO the 2lst
OF September, solely on water, from
leaks in the roof A friend than started
to search for him, and found him, very
weak. His physician hopes to bring
him through, however.
Chaplin, the erring mail clerk, comes
up tomorrow before the United States
commissioner for examination. His
written confession owns not only to
taking the Sill in question. but to
tamporing with various other regis
tered pockages entrusted to his care.
The confession may make matters
easier with him. The law provides
from ore to five years at hard labor
for his offense, embeZzlement. The
man is in poor health, undoubtedly
but nothing now short OF Grover
Cleveland can sLve him from hard
work at San Quentin.
Another Salton sea, from like cause
but smaller has. been formed in New
Mexico. The Deming Headlight tells
that the recent rains had the effect of
creating an immense lake about nine
miles south of Cambray station on the
Southern Pacific railroad. The lake is
one mile and one half in length and
nearly mile in width. The water is
clear and the flow Is evidently subter-
ranean. The water is thirty feet deep in
places. The ground covered by the
water was high and dry before the rains.
The strange part of the formation is
that the water has shown no sign of
diminution.
The first cattle buyer of the season,
III. W. Maxwell, of San Bernardino, is
making stock shipments. Last week
he sent out three carloads of Labaree
brands. Last night he shipped two
carloads purchased from Pusch &
Zellweger. Tonight three carloads
bought of z. T. Vail go out. The cat
tie bought are all beef stock, of which
Mr.. Maxwell fiEds plenty, and more
fattening. The shipments go to San
Bernardino. He goes to the San Pedro
valley shortly to make further pur-
chsses.
The firemen were out last night, test
ing the new hose and drilling. The
hose is capable Of pressure of 400
pounds while twenty pounds last
night was the maximum attained. At
the Cosmopolitan hotel building the
water reached over the roof several feet
To have any effect there a man woldd
need to stand on the building and direct
the hose. At the Fashion block the
water barely reached the top. A man
sitting on the edge might have been
"OlSCQ oOilC, ll1C IOIOO VI l1o SOl cdll
would not have hurt him any, At the
postoffice block the water hardly reach |
ed the second story windows. The fire.
men are making good progress in drill
ing.
The board of commissioners of the |
territorial prison met this week. The |
usual maintenance and salary &C
counts were audited. The gross ex-
pense during the quarter was S13.043.82;
the cost per capita per diem, after
deducting money received from sale
of hogs. rock and blue dirt, the net or
true cost was s11,309.17, or 81 Clio
cents per capita per diem. The con-
tract with the Yuma Water & Light
Co., was continued for another year
at the same rate of $500 per month.
The superintendent report shows
that there were in confinement July
lac convicts; received during the
quarter seven; pardoned to restore citi-
zenship, three; pardoned unconditional
ly. three; discharged nine: died three: |