Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-02-17
LOCAL NEWS.
S. 81. Benson, of Wilcox, is 8 late


arrival.
The Gazette announces that 1t has
discontinued its Tucson department tor
the present.
The assessor is again abroad and co..
lections on personal property, ana poli
taxes are now being made.
The treasurer reports taxes still COM
ing in, but mostly In small amounts;
People generally pay the addltlonai
delinquent costs without complaint.
Marshal Jack Zimmerman has had
relapse and is reported quite seriously
i'll today. This is much to be regretted
Mr.. G. L. Scribner found bunch OF
keys near the railroad depot this morn,
ing. Same are at this Office and be hao
by paying for this advertisement.
The shipment of palm trees ordered
for the university, arrived at the depot
this morning. They were bought IN
southern California.
DIR. Overfeld and wife. in Tucson for
the doctors health for several months.
return tonight from Hermosillo, Mexico,
where they have been for two weeks.
Mrs. E. B. Gage, of Tombstone and
Mrs. Neall, mother of Mrs. George W.
Cheyney, of the same place, are visiting
Mrs. W. T. Gibbon.
Judge Sloan has returned from a
long session of supreme court in Phoe-
nix The judge is looking we'll after
his arduous labors there.
1t looks as though the Chinese New
Years will last the year through. They
are still at their noisy celebrating.
For using larlat as a club on the
person of Mauro QuiroZ, Damian
Valenzuela was fined SO by Judge
Culver last night
An interesting address by Professor
Boggs this morning in assembly at the
university was on the subject of arteslan
wells, most appropriate for this region
and this particular period OF time.
The commendable work of tree
planting goes on in Tucson. The latest
arrival of nursery stock is of several
hundred trees and shrubs for +. U.
Benedict.
The city water for Tucson is again
being pumped. Intact it is now "arf -apd-
l..
decrease in the rivers flow necessltates
the running of the pumps for about half
the time.
The quarters of an immense beef
hang in front of Pusch & ZAllwegers.
One weighed 247 pounds. The beef
dressed $50 pounds. The steer in
question was fattened on San Pedro
valley alfalfa.
Yesterday two prominent young men
of Tucson believed themselves to have
fallen heir by speculation to $1,000, but
unwelcome tidings came today, that the
money belonged to some other girls
young men.
Superintendent Barnhart leaves for
Mammoth in the morning. He says the
fifty-stamp mill will start up again next
month. The enterprise was too good
for Tucson to lose. For three years the
pay roll of the Mammoth was 3d. 900
month.
Ash Wednesday services at the Epis-
copal church yesterday were attended
numerously. Throughout Lent services
will be held there every Wednesday at
9 a. M, and every Friday at p. m.
During holy week the services will be
daily.
Judge Sloan received thu unwelcome
news this morning that the residence
house on the Kenilworth ranch had
burned this morning and was total
loss. Mr.. Devils was away In Phoenix
at the time and the cause of the fire is
unknown here. The loss is estimated
at about $500. 1t was partly covered
by insurance.
Mr.. II. d. Underwood returned from
the South ella this morning. He
reports the company in first class shape
for renewing its work on the big dam.
This within the next thirty days, he
thinks, will certainly be done. The
resumption of work on the biggest
irrigation enterprise in the west will
again give employment to hundreds of
men and teams.
Tucson cattlemen are in receipt of
circulars from Kansas City firm. stock
handlers, who offer to furnish pasturage
near Strong City for 81 SO head. They
will take any kind of stock. They also
offer to dispose of the cattle when
fattened on a commission, declaring
they have facilities for obtaing the high
est prices.
The Gunsight's venture of running
while silver was so low proved sue
cess. a mining man in from there says
that at present owing to lack of water
it would only be possible to run twelve
hours a day. He says when the mill
started deposit was made in ore OF the
Tucson banks for running expenses.
After the run the silver was sold for
Oh
At the opera house last night Daniel
Sully had probably the largest audience
of the season. The play has been seen
twice before here, and was disappoInt
ment last night. The support has been
entirely changed, and the changes were
not improvements. The greatest dis
appointment was In the new Baron Won
Steinberger. Sully himself was as good
as ever. Slight alterations were made
in the play from former presentations
The Montana mine, is located near
Orc Blanco. The ore is base lead, gold
and silver. 1t has been shipped hereto
fore, but Mr.. Cheyney, owner of the
Montana, has decided there is more
profit ia milling it. The milling cannot
be done at present, however, owing to
lack of water. Not much more delay is
expected, however. Machinery may be
brought from Tombstone by E.r. Chey-
ney for the Montana, shortly.
The wind today reached velocity
nearly unprecedented in Tucson, being
fifty-three miles an hour. Chimneys
and signs went sailing, and dust was
almost uncomfortable, sitting under doors
and in all cracks of buildings and blind
ing pedestrians. Two chimneys were
blown off the court house. The roof
of frame house belonging to r. Y.
Bloxton near the Lexington stable went
travelling. Three telegraph poles on
Pennington street we're broken off, but
the wires hold them up.
The funeral of Sister Immaculate,
late mother superior of the Sisters of
ST Insanh IN this oifu took nlaca to-day