Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-08-25
LOCAL NEWS.

plenty was cut last year, thlS year there is only enough for feed.
 Several bicycle parties were out yes terday, among others one each to Lowell San Xavier and Oracle.
 The first theatrical bills for the } ear If Oscar Wilde's play Lady Winde mere's Fan," were put up today. The play appears August 30.
 No miners of Pima county have yei taken advantage of the new law permit ting filing a notice instead of dong assessment work.
 c. Dennis is building still another house to be rented, in the northern part of town. 1t was begun today and will be complete in six weeks.
 A morphine user, Mrs. Bowen, was before Judge Culver today, charged with having injected some of the stuff into the arm of child in her care.
 The Citizens Building and Loan asso- citation is one the tap wave of popularity. Its management is and will be such as to deserve the popular favor it is now enjoying.
 Mr. Little, who has the contract for the hauling of the Cheyney mill from Calabasss to Gro Blanco, has been detained here for the past several days through sickness of one of his animals.
 ". E. Felix is putting in additional shelves for his fall stock, now arriving. Mir. Felix has one of the most popular dry goods houses in the city, and is de- serving of his success.
 Arturo Brown and Miss Mariana Fer Ter were marrIed last evening. The wedding was quiet one, the immediate friends of the family only being present. Miss Ferrer is sister in law of Hon. Fred G. Hughes.
 The RiIlito was up and roaring last night, being a full-feged river in sig, and with its heavy fail carrying more water away to where it will do no good, than half a dozen rivers. Friday nie ht it was likewise pretty high.
 The new building and loan association started off Saturday night suspiciously. The total paid in at the meetIng-some So50 or S700-wss at once loaned again, at premium of sixty-fve cents share a month.
 Mr. and Mrs. Cronin and daughter, of Atlanta, Ga, arrived Sunday night. They have taken rooms and board with Mrs Fitzgerald. They are here for the daughters health, she having lung troubles. In the vicinity of Oracle some of the fattest cattle alive roll and stroll around, They are the very apple of the butchers eye, to the last one. The range Is su perb, grass and weeds being everywhere. The flowers everywhere there make vast stretches of beauty. Registrations to date number but TAO. Last year on the Both of August they numbered 950. Names are coming ID very slowly. If Pima county voters do not register faster than at present, Pima will bring up as a second-class county, hay less than l5O0 registered voters. Last year the registration was 1890. Regis f tra tiUns close October IT. Mir. James Barnett and Miss Eva Jones were joined In the holy bonds of 1 metrimony by Probate Judge Wood last | evening, at the Chillson residence. MT. | Barnett is one of the best known engi- | neers on the Southern Pacific. His bride, | Miss Jones, is an accomplished young | lady. The CITIZEN joins friends in con- gratulatlons. Mir. H. Meneger bought a gold mug get few days since which weighed | S200. It was from the Altar district | and hGd been found on the top of a | small hill. It had the appearance of | having been melted into 8 wedge shaped | mould and was solid throughout. On | either side of the hill smaller nuggets | had been found, but the one in question | Lad evidently been too heavy to be | carried by the rains lower down. Two years ago Herbert Brown was ap- pointed Curator of Natural History at | the Territorial University, but through | lack Of funds the department assigned | to him could not be put in proper shape | to receive the material he has accumu- | lated within the past ten years. With | this defect remedied a splendid nucleus | for a territorial museum would soon be | gotten under way. Business is reported light in the land | office. During the republican admins | traflon the office, which is fee one. | reached its maximum, but under the | democratic regime the indications are that 1t will not cover more than half that amount. It Is an office in which there IS never d scarcity of work, but largely 1t IS of a class in which there is DO money. When new business is dull in the land office, 1t is bad sign for the country.
 The territorial board of equalization has fixed the Pima county levy for terri torial purposes at seventy-two cents on the SlOO, the same as a yetr ago The rate of levy for the Pima county interest on the funding bonds is thirty-three cente, the same as in 1Sy3 The Board of Supervisors will probably set the tax rate for the county at S2.43 per $lO0, the same as last year. For School District No. (Tucson) the levy will likely be S3-l5 against S3.50 last year, the public school building bond payments being finished year ago.
 On the 3d of this month a saddle horse was stolen from an out-of-town con- stable named Joaquin BurrueI. He trailed the horse to La Noria. but found it was in Mexico, about three miles on the other side. That night the horse travelled back into Arizona. in hIs rsmblings, and Burruel kept him in a field as bait for the thief. The thief bit. The next afternoon he saw the horse in the United States and went after 1t. Burruel arrested the man and secured his horse. The thief is in jail here. His name is Salvador Braca- monte.
 The Salvation Army, it is likely, will return to Tucson in the fall, though it IS not settled that they will In Tucson tnere are bigger sinners than in Phoenix ana oo not make as good returns, spirit uslly, for the Salvation people here as there. At present in Phoenix the
 
 have nightly meetings with hundreds attendance. To make a success of the work in Tucson, the management shou send their prettiest workers. Nothil is more appreciated by the average Tu son sinner than pretty girl In a poke bonnet and red jacket.