Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-04-21
LOCAL NEWS.

The Harshaw school closed last FIR
day.
The passenger train from the cas-
arrived four hours late this morning.
Mre. Raymond's farewell dance, at tn
opera house, will be given on the 18th
Suit has been filed by ]. G. Water
man against n. W. Bernard.
Malcolm NJ. Croker, the new post
master at ella Bend, was commissioned
on the 9th of April.
Property owners to g numerous ex
tent banded in their assessments toda,
to the assessor.
A trainload of cattle went out yester
day for Mr.. Peck, from the Arivaca re-
gion.
Thirty-seven prisoners are now in lal
The number will proba bly, be material!
decreased when tae federal grand jury
gets through with. them.
The Reitz- Canada del Orc cas- did
not reach a verdict till $50 Saturday
night. At that hour the jury found
for the plaintiff in the sum ct $1,000.
The biggest party of bicyclists ever
together visited Fort Lowell by moon
light Saturday night. The party
numbered at one tine eighteen people
on wheels.
Walter Vail of Empire ranch and Mr..
Peck, of Minneapolis, will together snip
a lra,uload OF stock at an ear.S date
The lille. il is understood, will come
from Arivaca.
Treasurer Overtou sold delin-
quent tax property this morning in the
letters @, r aud part OF S. Several
good pieces were bid in. Taxes CONT
nue. to come in encouragingly.
Eleven smugglers will came bfore the
federal grand jury or appeared before
that body today, ali captured by Collect
or Webb's men. The showing is the
most numerous made at sny one time.
A mail route service has just been
ordered from Washington as follows:
Route 6SI76. GIla Bend to Gunsight,
seventy miles, and back, once a week,
by schedule of not to exceed twent.
hours running time each way. From
July /, 1894, to June 80. 1898.
Old-time freight wagons, eleven Of
them, big and heavily-laden, passed
through Tucson yesterday, stopping
here Saturday night. They had ths
mining property of Mr.. Gage, bound
from Tomb stone for the Congress mine,
in which Mr. Gage is heavily interested.
A party went up on Turtleback noun
tain yesterday to view the possibilities
OF building road there in the event O.
the Lowell telescope coming TO Tucson.
Sam Hughes, who vas along, said he
would build q ROAD, If wanted, that two
tons could DE hauled up.
The infant child OF Mr. and Mrs. An
dres Rebel met with strange misfor-
tune Il few days since. The nurse, by
mistake administered dose of ammonia
to the Child instead OF lime water. For
a time its iI1tls life wss despaired of, but
fortunately it is rapidly recovering and
is now out of danger.
Search is still being made for Louie.
the Chinese mIs-ing from Sanfcrd's
Soaoita ranch. be lived to be killed and
roboed. l. is now thought that q
weight was pub on b body and shat it
WAS dropped in one OF The shafts there
abouts, half full Of water.
Nogales now depends mostly on the
two customs services there az d the rail-
road n.en making the town their head
quarter for support, says gentleman
from there. The road to Altar and Orc
Blanco may &c built. he says, and hopes,
but ths undertaking is rsthsr big Tor
Nogales.
The Tucson Gun club held meeting
last night, at which al invitation and
challenge from the Phoenix Gu3 club
came up for discussion. The matter
was talked, and the Phoenix people we're
blame for not coming Washlngton's
birthday as agreed. F:ual action will
be taken tomorrow night.
The other day Mexican, while cut
ting wood for Mr.. lsaahan, was severe
ly bitten by a tarantula Oh The wrist
He wa taken to DR.. Damerou's offioe,
where the Wound wss dressed. In a
very short time after being bitten the
arm began t. swell. The doctor is con-
fident that the man Will soon be we'll
PhoeEix Herald.
Mr.. ]. j. Chatham, late postmaster al
Nogales, is in the city. He hopes 10 re-
NlN6 IE6 ouEOdf Oh UT dDOul
May LIST. Mr.. Chatham reports the town
in a fairly prosperous condition, but
bust nsss generally OFT of joint on the
Mexican silver issue. The American
dollar is worth two dollars and ten cents
Mexican money.
The small pox case reported from No
gales appears to be "a transient" and
did not originate in the town. The VIC
tim Is Mexican who reached Nogales
from La Paz, Lower California On ar
rival OF the train he at once went to a
hotel and DR.. Chenoweth was called in.
On discovering that his patient was af
'ficted With small pox, be had him re-
moved a mile out OF town. At LAST &C
counts he was in fair way for recov-
cry.
A habeas corpus was up in district
court this morning for the release of
William b. Davis for assault with a
deadly weapon. Davis committed the
assault near Huachuca almost on the
line between Pima and Cochise counties.
He was arrested in Pima county and
was in Jail here for the offense. 1t was
recently found the offense was in Cochise
county. He was therefore released
today. Re says be will go to trial in
Cochise of they want him to, but go far
he has not been arrest d.
Among the longest trips ever under
taken by Tucsonite is one on VII ch
Mrs. A. b. Sampson is nov en- route
She probably sailed today for Calcutta
India, via Hong Kong, on the steamer
Belgic. Mrs. Sampson travels with
lady friend, who wished to return to In,
dia, but not alone. The trip will take
two months, and Mrs Sampson will stay
a month. She therefore expects to be
back about October Est. However
while travelling she may 60 to Alaska or
Honolulu.
Csttlemen need hardly expect buyers
from California this spring. Mr.. Hol-
lister, OF Eureka, that state, of other
years an extetnsIv- buyer, is in the city.
He says that the rains due the past two
months have not arrived. In conse-
oh - Ial 4 l.