Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29

[ Los ANGELES, Dec. 21-An elevator gave way this morn.rg In he new Whittier block, now undergoing con> struction in this city. lS went from the fourth floor Lo the bottom. Four men were in the elevator at he time and all were mora or less 1T jureG, but none seriously. Howard Jordan and Mat MacCoDkey, workmsn on the building were much bruised. They were ali taken to the county hospital.
 CHAMPAIGN, Ills, Dtc. 21 The safe in the St ,te Bank of Mansfield was blown open by burglars and several ] thousand dollars were stolen.
 VAIL Jo, Cliff. Dsc. 21-The old Philadelphia House, known as the Sailors House burned early ihi, morning Josyln were burned to death. Josiy D was quarterma,ter of the U. $. $. iI-- dependence.
 NEW MARTINevILLE, W. Va, Dec. 2l -When Captaiu James CIegg, foreman of a pipe line gang for the New Martins vile Natural Gas company was caulk- ing pipe under thousand pounds direct pressure, LLe pipe burst throw , ing Captain Ciegg a hundred fee: into the air. killing him instantly, his pecB being broken. Half a dozen othel workmen We're knocked down and severely injured.
 CHIC GO, Dec. 20. R Conreley, room 6l3, Temple court, has California req e,tate to sell. c. J. Jones is secretary oI l the KenwOod Manufacturing com pany It so happened the other day that Conneley accosted Jones with en offel to trade choice building lots in Concord Kern county, Cal, for bicycles. Thi. led to negotiations, with the following results:
 The more Jones learned from Come, ley about Concord, the more eDtnnsias tic he became. The asking price ol choice building lots, It developed, wa SlO0; selling 1T tradinR) price not dei nltely settled, bat at any price 1t Wal | dirt cheap. Concord was not only beautiful city, but ifs prospects wer' immense. The plats showed that gOoC portion of the lots about the courthOus' | ttu- bv had been disposed of. maI 
 it's center to indicate the new count, which the California Legislature was t create next winter. Of course Concor' wes to be the capita
 Four lines ot railroad crossed at Con cord. One, the southern Pacific, was al | ready built. The Cthers were to 0 constructed next spring. Then th | prune horse in the California buildin
 at the Worlds fair came up. Coonele | suggested it. Jones remembered il
 Jo, es learned that the identical pr1ne m the identical horse came from Cor cord.
 This settled Jones. The rememt rance of that prune horse carried hIr
 to such pitch of enthusiasm that b,
 wrote to Bakersfield, the county sea of Kern county. But here Joue
 had the misfortune to run up agaIns some cold -blnoded people who di
 not seem to have the least bit 0 local pride or hope for the future He got reply from the ''Kern Valle
 Abstract Bureau, Beuder & Hewiti
 prot rietors." H. P. Bender IS notar
 public and J. B. Hewitt searcher c deeds. The firm spprais,s land fo
 banks and estates; does United State land office business, and the sole pro
 prietor for Kern county for the Dare self correcting system of land titles Still, with all this, i5 does not seem t appreciate Concord and its flu ure. | It's reply to Jones contained, amoDi other chilling matter, the following
 1.-The supposed town of Concord is
 myth, except that the same has bee actually lad out and plated and th
 map of the same filed, but it is howl ing desert, without vestige of human habitatiou, the home of lizards aui horned tosds. We have had to writ the truth regarding the town of Conc T, so many times that the truth of grea
 Barnum phase, that the American peo | pie were born to be fooled has com home to us in vivid colors. The site O 1 this town Is located on the Mojave dee l ert, arc water only exists in the mir | age.' We trust that you will give ou
 statement in this matter as wide circu
 latIon aS possible iD order to proven some other misled party from maxim | investment. Tie assessor has refusej
 to assass this land in :o's and blocks, a | the valuation on the same would no cover the expenses of entering o0 thu
 assessment roll, hence he assesses tn
 whole section of 640 acres at seventy
 five cents ar acre, and has inflated it
 value even at that price. Total taxe
 due on the whole section, S7 G8, whic
 have gone delinquent, the same not hay
 iog been paid"
 A visit to Oonneiey's in Temple Cour
 found hIm away for the day. Maps an
 plats of subdivisions of Concord decor
 ated the walls, and specimens of sem, trophical productions were display literally. There were indies tions tha
 choice building lots in Concord wer
 tradeable for various misce llaneous ar ticles. A note said that Copneley ha, gone to the North Side on business.