Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1894-07-28

The hotels report but little transient
custom.
Hon. n. o. Murphy is expected in
town III few days.
1t is reported that Mr.. Kingsley and
Mrs. Strauss will be married tonight.
Everybody is waiting for the pay car.
1t left Oakland yesterday.
Col. John IL. Martin hes been appoint
ed notary public by Acting Governor
Bruce.
On the second page can be found the
iobbers tariff. This will be of interest
to the merchants of this city.
The president signed the Utah bill
without waiting the formality of refer
ring it to the interior department.
The Santa Cruz river rose again last
night. The water however, was so thick
with mud that abobes could be made
out of it. All they needed was monl-
ding and drying.
Bishops j. B. Salpointe and P. Bour-
earde are registered at the Nadean
house in Los Angeles. The Times IN
commenting on their arrival character
ICES them as wealthy mine owners from
Tucson. AriZ."
Train No. 10 came in late again this
morning owing to a wreck on the desert
west of Yuma. A freight run into
washout. the engine is said to have
turned over on it's side but fortunately
no one WAS injured.
Train Dispatcher Howard is in the
hospital suffering from intiamatory
rheumatism. His ankles are said to be
the most seriously objected and are
swollen out of sll proportion.
Mrs. Jas Goldtree and family Travelled
by boat from San Francisco to Los
Angeles, where they are now located.
They were two days on they way ard
suffered the usual pangs OF sea sickness
Julius Goldbaum writes from Oakland
that dull as times are in Arizona they
are we'll off as compared to those pre-
vailing in California. Where BUSINESS
| is to be done the rents are enormous
and where there is no business stores
are dear at any price. He is summering
with his family in Oakland.
The building formerly occupied by
| Mrs. Olsen on Congress street, and nos
undergoing extensive repairs, will be
occupied by S r Wood and not Geo. L.
Johnson, as stated yesterday. Mr..
Woods business has out grown its pres
ent quarters and move TO more COM
modious bui ding has become opera
tive. Repairs are being pushed ahead
as rapidly as possible.
Col. John II. Martin Is said to be a
candidate for the vacant reglstershlp OF
the land office. No better school for a
young attorney who proposes to make
the land law a part of his business can
be found than in the practical workings
of land office. If he succeeds in get
ting the place he will make an excellent
officer.
G. T. Denton is ID town from Sentinel.
He reports the South Gila canal com
pany as shaping itself for resumption of
work at an early day. The weather
thereabo,-ts has been, he says, insuffer-
ably hot. One day the thermometer
registered 121 degrees in the shade. 1t
reaches III frequently.
Judge Slater is represented to have
again SHE'D his caster in the ring for
federal plum in the shape of register of
the land Office. The Judge is Of the
opinion that he can FL the bill TO
nicely, and he has whole lot of friends
who are OF like belief. If he can bring
the big man at the White House to a
like way of thinking ne will get the job,
and the balance of the entire democratic
party viii get left.
Harry Simons, for the past two and
a half years chemist and metalurgist at
the Old Dominion Copper mines in
Globe is in the city en- route to Rose
mond, the new copper camp in the Santa
R sittGsss, FP'heere he viii occupy ike posi-
ton. The very fact that Mr.. Simons
filed so important a position with the
Old Dominion is evidence of his learn
ing and ability in that direction. The
Rosemond company is fortunate IL Sc
curing his services.
Ricardo Ronstadt. who with his sister
experienced an involuntary bath in the
Santa Cruz by the upsetting of the
stage, is again in town. He reports
scarcity Of provisions and dry goods all
through the towns of northern Sonora.
A meal that could formerly be had for
% cents now sells at dollar, and 1t is
not any too good at that. Some stores
were entirely out Of calico and others
out of equally as much needed articles.
When traffic is again daily opened up
prices and business will settle TO
their former level.