Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-07-07

civ IQaU no IT6lRUbS III NC IcCclNeu
Tucson until further notice.
Fred Holmes has sold his so Victor
FLYER to Globe Kennedy. He will
purchase Victor Racer wheel shortly.
The total vote cast at the school
election was 773 of which $50 were cast
by the ladies.
The hotels are not doing very thriving
business in Tucson, in these days of
strikes and impeded railroad travel.
The new bridge over the Santa Cruz
will be available in a few days. The
eastern approaches are being completed.
Today is the last day of postal notes.
Money orders will henceforth prevail.
The price for orders under $3.50 will be
three cents, and for s., FIVE cents. The
schedule of money order prices has been
reduced. For 500 it is now thirty-five
cents.
At the railroad they have a dog that
would start riot on st. Patrick's day.
1t got around w. S. Kengla when he
was dong some dyeing and Kengla
seized it and treated it to a new color.
The dog is out in a blooming orange
coat, and is proud of the attraction he
makes.
Messrs. Farnsxorth and Wilson, in
surance adiustors, having completed the
work of adjusting losses by theElate fire
in Globe, left on Wednesday for San
Francisco. The full amounts of policies
were alloVed-E. F. Kellner & Co., S15,-
600; j. Sultan, $1,000; @. E. Taylor,
S1,S60.
The stage line to Mammoth will
change hands tomorrow. NJ. @. Sama-
niego secured the contract for the CON-
ing year and will put on his own stages.
He has erected a stage station at the
steam pump. Mr.. Samaniego has good
horses and vehicles. and will undoubted-
ly give satisfactory service to the travel
ers to and from Mammoth.
The ladies voted as never before in
the history of Tucson today at the
school election. Captsin Gray seemed
OF fair voters who accompanied his
lieutenants. Voting opened lively and
a big ballot WAS cast. At $50 seventy
had been cast, seventy of them ladies.
u j .ZO lOt ldQlc5 ndu NOJ6u OuG OIL h
total of 400 votes cast at that hour.
a summer resort in the the mountains
is in the course of building. 1t is
located at the Oracle, 1900 feet above
Tucson, or at a total elevation of 1900
feet. There the breezes strike from any
quarter cool and refreshing. The Their
tells that the average is ten
degrees lower than Tucson, and it is the
last ten degrees that are most felt. The
hotel in question will have cool halls, |
and wide porches surrounding the
building. 1t will be of two stories, OF |
adobe. The hotel will be put under a |
roof if possible before the rainy season
and then finished at leisure, inside of |
SIX or eight months. Who will be the |
landlord is unknown. Oracle is lovely |
place, cool and SURROUNDED by oak |
groves.
AS particular incentive to defeat |
Mr.. Charles Wheeler as school trustee |
or the Tucson district it has been |
Urged around that be Is a member of |
'he A. p. A. society. While this society |
nay have many merits, Mr.. Wheeler |
las not the honor of being member |
Of the society, and this feint made |
against Mr.. Wheeler will fall back on |
hose attempting to use such means to |
WIN an election. When reputable men |
are before the public it is to be regret
ted that such means are allowed toIenter |
INTO city contest. Mr.. Wheeler is a |
business man who will not be vacillated |
oy religion, race, societies or other out
side matters.
Mr.. L'Hommadieu. who was in Tucson |
asst winter in search Of his health, and |
to Detroit Michigan, about a |
month ago, died last Friday morning. |
His death, though unexpected, was a |
great shock TO his wife who was alone |
with him at the time. The doctors had |
her that he would probably live |
several days, but while reclining in her |
arms peacefully passed away. The tall |
Of 1892 Mr.. EHommadieu came to |
Tucson and gained rapidly during mis- |
stay here, but in June 1898 he thought |
that he could stand trip TO California |
and Michigan but when be returned |
last fall be had lost more than he has |
gained the winter before. He was
buried last Monday.
Dancing underground, with the air as
cool as at night, the music going from |
noon till midnight, Will be features of |
novel dance to be given at the Collins |
mine at Mammoth on the 4th of July. |
The company has put down a fine plank
hoor, as large as a good sized hall. |
There will be hills for walls and roof, |
Japanese lanterns to turn the pitch /
darkness to a soft red glow, merry feet |
will keep time to good music for the /
of Independence day. Sub
scrlptions of $50 have been handed in;
3 thousand pounds of ice will be utilized |
IN refreshments, and there at Nam
moth, sixty miles from an ice factory,
ice is something very like a luxury. The
Collins mine is under a high and pictu-
'esque peak, and the AMBER that has
been Transformed into place of enter
talnment is high up the mountains, on
the top level, and is approached by a
tunnel. The dangerous places have
been rallied in. The floor is good, the
music will be good, and unique, jolly
affair is certain to be had.