Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-05-26
LOCAL NEWS.

week.
 B. w. Tichenor spent Sunday in tht city and returned to Phoenix Sunda, night.
 FEB. Maldonado of Casa Grande is 1T town. He came to the deathbed of { friend, Mir. Quinn.
 party of Tucson bicyclists went to Pusch's steam pump Saturday night by moonlight, and returned last night.
 H. W. Blaisdell and wife, of Yuma came in Saturday. They are the guests . Professor and Mrs. CollIngwood.
 Coxey's army was in town yesterday, judging from the number of calls made on the larders around the town by the Unemployed"
 A great cave has been disco ve1ed ir the Graham mountains, not far from Solomonville, and preparations are be- ing made for its thorough exploration.
 A postoffice has been established at Goodwin, Yavapai county, with Sarah E. Randolph as postmistress.
 Judge and Mrs. Bethune are expect ed in Tucson Wedaesdsy or Thursday of this week from Los Angeles. Their sons and daughters are expected ln la ter.
 The Southern Pacific railroad in few weeks will probably give notice of a number of excursions from Arizona to Pacific coast points. The excursions of last year were successful ID every way.
 Judge J. L. Van Derwerker of Yuma is in the city. He expects to return to California in the fall, having completed the duties which took hlm there. In him Yuma has had and will have strong friend.
 John H. Norton, says the Grahem County Bulletin, has at last closed up his business at Fort Grant and taken his family so California, where they will spend the summer. MT. Norton was post trader st Grant for twenty years and smassed a fortune, which be has invested in various enterprises.
 SCme fine coal properties are being developed in the eastern part oi El Paso county, Texas, near the line of the Southern Pacific. This company will build a road to the mines, and has con- tracted to take 1000 tons year.
 A dime novel was issued recently in which the hero sailed his yacht down the Colorado from Yuma to Fl Paso. The little stretch of dry country be- tween the two places couldn't stop the author of dime novel from steering his craft over mountains and valleys.
 c. H. Warren leaves tonight for the Reward mine and other points in the Casa GraEde country. MC. Warren is a old Arizonan, and has beer in Bos- ton up to few months ago. Since h.s return to Tucson he has built several substantial houses to rent, all of which are occupied.
 w. T. Boyd, grand recorder of the or der of Workmen, will bs in Florence Tuesday night, where a reception will be rendered him. He will go to Salt valley points later, then to San Francesca and home wa the Atlantic & Pacific. He will institute some new lodges in Dorthern Arizona.
 A cross ledge on the Grant group near Arivaca. owned by Messrs Sampson x Bent, at the junction of the cross ledge with ledge parallel to the general di- rection Of the group, showed an assay of S217.04 in gold. The rock is free mill ing. The whole group is being system Rtically opened. The main shaft IS be- ing deepened and open cuts are being made throughout the domain of the group.
 Yesterday Messrs. Vail $ Gates load ed trsinlosd of 6l5 head Of cattle for shipment to MInneapo Kansas, con- signee MT. Peck. Another Kansas ship ment went out the night before, from the San Pedro and Mash & Driscoll ranges, for Messrs. McGuslck and Hill burn. No other catt'e buyers are eX- pected, and none are ''In sight"
 The new, Nogsles road from Arivaca will not have clear sailing. Tomorrow at the meeting of the board of supervi- sors two petitions from tee Arivaca road district, one of forty the ether of sixty names, will be presented to the board, petitioning agaiest the use of funds for the proposed road. The petI- tioners state the district is more Tn need of the funds for repairs in their i'm mediate neighborhood, and ask that they be so disbursed.
 At the farm lately started on the mesa land on Yuma heights the growth and crops are most fouriehing. One crop of alfalfa was cut from the land, al- though alfalfa was only put on for fer tilizatiop, at an expeDse Of S100 an acre, and not for the crop itself. Thegrowth of young lemon trees there is really marvellous. The trees were cut clear back. Ip three days, in one instance, shoots twelve inches long had sprung forth.
 A Benson man in the city. Wood Walker, says the residents of the iunc- tion town have plenty of vim and energy to carry through the election for the removal of the county seat to Benson. BensoD's ergume at is to admit that 1t will cost some money to do thle, prob ably fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, but that the interest on the money ex- pended for county buildings amounts 70 say Sl200 per annuln and the expenses of the county can be cut down from S3000 to s50O0 per annum by changing the county seat to Benson.
 O. F. Townsend, one of the leading citIzens of Yuma, resident of the river city for the last twenty-eix years, is in the city. Yuma IS about as usual Mir. Townsend says. In tbe fall 1t is ex- pected that the boom will be along. All the crops are looking fine, and the irriga- ton interests are above par. The A go- dones grant case has been advanced on the supreme court docket, and will be tried in the fall. The Yuma people would like 10 see the matter settled definitely and for all, at an early date They do not care very much whether if goes to the grant claimants or the government, but the lard is well worth occur ation and they want to get on it. something impossible now while it is in litigation.
 Friday of this week the school at Orc Blanco will close. Next week the Buenos Ayres aud Poso Bueno schools will end their terms. The Tucsons chool will close last. The past school year for Pima county has been extremely Sd is- fsctory-more so probably then in any other county in the territory. The schools terms have averaged longer