Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-31
Governor Hughes is in Flagstaff.


 Mrs. l.. c. Hughes was quite i'll ye c terday but is reported somewhat iu
 proved in health today.
 70 Dr. Pease is resting easy today an
 hopes of his immediate recovery gre DO a entertained.
 m Defective Breckenridge is home agai D. after prolonged absence in Los Ange
 es and San Francisco, looking fine. # Geo. T. Johnson, says the Prescott e Journal Miner, is shortly expected to 10 IS cate ID that city and open store. Tn
 chances gre that George is located Il
 the jug about this time.
 @ The total amount of money realized bl f the county treasurer through the sale O
 delinquent taxes amount to S1113, GO
 As thIs is not more than half of wha 2 was secured the year before it is good evidence that more people paid theil
 taxes.
 Mir. George Roskru2e, who returned from Oracle last night, Is enthusiastic in
 his praises of the place. While there he
 was guest at the Arcadia and lived roy
 ally. The country he describes as being
 unusually beautiful. There has been
 considerable rain ana grass carpets both
 hills and plains in that direction.
 Col. George Roskruge is home from
 the Oracle. He and Henry Levln drove
 in together last evening. During his i sojourn in the shade of the umbrBgeous
 pine he hesrd little bird whistle ot the
 good dinner that the mine host of the | French restaurant was preparing for to-
 morrow, sO he cut the air in two il his
 rush for home.
 Miss Mary Osborn, tho young
 daughter of Judge aud Mrs. Osborn
 will leave shortly for IthicH, New York. l where she will enter Cornell University fs A student Mary Osborn wBs born and raised in Tucson and this will be
 her first visit tn the Eastern States of winch she has heard so much. She is bright, sweet faced young lady and is well liked hy her associates who wish l her well in her new field of study.
 Hon. Sam Hughes has returned from | the SisTritas. He reports n strip Of | country about twenty-five miles long, l southwest Of this city, upon which little | CT 20 rain has fallen during the present | year and the result is disastrous to feed. | Ia the mouutains many men are at | york ''gcing for ooppsr.' One man has discovered a gold mine and appears to be @eil satisfied with his prospects. Grass on the hills is abundant and the outlook for prosperous year never bet ter.
 Most Of the ranches on the southern slope of the RiIlito, lying below the Davidson ditch, suffered some from the late freshet. At the home of MT. John I. Hughes the water ran 8 foot deep | and J. D. Andrews also suffered some, but no serious damage was done. Dur ing the period of heavy rains the waters from the entire slope are gathered in the ditch and poured over and on to the farms below. Aside, however, from the small damage done, the lands are great Y beDeftted by the thorough soaking they get from the overflow.
 The Fl Pa5o Tribune says that the Liberal is printed in Silver City. In with the latest fashion set by Ei Paso journalists the Liberal gives notice to the editor of the Tribune that if he does not, within ninety days, re- tract, apologize and give the source Of information of this foul islander, it will publish him as liar, blackmailer and 3 william, and will tell the public all about where he was and what he did during the four years previous to the discovery Of America by the late lament sd ST. c. COlumbus.-Lordsburg Lib sral.
 Ex Attorney General Francis J. Heney returned Friday from 8 two weeks visit to ArRnsas Paes. He speaks enthusiastically of the place and of it's grand and important future, with which le was deeply and pro ourdly impress { sc. The enormous outlay in contem- 1iation by the company and the vast | improvements in hand promise the big ,est boom f. that section of country | ever inaugurated in the state of Texae. Already people are moving in that di ec- lion, and when once the rush ia fairly started there is no telling when it will end.
 Col J. $. Noble. division supcrinten- dent Of the $. r. Railroad at Tucson, &iil be promoted on September 1 to the 1 ureTintendency Of California division which headquarters at Los Angeles. Col. Noble Is one ot the moet popuiHr railroad men in the country. He IS not Dniy popular with the employees under him, but IS univer; ally popular with the people also. Coi. Noble has been locgt- ed in Tucson for several years, and he will be miset from Arizona, but he can always be depended upon as being true friend of our territory.-.IournRl Miner,
 In addition to some beautiful and dis t'Dgnished late summer toilettes in Hsr- per's Bazar to be issued on August 24th, there will be a specially prepared and very practical and detailed paper entitl- ed Early Autumn Fashions for Men" A striking prot!sit of Miss Minnie Davis, by a short biographical sketch, will interest people who wish to know something of the charming per- sonality of ths author of The Yelled Doctor. The same number of the Baz2r will have a supplement contaiDing @ Illustrated story entitled "The Possessed Princess of Bekhten," by E. A. Wallis Budge.