Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-11-23
LOCAL NEWS.


 Judge Betnune expects to open cour
 in Tombstone Monday.
 Judge Barnes returned from Prescott
 yesterday morning.
 Judge Wm. H. Barnes was summon
 ed to Phoenix by telegraph last evenine
 Work CD the dormitory at the univ'r
 sity commenced last week and Is pei"s pushed rapidly ahead.
 John H. Martin left for Tonostnn' this mornito on business before Int court which opens in that town toda!
 The mail from California failed tC arriye teddy. The cause of the deien' tion was not learned.
 B-aGy & Levin have pulled off then coats anu announce themselves reeoy for business. See their advertisement elsewhere.
 Ezra Kend all in Pair of Kids will be Rt thA opera house eitEer ID February or March. The play will be one of the best for the season.
 Lawy 1T McG wen of Safford ~hn wRs ID the city several dsys oa business De- fo-e the Land office returned home thls morning.
 Hon. Mark and Mrs. Smith will leave for Tom bstone in the morning. Ihsy will be absent during the tom ot the dis.rlct court, before which NIT. Smith has a number of cases.
 Senator Joe Scott hes returned from Texas. A'tar learning Of the late cleo ton re ,ur;s the Senator from Pima did not even feel safe iu th' Lone Star state, so pulled home where he arrived ale sni soand minus the rep bf.ed wife and seven childr,n n, to which dame rumor had kindly bound him.
 Mir Uugh HaroiGst5p, brother in law of Senator Gordon of Georgia, is assign ed to Arizona as special agent of the treasury department, Special Inspector B. A. Hamilton, at present connected with the service iu Arlzona, is an old friend and classmate of his nepheW's Senator Gordcn sons.
 Alberto Montero got g scoop or SIX weeks old baby and Judge Scott got scoop on him. The maa claimed the child as his cwn but his wife said he stole 1t. After considerable search 1t was returned to the maternal breast. It will be divided up by his honor tomor- row.
 Two tramps Of sable hue were put to watsriDg the city park by Judge Con- nell this morning They had been told to skip, but lured into f1rgetfulness by the soft rays of AT I53Ian summer sun they fell and were aga.n gathered in. For the space of five days they will darKen call in tbs city l2il
 Mrs. Lila Carlin Mo rs, one of Ken tucky's most talen ed and z ited daush ters, will begin lecture LOur of south ern Arizona in the interest of the Good Templars next Sunday in Gila Bend. | From the.e says the Gazette sse will go to Casa Grande and Florence, thence east along the line of the Southern Pacific. Mrs. Moore will be remember ed as having made similar tour few years since, when she madehosts Of friends and wen much praise wherever she vert. On March 13 and 14 Prof M. D. Bris- tol with his learned equ ne troupe will | be in Reid's opera house for two shows | and matinee. This is a shog that will 1 warrant packed house for the animals | have been trained to perfection. In y | have been called "marVels of equine lG- | telligence," and without doubt they ar. | They can't talk, but they do nearly | every thing else, and their series of acts | and tricks elicit the most repturous ap | plause, and many a dramatic artist | would feel highly honored to secure | ona-halt the pla1dits showered on these | dumb animals. Notice of the new issue Of money or | ders which the poseotfice department IS | to make and sample forms of the zane. | have been received in Tucson. They | are similar to those now issued by ex- press companies. The order is like the | old kind, except that it is provided Vith marginal cheek, so called, to be re- | turned to the money order department | at Washington with each weekly report | The amount for which the order IS drawn | is indicated by the cuts ia the margin, | which prevents any possibility of its te | ing raised. The device is the same as | before. except that 1t IS of little offer | ent shape. The amouot for which an | order can be issued has been ch snged | from S100 to S200. This form of orders | will be furnished the postoffices as soon as the old supply is exhausted, and Jan | uary 1st all w!,l be provided with them. | Tucson may safely go into the orange | growing business if tree ln the garden | of MT. Troy McCleary, on Franklin | street tesNeen Main and Meye-, is any | criterion 10 go by. This tree Is about | eleven feet high and was killed down by | frost until two ears ago when an iDge | nius device of protecting it from the | cold was adopted. This was nothing | than lyannipO Va-SnlS filled with | water under tbe tree and on unusually | cold nights further precau;ior WAS ! tsken by fl oodIng the ground beneath | the tree. The water appears to 6bsola I tely absorb the frost for no matter how | hard it may be tue tree remained unin- | jured. This season it bears twenty-nine large oranges, scme of which are now ripe. It is of the MeXi ;an variety and the fruit is large, one orange being about four inches in diameter. V eitors are invited to call and zee the tree for themselves and then do likewise. As the o-e ge is az evergreen, 1t IS beauti- ful tree at all times and lis growth and cultivation should be encouraged.
 Mir. Knox Corbett ie enthusiastic over the gro Rth of tbe south and also over the wonderful di-piay made by Mexico at the Atlanta exposition. Arizona un- fortunaty YRS not represented, but Kuox dld some good talking for the ter ritory while he was there. While at bIs home in Sumter Knox was prostr6ed by the "breakb De f1veT." It IS .Ie ssys, ali the name implies and better than s rack or wheel foI extorting pam and making the patient howl, On the third day of his effiiction be was appalled, a. his own nh