Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-23
LOCAL NEWS.

n pclftiOu IS UclDR ClTCuloecO ooOo. asking the legislature to tax churc property.
 J. J. Johnson, of Monoloa, Hawaiis islands, is in the city.
 The great magician held his audienc enraptured with the marvellous las night.
 Work is under way on the new vaul ordered for the city hall.
 Attorney Chss. Blenmsn is in Solo monvilie on business.
 February 27th, will be Ash Wednes day, the beginning of lent.
 Mrs. Judge bethune and Mrs. Judge Barnes left last night for Phoenix.
 Knox Corbett has been made agent fo Tucson for tEe UnIon Ice company.
 In Tucson much tree planting is un d T way.
 co. Carpenter ot Eli Paso travelling agent for the Santa Fe road, is in t5s city on business.
 J. l.. Powell, the Los Angeles cattle man has been buying stock out in the Arlvaca country.
 Trees are being planted along the Southern Pacific track at each station, siHIlsr to the very commendable work done in Tucson.
 Golden Link lodge No. ?, Degree of Honor A. O. U. W. meet tonight at Masonic heli at 80.
 Mrs. Moore is building a thousand dollar resid. nee on Pennington street, opposite J. M. Hardings.
 Company F, Tucson militia, will give 8 ball at their srmory, at the old Cosmo- politan hotel building, Friday night, Feb. p.
 The new cattle embargo on stock from Mexico, made recently and rsIseo later, goes into effect again on the 10th of March.
 Save your uickles for the big dance ID the opera house on Frid ay evening next. It promises to be gorg eous affair.
 The Knights Of Pythias will give thelr annual ball and banquet tonight. It promises to be higEly enjoyable.
 Mir. and Mrs. c R. Drake returned yesterday from Phoenix, where they have been for few days.
 Joe B. Holt, who was 8 candidate for the legislature last fall, would hav. been unable to serve, had he been elect ed. He is now seriously Ill.
 Subscriptions to the north and south railroad are coming in at a lively rate 10 Pipal county. It is probable that their quota will be forthcoming thls month.
 Rev. D. H. Ross who was here last winter for hls reaIth is now f. ing very low at his home m Nova Scotia, and is expected to d'e at anytime ip the near future.
 A round trip rate to Berson of g. 80 has been made by the Southern Pacitic for the accommodation of those desiring to attend the Nogaies carnival.
 The late cold snap was something fearful in Cochise county. In Tomb stone the thermometer fell 10 F below zero, wh.Ie at Bisbee water froze solid in tue pitchers at the hotels
 The bicycle craze has struck the town
  and If the porth and south railroad is not 5000 built there viii b. no necessi ty tor it, as every one will own their own conveyance.
 The Grand lodge of the A. O. U. W. for Arizons, Nv Mexico and Colorado will m-e5 ID Pno-nIx on March P e Qiite large number Of tha order vii visit the capital city on that dste, when a grand ceieorstion will be held.
 Special Agent Wsestsff wDo cut quite sVatn hsreabouts as a government investiyator has been succeeded by Geo. w Whitehead who Is expected bere with his wife in few days.
 N'ohoIas Guerovich, the builde, of the big Radulovich block, has established h mself on the corner of llth street snc 4th avenue. "Nick" is business from the word go and can build anything from 8 crystal palace to chicken coop.
 Among other improvements contem plated ID the Agricultural Experiment; Station of the Territorial University is .q greenhouse, 24xS0 feet, which will be u .tJlized in growing rare specimens of pla .qts, and in testing new varieties as to their sdaptability to this climate.
 Edu ard Eckler is 8 new man in the field of painting and papering business. He has lust satisfactorily completed the D .iuting .1f the Bard undertaking es- tab'lshmen,t. He has also under con- tract the " ork at the Baptist church and will do all the inside finishing in the pew hou ee of pr. Whomes.
 MT. T.J. Johnson, for several years clerk with l.. Z,eckendorf & O., but for the past six months merchandising ID Phoenix. has fali en heir to comforta- ble fortune iu E. England and will leave for that country shortly. The fortune left amounts to Sl,90,0O0 and is to be divided into three equal portions, of which Johnson gets one.
 Tawksbury is out CD bail today. IT ne is thin er and much paier than when he begin his Imprisonment. He has many triendf in the vicinity of Globe who believe that he js innocent of the killing of Tom Grabam in Mari copa County nearly two years ago. Hi bail is sl0,000 and he had DO trouble in getting bondsmen for double the amount.
 Arizona once had its thousands, per ha ls millions, of sun worshipOers. To day there is put one left. He is trusty D ise uer in the jail, and IS jet out every morn ipg at 9 o'clock. His religion ex .ends 7Eiy to q kaen enjOs meDt or the warm xSs of old Sol. He extends his arms to tne sun. rnbs his hands and turns ar VT d 70 1t, spd smlles and grunts- with supreme satisfaction.
 Mrs.JM. Rice, who rith her daugh- fer visited Tucson oceaso nRlly and is well known to many Tucson tadies, dieG suddenly in Phoenix Sunday morning last She wes afflicted with asth ua. bnf had apuarenil ly recovered and was mak- ing Dreparati pms to return to her east ern home, when she was suddenly st tackled with congestion of the lungs and died before a physician arrived.
 That the people of ArIzona appreciate