Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-04-25
LOCAL NEW S.


here from Casa Grande. Mr.. Roy is in
the employ of the Southern Pacific.
John Doe was sent up by Recorder
Council, for ten days for being drunk
and disorderiy.
There will be number OF good,
strong short stories 10 McClure's for
May. smopg them railway story by Cy
WHrmeD.
Mrs. Knox Corbett and little daughter
and Miss Sadie Etchells left last night
for q months visit to Los Angeles.
They will be gone one month.
There will be special meeting of the
police committee this evening at z 30 IN
the city hall to take under consideration
the appointment of a new police officer
The Misses Shibell gave dancing
party in honor of some young friends on
Friday evening lsst. A very enjoyable
time was had.
Mrs. George Pusch who has been
seriously i'll for the past two weeks is
said to be convalescing.
MIR. o. B. McKissick. cattle buyer
from Usage City, Kansas, is In the city.
hc AoS ecCufcu dOouta lioAh io0N ANA
shipment.
IL you are interested in irrigation or
fruit growing matters, send your ad-
dress, on q postal card, for sample
copy OF "Practical Irrigation" Roswell.
n. NJ. illustrated monthly magazine.
Mr.. John F. Niccols, we'll known
Pima county mining man is now super
intending Charly Sh8nnon's copper mine
above Clifton. He is working about $50
men and opening up the property in a
scientific and systematic manner.
Miss Lucy johnson, niece of Mr..
Ohss. F. Burkhglter, and who has been
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. Burkhalter,
for the past several weeks, returned to
her home In California on Saturday
evening last.
Prof. Netherton, territorial superin-
tendent of schools is in the city, but
leaves for home this evening. The
Professor has made an excellent super
intendent and it is more than probable
that ne will be continued ia office.
In the primary elections at Nogales
there were six candidates in the field.
Seyenty-four votes were cast Of which
John T. Brickwood received IS, A. T.
Bird IS, George Christ Jr. 60, James
Lieurance l, VIM. Ekey 10, and j. Bur
COON i.
The delegation OF OGd Fellows from
Tucson and Nogales returned yesterday
from Prescott to which place they had
been in attendance on the grand lodge.
They report having been royalty enter
tanned by their Yavapal bretheren.
J. M. Holt, the cattle buyer, will be
here May l, but he does not, on recount
of the late spring in Montana, wish any
deliveries made till May 18th ct which
time he will be ready to receive about
10000.
A whirlwind struck the hay shed OF
Capt. Jack Bol6n yesterday and moved
about thirty-five feet Of the steel roof
ing from the walls. The damage done
amounts to at least $50. The whirlwind
that did the damage WIGS small one
but its lifting powers appears to have
been mormons.
Some wretch threw a boulder through
q passenger car window last night when
the train was between Phoenix and Tenn
pc. The rock weighed several pounds
and was thrown with such force as to
cut cleau hole through the glass with
out shattering it. Fortunately no one
was hurt.
In McClure's magazine for May,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps viii tell the
story-now become amusing, but any
thing else than amusing at the time
of the tumult of attack and approval
that attended the publication OF the
most famous of her books, 'The Gates
Ajsr."
McClure's magazine for May will have
an article by the eminent surgeon. DIR.
w W. Keen, indicating the uses already
possible, as well as those likely to be-
come possible soon, of the Rontgen rays
in the study and cure of human detor-
mites, injuries and dieegses. The
article will be fully illustrated from
photographs taken by the new process.
At the public exercises on Wednesday
afternoon at the university, Professor
Devol will deliver an address Oh 1.-THE
Monroe Doctrine and the Venezuelan
Question" Every Wednesday at 3
o'clock exercises are held ID the assem-
bly, room at the university to which the
public are invited. The students pro-
vide the entertainment Cd alternate Wed
nesdaye and members of the faculty up
on the others.
Mrs. W. I. Perry gave new woman's
dinner few days since. The husbands,
OF the fair danes Ia attendance on the
sumptuous repast, were left home to
mind the babies that grace the several
households affected. One good lady was
so nervous over the thought of having
left her dear little one to the care of an
awkward husband that she fell and
sprained her ankle.
Mr.. Murat Masterson an old time
TucsoDer is again Ia town. He was
FIRST here in 1874 and since that time
he has been the world over He is now
located at Yuma, his old stamping
ground and is doing well. Mr. Master
is vice-president Of the Franco-Americ-
an mining company, operating mining
property in the vicinity OF Orc Blanco,
and upon which about $1,000 per month
is being expended. Mr.. Karl +. Miller,
secretary and treasurer of the company
has lately visited the property and is
expected in Tucson tomorrow. Ed NJ. !
Browder an experienced miner is super
intendent.
Supervisor Zsck T. Vail was in the |
city Saturday with five lion skins the |
original owners of which had been killed |
near his stock ranch in the Santa Cats |
linas. The largest of the quiGtette |
measured nearly nine feet from the tip |
of bis nose to the end Of his tail. Mr..
Vail reports them exceedingly numerous
in the hills and very destructive Of pig /
and young stock, of which be has lost /
many of both. The lions were killed
by Mexican hunter who is paid $40 0 |
head by an association of stockuen. |
The brutes are first driven into the |
trees or rocks by dogs end then shot.
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