Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-12-26

s,ty. has returned from Phoenix.
 Egsn vs. Cameron still holds the st-
 tention of the district court.
 M.P. Freemsu left this morning for 6
 trip to the Santa Ritas, upon mining
 business.
 Miss Maud Slausop, the sccomL Llished
 daughter of Mrs. D. $. Thoma as, o'
 Arizols, is visiting in the city
 Tucson Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M., will
 meet tonight for work. All mssone 10
 good standing are fraternslly invited.
 Wells Fargo Express comapy will
 keep it's office open between the hours ot
 8 and l2 tomorrow, for the acconmoos' tion of those who wish to send awsy
 Christmas presents.
 F,C. Mckinney, of Mammoth, arrived | in the city this morning. Mir. Mckinney
 is @ merchant at bus home and IS justly num bered among Pinal cOuntys moet
 progressive citizens.
 Mining locations of every description are on sals at the CITIZEN office. A new
 form has been printed which saves the
 locator one dollar of the fee for reccrd-
 ing. Call and provide yourself with 8
 supply.
 Horace E. Dnniap, editor and pro p-ietor of the Sulphur Valley Newe, at
 Wilcox, is ID the city. Mir. Duniap IS pu blishIng one of the very brightest and newsIest we. klles in the territory.
 4. Nj. Baruhart, one of the genial of- , fioers of the $. P, with headquarters ID Los Angeles, ls ip the city on busipess
 trip. Like the remainder ot the 5. Ps:
 representatives, he Is genial and full or
 business.
 The election of two city officers is to
 be contested. Tne papers flied wIib the
 district clerk yesterday bear the tt es Of
 Brady vs Puscb, and Finley vs. Oakes.
 The cases are set for hearing on January 4th.
 Geo. A. Mauk, the gentlemsnly and obliging agent of the s. F. at Aiizols, Is in the city today on 8 short visit. He leaves for home this evening. He hss been in attendance st the irrigation con- eress at Phoenix, and came in from there l this morLing. Mir. and Mrs. Tom Brown have gone | to Los Angeles. MT. Brown IS one of the popular s. P. conductors, and IS Tn | | Ill health. He will put in lis vacation | on the cosst in hopes of reapipg physl- cal improvement from the change. Frank Rich srdson visited Tucson last week, where be went to receive some of the higher degrees in masonry. Mr. Richardson says Tucson never showed more evidences of prosperity than DOW. Business is good aud substsotial im- provements are to te seen in all parte of the city.-Bulletin.
 The Detroit Copper Company smelter at Clifton had @ narrow escape from fire on Thureday. A bunk-bouse situated near, caught fire from a passing engine and was burned to the ground. The concentrator building was scorched con siderabIy. Had the wiHd been in the other direction it would have been im- possible to save them.
 W. R. Brown, travelling agent of the Santa Fe, with headquarters Tn El Paso, spent a couple of days in Tucson. Mir Brown is one of nst1re's noblemen and prince of good fellows. The Santa Fee popularity is very materially en- bsnced by such representatives as he, and there is R hearty welcome always awaiting him wherever he visits.
 F. D. Simpson. better known in the city ss Frankie" is here to spend the bolidsys, and Is the guest of Councilmsn- elect M. P. Dodge. Frankie was borp in Tucson but now lives with bis fatber 10 San Luis Obispo, Cal. Mir. Simpson was formerly au engineer on the s. P. railroad here, but now runs out of San Luis Obispo. He is brother of our en- terprisipR citizen, MT. Simpson, of the firm of Donohue & Simpson.
 0. O. McNeill, general euperintende- t of the Msricops and Phoenix railroad, is ( in tbe city today, and called at the CITIZEN office. Mir. McNeill is 8 thor nueh gentleman, sffsble and courteous and sn exceptionally bright railroad man. whnee management of the affairs . of the M & P. is making it ss pop i ular ss any railroad can be. He is i'm preseed with the busy appearance of ] Tucson and says the old pueblo is ''sll , right" Iii
 A. Frederick Krohn lesves tonight for Cubs, where be goes as a citizen Mir. Krohn is known to { 8 number of our citizeps as sn exception ally wide awake young gentleman, and | ( first clase civil engineer and draughts ( man. He hss lately been employed iu Resident Engineer Sroute's office where he gave eminent satisfaction. Re hae ( had admirable military training iu [ Europe, end will dou btlees eend out { most interesting and accurate reports S ot what occurs in Cuba.
 It is stated that the acid from the great works at Clifton is commencing to make itself visible in the water used on 1. the fsrme of tais valley. We always ! understood that the Copper Company was very careful to keep the acid out of the river, but of couree we have DO means of knowing, and we suppose the presence of acid is ouly supposed by anyone. It is claimed that the water will now kill certain plsut life that if C wee never known to do before, aud we are told that a test is to be made to g ascertain the cause.-Guerdian.
 The Tucson Mining and Smelling t company shipped today, through the 6 Consolidated National Bs, k, via the Southern Pacific. twenty taps of copper bullion, the product of four days run of the smelter. Mir. J. Francis, the manager of the emelter, Is always on the ! lookout for copper ore. and pays cash ' for every pound that ie shipped to bim. The longer the smelter runs under his charge, the more popular his manage ment becomes, and nothing but praise [ ls heard from the miners with whom he ,, has had dealings. t,
 Senator White of the committee on ! esys: "Arizona'e mineral re need DO further demonstration $ han the product of the mines during the last ten years. Every mining man knows that Arizons is orc of the greatest uin- Ing regioc in the United Sates. It con- tains large deposits of both silver and g gold, and 1t is especially rich in copper. t ~G "A