Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-06-20
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr. and Mrs. ii. Gerweln OF bensop
are in the city on visit to friends.
The Indians have completed their b ar
vest and are hauling their product u
market.
John ResIer, of Tucson is fortunate
in having been awarded piano as al
Examiner" premium.
Politics are sgsin factor in Pima
county and the pot is being prepared
for the coming boil.
Mrs. VIM. A. Hart left last night FOL
Los Angeles From there she WIZ &c
TO Portland, Ore, where she Will speno
the SUMNER.
Central Avenue, Phoenix, has toll
gate, where eli casual travellers are
obliged to pat up or turn back.
The regular meeting of Tucson lodge
No. 1, T. & A. NJ. will be held tonight al
7:30 O'CLOCK. Work in the third degree
Capt. Dodge, OF Hus chuca, together
with five other army Off Gers, will arrive
this evening, sud remain for few days
at Miss Halle.
Mr.. A. Y. Grossetts. whose ankle was
broken 90 netime ego, has go Tar re-
covered as TO be able to navigate on
clutches.
Guillermo Sonoeuy, the man who as
bsen furnishing whiskey to the Indians
who hsye lately been drunk on tie
etreets. wes arrested this morning.
Quite a little excitement resulted from
a blazing chimney on Main street Just
before noon. The fire was coon extln-
guished and no damage resulted
The butchers OF Phoenix have formed
az association for self-protectIon. Each
member Is furnished q list OF eli the
b ed customers On the books or the
o theirs.
There are no mining camps IN the
south west where more men empioseo,
better wages paid, mere copper produced
and batter times existing generally. thsn
at the copper camps or CLIFTON sno
Morenci.
Capt. w. A. Pitts is in the city from
Oskwoods. He brings some splendid
looking gold rock from recent discov-
ery, which he will have tested. liz the
result is satisfactory be will have some
work done upon the claim at once.
The hack and transfer men Of Phoenix
are just now deeply engaged In studying
the problem OF just bow to meet trains
on the Santa Fe that are duplicated IN
their times of arrival ard departure by
trains on the Msricopa & Phoenix.
The ice factory and creamery at
Thatcher has proved to be decided
success. The cleanliness OF the cream
cry, butter and Cheese factory is come
thing rarely met with in this kind OF an
establishment.
Under charge of MIR. j. @. Hilsinger
the s. P. company is working number
OF Indians between Maricopa and Pan
tsno, at section work. There are Mari
copes, Pimas and some PspRgos employ
ed, and they are giving good sstisfsc-
lion.
Rev, Howard Billman has returned
tom Florence, where be went To perform
the marriage ceremony for Thos +.
Jones and Mss Mabel Stratton. The
wedding was quiet one, only very |
few intimste friends being invited. The
Young couple have a world or good |
wishes TO start tLem on their journey.
OF course, its little bit OF bother and |
trouble TO tie your horse when you want /
10 leave him standing for few moments
on the street. But its Whole lot more /
trouble to repair The damage after the |
horse rune away and destroys property,
and takes chances of killing some one.
Better comply with the ordinance and
avoid trou BILE.
The closing exercises OF the Territori- |
81 Normal school drew together the |
largest crowd which ever assembled al |
Tempe. The entire program wss fiat
berineiy received, and advancement |
along educational lines was marked |
GESTURE. The normal school is sn insti- |
tuition of which the territory is justly |
proud.
Watermelons, ripe watermelons, are |
On the Phoenix markets, though the
price, S1-25 for melon that a single |
could appropriate to him.
self, is deemeI somewhat prohibitory. |
The grower, for there is but single /
grower now in evidence, asserts he has |
D sd melons for six dgys. Ii this be true,
DO is the bearer of the banner for esrly |
melons Ia Arizona. But q few weeks /
will lapse, however, till the luscious fruit /
will become more than abundant on the |
market cad prices will drop to about
,Rlf dollar a wagon load.-Repu blican.
Most any one would think that il was
90 warm for even horses to exert them
elvee unnecessarily, but Tucson man
lges to furnish a runaway OF some dee
,riptlon with marvellous regularity.
This morning it was the buckskin and
black, which are familiar pair to every
body in the city. They dragged the
arge truck down Main street at lively
tate, and hung up on the telephone pole
Ii the corner 0f Pennington, where they
we're captured.
% their home st Clifton, this morning.
Mr.. DENLY is son OF Hon. Chas DENLY,
Il Evansville, Ind, United States
Minister to China, and is q mining
engineer in the employ OF the Arizona
Copper company. He has Just return
ID from Rosemont where he has been
q company with Superintendent
1olquhoun Investigating the Rosemont
nine upon which the bond taken by
Lewisohn Bros. ofNew York, will short
y expire.
The Mexicans are tax ng advantage
If the scarcity OF Florida oranges, and
ire shipping tneir supply of fruit to this
country. TINS season fully 900 car
Dads will be exported. Thomas l.. Crit
tenden. United States consul general al
The City Of Mexico, says old trees are
being pruned, new orchards planted, /
md every preparation made to com pete
or the American orange trade. The
Mexican orange season is from Septem-
Der to December. and fits IN between
he Florida and California seasons, thus
eaving Mexico with practically no COM
petition in our market.
Mr.. Walter S. Davis was IN the CITY
,ssJerdBy from the Hart ranch. He
te, ed that all the grain, one hundred
nd fey Bcres, had been harvested, and