Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-11
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Owing Co tho illness of Mayor DoughertY last night no business was transacted by the city council further than to vote by the mem- bers of ihe council present that the city attorney should make answer to the injunction proceedings lnstitut- ed against the council in the district court.
 A Former resident of this territory who IS now member of battery at Cavite. near Manila, writes to a friend iu Globe m which he says: ..iu regard Co living. some things are cheap here. You can get drunk Tor about five cents ton a native drink called ansawl; you can buy a mon key for about - ceDts; good cigar for cent q 10 center m the States !; a pint of the best French cham pagne for j0 cents; good brandy for Co cents a quart. With the eXcep- ton of few other things, living IS high and good grub hard to get"
 The Santa Fe rail road company has contracted for l60000 tons of new steel rails at a cost of nearly SiOpOUO0 The new rails will be of the 72-pound class. These new rails will be lad during the present year. Dayid Conuor. of Jerome, is in town.
 Read Smith X Smiths new adver- tisemeut in this issue.
 Pete Boscha has been reappointed as deputy sheriff at Congress.
 Under Sheriff 4. 4. Johns brought a prisoner up from Congress this morning to serve thirty days sen tence ID the county jail.
 Mrs. F.. J. Austin came in from Flagstaff yesterday for a brief visit to friends m Prescott.
 S. j. Holsinger. special agent of the department of the interior, will make his headquarters hereafter in Tucson. The department has in structed him to file complaints against all cutters of green mesquite. The law permits the cutting of dead mesquite and also permits the act ual settlers Co cut the green wood Tor actual needs. but the object sought by the law as It now stands. IS Co prevent the wholesale destruc- ton ot the wood for speculative purposes. Star.
 W. C. Teaslsle, Jr.. Of St. Louis is al the Burke.
 \. NJ Heineman, San Francisco; Walter Hill. Phenix; W. l.. Kean, Chicago, and J. F. Bryant. Crowned King. are among recent arrivals at Hotel Burke.
 Judge Flo Williams. who formerly practiced law m Prescott, IS the new school superintendent m Pima county.
 The board of supervisors has ai- lourued Tor the month.
 The |. :. land officers of Tucson offered the Ft Thomas military res ervAtion for sale but there were DO bidders. The land embraced in the reservation Is mostly rich mesa soil that in tune will be taken up in small tracts.
 Tho Globe Times says that there D IS no foundation for the report that the Southern Pacific people would take charge of the c. Y. X N railroad.
 Odd Fellows will install officer. thi evening al their hall. Al members are requested to be pres Q eat.
 To convey some idea of the in teusity of the recent wood famine II Globe, it seems as much as so pei cord was offered for several days. Il IS further related that a man went out st the Tear of a business hous, and there he saw a iue pile of woOC with a ten foot board fence. and h, concluded to throw a stick oyer tn, fence, then go out the front way and go around and get it. He threv the wood over and another fellow caught it on the fly, and when No. went around for his stick, he had n, more wood than a rabbit. .r-Globt Times.