Arizona daily citizen., 1901-01-17
Brief News Items
of the Town.

at the opera house next Saturday night. /
The office of the school superintendent
will be in the courthouse, in the rooms
formerly occupied by the grand jury.
The fake doctors who were operating
in Barrio Lire and who were tried in
the justice court Yesterday were given
sixty days each in the county jail.
The Fort Lowell ghost died and its
ghost came to the abode of The Citizen
editor and packed off his wheel. Any
one seeing ghost riding a bicycle will
please notify The Citizen at once.
A recent issue of the st. Louis Re-
public contained hali-tone OF for
mer Tucson girl, Miss Gwynne Wood
who was married here to Lee Weinert OF
st, Louis. The portrait OF Mr., lie Wei
merit was also presented.
In the supreme court the eases OF Wi
ley Morgan, sentenced from Cochise
county, on petition for new trial, is set
for January Is, and the tax case between
Cochise county and the Copper Queen
/ Co. is set for today.
/ Bisbee is threatened with water
/ famine. At the pre- sent time it is so
/ scarce in the camp that the water com
pany only turns on the water for use
four hours Of day. The people of Bis
/ bee fear that there will be a famine un-
less rain or snow visits the camp soon.
Ii there is scarcity OF news in The
Citizen it is due to the fact that a
thief came to the home of the city
editor and stole his bicycle. Walking
makes news gathering hard job, and
the friends OF this paper should feel an
interest in capturing the thief who is
riding the city editors Crescent wheel.
Constable Manciet has arrested Manuel
Durome at Fort Lowell. Durome has
evaded the officers for two months,
when warrant was sworn out by Bob
Leatherwood for his arrest. Durome is
charged with stealing provisions from
g.
come up in justice court tomorrow after
noon.
Those who have the grip in Tucson are
holding President Mckinley responsible
for giving the epidemic such a promi.
nent start in its demoralizing journey
over the land. Several people in Tucson
have been stricken, and have suffered
no doubt, just as much as the president
But we can not all be president, though
almost anyone of US can have the grip.
Ed. Clark one of the Arizona pioneers
and trail blazers was Tombstone visitor
yesterday. "Walapai" as he is fami-
Iiarly known, was busy shaking hands
with his many old time friends who
greeted him on every hand Mr.. Clark
returned to Table Mountain, in this
county, where he is located Mr.. II.
Mckinney who accompanied him also
ned.-Prospecto
A Mexican named Juan Lopez was
| terribly scalded and burned in hor-
rible manner at the smelter works last
evening 1t seems that Lopez had been
warned by several of the men to stand
from under the big emptying we'll which
is lifted and carried by an electric crane
pouring the molten copper from the set
tiers to the converters, but he did not
heed the warning. The we'll tipped and
spilled part of the liquid copper over
Lopez, almost cooking him. Lopez died
after suffering the most horrible pains
and agonies.
Mr.. s. H. Brown, who has been man.
aging the san Xavier hotel for the past
several months, and who retired from
that position Tuesday, left on the morn
ing train for Chicago. He was accom-
panied by his son, sam jr,, who has
been his clerk During his brief resi-
dence in the city Mr.. Brown demon
strated the possession of hotel ability OF
high order. His successor is Mr..
| Douglas Riddle, a Pacific coast hotel
man with a brilliant record. Mr.. Rid
die is delighted with the San Navier and
Tucson in general, and is confident Of
scoring a big triumph here. Mr. Riddle
will make feature of catering to local
boarders. The large retinue of white
cooks installed by Mr.. Brown will be
retained by MIR. Riddle.
Bissbee seems to- have a full chapter
OF accidents. Following the death of
young Nolan, Harry Holland. an old
time miner, was fatally injured by
blast in the Holbrook mine early yester-
day morning. 1t seems that he had
"miss fire hole' and after waiting for a
time went back, against the wishes and
the caution of his associates, to investi-
gate. lie stopped down and began to
scrape the fuse, when the explosion oc-
Cured, throwing him about twelve feet
back in the drift and blowing off his
right arm and part OF his right leg. His
skull was crushed, and word from the
company doctors says that Holland is
not expected to live through the night.
-Prospector.
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