Arizona daily citizen., 1901-05-13
Brief News Items
Of the Town.

( leTuay from southern Arizona 10 DE
taken to San Francisco and on to China
The excavating for the new school
house in the northern portion OF the city
is being completed and the stone work
will begin at once.
/ Col. j. A. Black was taken suddenly
| i'll at Aqua Caiiente on Saturday night
and was brought to Tucson. He is much
improved today and will be able to be
out in a few days.
/ The United States land Office is get
ting its share OF the oil excitement. De-
mands are being made every day for
plats of land along the Gila, where the
alleged appearances of oil have been dis
covered.
| John F. Hanson swore out a warrant
for Il. b. Wilson, whopresented a check
which was drawn upon John Fl. Norton
of Wilcox. The check is said to be
worthless and the fellow was arrested.
He was tried this afternoon in Justice
| Wilson's court.
| There is a rumor that the property of
Miss Hall which now contains Hotel
Hall will be used for large hotel build
ing and the deal is said to be about
closed. The locStion is a central one
and would make an ideal spot for big
hotel.
Edward L. Shaw OF the San Antonio
Brewing Association is in the city today
and he has decided to locate here. He
will establish an ice factory and, cold
storage warehouse in Tucson, andis al
ready laying plans for starting his pro-
ject on substantial basis.
There will be an interesting social
function at the San Augustin on Satur-
day night. The young men viii dress
in white, wearing white shirtwaists,
duck trousers, white shoes, white ties
and red sash. 1t will be q strictly
shot weather" affair, The young ladies
will wear white dresses.
Congress street is to have a new store
building. j. Ivancoyich has accepted
the plans of Forbes 4 Nevins or triple
store building which he will build be-
tween RebeiPs and the A. o. u. w.
building. The structure will be one
story but will provide three large store
rooms. The front will be OF pressed brick
and will have plate glass. Work upon
it will begin very soon.
II is said that there is likely to be
trouble at Texas Hill owing to the fact
that second locations have been made
over the original locators and there is
lively time ahead. tits to be fight be-
tween California enthusiasts and Ari-1
zona locators. The result is likely to.
have tendency to destroy the oil ex-
citement and stop active sinking opera
tions. There is sure enough oil on the
troubled waters of the Gila these days.
The Tucson Chronicle is the name
OF weekly paper published for the first
time on Saturday by the Chronicle
publishing company. A. NJ. Foster is
managing editor and J. +. Hoogwood is
business manager. The paper is three
columns in width and contains
eight pages. 1t has we'll prepared re-
view of the week news, and the editorial
announcement places the paper in the
Democratic household. The Citizen is
always glad to welcome stranger
Frank Fitch is interested in. the dis
covery OF oil in the San Pedro valley. A
quantity of oil was this morning recie.
we'd in Tucso and will be sent to Cali
fornia where an analysis OF it will be
made. With all OF the oil excitement
there is bound to be strike made with
in short time. There. can be no
reasonable doubt but that this portion
OF Arizona is in the great oil belt, and
the Indications are so strong in many
places that it is almost assured from
the start that success will crown the
efforts OF some fortunate prospectors.
F. c. Millard. superintendent OF the
Sunset Telephone company, with head
quarters In Los Angeles, is in Arizona.
Mr.. Millard states that the long looked
for line between Nogales and Tucson will |
he completed within ninety days. He
also stated that all the necessary poles |
and other material for the line is on the |
way from Los Angeles. Part of the |
material will be received in Tucson, and |
part in Nogales, and the company will |
soon haye two large gangs of linemen
constructing this much needed line.
The Vidette sayswith the completion of
this line Nogales people can be commu-
nicated with by telephone as far north
as Jerome.
The extraordinary showing made by
the Consolidated National Bank in it's
statement to the Comptroller ofthe Cur
rency, which appears in today's Citizen,
must be all the more gratifying to that
and particularly fattering
10 the commercial pride of Tucson, by
reason OF it's being the largest exhibition
81 deposits that has ever been made by
any bank in the Territory OF Arizona,
and continues the Consolidated in the
ead of oil other banks at the present
lime. With line Of deposits of $685.
sS6. 90, paid up capital of $50, 900 90, and
lurplus Of $22, ,47SO0, the Consolidated