Arizona daily citizen., 1901-02-15
Brief News Items
| Of the Town.


/ Tucson is very i'll in st. Louis.
! c. +. Chase is candidate for school
director. His announcement appears n
another column.
At 8 O'Clock yesterday afternoon the
nuptials of NJ IS Edith Siewert and Mr..
Quintus Monier occured, Bishop Gran
ion performing the ceremony. The cnu-
Pile departed on the evening train fol
San Francisco.
Capt. Jack Crawford will come to
Tucson and speak under the auspices q
the recreation rooms society. The cap
tain was u guest o. the q. A. r. post in
his city twelve years ago.
Lyman Wakefield is in from la Osa
ranch in the BAboquivari mountains
He says that he has never seen the
range look as well during his long re-
sidence in Arizona. The grass is up
and growing fast and there will be an
abundance of feed during the year.
The examination of Constable Alex
ander, who killed Mrs. Burns at Yuma
LAST vee%, was postponed until the otfi.
GERS could secure more witnesses. 1t
will be held toda, or tomorrow. Frank
King and Sam King are at Yuma and
| will remain until after the examination
is held.
| The Union park driving club will
hold meeting tonight to further the
interests of the big meet next week.
Secretary schuster is meeting with sue
cess in the final roundup of subscribers,
and the merchants and everyone in the
city are taking great interest i'll the meet.
W. d. and V. W. Zabrisbie, who have
been employed in the mechanical de-
partment of the Copper Queen at Bisbee
arrived in Tucson this morning. They
will go from here to Honolulu, Sandwich
Island, to assist their brother Y. q. Ia
briskie, who is manager OF large cleo
tric plant til, re.
Marshal Taylor this morning received
a telegram from a COW boy at Pearce who
wants to come here during the races
and wanted to be sure that the big meet
and steer-tying contest will take place
next week. The steer-tying will bring
ex ert COWBOYS from all over southern
Arizona and this feature promises to be
an interesting one.
Two Mexicans who have been grading
out locations for houses on Knob hill in
Bisbee had narrow escape yesterday
from being sent to Kingdom come. They
we're thawing out two sticks of powder
when it exploded tearing the can to-
pieces. The Mexicans had gone to
gather fuel and luckily were at a safe
distance when the explosion occurred
Assessor John Bogon has returned
rom trip To the ArI raca country which
he reports is in better condition Il a. lie
has seen it in many years. There is
plenty of snow in the mountains, the
treams are running full OF water al d
grass on the ranges is springipg mp fast.
Mr. Began says that every one he met
in that country is happy over the pros
pect OF go d year.
The boom OF the desert lands south.
east OF Tucson continues and the land
office is doing rushing business. To-
day six locations We're made. Fonr Of
them by Norman C. Wilson, Albert ].
Fink, Victor +. Hanny and Louis Ros-
enstern, who have each taken I60 ceres
If section thirty. Otto laundering has
fled upon 100 acres in section twenty
and George w. Steele 100 acres. VIM
!. Carroll has file upon sixty-seven
acres in Maricopa county.
An important strike was recently made
in northern Arizona. A few weeks ago
James Britain grubstaken on oil pros
pector and Thursday last he received
samples CT rock from a discovery that
he made in the country near the Moss
mine that, when assayed, fairly took his
breath away. One of the samples gave
a return of 707 ounces gold and SIS
ounces silver, or about $4,000 per ton
The other sample from seventeen. foot
vein gave return Of about SIS to the
ton. There is strong under current of
excitement that may develop into a
stampede.
A correspondent says that Kern st.
Charles, the assemblyman from Moiave
county, who by long odds il the busiest
member of the legislature, has called
down upon his head the wrath OF all
Arizona physicians. st. Charles intro,
duced a bill to abolish the territorial
medical board and repeal all legislation
on the subject OF medical examination.
leaving the diploma az warrant to
practice medicine. Phoenix physicians
have taken the initiative in Opposing
the bill. They bitt, rly denounce the
st. Charles bill, and declare that Arizona
has too long been dumping ground for
irresponsible physicians, without max
ing it still easier for them to gain foot
hold