Arizona daily citizen. (Tucson, Ariz. Territory [i.e. Ariz.]) 1884-1901, 1901-02-11
Brief News Items
Of the Town.
Thursday is st. Valentines day.

year Just past
The Pima Paragon says: The Tucson
Citizen is rapidly improving, and is 10y
lar the best paper in that town.
Up to the first of the year 10000 head
OF cattle were shipped from Southern
Arizona points,
Cattlemen say that but twenty-five
per cent Of the calves born on the ranges
during the last year lived.
All OF the mountain streams are run
ming with water furnished by the rains
and snow. This is going to- be pros
porous year for cattlemen and miners.
Henry Levin the Nogales cattle brok-
err passed a train load OF cattle OF ~
head, last week through Nogalcs. They
were enroute to Fresno, Cal.
R. c. Brown for several years travel
ing representative for the Herald of this
city is now on the road for the Citizen.
K. c is cracker jack on soliciting and
collecting Phoenix Gazette,
I
Mr.. Harry Creighton has resigned
his position as cashier for the collector
OF customs at Nogales and accepted a
position with Shirley Christy in the life
insurance business in Phoenix.
Mr. Fred Ronstadt has just received
two carloads of Balm wagons and one
carload of Columbus buggies. He has
five carloads OF wagons and bugSies on
the way to Tucson.
Lee Sing, importer OF Chinese, who
has been operating at Nogales for some
time, is now an inmate OF the county
jail in Tucson. He will be tried before
the United States court here at the next
term.
George Stone and Billy Reid have dis
solved partnership at Hely&tia where
they were engaged in the butcher bust
ness. Mr.. Stone will continue the bust
ness alone. He left this morning for
HeIvetia.
Every member of the Union Park
driving club is requested to be present
at meeting to be held tonight at
Scholefeld Il Ritchey's Office at : 80.
Business of importance has come up and
must be attended to. r. H. Schuster.
secretary.
\ South Carolina paper published the
following: Rev. Charles Ferguson,
author OF The Religion Of Democracy"
is rector oil al Episcopal parish in Tue
son, Arizona. A small edition OF the
book was published by Mr.. Ferguson
and a few copies found their way east.
One attracted the attention OF an author
in New York City, who read it and inn
mediately took it to the head OF the
publishing house OF Funk, Wagnalls Il
Co.
The Phoenix Gazette says: A Tucson
poiessor says the jackrabbit and the
Belgian hare are both misnamed. Pro-
perly they would be the jackhare and
Belgian rabbit. The man will send
bill to Al Bernard providing for crossing
the species. This is on a par with Cap
tain Hardy's bill in a former Arizona
legislature to cross' the Arizona bees
with the lightning bug so the bees could
see to work at night. Great mead that
Tucson professor.
Billy Stiles is at Casa Grande. He re-
TUNED to his home last week after re-
bceiving word from the district attorney
of Cochi>e county that all indictments
against him had been withdrawn accord
ing to the agreement the officers made
with him before he gave territorial
evidence against his companions in the
hold-up OF the Southern Pacific. Sheriff
Lewis Numbered in serving the warrant
OF arrest upon Stiles, having found an
old bench warrant which Judge Davis
had ordered issued during the trial OF
Downing at Tombstone.
The Oracle stage was compelled to re-
turn to the city this morning after at
tempting to cross the Rillito river bot
tom. The high water and quicksand
came near upsetting the stage, and three
OF the horses went down and were got
ten out OF the quicksand with difficulty,
The Nogales stage was compelled to re-
fuse passengers this morning because OF
the condition Of the roads and the I'M
certainty as to whether trip could be
made through to the border city. The
Santa Cruz river bottom is said to he
running full OF water and the roads are
badly washed out.
Agent Elwood TEadlev, who was in
Florence last week, informed Tribune
reporter that the department had placed
$4,000 to his credit for the purpose Of
employing the Indians under his charge
at work building bitches that might be
utilized when the reservoirs completed.
Mr.. Hadley has no faith inthe Graves
plan for securing water from the under
flow of the ella in sufficient quantity for
any appreciable good, and hence the
work will be done without regard to
that exploded idea. The Indians will
be paid 81 per day and their dinner and
a large number OF them are already at
work.