Arizona daily citizen., 1901-01-23
Brief News Items
Of the Town.


Mrs. James Seager returned today to !
Helyetia after visiting in the city with
Mrs. Mathew.
The California Press association will
take an excursion from San Francisco
to New Orleans and will visit Phoenix
on February IL.
@Col. Ogelvee, who has been in Tucson
for the past six months, departed last
night for Los Angeles. The colonel
made many friends here who will
be sorry to see him leave.
Justice Wilson today sentenced De-
siderio Del 81 to six days for disorderly
conduct. Constable Pacheco arrested
Del 81 at the depot where he was -four
ishing long knife and terrifying the
people gathered there.
A. Gonzales, Mexican boy about
eighteen years of age, was stabbed by a
Chinaman last night. The boy was in
the store of the Chinaman bothering
him when the stabbing occurred. Only
slight wound was inflicted.
The grandest play OF the age is Lewis
Morrison's Faust" and the production
in its entirety has always been recog-
uized as superior to anything else in the
same line and this season is on more
elaborate scale than ever. 1t will be
here soon.
J. ]. Harris of Bisbee, who was shot
on Christmas night at the Turf saloon
by the accidental discharge of revolver
which dropped from the pocket OF one
OF his friends, is able to be out OF the
hospital and OK poets to be able to re
sumo work very soon.
The Arizona editors who are in Phoe-
nix attending the meeting of the Press
association held banquet last night.
The Phoenix papers, however, appeared
as usual this morning, but they wore a
champaign expression.
City Attorney Roscoe Dale is much
| improved and will soon be on the road
to complete recovery. MIR. Dale has
been suffering with pneumonia, and a
week ago it was thought that he would
not recover. The many friends OF Mr..
Dale in Tucson will be glad to learn that
he will get well.
| Professor James Douglas and party
arrived in Bisbee Sunday from Morenci,
and left the following morning for Ma
eosari and Bacoachi, Sonora, to inspect
the work now going on at these two
places. The party will first visit work
on the Southwestern railroad which is
now within mile of the border town
OF Douglas. The railroad will reach
Douglas early in the week.
The weather man has been making a
strong bluff during the past few days
and he has been backed up by the storm
king who keeps the skies clouded and
threatening without even 80 much as al
lowing drop of rain to fall. The
government weather bureau at San
Francisco predicted rain for Tucson last
night, but in spite OF this fact the storm
persists in delaying.
Theo. Hernandez, a native of Sonora,
Mexico, was caught in the hydraulic
elevator at the Copper Queen smelter in
Bisbee, at 10 q. m. yesterday, and badly
crushed. Hernandez had been heisting
Stag pots filed with Stag and in running
them on the elevator some Of the hot
Stag splashed over him. This caused
him to jump, and started the elevator.
He was caught between the elevator and
the side OF the smelter pit and severely
crushed. He was taken to the company
hospital and was attended by DR.. Hick-
man, says the Prospector.
William Weaver is in the city today
from Arizola. Mr.. Weaver recently sold
four carloads of alfalfa hay to Tucson
merchants which he raised upon his
farm at Arizola. He says that he had
sold several carloads to other points
along the line, and at present he has
about all the hay there is in that Sec
ton. The crop was very short this year
owing to the scarcity of water, only
about two crops being cut where in more
favorable years four and five crops were
harvested. He says that with the con-
struction of the government reservoir
the Arizola valley will secure an abun-
dance of water and the country will
then rapidly settle up.
There was special meeting of the
city council last night which was impor-
tant because Of the large number of con-
tracts which were let and the proposals
opened. Joe Soldini was given the con-
tract to feed the city prisoners at fifteen
cents per meal for each prisoner. Charles
Durham secured the contract to sprinkle
the streets at $2. A per day per team and
driver. The street cleaning will be done
during the coming year by J. NJ. Maris-
cal at the rate of $3 per team per day
The bids for the city printing and the
bad OF the electric light company were
referred to committees. The council
discussed the irregularity of sidewalks
bordering on the east side of block 1893
on Sixth avenue and Gen. Manning who
10 making Improvements there made
proposition to strsighten the sidewalks
by an exchange Of property between the
city and himself The matter is under
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