Arizona daily citizen., 1901-05-01
Brief News Items
Of the Town.

Inc OEulnanCe Ill ISlatioh W h9eSa
rates went into effect today.
Lewis Pollard, tried for embezzlement
was sentenced to thirty-fve days in the
county jail.
The sprinkling cart today had strug-
gle with high wind which blew clouds
of dust the greater portion of the day.
Mulberries are ripenening and every
hungry Papago has come to the city to
camp beneath the trees and eat their
! fill.
There is a case of smallpox at Pearce,
but the patient has been isolated and no
fears are entertained that the disease
viii spread.
The finishing work is now being done
in the Carnegie building and the build
ing will be completed and ready to be
occupied on June Ist.
Robert Fisher was arrested today for
attempting to end the life OF Mexican
with club. He will be tried tomorrow
| upon the cnAfBe OIL asSauIt'
| A number of the Tucson members OF
the Rough Rider organization will go to
Colorado Springs to attend the meeting
which will be held on June "a.
DIR. III. NJ. Hernandez was released
from the county Jail, having served three
months for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
The excursions to the coast viii coon
begin. Those who are planning TO go
away should remember that there are
delightful camping places in the Cata-
lima and Santa Rita mountains.
Helvetia today entered upon its re-
newed life as producing camp. The
smelter was blown in and copper bullion
is again being produced at the big camp
in the Santa Ritas.
George Pusch reports that horse,
bridled and saddled, Mcclellan tree,
came to his ranch about IA miles from
town on the 29th of April. He has no
means OF knowing to whom the property
belongs.
Florencio Ruiz has been arrested on a
complaint sworn out by his vile. He is
charged with taking $40 from a secret
bank which is maintained by Mrs. Ruiz.
The case will come up for trial tomor-
row.
George Rupert vas arrested today
upon complaint OF E. p Drew. Rupert
is charged with securing money upon
check which has since proven to be
worthless. The case will be tried to-
morrow.
1t is stated that the old smelter at
Copper mountain. which made a very
brief run about sixteen or seventeen
years ago, since when it has been idle,
will shortly be overhauled and started
up again.
The "oldest inhabitant, is baffied he
does not know what to think of the
heat which has come so early in the
summer. He makes the reporting pre-
dietion, however, that the hot days of
April do not presage an unusually hot
summer.
John Doe was arrested last night for
using indecent language. 1t appears
that John did not have sufficient pro-
vocation to use the expre ssive language
employed, and Marshal Taylor took him
to the city Jail where no one but Jack
Dufton would hear him. He was pro-
perly fined this morning by Recorder
Nat Hawke.
In the municipal court few days ago
man who had been picked up by the
police was marked in the Marshal's re-
port as "John Francis, drunk and down."
The man was miner, and this was per-
haps name he hit upon to conceal his
identity. But In Tucson there is a young
man named John Francis-a boy who is
engaged as caller at the Southern Pa
citic. He is highly respectable boy,
and lest someone might think that he
was drink and down" we make this ex-
planation.