Arizona daily citizen., 1901-06-18
Brief News Items
Of the Town.

the usual fine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ronstadt are the
happy parents of baby girl. The baby
arrived this morning.
J. II. Montgomery has filed notice oI
the location Of a mining claim in the
Black Range near Casa Grande.
Application was made by DIR. Bell
in the Probate Court to-day for entrees
of administrator in the estate OF Sam
A. Slime, deceased.
In the probate court today the hear.
ing upon an application for distribution
in the estate OF Mercedes Tapia Herreres
was continued until the 9th.
Justice Wilson, who is suffering with
rheumatism, came down to his office
this morning to attend some business,
He is still very sick and remained down
town but short time.
Charley Meye justice of the peace,
who has been very i'll for sometime was
at the point of death last night. All
during the night he was unconscious,
but this morning he regained conscious
ness and was feeling much better. He
is very weak.
Frank NJ. King has sold 1000 head
stock mares from the ranch of Colin
Cameron for $3.50 each. The reason for
disposing OF the stock so cheaply is be-
cause the horses move in great herds
and tramp down the ranges. The stock
was bought by D. I. Gallagher and will
be delivered at Benson for shipment to
Tennessee.
In the windows OF Cooks new store
is large frame which contains the
Lords prayer in craYen work. 1t was
executed by John Gardiner, one of the
leading citizens of Tucson. The
familiarity of Mr.. Gardiner with the
Lords prayer is a revelation to his
friends in Tucson. The work is beauti-
fully done and gives new insight into
the ability of Mr.. Gardiner as an artist.
There was meeting Of the city coun-
Gil last night and the letter from Gen.
l.. H. Manning, which was printed in
The Citizen last evening was read and
discussed. Mr.. Gasser, superintendent
OF the city water works, was allowed to
reply to the letter OF General Manning,
after which the council directed that the
water which had been turned off at differ
ent poiutsi in the city by the superintend-
ent he turned on again. The complaints
made by General Manning will be in
vestigated in the mean time by the water
committee.
Trainmaster Lindsey was aroused last
night from his sleep by Southern Pa
cific caller with startling information
that Conductor Cortland had been lost.
The dispatch came from ella Bend.
Conductor Cortland had incidently been
swallowed up by the desert, and the
main office was at once notified. Train
master Lindsey came down TO the office
and by the time he got there the lost
Conductor was found. 1t appears that
he was punching cows which had fallen
down in cattle cars and was trifle late
in showing up at the station agents
Office at ella Bend.
Four prisoners convicted at the pre-
sent term OF court at Tombstone were
taken to Yuma under escort of Deputiee
Mcdonald and Hudspeth. The prison
ers are John Fox, John Pickett, John
Woods and Thos Baker. Singularly
enough all are convicted OF burglary.
Fox and Pickett pleaded guilty and were
sentenced to eighteen months each +;
Woods convicted of breaking into the
Capitol saloon at Bisbee and was recon-
mended to the mercy OF the court and
sentenced to eighteen months; Baker
was found guilty and sentenced to three
years, this being his second term in
Yuma.
Judge Purcell and his assistant Miss
Purcell, have been at work for several
weeks going over all OF the estates which
are on file in the probate court. They
date back to 1864, and many interesting
things were discovered. There are on
file many papers showing the adoption
OF Apache children by citizens OF Tucson.
In the early days Indians boys and girls
left without parents by the warfare
which waged then were adopted by Tue
son citizens and used as servants. 1t
was necessary to adopt them in order to
hold the servants. Judge Purcell says
that he has placed new covers upon all
OF the estates and arranged things in a
systematic manner.
United States Marshal McCord will
take charge of his Office on July /. Late
on Saturday afternoon he filed his Off
cial bond with Chief Justice Street at
Phoenix and received bis commission
from the chief justice, to whom it had
been sent. There was an impression
that Col McCord would have to take
charge OF the Office on Saturday, the day
on which Marshal Grifiith's term expir-
ed. Acting upon the advise OF attorneys
who gave an opinion that was not the
law, Col. McCord requested Marshal
Griffith to remain in office until after
the term OF the United States court at
Prescott, when the federal business OF