Arizona daily citizen., 1901-03-22
Brief News Items
Of the Town.

hc tckiSiatuf0 VIII DHiSU It's AD0TS To
night and the legislators are expected
home tomorrow.
An attachment suit was brought today
in the district court by P. NJ. Smith VS..
w. 8. Schultz to recover $500 of alleged
indebtness.
DR.. George Martin was one OF those
who contributed memory windows to the
Cathedral, and whose name was unin-
tentionally omitted from the list presen'
ted yesterday.
The Carnegie library building is being
pushed to completion and is fast assum-
ing definite form to give an idea OF the
beauty the building will present when
completed.
Rev. MIR. Taylor preached last night
at the Baptist church giving ten reasons
why people should become Christians
1t was an able presentation and was lis.
tened to by large number.
40 TO THE BREAKER when hun
CRY and get your moneys worth. You
CdubOb Stt IL etSSWueIS.
EASTER millinery at The Leader.
Miss Lottie Abbott came in last even.
ing from Tucson where she has been at.
tending the university. She arrived to
be at the bedside of her father who is
under treatment for a bad case OF
pleurisy.-Prospector.
The Consolidated national bank will
move tomorrow into its new building at
the corner of Stone avenue and Congress
street. This is without execution the
finest building in the country, and the
Tucson people point to it with just
pride.
A HANDSOME line OF millinery at
No. % Congress street, The Leader.
NO, NO, KNO. No foreign succotash.
No worked-over stock. No snuff fiends,
no morphine subjects in our employ.
Everything first-class from start to fin
ish. The public is most respectfully in
vited to call and inspect our kitchen and
the quality of material in use.-THE
Cupid has been trying to swamp Judge
Purcell this week. The record of mar
riage licenses has been broken, eight
having been issued In one day and in
three days sixteen were issued. All Of
the licenses went to Mexican residents.
Of the county.
LADIES remember the Easter open
ing OF pattern hats at The Leader Miili-
merry Pariors.
A correspondent to the Casas Grandes
Progreso from La Purica, Sonora says:
AT the Onal cleanup of the recent
storms eighteen inches OF snow was left
on the ground at the saw mill La Puri-
ca, twenty miles north of Placeritos.
There have been several warm days
since the storm, which has cut the snow
very fast, still about foot remains on
the north slopes"
The cattle and sheep growers OF Ari-
xona have united and sent delegation
to Washington to fight the railways
crossing the territory which oppose the
opening of the forest reserves to grazing.
At the request of the Arizona stockmen,
the president of the National Live Stock
association has addressed letter to the
associations attorney at Washington,
asking him to assist the delegation.
The case of the territory VS.. Fred
Maish which was scheduled to be tried
this afternoon in Justice Wilson's court
has been postponed until next week, the
witnesses failing to appear. Bench war;
rants have been issued for them. Maist
is charged with having blown up min
ing tunnel OF property which he wal
working under bond. Mr.. Maish claims
that he acted without malice but within
the bonds of prospecting the claims.
"O'Brien Moore, we'll known in this
city, has taken editorial charge of tn,
Tucson Citizen under it's new manage
ment. E. s. Ives and Charles M
Shannon are now the owners OF the Citi
zen." The foregoing appears in the f
Paso Herald of last Wednesday. Th'
Citizen confesses ignorance of the pur
ported change. The only papers tina
seem to know anything about this bi
of news are those of FL Paso, Phoenix
Los Angeles, together with the inimita
BILE Tucson Star.
A matter OF considerable importanc,
has been decided by the officials of tht
United States land office in Tucson, {
case involving patent to the San Xavie
del Bac. Rev. Edward Gerard trustee o
the Roman catholic church applied fo
patent under the small holdings claim
act of March 3, 1889 to fourteen acres O
land which contains the famous mission
The testimony submitted showed tina
the church society has held undisputet
possession OF the land for over a century
The LAM office ruled that title was yes
ted in the church so long that as reli
gious services were conducted in tn,
mission, which is authorized by the &C
of congress of 1887, and that the act O
1891 was not intended to apply to case
ofthis character. Judge Purcell repre-
eented the church, and the refusal of tn,
land Office to grant patent has resulted
/ in an appeal to the commissioner of tn,