Arizona daily citizen., 1901-05-06
Daily Grist Of
Arizona News.


st. David is surrounded with large
farms, q prosperous community and
still growing. II takes the man with
q plow and the hoe to make the marc
go. Gardening is the order of the day
here now. Quite number OF new
gardners are coming in from Salt River
valley. besides the old gardners all are
busy at this season of the year. Grain
and alfalfa are. looking fine; hay time
will soon be beone-Tsmbstone Prospector.
A specisi dispatch announces thatri
gold ore has been strdck 1t Fort Nc
Donald north Of 'Phosnix. over which
there is great iexcifsuent. The ore as
says $225 per ton. The claim Was 10
Gated more than twenty years ago by
Colonel bravo, who still owns 1t, and
who is now stationed at San Francisco.
He was apprised Of the strike BY wire,
and is now on the ground. Clifton Cop
per Era.
Geo. B. Anderson. who 10 covering
Arizona, revising and testing the ac-
curacy of forthcoming historical work
on the territory, arrived in Solomon
vile last Saturday evening. He went
with the party to visit the Cliff Dwell
lings on Bonita creek and ID expected
back here today. Mr.. Anderson has
had large experience in newspaper
editing and has been connected with
some Of the leading eastern iournels. He
is pleasant gentleman and says that
he considers Arizona wonderful eoun-
try and perhaps TO today the most pros
porous subdivision, OF the United States.
-Solomonville Bulletin.
The Stafford schools will close today,
after months term. No schools in
the country have been better conducted
than those OF Stafford during the past
year. Four schools have been maintain
ed and the teachers are deserving oil
great credit for the advancement made.
The school is in a better foundation to-
day than eyer before. The attendance
has been large during every month and
the teachers have worked diligently and
the result Of the years work is highly
satisfactory to teachers, trustees and
parents. The teachsTs are Miss Caru.
thers, Miss Tuttle. ;Mrs. Davis and Misa
Covert. The trustees could mot do bet
ter than employ the same teachers next
year.-Guafdian.
The Lordsburg Liberal says Father
Zimmerman, >, paatsr of the Catholic
church At Clifton, was in that town last
week. He alec has supervision over tbs
Catholic church there. Hetold the mem.
bers OF bis church, at Lordsbnrg that
their building waatoo small, and advised
the building Of larger one. Contriba
tions OF the stone for the basement, ths
ad obe for the wall, the lime for ths
mortar. the work for laying the adobel
have already been made, and men are a1
work furnishing these things. The great
est expense will be the roof. door, wind
ows and doors. Several contribution
toward these have already been made
The many heather arou nd town wht
do not attend and church should b
as willing to contribute to the erection
of this one as they have been Of others
The building win be twenty-five by fftJ
feet in size. ...
Considerable excitement was occasion
ed Monday evening bv an attempt Il
capture Jose Aeosta, who was charged
with securing goods under false pretense.
at the A. C. store. About two months
ago friend Of Acosta's, who was Of {
miserly turn, went to work Tor the com
pany. Acosta called at the company's
Office and gave his name as that oi! hii
friend. and secured q credit hook, and
during the two months following drew
on the store account, and on pay day
settled up and received fifty odd dollars
in cash to balance the account. On
Monday the man. who, was doing the
work called for settlement. Oficera
were then put on the trail OF Aeosta,
who had become suspicious and started
for South Clifton on q run, He man.
aged to elude the oficers, :bnt about 10
o'clock that night he was discovered in
one of the abutmentss afs Asao railroad
bridge which spans the river. He ia
now under arrest and the, chances are
that he will soon make q trip TO Yuma.
Clifton Copper Era. rs
What came near being q serions &C.
cident occurred on the grade ofthe Shan.
non road Tuesday night about 10 o'clock.
Two men and a woman and achild drove
in from the valley in acovered spring
wagon. They failed TO secure beds at the
hotel and concluded to drive down the
river and camp for the night. Instead OF
taking the regular road they got ON the
grade Of the Shannon railroad, and fol-
lowed it as far as completed, when the
mistake was discovered. The road-bed
was too narrow to turn on, and the men
attempted to back the team some two or
three hundred feet to q point wide
enough to make the turn. They succeed
ed in backing almost to the point de-
sired, when the wagon toppied over the
embankment, but fortunately towards