Arizona daily citizen., 1901-02-04
Brief News Items
Of the Town.

dav.
William D. Whipple has made home
stead entry OF 100 acres in Graham
county.
The territory OF Arizona VS.. Isac Field
is the title of felony suit filed in the
district court this morning.
\ large amount OF gold bullion was
brought in today from the Mammoth
mine. The gold was the result OF the
last cleanup.
Judge Davis has returned from Phoe'
nix the supreme court having adjourned
until February Is. Decisions Will be
handed down when the court convenes
again.
Oscar Buckalew has taken a contract
to carry mail from Walls station to Hell
vetia and in a few days will establish a
daily stage line between those points.
A woman living at Florence has six
times given birth to twins, but none OF
them have lived. She is the mother OF
twenty-five children and is still COM
paratiyeIy young.
Al Shaw who has been in business at
the Ray mine for some time has pur-
chased the Rough Rider saloon Of Tom
Wavland at Helveta and will take pos
session at once.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Corbett enter
tanned a large number OF friends on
Thursday evening OF last week in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs Charles Drake, Whist
was played and the guests spent de-
lightful evening.
Governor Murphy says that he did
not recommend the removal OF the land
office from Tucson but asked that the
surveyor generals Office be taken to
Phoenix owing to the central location.
At R. r. Richardson's rancho, above
Crittenden, some poisoned meat for
c1ons and skunks, was scattered around
one night last week, and valuable st,
Bernard dog, the property OF Scott Nc
Keown, which had become unclaimed,
got dose and died.
About the tenth OF this month Mark
Lulley of Nogales will start for the east,
with the little bears, to take part in the
Inauguration parade at Washington, and
he will afterwards Put them in the ZOO =
logical park at the Smith, oman insti
tute.
The Nogales Oasis says: Mr.. Ben
Goldsmith formerly in business at Santa
Ana, and at Nogales, and several years
past at Hermosillo, is now in Tucson,
and s proprietor of the new Crecent
cigar store, upon Congress street.
Chas. Hood, Of the United States GUS
tom service and one of the most popular
men in the district, has taken full and
undisputed possession of the SUPPORT Of
Yuma as deputy collector of customs,
filling the vacancies caused bv the res
ignation of Albert Behan. Behan was
a democratic appointee left over from
the Webb administrations -Nogale Vi
dette.
Hon. Sam BarkIey came down from
Phoenix to spend Sunday. Assembly
man Barkley says that the legislature is
taking up the revision of the code by
sections and the job is a big one. The
Pima assem- blyman recently introduced
bill which provides for the mainte-
nance of the university. 1t provides
that the levy shall be raised from two
fifths to three-fifths Of mill. The bill
went to second reading and was sent to
the committee on appropriations,
Captain B. F. Horrover, an old timer
in Arizona and Sonora, who came up to
Nogales from Hermosilo couple of
weeks ago, is arranging to go to Okla
homa. Captain Moreover came into
Arizona in 1862 with Carleton's Califor-
mia colum, in one of the regiments OF
which he was an officer. The Nogales
Oasis SAYS that he was since several
years at Minas Prietas and other Sonora
mining camps.
X. B. Peasons, J. B. Ritter and DR.. II.
A. ScheIl, while out hunting week ago
last Sunday, found some old Indian
caves about % miles up Eagle creek
above the pump and about . miles from
the river. Judging from the amount of
sand and bat guano, the cave must have
been deserted for at least two hundred
years. After about an hours search
they unearthed 10 sandals, several pieces
Of pottery. etc. They will make another
trip to the caves and go prepared to
make more thorough search for relics.
Copper Era%
A splendid rain fell this week. 1t
commenced to rain Thursday and con-
tinued without interruption until Tues
day. On the surrounding mountains
the rainfall was much heavier and the
higher mountain ranges are covered
with snow. The indications are that
the storm is not over vet, and that we
may expect more falling weather. This
rain is certainly blessing to the cattle
and mining industry as it will fill up the
water holes, increase the flow of the
springs, and leave liberal amount OF
snow on the mountains to draw water
sunnlv from durino the next two ov