Arizona miner., 1868-06-06
LOCAL NEWS.

Indians attempted to drlNe on herd of cattle l..lopging to Miller Brothers one mile west ,.on Prescott. and failing to do so they shot two ,yen. wounding one SO badly that he had to he t,,ebered The cattle were close to the house and inc men were all out at the time Mrs. Mil. io- saw the Indians from the house ran between ,en and cattle and succeeded in corralling hcm But for her bravery and presence of mind. ,be red scoundrels would have made splendid baul
 MAJOR CLENDgNrN and escort arrived at Fort Whpple last week from Fort Mcdowell The Major has been actively engaged in scouting af- ter Apachcs in the Salt River country recently. Our correspondents in that section speak of him a. an agreeable gentleman, an industrious Indian hunter. and good fighter. We understand be vll hereafter command Camp Lincoln, on the Rio Verde GO miles east of Prescott
 WE are informed that good wagon road can be made al little cost from Camp McDowcll. on the Rio Verde, to Camp Grant, on the Rio San Pedro. and we earnestly hope Government will construct one.
 MR 6 Mas. Bom.Err. x. Thcde, and others. came in from the Toll Gate, on the Prescott and Hardyyille road Sunday last They have seen DO Indians for some time past Their crops were looking well The men will return in fev days.
 POPULAR MAN.-Ed Darling proprietor of the Prescott Drug Store. of this town. must be a popular man with our citizens It will be recol- lrc,el that Mir. Darling was nominated by the defnct Peoples Convention for Supervisor, and tha, he declined. publicly. to run upon their ticket aud told everybody he saw that he was not candidate, yet his fellow-citizens gave him vote Of B for the office, the same number given to His Excellency, the Governor. The people of Prescott respcc. honest, straight-for- ward gentlemen, and ioathe and abhor picayune irmmcrs.
 ' A H,uHoNp. who came over here from Tagsey Creek district, recently, says he saw lots of illan sign in the mountains south-east of Charley Tayl0r's.
 C. II VicERor Is expected here on the 18th inst, from California and the East It is conf. dently hoped that he will start work in Turkey Greek district as soon as he arrives.
 INDIAN smokes were plenty on Black Noun tain in the early part of tine eek, and Indians were seen iu the Point of Rocks Wednesday last Az Odd-Feliow Lodge will it is said. be star. ted here soon. There are many odd-Fellows here, and good many more are ready to be- come Odd-Feiiows n... F.1f townsman, Gid. Cornell, received pretty good news from | brother in the States, recently. !. i' tha, large fortune, some sixty millions of dollars, is lying in the Baak Of England fo- the heirs of the old Cornell Family. and Gid is one of them. A London lawyer has offered to for ward to the brothers Cornel, their share of this vast sum for ten per ccut Of course there are lot. of heirs in this country and England. but We hope the American branch of the family will be numerous enough to get the greater part of il, and euchre the Johnny" boys Hope you1l get it Gid. you are deserving of it, and we know you'll ~diFi'' with your old sh;pa.a:cs. yc Con. cenirators.
 WH.r VIZ TaiSE OF THEs.-our opinion of the members of the wholesale and retail liquor firm of Cal. Jackson & O., is that they are gen t.emcn, scholars and drst-rate judges of what printers need about the close of political cam paign when. from constant labor they become wearied and feel like shulliing off this mortal coil. sunday morning last. as we were taking glance at contemporaneous sheets, the welcome footsteps of Sol and Joe, two of the tastiest got up men in town, were heard upon our threshold. In moment they entered our sauetum and pre- sented us with two boxes flied with bottles con taining champagne, brandy, whisky, etc, and vanished before we had time to say the Governor, Ills Excellency, Captain, Pard or anything else. We opened bottle after bottle, sampled contents, thought each and every brand Grstrate, asked our friends to partake which they did Kept on 50 all day. and about sundown felt like writing apatrlotlc article. and did so. Next morning We awOke, looked over said article, and found 1t composed of such sentences as the following Tue star speckled bottle; long may it let down. Jackson X Co.-long may they wave! Hur- rah for Rush We've met the enemy and they are ourn! "Eyerything is lovely, and the goose hangs high'-our goose not the Governors goose for it, we think is cooked, foreyermnre,
 REHovAI--Captain J. r. Hargrave, au able lawyer, good citizen and courteous gentleman, has moved his office into the Arizona Gazette building, on Montezuma street. If close atten- uon to his profession, serupulous fidelity to the interests of his clients, 6 thorough knowledge of Ia" and desire to honorably act we'll his part in hIe, would insure success, then Captain liar uIg Al