The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-05-28
Local Intelligence.
Psyscurr, May 2s, 1870.

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 XIII. HIMSELF. About o'clock, on
 'na,,oon of Thursday lsst, young man em- U 1ot Keudalrs drug store, was prevented so,,,oripg himself by the timely interfer-
 of Dr. Kendall h appears that the young
 1bo ls more or less subject to fits of melan-
 '', had been drinking pretty freely Of spirit r,,ors. and was, no doubt, under the infiu- D'' ae inc spirits at the time he was preparing oi, tbe rash act Tho Doctor was in n ,..l room of the building, fixing some pictures s..mes. when his attention was attracted ty the -,,r5be suicide propOunding the question,
 U,.,, would you do with the corpse Of man
 ,.h,a committed suicidcyn or words similar ..,.e.s Turning quickly around, the Doctor
 -. ,,,ori.hed to sec the rash youngster standing ,,,us eoolly in the door, with the muzzle Of a i,,A.5 .iy shooter against the side Of his head, ,t. .i.tol cooked and finger on the trigger. Quick .. ,topgbt did Dr. Kendall bound towards him, ..,,. tbe pistol. aud sorce the muzzle of it away s.o, inc voung mans head. In doing so one ,t,nber was discharged, the bullet from which .,,, near hitting ;hc Doctor As 1t was, his f,ver. were badly burned by the powder. Upon b,,rin, the report Of the pistol, several persons r,o tbe drug store, among them Sheriff Taylor, who took the young man in custody. Al the time ofhls writing, Friday morning, the young man ,. himself again, sorry for his former weakness, and thankful to Dr. Kendall for having acted as Dc did
 KILLED AN ISDlAN.--Sunday morning last, Jos. Kelly, of Wickenburg. started oH horseback, alone. from that place, to come to Prescott He .spt the main road as far as Kirkland Valley, where be stayed all night and on Monday morn lBr. started by traii tC Prescott When near Cop per creek, he saw a party Of Indians croucbed down in the brush Dismounting, he took shot A, them. and had the supreme felicity Of seeing one of them jump several feet In the air, and fall hack dead, as he supposed. He then started after hi. horse, which had got away from him, caught him. mounted. ard went back Co Kirkland Valley, where be waited for the stage and came up on it He saw seven Indians in all
 GONE TO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS Captain Hawley and company, of the Third U. s, Cavalry, started "Wednesday afternoon last, from Eo:t whippie, for Inc White Mountain country, to find practicable route for q wagon-road from Camp Verde. to the post recently established on tIe southern slope of the White Mountain. Hope the Captain will be successful In finding it He was a,companied by several good guides.
 FEox SALT RIVER AND THE Gu.A-Undcr- Sheriff Swain and P. MoAteer returned home re Jen,ly, from the southern section of the county and report that the people down thero are in q prosperous condition. Mr szain, while assessing iac taxable property Of the iiarrners, had "A good opportunity 10 see the crops, and he says that the barley In the vicinity of Phenlx and Florence was magnificent" The farmers were hopeful Of receiving good prices for their grain. We might hl a column, or moro, with news imparted to us by "Gus," but are too lazy and inhrm to branch %! spon the various subjects this week VIII do at some future time.
 THE California stage arrived here Tuesday last, with the following named passengers, and very slim mail; D. Henderson, c. Myer, Chs. Nelson, C Marcutt, Jos. Kelly and Miss Nelly staekhouse. J. NJ. Bryant, W. K. Ferris, W. Hunt and |. cssseTiy got of ;ss s;ags ss yss1kssSsTg.
 MINING news ls rather scarce, this week. but what little there Is Of it is good C. T. Rogers and I. W. Boggs got in from Big Bug early In the week. Mir. R. assured us that She last cleanup gave good satisfaction The mill had started on a fresh run, previous 10 their departure.
 We have heretofore spoken of a lode named the "Vernon," in Walkers district, which Is owned by Cf. shelton, and have related how, by pack. ing the Gre In sack, on hls back, to the creek, and washing it in rocker. he frequently made hirty doAars per day. This was strictly true, and  that the iailings from the orc run through the rocker were, last week, worked in an arastra, and welded ''o h'ssdred aud thirty dollars 10 fAe ton The Vernon Is not large ledge, but it is very neh one Uncle Billy Pointer, who helped shel. 'oh 10 atasiFa the ore is confident that fl can Dc made to pay sS05 to tine ton.
 work al the Sterling mill and mine h..s been suspended The Superintendent started for San Francisco, Saturday last
 Some little placer mining Is being done in this vicinity Among some dnst recently brought here rom Lynx Greek, was sn ounce piece.
 Ihe Fulture eompany's mill, at yulture City, keeps up lts lick.
 hE hIx, who has recently received the ap- polnlmen, of sutler at Campbell Gate, started, c 's N''si Hith gooosi iof that place. MT NoIhsh accompanied him. The latter gentleman "'n We learn have charge of the store Both arc good fellows and we hope they will do thriving business at the TolI-Gaie.
 ANOTHER SHOOTING SCRAPE IN PRESCOTT tuesday nigh, last, at q saloon on Granite street Aso'dier named John Clark shot another soldier named Anderson, wounding him severely. Clark ana Anderson belong to company r, 18th Infan- wy Clark says the bullet that hit Anderson was intended for cayalryman. The wounded man VI" 'aken to the hospital, and the shootist wAs nArehed on to jail, where he remained during the n'ght Next morning, be was turned over to the military authorities, and is now in irons at For,