The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-05-13
LETTER FROM PHGNIX,
Pud:>,x, MnrIcopa County, Arizona, ,
 Aptil 2t. lStl.

To hc EdiAnr oI tdc Hff.oNd hWP
 AS the spirlr moves again l must give you few itcms of news and matters that interest the people here.
 Our county election i- now near at hand; only Il few days. and we will have decided the moment on, question of where shall we put our county
 seat. together with the lcss exciting one, of who shall m the various county offices until the next
 general election II the Friends of PhTnix are
 no, the winner. of the race, then will not try to
 guess again, about which way men will vote, even | ! when it is a matter of personal and pccunary n l | tcrest to the greater number Of them.
 The Chenowth and Favorite Difficulty. l
 A sad and unfortunate fatal difficulty occurred | ! here last Friday afternoon between J. A. Chen.
 owth, and James Fuyorltc, both of them candi-
 date, for the office of county Shcril, in which the
 latter wa, almost instantly killed. Mir Chenowth immediately came to town and gave himself up,
 and after fair md impartial iriol, before Judge Carter he was discharged from custody. Five
 witnesses were present, when the rcncontre oc.
 cured, and thclr testimony was so entirely simi-
 lar, that or each one comp,tel! coroborating
 that of the others, that no doubt could exist in
 ,ny reasonable mind as to the justification of the
 act. will give you as concise an account oi Inc
 affair as possible |, seems that there was Ques
 
 tore friendly men. about what one, or the other,
 had sad oi their relations candidates. The
 quarrel had been tanned to fever heat, by what
 seems in the light we can now it, to have been
 the very iujudcious interference of outside par. ties. A message was finally sent from Mir FnyorItc, 10 a friend of MT Chenowth, thst II he would comc down, and bring Mir. Chenowth
 sith him, that be would satisfy him, that he (Mr l .A Tn lgft sugh n | unhec,,ed, would have been In effect, ,o hay. arand8rcd the contest in lie election, and to have
 braud,l himself a liar, and coward. In fact e to such message there seemed to be bW one , course To pursuc, and that course Mr. Chcuowth ' adopted Accompanied ny two of hIs fri, nds, be Il weut to the ranch of Mir Favorte. On arriving at the ranch, m explanation Of the message was a asked, by Mir. Chcnowih. The evidence here e show. that quite worIy quarrel cnrried on
 for several minutes, until il bctame apparent, that n no arnicable arrangement could be made each d party pcr,istiug in the truth of his own state. - mcnt and the fnsiiy of the other. MT. Favoyitc, at last ,lcr -gain asserting his position, started n for his shot gun, which was standing about ten
 feet from him Upon reaching the gun he i'm. l. mcda;ely picked it up asd cooked it. The first e shots were fired almost at the same instant; a-
 cor GlUG to ilH tNiutNAe, hlE tut1oNtl WIS Nt- | ,e in advance Neither party was hit by the first r- shots. Mir Chenowth continued to fire three or four shots from his pistol. and t does not appear s whether Mir. Fayorite tried to get another shot
 with the shot gun, not. It finally cN r. changed for a Henry rife, and as he was on the Is point of raising the rife 10 take aim, he wa. li struck very near Inc heart, and fell saying, Dc
 no, shoot any more. 1 am hi' They were ths t,., I. l.,. Is afterwards The ball have passed ,hrougl y hs leit arm, above the wrls, as be had the rife
 partly raised to shoot. He had not shown any
 indication ti!ai be WAS ht anti, the lusi shot Thu, i one of our best and most worthy citizens, in ar h angry dispute about, what in the first place, be h. fore the question og vrracity WAS raised, le mere tTihc, compared to the value Of a human C. life, has been hurried into the presence of hi IT. maker.
 oi Utterly wrong, and unchrlstian as such occur 10 renCes must seem to be, to all Christian minds n' they will undoubtedly continue to be enacted II ct our midst, until, through the better impulses O 't' the human heart, the mind shall become nor CT thoroughly imbued with the Christian spirit. a "a taught by our Saviour and Lawgver and his dis he ciples.
 he So long as physical courage is looked upon a 'e the standard of excellence, and the mind tn y reasoning power, Is held subordinate to the ani sf- mal passions we must expect 10 personal dis an agreements in some cases, however wrong it ma. 'e be, result in extreme measures.
 or Our Sundays
 as We have a minister of ihe Gospel among u 'er now, and In q few months hope to have
 Church, where services can be held regularly, an
 We trust that it's benign influence will have ten Of dency to do away with card playing horse-racin cc, and other sports, which too onen, in frontie