Arizona citizen., 1874-08-29
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Special Dispatches to THE CITIzEN.l
ARIZONA.

ARIZONA.
 PRESCOTT, August 25.-This mornings
 Santa Fe mail brought the sad tidings of
 the death of Capt. James Burns, Fifth Cav airy, at CarriZo creek, Arizona, a short
 distance west of Ft. W1ngate.
 PRESCOTT, August 27.-Dan Dougherty, N. c. Sheckes and James Fine arrived here yesterday from Bradshaw region, forty miles south of Prescott, with information
 that the miners there have been doing well. They brought in several thousand dollars in gold which was recently taken
 out of ore from the Eagle mine by use of
 arrastrars, operated by Goodwin and Me
 Kinnon, and by the Del PaSco 4-stamp mill.
 Information from Verde reservation re- ceived last night, is to the effect that Chi mahueva Sals' band was expected to sur render in q few days. The advance party of the men are in and report the rest
 (about 30) on the way from the Colorado. They have been for over 0 year about
 Castle Dome. The Apache MOhave Ind ianS are on the Verde about eight miles above the agency; the Tontos between two and three miles south at the foot of the
 Black Hills; the Apache:Yumas on Ash Creek. The best of discipline prevails The old chiefs Jamaspie, Ochecama and Captain Tom have been placed on the re- tired list and now live near the agency. Shook has been appointed chief of Apa- che-YumaS. He is young man of strong purpose; favorable to Improvements in troduced and strong friend of the whites
 The following promotions and appoint mentS made in the first detachment of Indian scouts by Maj. G. M. Randall, com manding scouts at Camp Apache, have been confirmed by Gen. Crook: Private Jim to be sergeant to take effect June g. 1874: Privates PatOne and Mickey Free to be sergeantS. PrivateS Nose, Dandy Jim and Dandy Bill to be corporals. Dandy Bill takes place of Jim Baird discharged Corporal Nose is promoted to be a ser geant to fill a vacancy, and took effect July l, 1874. Private Crittenden is made corporal to take the place of Mose-ap- pointment from July l, 1874.
 [Our Phenix dispatch of the 27th, gives about the same information as the Pres colt one regarding c. E. Cooly's successful scout in Tonto Basin, and as the former is in type we omit the latter.-ED. CITIzEN.]
 MARICoPA, August 25.-The mining in tereStS in this section are looking up. Last week David ShulteS, who went to PheniX a short time since, returned to his mine in the Quajate district with five men and Sev- eral months supplies. Some of the rich est specimens of ore have come from this mine. MT. Shultes is determined to de- velOp a portion of the mineral resources in this district, and he is just the man to carry out his determination.
 The weather is cooler this morning than it has been this season. Thermometer S4.
 STANwIX, August 25.-Tnomas H. Whist Ter, from Virginia City, New, brother of the late G. R. Whistler who was mudered by Ventura Nunas at Burk's station, ar rived here last night. He comes to look after property, etc., owned by his brother in this neighborhoOd.
 The mining party returned to-day from their prospecting tour thoroughly disgust ed with mining prospects in this section. They report having prOSpected all that section Of Gila valley lying between Gila City and Texas Hill, but most vigilant search failed to discover those fabulOuSly rich and much expected placer diggingS. They had with them twenty seamless ore the cat was let out of the bag. The party has been eighteen days out from PhenlX.
 Furious rain and wind-StOrm accOmpan- jed by terrific thunder and lightning pass ed over this place last evening. Old set settlers say it was the heaviest one this place has experienced for several years and lasted three hours.
 just down from Mcdowell, brings the fol- lowing good news: c. F.. Cooly, Sergeant Butler, Co. B, Fifth Cavalry, with four sol diers and thirty Apache scouts arrived at on the 18th instant. They re- port killing twenty-three ApacneS. On the 18th instant they struck a party of thirteen and killed all. On the 2Ist they jumped a rancheria of eleven WickiupS. In this fight they killed ten and captured twenty-three new blankets, four guns and a large quantity of ammunition and other Indian property. Mir. Cooly is Of the opin- ion that these Indians had stolen cattle from the Verde and traded them to the Moquis for the captured blankets, etc. No prisoners were taken.
 Last evening a heavy shower visited town, cooled the air and laid the dust nice- ly. One ofJ. NJ. Bryan's trains, Shep. Ran dall, conductor, left PheniX on the 22d in stant with forty thousand pounds barley