Arizona weekly miner., 1875-05-14
LETTER FROM WICKENBURG.
WrcKENBURe A. T.. May 9. lSl


 EDITOR MrSER:-The old saying that bad luck never comes alone. has been verified in this town in most surprising manner.
 Only a few days ago, Heyman Mannasseses sudden death threw the town into fever, and last Friday night there was very little sleep in town on account of the fact that the resurrectionists were at work. By careful enquiry I find that there has been for year or more desire on the part of several physi- clans, surgeons, medico's, w-bOnes and sev- eral amateurs Interested in anatomy, to get a subject for dissection, and that standing offer has been made of 8, ,00 for the delivery of "a cadaver in PhGnix, Wickenberg or | Prescott. We'll, on Friday night last the community in this usually quiet town were i startled by several shots which seemed to have been at the stage office, and parties rushed up there supposing that quarrel had taken place, and, perhaps somebody hurt or | killed. In a few minutes several men came | in and said that man had been shot in the graveyard, which IS on the hill back of the Stage office.
 1 The next morning the anxious enqurers found at the Stage office pick and shovel and chinese hat with hole through the crown that looked like bullet hole, and learned that somehow the night before man learned that a body was to be exhumed and sent to Prescott by the blackboard Sunday morning, so he got three or four others and watched the bone-yard About half past ten o'clock F. M., they saw the men come up the hill and after considerable examination, commence digging at the grave where a corpse had recently been buried. The watch CTS shouted and shot, and the diggers ran leaving a pick, shovel and hat on the ground, which were taken to the Stage office and re- main for inspection. Quite a difference of opinions became manifest during the day. Some claimed that the resurrectionists ought to have been shot, and others said the busi ness they were in was legitamate, and the NJ. D's., needed stiff 10 cut up once in while, in order to keep their memories fresh concerning the arteries, nerves and other DOT tions of the human frame, while others con tended that the dead ought to be allowed to rest. and that those who would disinter one of the departed, ought to be elevated by means of hemp. The matter was hotly dis cussed and might have resulted in bloodshed had it not been for the coroner who stated that he would draw up bill and use his best endeavors to have it pass the next Legisla- ture, giving the bodies of all those who should hereafter be hung in the Territory, under due process of the law, to the physlci- ans of the several counties where the penal ty should be inflicted. The proposition was accepted by all parties and what bid fair to be sereous difficulty, was avoided.
 Life is lovely here now, all the vegetables of the season; lettuce, onions, watercress, rad ishes and hen fruit are in full blast, and Ram boz has just brought up few strawberries for a starter. Ed. Lambley has sold his ranch to F. w. Smith, and started for the Greenwood mining camp this day with three wagons loaded with his family and house. hold goods and a lot of chickens. George Monroe, H. A. Bigelow, Mir. Connor and C. Spencer, left for Prescott on the blackboard this morning, and that charming vehicle had besides these heavy weights, about 800 pounds of mail matter and express freight aboard The trip must have been pleasant. P. A.