The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-08-09
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Is no sure thing on it's keeping its promise
 Read Frank schultz's anvertisement to day. He offers some valuable mines fo sale: Here IS chance to make millions or a trifiing outlay of ready cash.
 Jim Bones is just Yankee enough tt buy red mosquito bar 10 spread over hi, peaches, which gives them the hue of , maiden's blush.
 Secretary Gosper, who is r,lstler. had , sack full of fne-looking ore from AsI Creek, this morning, but we didn't Iearr how much it assayed.
 Judge Harris, of Peoples Valley, is hay ing vacation, during which he is amusing himself delivering bricks from his Prescott briek-yard to Dan Hatz's bakery. where { new oven is being constructed.
 A party of three left last evening on horse back for the terminus of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. They are we'll supplied with refreshments for the inner-man, and expect, if they have good luck to reach civilization in about three weeks.
 Ben Viewers new cellar is cozy place to keep perishablc goods. liquors. etc, of which it is full to the brim. We never saw half so big a pile of dirt come out ol so email hoie in the ground. The cellar wouldn't hold quarter of what is left after the Village cart has put Tn solid week in taking it away.
 Dr. Sam Merritt, of Oakland, California, was at Los Angeles on the first with his party who are doing the lower Coast in his yacht, the "Casco,r The Casco was lying in Wilmington harbor awaiting the return of the excursionists, who would pro- ceed as far south as San Diego and then return to Oakland.
 Professor Cherry, who went with Judge Silent to the Vulture mine yesterday, thinks some of going to Chicago, on this about thirty days. If he does not conclude to go East, however, he will be back within week, and finish up his examination of the Kit Carson and Silver Flake mines.
 Rev. A. NJ. Campbell has severed his connection with the Los Angeles Star. The paper has passed into the hands of an AssocIation of working printers, who hoist the platform of the Working Mems party at the head of their columns. Mr. Camp bell bids his patrons farewell in ths issue of August 1st hut does not tell what he proposes to do next. Campbell's forte is in the pulpit.
 The beef contract for the San Carlos In- dians for the year ending June 30th, 1879, was jet at $2S0 per 100 pounds, live weight. The beeves have to be shut up without food or water tor for twenty-fo hours before weighing, and then required to tip the scale at $40 pounds. There is no money in it. not on the square. The other Indians get no beef; they have committed no murders lately.-[ Yuma Sentinel.
 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
 PREscoTT A. T., Aug. ', 1878.
 Received at this office this day for deliv- cry to the parties surrendering the dupli- cate receipt the following cash patents No. 95-Coombs; No. 10l-Jno. M. Ben nett; No. l19-Jno. B. Rickett; No. 120-- Theo. w. Bnggs. Also, the following homestead patents: No. 1-B. B. Crapo; No. 2-Timothy Lamberson; No. 3-Ed- win F. Bowers. [Signed
 WN. J. KELLEY, Register.
 There came near being tragedy in the court house this morning about three o'clock. The foreman of the work discovering signs of rain concluded to go over and close the windows, aud in doing so made noise which attracted others who were under the impression that there were people in the world men enough to destroy property. The night watchman and two other gentlemen entered the building and surprised the foreman, as we'll as themselves, by halting b,m as he came down stairs with pistols pointed towards his person.
 A general Court Martial is appointed to meet at Headquarters, Fort Whipple, at 10 o'clock, A. M., Wednesday the 14th inst, for the trial of such persons as may be properly brought before it. The following is the detail for the Court: Major Rodney Smith, Surgeon Jas. c. Mckee, Major Jas. Riddle, Capt. Edward C.. Woodruff, Capt. Chas. P. Eagan, Second Lieut.. w. L, Geary, Second Lieut.. T. A. Toney, and First Lieu tenant H. l.. Haskell, to act in the capacity of Judge Advocate.
 A visit to the study of H. G. Howe, Esq.,. architect, etc., is an entertainment worth go- ing to see. The drawings, designed and executed by him for furniture for the various rooms and offices in the new Court House are splendid specimens of art to say noth- ing of the utility of the designs. Anyone with half an eye, whether he has any me- knowledge or cultivated taste or not can see at glance that the furniture there mapped out is just what is wansed to the beautiful building that adsrns the plaza of our tewn, and is the property of the people of the county. Read Tn another place sealed proposals for making 1t accord ing to plans etc. .--~.-,
 The dials for the Courthouse clock are now ornamented with gilt letters, put on to indicate the hours of the day. Wef deYstsnd that they are ten inches in length, though they dc not appear, from the ground. to measure more than three or four. The dials themselves are more than five feet in diameter. and yet in appearance thev show to be about three. The Roman characters, @0ne I, one; two Is, two" etc.. have a crowded appearance, rendering ,hsm indistinct from a little distance; but everyone knows from the position they oceury in the circle what each letter ought to be. and it answers just as we'll as though tho hours were marked hy large Arabic figures.
 Tur NEw TuraTRR.--on Monday even mo next August 12, the new theatre built hy the Prescott Dramatic Society will be tormaily opened. The opening address VIII be delivered by General Wilcox, ana the Dedicatory Poem, written tor sne occSsion