The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-12-13
Local Intelligence.
SATURDAY


 Father Shecklcs is just about one of the happiest daddies in Yavapai county.
 Somebody said that Samuel Purdy should be elected Speaker of the House. Would It be the cheapest way!
 Mir. Abraham Kiewc, formerly clerk for q. W. Hull, at tine Verde, is now serving as chief clerk at the IXI store.
 Stewart. of Pima. is talked off Speaker of fhe House, and c. C. Bean for President of the Council.
 Gro Bonito stock stsnds we'll in CalifOr- mia. So does Gray Eagle and other mining property around Bradshaw.
 E.P. Raines is n towon from Wicken- burg, Antelope and other mining camps in the Southern portion of Yavapai county.
 A very respectable silver mine has been discovered by q conpadre in the Black Hills. It shows considerable metallic substance.
 A great many men, Mexieans. are pre- pairing to emigrate to Arizona. They will settle in Eastern Yavspal, and come from the Rio Grande.
 Freight is pretty we'll cleaned out at Ehrenbcrg. McNeals team left that place five days since and emptied J. NJ. Barney $ warehouse of every ounce of Prescott merchandise.
 It is more than likely that the coming spring will find Prescott in possession of a large wholesale liquor establishment, and the juice will be purchased and brought from France by son of Italy.
 Henry Spaulding smiled on us to-day. He lives at the Agua Fria, and if you don't believe it, just take meal with him aad you will conclude that he kiUes, and high up at that.
 X rawhide stretched on a square frame, the same being raised two feet from the ground. and the same punched full of holes one half inch in diameter, makes good poor mans co-n sheller.
 Mrs. John Dixon, of Skull Valley, is in town visiting her mother and other rela- tives, and purchasing good things to be used at the Dixon station, which is just about as good as people generally find in AriZons.
 Mrs. Gardiner, the proprietress of the Phenix Hotel, is visiting in Prescott and taking in a large amount of pure, moun- tain air. after inhaling the sultry breeze from Salinas valley and plain for series of years.
 Twenty-nine days from to-day the Legis- lature convenes. There will be lively times when the "solid North" meets the broken South and they shake the paw or peace over the bloody chasm of the roar ing Salt River.
 When the Ehrenberg forwarding houses move over to the Gila, and the freight chan mel is changed, many of the station keepers on the route between Prescott and the Coo rado river, intend to purchase cattle and sheep and go into stock raising.
 The Prescott market is supplied with an abundant assortment of meat, silver lined and silver ribbed, which fattened on grasses meath the silver bowed pines that are scattered all OCT the silver ribbed hills of this silver land.
 James Oneal, the sheep raiser from Date creek, looks natural after a sojourn of five months at his camp since his last visit in Prescott. Jim is making sheep care and wool growing a success and intends to stay with it.
 New Mexico hes seven different tribes of Pueblo Indians, each speaking different tongue. Arizona has one tribe that live in seven different villages, adjacent to each other, however, and in tine several towns, a different dialect is spoken. We refer to the Moquis.
 Gen. Fremont, Judge Silent, Hon. Clark Churchill and MT. F. Fremont, departed for Fort Mohave and others places in Mohave county ihis morning They will look into the Indian question in that part of the Territory, and also examine some mining property which is said to be very valuable.
 BRIEFS AND DECISIONS. number of decisions rendered by Judge Silent, together with several briefs of appealed cases that go up 10 the Supreme Court of the Territory, are to be printed. The whole amour: vii make over ono hundred ana G;ty pages. in iong primer, law size, and be quite valuable for reference. MT. Black. of Marines ranch, where he Keeps laIst DalNS ti ifaitF, uOtSCS, SOilS, steers, and other animals, is up to sec the capital. He reports his stock in fine condi- tio;;, and is we'll satisfied with Arizona and 1 its people, excepting the cattle thieves that have been getting away with his fat beeves | during the last year. He is on the watch | for them and will pronably cage the meat stealers some of these days. During tho month of November, we learn | that about i5o Mormons have come in from i Utah and joined their brethren on the Lit l tie Colorado. This party brought acarding machine. and with it, complete wooden l facisry. Yavapsi will soon have market for st least portion of her wool product. In fact the time is not far distant when | everything needed by the fastidious Ari- | zonan will be manufactured right here at home. and large surplus left with which to fupply our neigabors across the Mexican line. The Mormons have flouring mills saw mills. tanneries, sugar mills, and are now putting on the finishing touch by the cree ton of q wooden factory.