The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-19

F. M- Fisher and A. Frank. have been n
 business trip to the County seat Q
 Mohsve County~
 That tonsnrial hair trimmer is a cruel in
 vention- Many poor IstZs fsltou will b
 starved to death through it's use. The damage to the railroad which ha
 delayed the mails for the last two days
 was between the river and Dos Palmss.
 The telegraph is once more doing iii
 work. and we present to our readers quan
 nty of its sayings in this issue of the MINER
 Three famihes belonging to the Mormon
 Church, who have been residing in Thomp
 son Valley, are preparing to return to Sail
 Lake.
 We have received letters from prominent
 persons at Signal. saving that Mir. Davis
 will receive strong support from that section.
 Mr. John Mars of Pinyon ranch, and A.
 Fl. Peoples, of Wickenburg, have purchased from Messrs. Gosper, Lount & Anderson, a wind mill each for their places.
 Stage agent E. P. Nichols, left this morning for Dos Palmos for the the pur- pose of changing stages, stage horses, etc, on to the route from Yuma to Prescott.
 Frederick & Hills new store and tin shop to be erected on the vacant lot adjoiu- ing Blake X Co.'S, office, north, was com menced by the contractor, Mir. Miles, this morning.
 Henry Spaulding is in town from Agua Fria, and informs us that his corn was looking sick after the severe threshing it received during the hail-storm last week, but is now convalescing.
 Morris Earth, the prosecuting witness against some half-dozen or more men of St. Johns, has been commissioned to arrest Gonzalas and Colomo, and we believe has made the arrests.
 The old bachelor who made such signal failure. yesterday afternoon, in the nursing business, has broken offfrom an engagement, and declares he will never enter into the bonds of wedlock.
 Ben. Lindenbaum, has once more placed his work bench in it's old place, in the building recently oecupied by Geo. s. Por- ter 6 O., furniture dealers, and he can now be found pushing the plane.
 Mr. J. B. Crooks, finding the climate of Phenix just trIfie too hot for comfort, has that Prescott will answer, and has concluded to settle here and start wagon shop. Good enough.
 We learn that Mir. Frank, of Ehrenberg, has a sub-contract for carrying the mails from EhrenDerg, Aubrey, Signal and Min eral Park. It was thought that our Mohave neighbors were to be left out in the cold in respect to mail up the river, but it seems that such is not the case.
 Major Geo. M Brayton, and his family departed yesterday for Idaho. The Major has made good record in Arizona, and if he has chance, no doubt, will acquit him. mand against the savages now playing havoc in Idaho.
 The Peck Mining Co.,, this morning ship ped by Wells. Fargo & O., for San Fran cisco, the result of three days run of their mill, viz, 3,679,S0 ounces of silver bullion worth $4,693,S0, or an average of $1 ,564, 60 per day, which is about the usual rate at which the ten stamps are mashing out the iinero.
 Lieutenant Rucker, the brave young officer who.lost his life while trying to rescue a fellow officer from the crazy waters of a swollen ayroya, caused by the bursting of a cloud, was born at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was a son or Gen. D. H. Rucker, U. s. A., and brother to Mrs. GeH. Sheridan.
 SUIT CoMMENcED.-Dist. Attorney Web ar, filed papers with the Clerk of the Dist. Court, to-day, bringing suit against Geo. D. Kendall, as Special Administrator. of the estate of John Jackson, deceased. No heirs sre known to exist, and the estate which is quite valuable, under the law, becomes es- cheated to the territory.
 The people of Skull Valley have been 'lighted as regards rain. A copious shower ell at the upper end of the valley outside ,f the planted fields. The large corn crop If Jno. Casenega, has curled up and much ,f it is dead, in fact all the f-rmers have uffered quite severely, and the crops will ,e light even were there plenty Of rain to all.
 Hon. A. E. Davis and Sheriff Comstock, leparted homeward, to-day, going by the way of Signal. Mir. Davis, will return to his place early in August, when he will the campaign for Delegacy in | It looks now as if the fight was Q be between Woolsey and Davis, but as yoolsey has the top hand, but little doubt .xists in our mind as to the result.
 Dr. Mckee received telegram to-day | tat.ng that an assessment of fifty cents per hare had been made on Tiptop stock. This $ not hardly what was expected from the company, as the mill turned out more than though bullion to pay all indebtedness up O about four weeks since, when the water aied and the mill had to shut down. We rope that the a. sessment, which it is rumor- d is to be levied, may not take place.
 X. NJ. James & O., enterprising merchants f Phenix, have shipped to Prescott, load if peaches, the finest of the season. Fruit els readily in this market at remunerative igures therefore we conjecture that the un- lertaking of these gentlemen will prove ource of profit to them as we'll as luxury to he citizens of this Village. Salt River will apply Northern Arizona with all the peaches nd grapes required this season, and of a uality equalling that of California.
 Thomas Hines and On arles Brown, who tole two horses at Mineral Park, Mohave ounty. some two weeks since, and came his way, passing through Chino Valley, rhere they traded one of the horses to $. ;. Rees. for horse of good title, were cap ured by an officer of the law from Mohave ounty, accompanied by Mir. Rees, at Sun et Crossing of the Little Colorado, and rought back hsre and lodged in jail yes srdsy. The officer making the arrest will ske a couple of days rest before proceed ne to Mohave county with his slight of and performers, At the next term of 'onrt far that couutv they will no doubt