The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-09-13
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SATURDAY

Parties wishing to engage in the sheel
 business will do well to read Mir. c. Sauye
 advertisement in another column.
 A dividend of 3Ii cents on the dollar wa
 paid by T. J. Butler, assignee of the estate
 of Miller Brothers, bankrupts, to the credl
 tors, to-day.
 We understand from the New Mexico
 blackboard driver, that the Verde River ]:
 much lower than it has been fer severa
 days past.
 FaEMoST.-The Department at Washing ton has telegraphed Governor Hoyt to re main until the arrival of Gen. Frement, now en route to the Territory.
 Robert Blair, of the Burnt Ranch, was in town to-day and informs us that his corn crop is just immense, and has the appear ance of the jungle bottoms of India.
 J. Brash's train pulled out this morning for Florence, having on board 10000 feet of lumber, which he intends to utilize in a grist-mIll which he is putting up.
 Mrs. Bagley of Williamson Valley, is quite sick. Dr. Goodfellow went out yester- day to sec the patient. It is thought that the case is one of cholera morbus.
 Lincoln !S Herrick are selling large quan- tines of preparation known as Friederich- shall Bitter water, which has the reputation of being a sanative remedy for most all dis eases to which the human system is subject.
 The framework for Fred Williams new Hotel is now up, and the roof will be put on carly the coming week. A hotel is one of the things that Prescott has long needed, and an institution that will pay.
 PmGNIx, Sept G. c. P Dake, United States Marshal Stage robbers went toward Picacho and Tucson. Party of five men gone from here in pursuit; also party from Florence and Tucson. G. E. MowREY,
 Sheriff.
 SHERrFF's OFFICE REMOVED. - Sheriff Bowers and his deputies concluded the re- moval of all property from the old building On Cortez street to the new court house on the public plaza last evening. The pris- oners are comfortably placed in their new quarters and seem to be overjoyed with the change from the old rickety dungeon to the fresh, clean departments they now occupy.
 CHANDELIERS Three magnificent speci- mens of chandeliers, purchased by c. P. Head tS Co.,, for the new Theatre building, arrived yesterday. We have seen the larg- est one, which is intended to be suspended in the center of the hall. In manufacture it is grand, and supports twelve large burn CTS. We venture the assertion that this will compare with any article of the kind this side of San Francisco.
 Jospii Melvin, from the Verde settlement below Camp Verde, came Tn last evening and reports all kinds of farm products as good The grass is superior this season to that for many years past. On Thursday, a soldier belonging to the command at Camp | Verde, while trying to ford the river, which | was quite high, was carried down the stream | and drowned before assistance could reach | him.
 HEAvY.-P. A. Williams, of the High land Ranch, four miles south of town, placed upon our table to-day four potatoes, which he took from one hill, weighing S24 | Potatoes are worth at wholesale in this market cents per pound, which would make the four specimens presented te us worth 43% cents. Mir. w. has dug one-fifth of an acre of 'spuds" which yield ed one ton, that he readily found sale for, from them $100, or at the rate of $500 per acre. All this was done on dry ranch, and not a good season at that Where is there a country that can beat oursl Potatoes in Arizona equal the orange cul- ture of Southern California. II. B. Oatman, who came through from Lake City, Colorado, a few days since, is an uncle to MT Oatman who was killed on the Gila at the place which now bears his Fiat. MT. Oatman intends $ visiting the spot where hIs nephew, his nephew's wife and child were slain by the i A paches, and now sIeep in one grave. He ( will cause to be erected substantial paling 1 around the grave, and place a tablet thereon which will last long after this generation shall have passed away. It is his inten- ton also to try and find where Olive 0at- man, who now lives at Sherman, Texas, bu- ried her little sister, and exhume the re- mains and bury them in the same inclosure with her parents, who were clubbed to death )y Apachcs, in 1857. ELEGANT.-H. Buck the genial manager l nd owner of the fashionable tonsorial es- a ablishment next door to the Cabinet sa- g oon, has thoroughly renovated the same, [ 'utting in a new ceiling, decorating the ralls with a beautiful dress of satin tint l aper and furnishing the rooms throughout r nth new furniture ana the floor with Brus a els carpets. He has been to great expense s n fitting up his place so that il will favora- } ly vie with the fashionable. establishments fl San Francisco. MT. B. bas shown pub- c spirit in fixing up so elegant an estab- 6 shment in our village. aud, no doubt, he citizens will appreciate his liberal. Y and enterprise and give him share of |. atronage that will doubly reimburse him :, )r the outlay