The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-06-07
Fridays News.

Il N. McCollum took out papers of citizen
 ship to-day.
 I Deputy Sheriff Pierce is going to, to, well our readers can guess what
 I Secretary Gosper returned from his stock ranch, on the Verde, last evening.
 Chas. B. Rush, one of our most talented young lawyers, announces himself in to-
 day's issue of the MINER, as candidate for
 District Attorneys
 1 Wopldn't you like to flop ysur lip over
 that big Catfish, caught in the Ohio river
 at New Albany, Iud.' last month. It
 weighed one hundred and forty-six pounds. Wilson & Haskell, the County building
 contractors, have taken out $20, 900 in
 surance policy, to run 60 days, on the new
 court house and jail. The policy IS in the
 Home Mutual, of which F. W. Blake is the
 Agent The rates are special. l George Tyng, of the Yuma Sentinel, is
 travelling through Mohave County. proba-
 ply with view of convincing the people
 thereof, that great medicinal properties are
 contained in Porter, and to induce them to
 swallow his favorite beverage.
 Unless some means can be devised for the taking of new census, 1t will be almost
 next to an impossibility for the Governor to
 make satisfactory apportionment. We
 concede that the jurisdiction rests with his
 Excellency to make the apportionment, as l the bill introduced into Congress regulating
 the same will not pass the Senate at this session.
 We publish an advertisement, to-day, of Captain Eagan, A. c. s. inviting proposals tor furnishing Bowie and new Supply Camp with beef and mutton for one year, com mencing July 1st,. The advertisement is published more as a news item than other wise, from the fact that Congress has seen fit to fix price for the publication of such advertisements that hardly cover the expense of setting the type.
 Theconcert tonight, is intended to be the greatest performance of the season. Twenty three persons of ihe best musical talent are to take part in the entertainment. Their rehersals have been numerous, and the pre- paration thorough, therefore we conclude that everything will pass off with that pre- c'seness which clock gives the seconds, minutes and hours throughout the day. We bespeak for the Philharmonic Society. a liberal support.
 Some splendid specimens of argentiferous galena, argentiferous gray copper, argen- tiferous antimonial congelaiions, argentifer- ous cilicified crystalline spar, etc, etc, or words to that effect, were on exhibition at the counting room of L. Bashford & Co. yesterday.
 If we have committed an error in naming 1 any of the condit ons in which the silver exists in these ores, Will. Bashford will take pleasure in explaining the techanical terms 1 by which the various chemical combinations l are known in mining nomenclature. One | thing we can say with confidence, "The l specimens are beautiful and have the appear ance of being exceedingly rich in silver" They came from Turkey Creek.
 A LITTLE FAsT.-The person who report l ed to the local of the Enterprise that the sale | Of the Kit Carson and Silver Flake mines | had been consumated, as perannouncement | in that paper yesterday, was q little fast l We are informed by MT. J. W. Clark, who | is the only person here who is likely to know the facts in connection with any sale that may take place, that as yet nothing has been done in the premises, although he is conf- dent that the sale will be consumated so soon as the party now en route to the East arrives there and has conference with cer- tain capitalists who wish to invest in cer- tain valuable Arizona mining properties, such as the Kit Carson and Silver Flake mines. Whenever the sale comes off, the people will be advised of the same through a more reliable channel than that through which the Enterprise receives its informa- tion.
 INDIAN AND PREHISTORIC SKULLS, RELICS Ere, WANTED.-Dr. Mckee, Medical Di- rector of the Department of Arizona, is mak- ing a collection of the sknlls of Indian tribes, prehistoric and modern. for the Army Medical Museum, at Washington, D. O., and will be under obligations to those who can and will contribute specimens for the pur- pose named.
 In addition to the above all Indian relics will be thankfully received for the Smith sonian Institution, at Washington. All specimens should be accompanied by a written statement of the locality where found and such other particulars as are deemed interesting; with the contributors name in full, in order that he may receive full credit for the same. Specimens left at the MINER office, or with Dr. Mckee, will be thank. tully received and duly anpreciafed