The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-04-19
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TUESDAY.


 at Pine Springs two days since.
 Supervisor Cook started for his home in Williamson Valley, this afternoon.
 Frank Meader, Village Assessor, win start on his rounds the first of May.
 Mr. Shultz, formerly partner in the City Brewery, but now living in Gillett, is visit ing Prescott.
 A new paper is to be started at Riverside. Los Angeles O., Cal, Geo. F. Weeks, Edi- tor.and Proprietor.
 The raof of Kelly & Stephens new build ing is nearly finished The snow storm made tine men stop work.
 Daniel J. Caaty has been appointed and confirmed post master of Cerbat, Mohave County, Arizona.
 Strawberries are only 10 and 15 cents a box in Los Angeles. Arizona strawberries are now selling at 10 cents per pound.
 A Mir Lacy, formerly with Hooker & Kinds in Southern Arizona, has been ap- pointed sutler at Apachein place of St. James.
 We understand that the Indians either renegades from San Carlos, or Navajoes, have killed several head of c. E. Cooley's cattle.
 One of the best prospects we visited in the Humbug District was that of the Little Bell, owned by Ben Weaver of the Ready Pay store, and his partner.
 Rev Sheldon Jackson, D. D., of Denver Colorado has an explanatory notice in this paper which he requests the papers of the Territory to copy.
 In our recent trip to Phenix, we met a Mir. Fried, who was feeling of the political situation in the interest of MT. Stevens the present Delegate.
 The Msy-Bean Mining Company has com menced suit against the Peck Co.,. to eDjoin the latter from interfering with or removing any of the property known as the Aztlan mill.
 An inebriated biped was spread rather loose on the sidewalk on Montezuma street last night. Marshal Dodson took him in and will give him a job on the streets in a few days.
 O'Kelley, who was brought here under arrest short time since for some little mis- givings, has left for the Auld Dart, under the assumed name of, probably his right cognomen, P. $. Degran.
 The roof of the new Court House will be ready for inspection by the Supervisors on the first Monday of May, when, if things prove satisfactory, they will issue $20,000 in bonds to the contractors.
 Major Ben Truman, Postal Agent for this section, came down to Yuma, and then skipped back to San Francisco. Arizona is in need of some new mail routes, and Mir Truman would have found out all about them if he had only paid Prescott visit.
 The county seat of Bernalillo County, in New Mexico, has been removed from Alberquerque, its old home, to the flourish ing town of Bernalilo, 24 miles to the North of Albuquerque, by vote of HOG against 4S7.
 A dog fight served to relieve the monoto- ny of life among the dwellers on one of our back streets this forenoon. An owner of one of the belligerants received very severe bite through the hand, while en- deavcring to separate them.
 Jay G. Kelley, the Assayer, who resided in Prescott for nearly two years, and who recently went to San Francisco, has pur- chased a two-stamp quartz mill, and is going to experiment on mines in Sonora, Mexico.
 The Salt River Herald has met with such l general support, that its proprietors, finding the paper too small for the demand made | upon ii by advertising patrons, have decided to enlarge 1t after the present supply of paper is exhausted, which will last about three | months. Ee ~ The NJ. O. Q. F's will give a May Day party on Wednesday, the first day of May at the City Hall For the occasion the servi- ces of the 18th Infantry Band have been secured and it is the intention of the Com mittee to make the party in every respect that of the season. Tickets, 8.
 A little war came up between two mem- bers of the Mormon colony, on Salt River, 1 by the names of Christine and Pomeroy, a few days since, when Pomeroy was stabbed. | The offender was arrested and tried before | Judge Durham, J. F. of the colony, and | dismissed
 Dropped in to the Sheriff,s office today and found everything in fine order, thanks | to the ability of Under Sheriff Giles, and | Mir. R. H. Walker. Boys in the back rooms | all quiet, since Sheriff Bowers has gone to | Yuma with Lewis. Deputy Pierce has just returned from an extended assessing trip, | and is getting ready to take the field again.
 W. S. Head and Gill Haggart, came up from Verde to-day and report s'the grass grows green all aroundn that garden spot. | They made two days trip of it, sailing against strong wind, and stayed over night at Spaulding's on the way. Their faces show the effects of the storm, giving them the appearance of couple of .old salts just in from voyage.
 The Eucalyptus is said to bs great preventive against malaria yet it turns out that though the Eucalyptus tree has been of great benefit against malaria in Algeria and on the Campagns, there are yet swamps in | its native Australia-though encircled by | the "blue-gum,' where the mosquito is rampant and malarious fever not by any means rare.
 Among those whose names have been | mentioned in connection with the Delegate ship, and who will not be candidates under any circumstances, we may mention Cover nor Hoyt. The Governor would make good run, and if elected. would serve the people ably and faithfully, hut we have his authority for saying that he will not be a candidate and that ends it, so far as his can- didaey is concerned
 J. D. Rumberg, an cnterprising citizen of Phenix, Maricopa County has commenced the erection of an irrigsting canal taking its | source on the Verde two miles from Salt River. The canal cOyers several fbossay1 arrae If, f