Salt River herald., 1878-10-26
SALT RIVER HERALD.
Saturday. October 23. 1878.
ARIZONA ITEMS.
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 Yavapai county has forty-one elec. ton precincts.
 X. J. Bruner, of Prescott, is out of the district attorney race.
 The Knights of Pythias ball, at Prescott, October 1Gth, was a very brilliant affair.
 The Hitchcock mill, Big Bug, was sold last week for delinquent taxes amounting to S2O0.
 The time on the Santa Fe and Pres colt route has been reduced from 150 to 90 hours, and will, after November 1st, be daily.
 Alexander Levin is erecting an opera house at Tucson. It will be capable of holding 2,00O people, with stage and appropriate scenery.
 The supervisors of Yavapai county have leased. the county buildings to the territory, for the use of the legis- lature at the coming session, for $450.
 John A. Kitchen, of Globe City, is dead. He killed himself accidently with pistol. He was formerly pro- bate judge ot Grant county, New Mexico.
 A military station will be perma- nently established at Date creek. Ne gotiations are pending for the pur- chase of quantity of hay for the dr- tachment of cavalry there.
 Capt. Voisard, of Arivaca, who has been in San Francisco for several months, returned to Tucson on Sun day last. The captain returns to push the work on his mines in the Arivaca district
 The following is the ci izcns' ticket of Pima county for the legislature: !: Territorial council, J. M. Kirkpatrick and M. W. Stewart; house of repre- sentatives, Walter l.. Vail, J. NJ Riggs, Sabian Otero, C. R. Drake and T. J. Jctfards.
 Assistant Chief Engineer Hood, ac- companied by his wife and gentlemen of his surveying party, arrived in Tucson on the fifth. The work of surveying from Maricopa is to begin at once. The headquarters of the par ty will be at Tucson.
 It is reported that some San Carlos Indians, who are away from the reser- vation on passes, killed the driver of Lacy's express on the 18th. The body was stripped and left in the road. A party from Silver City went out after the corpse.
 Ex-Gov. Stafford and J. $. Nosburg went to the Tombstone district last week, to arrange matters connected with the purchase of the one-fourth interest in the Gird mines. \ mill is to be put up as soon as the machinery can be placed upon the ground. There will be lively times in the Tombstone district before many months.
 c. M. R. Paulison and Oliver Drake Smith, two of the gentlemen who came to Prescott with Gov. Fremont, will soon open in that city a (" Mining Bureau" for the buying and selling oJ mining claims, and the transacting of mining business. They will keep register of claims and locations, and issue a circular once week, or twice q month, showing business done in mines during that time.
 Miss Caren Jansen, Swede girl, whose name in English is known as Carrie Johnson, who was employed as servant at the residence of Major R. II. Fowler, in Tucson, became in- sane a week or two since, and her case seems to be past help. She has been carefully watched, but an oppOr tunity presented itself and on Tuesday morning of last week she escaped through window, since which time she has not been seen ny her friends. Men have been sent out in all direc- tiOns in search of the missing girl. She wore shawl, but took no hat with her.