The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-02-08

TRAINED Docs.--Dr. Epperly, who live: 3 on Walnut Creek. has two dogs which are a well trained and invaluable where wild ! cats and catamounts collect. as they do around his little paradise on the Creek The Doctor, few days since, heard his dogs making rather unusual amount of noise al } little distance from his residence, and ! thought he would examine the cause. He went to the location and found that his two
 dogs had treed a catamount, which was : safely resting on projecting limb in the , top Of tree, something over thirty feet
 from the ground, and the dogs had followed
 their game up the tree distance of nearly
 thirty feet and within short distance of
 his catship, who only saved himself by
 crawling out on limb where the dogs cou.d not creep. During the fall, the Doc tors tree-elimbers have killed over twenty
 of these pests. Trained dogs and valuable
 ones certainly.
 General Kautz seems rather pleased with
 his change of station with Col. Wilcox from 1 Whipple to Angel Island, and although
 Wilcox is a much older Colonel than him
 self. and if there are any soft places, would
 naturally he entitled to one, he thinks he | will rather have the inside trsck of his se-
 nior on this layout.
 No Colonel or regiment has ever stayed so long in Arizona as Kautz has with the
 sth, and it was to be expected that change
 would soon take place
 | This change is neither promotion nor re- duetion, he holds his rank and pay, and as he has already obtained all the glory there is in the position of Department Command CT, it is quite compliment 70 assign him to SO important and pleasant a command as that of Angel Island.
 Tine item with reference to Jim Moons paying S100 for breaking furniture in saloon in San Francisco is corrected in the Echo. It appears tliat the clerk of the game had him charged with S700, but upon examination of the records of the Police Court the fine was only s10, making a difference of S630 which the clerk probably needed in his own business.
 There are tricks in all trades, even in keeping books for faro game.
 CHANGE OF CoMMANDERs.-Gen Kautz yesterday received telegram notifying him that an order Is out commanding him, as Colonel of the Eighth Infantry, to take his regiment and change stations with Col Wilcox, of the Twelfth Infantry, now in command of Angel Island, in the Bay of San Francisco. According to this order, it would seem that Col. Wilcox is probably to be assigned to this command, though rumor has had it that Gen. Miles was the coming man.
 Our young folks will bear in mind that | tomorrow evening, at the City Hall, the | NJ. o. O. Els give ''bIow out" which will | be conducted with an effort on the part of | the management to make it in every way equal to their former enjoyable gatherings 1 Tickets can be obtained at the stores of | J. L. FishertS Co, J. Goldwater & Bro, and | c. P. Head x Co. On the 22d, Washing tons Birthday, they will give another party, the participants to attend in masque.
 D. K. Houghtellin is in from the Prince and Black Warrior. He reports the War rior looking better than ever. They are drifting north from the shaft, above the | water-level, in an excellent quality of ore, and have been waiting for their engine be- fore trying to go deeper in the main shalt, but it is so slow comIng that MT. Ellis went | out a day or two ago, and put on two shifts | to try to empty the shaft by hand.
 Kelly& Stephens have special notice with reference to Valentines, of which they have received monster supply of every variety. They also have an assortment of Masques of all k1ndc, lTOUl tHe uODieSt IO tue ulOSt ludicrous and hideous. Their stock ofbooks, magazines, papers, musical works and instruments, Almanacs, Mining Statutes and the like is very complete.
 Col. Riddle who owns considerable stock in the Tiptop has been on personal inspec- ton to the mines of the district and expres- ses himself as much pleased with the outlook
 An old City has been found twenty miles south of the Little Colorado that is estima- ted by Professor Powell to have been built several hundred millions of years since.
 The Tiptop mill, it is thought will be ready to start up about the goth, when Tip top stock will take a sudden rise and is lia- ble to go up to to $15 per share. Tiptop is a good investment just now.
 MT. Coats prophesied yesterday, when the sun was shining brightly and at its best, that storm would come up within 24 hours, and his words have been verified. No use for almanacs when Mir. Coats is around.