The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-03-01
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SATURDAY..

oAA DADh4s
 J. H. Lee came in yesterday from Sal
 River, in advance of his teams, which ar
 enroute to this place loaded with barle,
 wheat and -four.
 E, Doheny has discovered a rich s;lve
 ledge in Peck District, and named it tn
 Chief, as he verify believes the lead vii
 prove that he is justified in so naming if
 Henry Wickenbu.g, and A. M. womble
 came up to-day from Wickenburg, Mr
 Womble is mining man and will probabl,
 remainsn the Territory and take hold of som
 mining interests he has his eyes centeret
 upon.
 There is Spanish woman living on th.
 Little Colorado, in this Territory, who ha.
 lived to see l26 years come aud pass away
 She is, without doubt. the oldest inhabitan
 now living within the boundaries of New
 Mexico or Arizona. She sits most of the
 time. and has q broad board against which
 she leans her back for support, ease and
 rest.
 Mir. Lamberson fhe pioneer settler in
 Walnut Grove, has recently been on a trip to Sonora, Mexico, looking up new home for himself. We understand he succeeded
 in finding locality which suited him, and there he intends to make himself homs for the future where he can live ane grow up with the country.
 CHURCH NoT1cE-M. E. Church. South. Preaching at II o'clock, a. in. Sunday School, at 12 o'clock m. Praise Meeting at hal<past o'clock p. m Preaching at 2 o'clock p. m. What and old bachelor thinks abont raising children" Specially to parents; by Thos. R. Curtis Seats free. The public are invited.
 J. II. Helm, of the Tiger, is more than pleased with tho long delayed development of that standard old pioneer mine. A 20- foot ledge of pay ore at the bottom of 250- foot shaft has rewarded their perseverance in pumping and sinking for several months, and now they can say to certainty that they have mine which is good one, and which is bound to yield much wampum.
 FoRT WHIPPLE THEATER.-Obserye the advertisement in another column, .s0urs, and go immediately to the store of L.. Bashford & O., and secure ticket and eligible seat. The entertainment will take place on We'd nesday evening next, February 27th. The theater going public always get their moneys worth at the Whipple Theater, and will not A1tt tt NS olt ftafttt Oit tifio OCCublOn.
 If you get there before do, Lookout for me I'm going too.
 Frederick & Hill, the tinsmiths, having bought the safe that belonged to the Sena- tor Mill, from which the combination lock had been taken, in consequence of its fail- ure to work, and being little slack of work while waiting for their large supply of ma chinery and material, TOW enroute, they re- solved themselves into locksmiths, and with just enough of the old lock left to give them an idea of how it ought to work, they went at it, and constructed complete combina- tion lock that works to a charm, and they now defy old Hobbs himself, to open the safe, binding themselves in strong bond to give him all the money he can find inside if he succeeds.
 George opdyke has been to Humbug, and is much pleased with the showing of nre on the dumps at the 1iptop, but is much more impressed with the value of the Foy mine He. says there are very large quantities of $250 ore coming out of the Foy, and considerable that will 20 higher MT. 0pdyke had permit to go through 1 the mines and examine them, but had not time to do so,--a fact which he very much l he saw enough of what is com ing out to convince him that there must be | plenty more where that came from. He | comes away with the full conviction that | lhe Tiptop company have an exceedingly | property, and Georgc's opinion of mines is not apt to be far out of the way.
 W. A. Rowe, of finders & Rowe. IS in | from the Peck, Tiptop, Gillet, and "all along | he shore" He represents their trade limit | d only by their capacity to get the goods To their several stores. Mr. R., has been to | Salt River to investigate the prospect ofget- | ing goods from Yuma via Phoenix, but finds | he can save both time and money by bring | Ing them via Ehrenberg and Wickenburg; thence to Black Canyon over a new and | nearly direct route which is already laid out, has been travelled some, aud will be made | quite plain now as Palmer's three teams will f pass out over it, empty, this trip. Palmer's Ihrce teams were expected at Gillett to-day ria Wickenburg and Phoenix, which Is a route at least one duys travel longer than he new road will be when it is broken and it for heavy teams.
 SEEMED 'EN AII--Damatrio Navarro, an | honest miner of Weaver, who, by way of helping 10 make both ends meet raises his own ahog and hominy,. and few yellow legged chickens for holiday teasts, etc, has pf late been annoyed and his rest disturbed ,f nights by alarms amongst his farm stock One night last week being aroused by one ,f these of repeated commotions, he hur- fidiy snatched up his Henry rife and ran out to ascertain the cause, when to his as- Ioilishment the dim outlines of some unu- sual and very large animal met his gaze, xhereupon he brought his gun Co the posi- ion of sscharge bayoncts" and let silver, odging ball between the eyes of Cali ornia lion. which measured upwards of ,ine feet between tips of nose and tail. But the scene of carnage did not cease here, Or. no sooner had he ensconced himself ,nder his blankets than second alarm vas given by ths barking of oogs and a ,enerssl scampering of swine. Now his ire gas up, and not sarrying to arrange his oilef, se,zed his fuzee, rushed out and dis covered three dogs intent upon making a neal from his pig-pen. After the firing .cased. he had tho satisfaction of piling up hree CUTS by the side of his lion.
 THE MAsQuERApE.-~The party given by he M 0. c. Els last evening, like every hing in that line undertaken by this Asso- iation, was auite success. The attend nee was large, the mnsic splendid, the upper superb. tho dresses elegant. the assques beautiful, ludicrous. hideous, at rscfive, repulsiye, ridiculous, hewitching, .1&fezsI, s4<rf