The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-10-03

Lieutenant Booth departed yesterday per stage for MaFicops.
 Potatoes are selling in the Prescott mark cts at four cents per pound.
 Beiardo Freyes' teams are due in Prescott this evening with flour, bran and barley for N. & G. Ellis.
 The telegraph office in Prescott has been closed. By what order or for what cause we do not know.
 The only fish caught during the season, we learn, was one weighing something over 40 pounds.-A regular Prescott beauty.
 Miss Louise Horne has been appointed post-mistrcss at Williamson Valley, Yava- pai county; and Oliver P. Kimberly post master at Tubac, Pima county.
 A. M. Smith has gone home to Smithvlle and will, during the week, start his saw mill into motion and the new town on Cher " Creek will put on ''lots of aIrs."
 The Jeff Davis ranch. under the super vision of Mr. Shull, will produce large quantity of potatoes this season, and they are about the best raised in this section
 Hon. A. E. Davis writes us from Mineral Park, that he is about to visit California for the purpose of bringing Mrs. D., and all the young D's to Arizona for future resi- dence.
 W. A. Linn came in last evening from Bradshaw City looking hale and hearty af- efe- his sejourn of twelve months in the mountains. Mir. Linn reports mining mat ters as looking up ana has great faith in old Bradshaw.
 Another new find has been made near the head of Crook Canyon. This time Mexi- can finds large gold lead which will pay from $20 10 $40 to the ton. Prescott people have been out to look at it and pocket some of the specimens.
 We have heard that Nicanor Rodrigues has been captured by the Sheriff of Marl- copa county. Whether our information is reliable or not, we are unable to say, but only hope that the report may be true.
 Kelley is at his old game. He is trying to get some one to sue the Tiger Go. for damages for the accidental killing recently, in the mine. He expects to get share and fight the battle through the columns of the ExposItor.
 There were sixty of the excursionists who left Maricopa on the 25thinst for San Fran cisco. Some forty others were ready to go but had failed 10 procure tickets, conse- quently were left out in the cold and had to pay full fare or stay at home.
 J. NJ. Dodson returned home from q trip 10 the Tiger, where he went to intercept certain party charged with a misdemeanor at TiptOp. few days since. Dodson failed to find the party, he not being there He informs us that the mill is running regu larly and the bullion IS coming out by the wholesale.
 James 0Reilly, of the Expositor, was at latest dates from the Tiger mine, spinning his yarns to the good people of that place. He sent his compliments 10 the MINER man, of course, with the unnecessary nori- fcation that he was going to steal a horse and ''put out" Prescott has had several cases of horse stealing of late, and Reilly's presence at the Tiger accounts for it all.
 We are in receipt of letter from James c. Hunt, of St. Johns, complaining of bad treatment at the hands of the Sheriff of Apache county. As the matter is one for adjustment in the courts and not through newspaper interference we let the matter pass to take its proper course. We are sor- ", nevertheless that friend Hunt should have his household effects thrown out into the streets and himself and family left homeless.
 A correspondent in the Santa Fe, N. NJ. Sentinel, pays the Santa Fe and Prescott mail contractor very just and deserved compliment:
 "The Star Line mail under J. A. Walsh's efficient management is being rolled along by the new $l00 mules six miles an hour on time east and west, and doing as good service and regular work as sn eight day clock. No line of this length running as it docs through or over an extent of uninhab- tied, sandy, rough country that can run any smoother than the "Star Mail"