The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-04-09
THURSDAY.

Hon Clark Churchill came in last eve ming from the Peck District. which he thinks is the richest in the Territory.
 WANTED.-A competent housekeeper can find employment by calling at the residence
 of n. C. Thornc Mrs VI. MFIsHER.
 John !. Gcsper. Secretary of the Territory. and Rev MT. Adams, Superintendent of
 Methodist Missions in Arizona, returned
 from the Cherry Creek country yesterday.
 Col Price is enroute with Lieut.. Baird's
 company to the Colorado, from the Verde
 He goes to investigate the late unpleasant
 ness between the Chimchueva Indians and citizens.
 | William Clark, known in Apache county | as Potato Clark and in this section as the l Lynx Creek Orator, was examined to day
 by Doctors Kendall and McCandless and
 adjudgcd insane. He will be taken to Stockton.
 Arizona Posts are we'll provided with hos l pital accommodations During the last ! three years over thirty thousand dollars has
 been expended in fixing up hospitals for
 the Medical Department.
 Mrs. J. D. Cook. who had ,u- mer removed from her breast by Dr. Aims worth. about two weeks ago al the hospital of the Sisters of St. Joseph, we are pleased | tn learn. has so far recovered that she will be able 10 go out home OH Sunday coming l We have received front Edwin Boitho, of the Engineering and Mining Journal, New York, 2 copy of his Pocket Mining Atlas. compiled from the latest official and most authentic sources of all the mining districts ia the United States. Gt is quite convon- tent and can be procured by sending $l ,"I the author.
 The Democrat, in referring to the absence of Captain Eagan anu hi, efforts to have Judge Silent removed, has drawn out sn official reply from Headquarters curtly de- nylug that the Department had any knowl- edge of Captain EIgan's mission to Wash ington and closing with the remark that whatever the captain has done, if was purely as citizen, and not as an official.
 The arrivals this morning by C S X Cos stage were \. J Cowles and C. F.. Fredsr ick. c. w Bowers name was on the way bill, but he stopped on the way and did not put in an appearance. !. II. Helm and W IA Rowe came as far as Fhcn,x. and C. A. Trcadwcll to Seymour Stage left Maricopa six hours late on sc- coun, of delayed train.
 Al meeting of citizens, Monday, April ! ith, at Kell's rar ch, (old Indian Rrscrvs- iioul Verde, Mir Godfrey Nen Dorcn was called to the Chair, and Mr Josiah Riley | 'ras appointed Secretary of the same, when . Itg astrtfai fr4 ,f ftfrefp,L- gg frs ! lines and claimhollers of the Verde ais ! uic: was disposed of. After the reading ol 1 the y-laws the meeting proceeded 10 the | election of Recorder. whcrcupon C. Y. | Kcl was unanimously elected as such. l Boundaries for the district and by laws ! goycrn ing the same were adopted and Box ' Canyon designated as the initial point of said boundaries.
 There arrived this morning, per W, F. X ! Cos express. from the southern part of the i territory, to gentleman of this town. the ] remains of one of the Aztec race thai for | mcrly inhabited this part of the globe. The 1 'old gent" for gent he certainly ie, rcprc- | scnis the lank, lean and tall species of the . human. and probably was ono of thos, who pcrspircd. Prof Sanford has examined this object of curiosity, and hc thinks hc lived | m the prehistoric age. After tune to make a careful anatomy of the ancient corpsc. We expect to hear from the professor, as it is among the possibilities that be will lead the old skeleton into conversation and find out the secrets of the uldcn iimc
 MILITARY ORDERS Assistant Surrcon !. C. Warrington. L. S. Army, has been ordered to report in person, without delay. to the Department Comm auder. for tempo rafv duty in the field
 r rSt Lieutenant II l.. Haskell, Twelfth Infantry, aidc-de-camp. has been appointed Acting Commissarv of Subsistence in the field. in connection with the distribution of rstions.
 Acting Assistant Surgeon R. F. Light burnc, |. \. Army, has been ordered to re- port in person, without delay. to the com officer, Fort Mcdowell, A. T, for , temporary duty at that post
 Alex Davidson. Warren Potts, Doc stan ley and thcir companions, who were with ; the ill fated expedition to the Aya-Supai , Country and the Grand Canyon of the Col orado on which n N. Mooney lost his life, give evidence of having hnd rough time 10 q rough country m their rough and rug 1 gcd appearance. The sun has evidently |, shonc with greater power on them than on 'hc people ei JhIs altitude. or they have been painting themselves rcd to make them ] selves "solid" with old chief Nasaio. of the Ava supais. whose guest they were for scy- c cral days. The chict and h, people treated l thc wospccinTs very Cuuttcouslv. but stipu- |. latcsi hctorc hand that hc as a polvramisi wns still to enjoy all his marital rights. ana | would submit Io uo prnscly ytiug from his I moEogaWic visitors. Il