The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-04-08
Local Intelligence.
SATURDAY.

Clean out your cellarz-
 Trim your trees and vines.
 Garden making has commenced
 Tucson houses are being numbered.
 The croauet season will soon be here.
 The Globe City papers report few cases of measels there.
 Mir. Park, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, assures us that business IS increas- ing in this section.
 R. J. Atkinson of Iron Springs station IS in town to-day, also Mr. and Mrs. Blair of Burnt Ranch.
 MT Melford's team, with supplies for vulture Mining Company, pulled out this morning.
 L. $ Marshal C. P. Dake has gone to Walker district to look at mining and other matters.
 IabOrers on Mexican railroads receive 2o cents day for their services. Our DevlI don't believe this.
 County officials are having great many blank books, receipts, warrants, etc, printed for use during the year 1881.
 n uccp uIdAls UT SCNtAf ID OCAAe from the alley back of Rabies brewery, down Goodwin street, to Granite creek.
 Miss Watson, We hear, wishes to sell her millinery establishment Here is chance for young lady with six or seven hundred dollars in the bank.
 Prescott city authorities are having the wells around the plaza fixed in good styles Pumps, hose, etc, are now ready to hght fire in case one should break out.
 This section of Arizona is threatened with another storm. Hope it will come, not that our section is very dry, but because 1t could absorb some more fluid.
 It seems to us that it Is about time our streets were cleaned up and several defective sidewalks in the town repaired. Let those interested take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
 Hon. John C.. Campbell, Arizonas ex- Delegate to Congress, IS preparing to visit the San Francisco mountain country, for the purpose of taking in the railroad situation
 Henry Spaulding, accompanied by his two little girls, Emma and Ida, and the hand some son Clarence, is in town laying Tn sup plies for his station at the Agua Fria, which, by the way, is one of the best Tn Arizona.
 CHINO VALLEY.-S. C. Reese and Gus Reimer report everything prospering in and around Chino Valley and head of Verde. Farmers are busy: stock picking up on new grass. The alfalfa fields in Chino present a beautiful appearance.
 Hon. Tom Fitch, the silvertongued ora tor, tired of the cold and snows of that great city on the Mississippi, Minneapolis. has returned to the favored land of ArIzona, where. as usual, he will take first place in the profession of the law.
 Mrs Tobin and Mrs Rubert left Prescott hy this morning c. & $. Stage, for Califor- nia. Associate Justice Stlllwell started for Tucson. and "Ted" Nichols, for Wicken- burg, at which point he Is to be boss Of all staging.
 The run upon yesterdays edition of the MINER vas kep: up until the close of the mails last evening Hundreds of copies were mailed 10 people at the East with the view of furnishing information for which many of them had written WAR, wAR.-Theproprietors of the Tragic Meat Market. few doors north of the MINER office. having been forced to dig up the II. intense advertisement, which ve call, pleas ant. nutritious reading for beef, mutton and | sausage eaters. Well informed persons say that, until the l branch railroad shall have been constructed. Prescotts ''port" on inc A. & F. Railroad [ will be in a large valley, this side of Bill | Williams Mountain which valley is not to i exceed 90 miles north of US. A. J. Mason, one of our wide-awake busi 1 ness men, received, to-day, from San Fran ! cisco and the Eastern market, large lot of boots. shoes, harness, saddles whips, spurs, | leather and a thousand and one things m which he deals Call and take peep at his elegant store. Southern Arizona papers are bemoanIng 1 the escape from the Cachise county jail, oi Lew King who is accredited with being very bad cowboy" stage robber and, worst of all. assistant murderer. No wonder Tue | son editors don't snore in their sleep any more, the poor fellows are fearfully troubled with COW mares, night mares, etc. TowRsroSE NUGGEr-Wehav prettygoOd authority for stating that this paper has ,.assed into the hands and ownershipOf Hon. | Harry Woods. who will, without doubt, | make it an able and influential journal Its politics will, of course. be what some peo- ple still term Democracy. Any way, here's success to Harry and every one of hls laud- able undertakings. LUMBER S.LE-We are pleased to know that recent orders from the War Depart nent directing Col. Grimes to rebuild the Headouarters buildings at WhiPple has re- .ulted in our fellow townsman and lumber merchant, Geo. W. Curtis, in receiving an order for ISO. GOO shingles and about 10000 feet of lumber which order, in time, will be followed by others. The rebuilding ot these offices will benefit a great many people d. rectly and indirectly. Bolan introduced Hon. George E. Brown to Phenixites, and then We hear that they went over to Tempe for the purpose of visit ing Capt. Sharp. While at the latter place Bolan went fishing and got his feet wet, since which time the fishes in the placid waters of the old Salt have protested by petition against the gentleman riiing the water ID which they bask. An amendment was at tached to the said petition. stating that It made the fishes sick. The fish, above all things, for health, must have pure, uil- adulterated water.