Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-08-07
Photographic Brevities.

A Trinidad (Col) special says: At
 Browns ranch, near here, to-day, Dag
 garf. foreman of Stevenson's ranch, shot and killed one of Browns sheep-herders
 and beat another nearly Co death. The
 cause of the trouble IS unknown. The
 murderer escaped.
 Reliable news from Eagle reports the
 burning of rancho and the killing of
 number of Mexicans and two unknown miners by Indians near there. It IS
 thought there are three bands of Indl-
 ans prowling about the country, as their
 signal were seen from Eagle.
 A San Marcial (N. NJ special says: Two Mexicans and two miners have been
 murdered between San Jose and Fort
 McCreary, by Indians, who are supposed | to be heading from the Black Range. Company D, 9th Cavalry, has been
 ordered on q scout from Oio Callente.
 Chief Mare will probably cooperate with
 the Mescaleros if he is aware that they
 are on the war-path.
 There is another social scandal excit- ing Washington, involving married gentleman who was until recently prom inently connected with the Signal Ser vice. with the rank of Captain. IL ap- pears that residence up town has been occupied by a former female Treasury clerk of great beauty, and the Captain supported her in elegant style. The Captains wife found it out, and the mat ter is now known.
 A special from Las Vegas says: The Optic has the following, on good author ity: The Indians who attacked two packers near Alamo Canyon on the 18th --N. III l,.- force under Guilfield, and which day or two since surprised them in camp. After an hours engagement the Indians fled, leaving their whole camp outfit two horses and twelve mules-ip the pos session of the soldiers Two Indians are supposed to have been killed and several wounded, but all were carried of. The Indians fled toward Rio Grande It is supposed they are bound for old Mexico. They were direct from the MescalerO agency, and numbered eleven bucks and one squaw.
 General Crook, commanding the De partment of the Platte, has had added to his jurisdiction the care and territory of the Utes, Umitahs, White River and Uncompahagre Indians, who are being removed from Colorado and their old res ervations to the new reservation in east ern Utah, near the junction of White and Grand rivers. He will command all the troops who are to keep them in sub- jection, and as a new fort is to be built near the reservation at once, General Crook will soon make all necessary ar- engagements for troops and supplies. Rawlins, on the Union Pacific Railroad, will be the distributing point for the ad- ditional territory.
 A dispatch from Eureka, Nevada, says: Grading cop menced on the Eureka and Colorado Idyer Railroad to-day. Two gangs of men were set to work. It Is said that the force will be increased from day to day. The superintendent asserts that he will have thirty miles in opera ton by Christmas. The company was originally organized by citizens of Flu reka, who lately sold the franchise to the Denver and Rio Grande Company. The price paid to the local company was Sj0,- GOO. The Eureka branch is destined tO connect with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, at some point in Utah, near Iron mountain.
 At the mint investigation Monday Thomas Mckinley, assistant melter and Tenner. was put on the stand Dy com plainants to prove that Mir. Dodge, su- perintendent, knew that bullion not fit for coinage was sent to the coiner, l and witness testified such to be fact, as the said melter and refner had often complained of the fact, but the testi- | mOny was not allowed as it was not l shown that complaints were made to l Dodge; witness stated that the Ofter2r | the bullion was so melted the more loss l the government sustained from wastage. | F. B. CicOtt, until lately coiner of the l mint, testified that in some cases bullion l sent to his department for coinage was | exceptionally bad, and that the mold had | to be rebanded, entailing additional ex- penses. He called Dodge's attention to | the badness of the metal He accom- | panied him to the coiner's room and | showed him the evils of using bad metals, | but there was no remedy applied to do | away with the evil On account of the | inferior bullion the extra work will aver age one month a year, and the expense | amounts tO S1 POO per annum. Witness | considered superintendent Dodge either | wilfully negligent or ignorant.