Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-04

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 tle east and th0ggh invisible a- Lead vile, may he seen from tae east dis tance of IJ0 miles. The mountain sum
 init is symmetrical, smooth, wedEe-shap ed slope, having in it's centre dcel
 ravine, l,5o0 feet in length, inter5ecteG near the upper part. nearly at rlgh angles, by two shorter ragInes. Ines
 are filled with snow during the entir'
 year, and so present the perfect figure O
 the cross.
 Government Commissioners, detailed
 to negotiate with the Crow Indians fO
 the Northern Pacific to enter upon auC
 cross their reserve, are row at the Grow
 Agency, Montana. The Indians in Ma!
 last gave their consent to the prOsecu
 tion of railroad surveys across thei
 lands. General Anderson says tha
 graders on the Yellowstone Division
 would this season probably penetrate tho
 reserve for some distance, while tht
 completed track would reach its easterI
 border.
 The Oregon Post reports activity oI
 the part of the Central Pacific Company
 At COrinne a party of surveyors ar,
 ready to start upon a preliminary sur
 vey for a new route East. Another par
 ty of surveyors have reached Ogden ant
 will soon be on the march. The plaI embraces that of a road from q connec
 tion with the Central Pacific at Corinnt
 or Ogden to a connection with the Chi
 cago and Northwestern at Yankton, Da
 kota- This line will be 900 miles il
 length, passing through a good country
 Crow Dog, the murderer of Spotted
 Tai, IS now on his way from Fort Niohra
 ra to Deadwood for trial for murder
 He is in charge of Deputy |. $. Marsha
 Frank MOUltOn, of Dakota, who brought
 his prisoner to YanktOn, thence to Ere.
 mont, where he took Q Union Pacific
 tram to Sidney yesterday, where he take:
 a stage for Deadwood. Crow Dog be
 ieves that he did right in slaying Spot
 ted Tail, who had ignored him in the SC
 lection or delegates to go on the recent trip to Washington, and he expresses
 no alarm at the result of the trial and
 thinks he will be set free.
 The Glasgow California Land Re, clamation Company have one dredge, two hundred men, and one hundred horses with scrapers, engaged in rebuilding the leyee at Roberts Island. They will have 16,0OJ acres under levee, with 60 foot base, and three feet above the floods of last winter. A photographer was a; Wakefield, San Joaquin county, last week to obtain photographs of drcdcer belonging to General Williams. This was done at the request of De Lesseps who desires drawings and photographs ot the machine to enable him to determine whether it will be likely t0 worl, well in eIcavatiug a canal oE the Isthmus
 Startling accounts have come of the discovery of gold in paying quantities in Georgia, in the beds of the Chestatie and ChatiahoOchie rivers. We are told that they are so rich in gold that the very sands on the shore yield the pre- cious metal The gold lies in the great est quantities in the mud beds of streams. whence 1T is forced to the decks of min ing boats by air pressure. easily and rap idly. It IS said, anI no doubt correctly, that a large quantity of mud can be mined in a day. 4 dredging boat is ir process of construction, which, it is con tidertly expected, will take SlOOO worth oi gold from the beds of a river in day. When tls boat gets Co work the public will hear more about this Georgia find and whether # k yeritabie mud gold mine or not.
 \ number of fires are reported in AL -e~la. All the country around Phillip pevi!le Go the extent oi sixty square kilO- metres IS one vast conhagration. SlOra, the port of Phillippeviile, has been de- 4 forest Of cork trees is in a blaze, and the flames, famed ly a violent Sirocco, are carrying all before them. it is h"rdiy possible for the garrison to effect al. th'iiC in way of suhduing the flames, ing to tine heat. These fires originated witt the Arabs.
 On Wednesday night, at San Diego, an Indian naned Juan Jose Maria went into sIloou and, being intoxicated, spoke fam liarly tC woman there. She was euragcd at his advances and struck him with a knife. The main artery of his left arm was cut, and before assist 8nce was rendered he almost bled to death. He is still in precarious cOndi- ton.
 The lake that has the highest cleva- tion Of any in the world is Green Lake, in Colorado. Its surface is lO.2j2 feet above the level of the sea. Pine forests surround II. and eternal snOws derl, the leighboring mountain tops. One of. these, Grays Peak, has an altitude of i,3il feet. The water of Green Lake is ls clear as crystal, and arge rock masses and petritied forest are distinctly visi- ole at the bottom.
 About fifteen miles from the Silver lIng mine. in Calico mountain, San Der lardino county, in the crater Of an ex- inct volcano, an immense hot spring las been discovered, sufficient to fll a ,iz-iucL pipe with water, ana plans are lelng made for carrying the water Go the Silver King mine. This will furnish bower for running their &iLstamp mill.
 Says the Riverside Press: The latest iews from the railroad situation goes tO how that the prospects are good for the .emescal rOute being adopted. with a traisht line to the Cajou pass after rOsslng the riyer at the Narrows, or possibly swinging up past Riverside, rossing the river at Agua Mansa.
 Five cattle cars loaded with horses nd mules, belonging to the Ninth Cav lry lcOloredb troops, while en route to 'anta Fe from Durango, Col, jumped l hc track August Dist, four miles from 1 'ambres Station, rolling down a fifty pot cmbankment, wTCcking the cars, but | llilng only one mule.
 The railroad track at Wilmington has | cen laid on tTestle-work to within a 1 hort dis ance of Timms' Point, and l be long wharf sbirtin- of the shore is | eing constructed very rapidly. Several ! mall towns aT1 siringinU up along the ! ne of the shore, among which Fayal is !. he most populous.
 \ Mexican boy arrived Poloodera. | small Mexican town ten mile north cf oeorro, \. M., August l3tl. and report i that he had been a prisoner of the indians six days; that during time they filed two Americans and ten MeIicans. he Indians had white woman and two nldren as prisoners.
 Says the Guadalupe Telegraph: St. res and Abernethy's gold mnc, located n Mussel Rock beach. yielded last onth forty ounces of gold, valued at lLJO an ounce, which we deem good lsiness for a one-hOrse power and three en.
 F. E. Collins, formerly wholesale 'Ocer in Troy, and lately of San Fran sec, was killed by jumping from the ITS on the Delaware, Lackawana and estern Railroad near Utica, Monday l ght. It Is thought to have been a case
 suicide.
 A dispatch from Coblentz says that e Empress of Germany, on her con- les ence, has published letter rough Bismarck thanking the people , T their aiiectionate manifestations Of mpathy during her illness. A mysterious cattle disease has ap- ared in Los Angeles county. Don se de Arnaz, who has 8 large band. 1 $ 8 lost quite number recently, and Is ! epdring to drive them to Ventura i unty. I A huge mass of rock and earth has !. len from the mountain side at Lom- I \, Canton of Grisons, and blocked up T