The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-04-08

 full of prospectors and mine workers.
 The Robert Mcwade Company are play ing Rip Van Wrinkle" and other pieces in Tucson.
 W. \. Kelly has purchased the Ed Peck ranch, just below the old Alexander place on Banning creek.
 Our County Recorder. Wm. Wilkerson, has gone to Phenix to attend session of Su- preme Court
 George Wicker and others are rigging up to start for the railroad camps in Bill Will Hams mountain.
 Gen. O. B. Wilcox, commanding depart ment of Arizona, has gone south on tour of inspection.
 Good news keeps coming. to this office from the several mining districts of the Ter ritory.
 George Lount has imported blooded mare from Phenix. She is said to have Hambletonian stock. in her.
 4 railroad employe named James Beety was injured, recently. in an accident which occurred near Railroad Pass.
 NIT. Peas, an old and trusty servant of Government and people, is now carrying mail between Prescott and Bill Williams.
 Why is Wells, Fargo & Co. s office in Pres cott like the waters of New FOundlandl
 Ans.-Because it contains many 70. o. D.
 Capt Foster, one of the Mexican War veterans, and the proprietor of Stoneman's Lake station and farm, is in town.
 Such early vegetables as onions, lettuce, spinach and radish are in the Prescott market from gardens around town.
 Heavy diet that at the Poor Mans Ball given few days since at Phenix. It was ''mush." Wonder it didn't make all hands sick.
 Ben Lindenbaum and W. J. O'Neil have been prospecting for placer diggings over near Groom Creek. They didn't succeed in finding much gold.
 4 desperado named Ward has earned hanging by having killed an inaffensive Chinaman near Lurtys ranch, in Cachise County.
 Jackson, a lucky miner of Lynx Greek, is laying in lot of supplies for his summer campaign His big buckskin purse is well filled with gold dust.
 Morris Goldwater, an honorable and good business man, has gone to San Francisco for the purpose of purchasing summer goods for the Goldwater bazar, of Prescott.
 Judge Chas Silent and Mir. Vickers, of Tombstone are in the Black Hills examin- | ing mining properties. They will be in Prescott tomorrow or next day.
 C.1 .,,I fo, dealing are represented, has made sale of lot of alfalfa hay now in Chino Valley, to | agents of the A. & F. Railroad Company.
 Mr Samuel Smith who takes the MINER in duplicate and always pays in advance made a raid on the MINER office to-day de- posting ten dollars as IS usual with him every | year.
 The air of Prescott is more or less filled with rumors of marriages to come. Now. when birds are mating, IS very proper time for men and won en to call on ministers and Justices of the Peace.
 Hon. R. B. Steadman, who proved himself | a steady-going, square member of the recent | Legislature, has been in the San Francisco mountains, selecting a place at which | to start store.
 G. H. LaBerteu, who has worked on the | MINER, of and on, for about 10 years, during which time he has become possessed of good buildings and lots here, IS making great many improvements on the same.
 The Phenixites have commenced feeling a little how come you so. under the heat of the sun that shines on them Hot" IS the word they use to describe the kind of weather | they are enjoying" Come to Prescott and cool of
 Hon. Hugo Richards, than whom Arizona | has not more honorable gentleman, has put some of his means into the purchase of the Tombstone Nugget for Hon. Harry | Woods, who will make the paper success in every way.
 The Misses Lawler, wards of Hon. Gideon ! J. Tucker former Surrogate of New York, and now the courteous editor of the Demo crat, left New York City yesterday for Pres colt, where they will arrive on Sunday next. They will be welcomed back 10 Prescott.
 SILVER BULLIoS-Three bars of silver bullion, assay value s3,600, was, to-day, seen and handled by us at the Bank of Arl- zona It was taken from ores of the Black Warrior and Silver Prince mines, in Peck District.
 J. L. Fishers old signs are, to-day, being removed from the old court house building to his store on Montezuma Street, which will. in day or two, be filled with new goods of every description. Meantime, his old stock is by no means meagre.
 The papers report heavy losses of cattle and sheep throughout the northwest by the severe weather of the past winter. Dakota, it Is said, lost 90 per cent of her cattle. | Arizona. outside of few hundred head of cattle which died of black leg, has not lost a.hoof.
 DELIGHTFUL WEATHER now in Prescott express themselves as being well pleased with the town and its people. Those from the East frequently remark that Pres colt appears to them like some down-east town, where people congregrate to enjoy life and be happy
 The "Poor Mans Ball" recently given by the printers of Phenix, Is said to have been success. The ladies wore calico; the gents. yery common store clothes. An elab- crate supper of mash and milk was furnished. The "editor" of the Herald was present, but did not appear to relish eating comPo. sition of which he, himself, is composed.
 Hon. Pat Hamilton left by Black Canyon stage this morning for the sunny south. He m .I o-o o1lIact n,atariaI fnr th.s work which