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The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
THE FAMOUS GUNsIGHT.

"Alexis," in a letter to the Yuma Free Press, from the Meyers district, writes as follows about Tucson's pet, the Gunsight mine of the Meyers dis trict. "the second Comstock," SD called. We publish the remarks for what :they are worth. "Alexis" al- leges as follows:
 B. F. Bivens, former manager of the Gunsight property, got a bug in his ear, or, perhaps, he accidentally had his hand behind him and few dollars were dropped into it. At ali events he said he was going to break up Gila Bend station by building a new road to Tucson for the transpor. tatlon of his freight that way. The new road was built and damned nice mess he made of the freighting business. The experiment has cost hls company $5000 and yet they are obliged to come back to the Gila Bend route. One of the Tucson teams arrived yesterday ith part of its load (hoisting machinery) and the remain der is back sixty miles. This team left Tucson on New Years day, hay ing been only six weeks on the road. If the company has good luck the machinery and lumber scattered all along the road may be got here by next spring. They were forced to lay off all hands and work has been entirely stopped on the mine, await ing freight. The Gunsight mine is assuredly bonanza, but under such management it must necessarily prove failure. With all the blow that has been made and money squander. ed in the last two years, only 150 feet have been sunk on the mine. Since one year ago last September all the developments done on the Gunsight is the ciosscut at the bot tom of incline. Fact, by God! Such is the management that is going to "bust up Gila Bend."
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
The Terrors of the Sierras.

SAN FRANCISCO, March BOA dispatch from Emigrant Gap says two sections of the vest bound trains, passenger and emigrant, of three days ago, left here yesterday after noon with the west bound train at Blue Canyon, which had been stuck there four days. They have got through. East bound trains reached this place yesterday forenoon. About six hundred men are working west of Blue Canyon, trying to keep the road open. The storm ragged furlously last night, the snow drifting badly. One snow blow is stuck west of Blue Banyon and another blockade seems imminent. A later dispatch says the snow blow bound west is stuck about three miles west of Truckee. The blow of the east bound train cannot get here to-day. It is showing here. A dispatcl. from Alta says the situa. tion is very discouraging. The road was opened last night and the stalled tram passed, A heavy snow storm has been raging since and they deemed it impossible to keep the road clear with the snow five feet deep. A violent snow storm is now prevailing at Truckee, and furious snowstorm raging at Virginia City, and the snow IS al- ready three feet deep. A dispatch from Carson says the road is impass- able between there and Reno from snow drifts. Neither mail nor freight train can reach there.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
Aeuator Fair as a Miner.
s. F Daily Report.


 Any description of the great bo- nanza development would be incom- plete without special reference to the gentleman who is to-day directing the exploration, Senator James G. Fair, hence we reproduce a sketch of Senator Fairs life. The subject os this sketch is best known to the gen eral public as member of the bo. nanza firm. But among miners and mining men he is accorded rank as one of the most accomplished mining engineers America has ever develop. ed; and there are experts, travelled and experienced gentlemen, who do not hesitate to say that in the me- chanical management of colossal mining enterprises MT. Fair has no peer. He was born December 3d, 1881, in Clougher, Tyrone county, ireland, and came to this country in lS43. He attended school at Geneva, Illinois, for several years, and subso- quently secured a good business edu- cation at Chicago. In common with other adventurous spirits, MT. Fair was affected with the gold fever in l84S, and in August of that year he arrived at Long's Bar, Feather river, California. He mined on the bar for a while, but failed to strike profit, able placer. It was natural that he should turn his attention to quartz mining. Placer mining was con ducted in primitive style in those days, and did nj afford Mir. Far fitting opportunities for the exercise of his peculiar me- chanical genius. From the placer bar to the quartz mine was an easy transition for him. We next hear of his being engaged in quartz mining at Angels, Calavaras county, Califor. mia. And at a later period he fig ured as the superintendent of quartz mines in other California counties.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
A Big Strike m Old Guard

In crosscuIting the ledge in the north drift, 15O foot level of the Old Guara, they have made one of the most important de- velopmcnts that has been known in the district for long time. Sunday evening they were in feet, sond ore all the way, 4 feet of which is of high grade and the other two feet of medium grade. Such body of ore as that at the depth of only 15O feet argues great bonanza as greater depth Is attained on the lode. The Old Guard isiu the same range and formation as the Inger. soil and if we mistake not adjoins it on the southwest, and there IS no good reason why it will not prove equally as great mine as the Ingersoll and possibly equal to any thing in the district.
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nf tho uau aFN "

VI tue SdHlc.
 the first fire and only lived ab0deS
 His brother Wyatt Tipton and McMas' ters rushed to the side of the wounded man and tenderly picked him up and moved him some ten feet away, near the door of the card room, where Drs Matthews, Good fellow and Millar, who were called, exam ined him, and after brief consultation pronounced the wound mortal. He was then moved into the card room and placed on the lounge where in 8 few brief moments Le breathed his last surrounded by his brothers Wyatt, Virgil, James and Warren, with the wives of Virgil and James and few of his most intimate friends. Not withstsnding the intensity of his mortal agony, not word of complaint escaped his lips, and all that were heard, except those whispered into the ears of his bro ther and known only to him, were: Don't, can't stand it, This is the last game of pool I'll ever play" The first part of the sentence being wrung from him by an ef. fort to place him upon his feet.
 His body was placed in casket, and sent to his parents at Colton, Cal, for buri. al, being guarded to Contention by his brothers and two or three of his most inti. mate friends. The funeral cortege started away from the Cosmopolitan hotel about l2 80 yesterday, with the fire bell tolling out its solemn peals of " Earth to earth, dust to dust"
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
Vig,lante's Work.

SAN FRANCISCO, March BOA Dalles, Oregon, dispatch says that Lucien Langdon and a man in his employ named Harrison were arrest. ed at Langdon's residence on the charge of killing A. H. Crooks and s. J. Jory, by posse of citizens, and turned over to a deputy sheriff. After reaching the hotel party of masked men overpowered the guard and shot Langdon dead. Harrison was hanged to the trestle work of a bridge. None of the perpetrators have been identified and nothing has been ascertained to duplicate Harri son in the murder of Crooks and Jory. His only offense seems to have been that he was in Langdon's employ.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
RIGHT ABOUT FACE.

As has been assumed by those well versed in the United States Land Laws, the secretary of the interior has reversed former rulings in rela. ton to the issuance of patents to mines and they will hereafter be is- sued devoid of the heretofore obnox- ious reservations in relation to town sites, as will be seen. by the follow ing extract from Secretary Kirk. woods letter of instructions to the commissioner of the land office, in the case of the Vizina Consolidated Mining Company, of Tombstone, published in the Reporter, Wash. ington journal devoted to national affairs. He says:
 "Clearly, It must be assumed, prima facla that mineral claimant, who has right to patent, has pos sessed his claim and maintained h:s right to possession thereto in accord ance with the mineral land laws. In such case, therefore, the only other question to be determined IS that of priority by selection or location as between townsite and vein or lode miniug claimant. x l also forward herewith, for ap. propriate action in your office, the application of the Vizina Consolidated Mining Company, filed Tn this department the 29th instant, by its attorney, J. A. Vaudeville, Esq, to have patent issued to said company upon the Vizins mining claim without reservation in favor of the townsite of Tombstone. Very Respectfully, s. J. LAKEWOOD,
 Secretary.
 This would seem to settle the ques. tion definitely and without any pros or cons. This is a good document for preservation for future reference.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27

JUDGING from the following re- port the Nova Scotian gold mines are not paying proposition. The New York Daily Indicator of March IA says:
 The total yield of gold from mines in Nova Scotia during the year 1881 was l0,756 ounces, l3 dwt., against 13,234 ounces in 1880. The returns from the unprecedented districts amounted to 2,436 ounces, an in- crease of l,594 ounces over the pre-. ceding year. Mir. Gilpin, the in- spector of mines, gives table from which we gather the following data. There were in all thirty-three mines, in which 126,30S days labor was per- formed; these mines had thirty mills, one- half of which were run by steam power, and the rest by water power, which crushed in all lG,556 tons of rock, having general average yield of l2 dwt. and 20 grains per ton. The principal districts were the Cari- bou, with a yield of 1,l29 ounces from 1861 tons of rock; the Monta- gue, yielding 900 ounces from l, ,165 tons of rock; the Sherbrooke, yield. ing 2,5S0 ounces from 5,279 tons, and ,he Umaike district, which turn ed out l,355 ounces of gold by crushing 3,094 tons of ore. Estima. ting the value of the gold at SIS per ounce, the average yield per man per day was $l.52; the maximum being $2.S0 for the Wine Harbor district.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
Two Men Lynched.

RAwLINs, N. M., March I9.--Wm. Carter was taken from Jail at 4 o'clock this morning by party of masked men, and transferred to tn stock yards one mile east of town, and Lacv and Roderick hanged Garter was allowed to escape. They belonged to gang of thieves which extends through Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, and have been engaged in late safe robberies in the two terri tories. They have a regular organi- zation, and one of the parties had money in his possession that was lately stolen at Leadville.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
STRING came in today at 12 o'clock in

STRING came in today at 12 o'clock in the most genial possible manner.
 SOME pretty designs for monograms csr be seen at the book store of A. NJ. Rot son.
 UNCLAIMED telvgrams: J. P. F. F. Thomas, W. F. Witherell, T. " Chas. Groedel.
 THE proposals for building the fifty ad ditional lock boxes for the post office will be opened at 12 o'clock tomorrow. The boxes are to be 4x5x8 inches inside meas. urement, and fitted with brass hinges and good Yale locks.
 TIE street commissioner has his force out to-day cleaning up the rubbish from the streets. He proposes to make daily rounds hereafter and 10 keep them SO clean of rubbish that the most crltica! will have no fault to find
 TIE Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias will hold their regular meeting tonight. at which the newly elected officers will be duly installed. All members are expected to be present and In uniform.
 "SToLEN KISSES" were received with acclamati0ns of pleasure by full house last night as well as on the evening pre- vious. The Lingard's company is alto. gether the most talented troupe which has ever visited the city and those who attend thelr play will remember the occssion with much satisfaction and pleasure. ..
 Complete arrangements have been made to render the reception rendered by the Tombstone Club to their lady friends this evening sure success. About l50 guests are expected to be present. Eight o'clock has been designated as the hour for meet. ing.
 DEVELOPMENTS in the Bunker Hill are most encouraging. Sinking has been re. sumed below the lS0 foot level, and the ore body has wldened from six inches to tiff. teen, and is of better quality than where first struck. The company has every req son to expect rich mine. The formation is all that could be desired, and the Assure shows every evidence that it will go down indefinitely.
 INQUIRIES have been made for map of Tombstone district in such form as would be convenient for carrying about. The demand can now be met, a. the excellent map ot this district and it's surroundings, compiled by Kelleher & Peel and drawn by F. $. Ingoldsby. has been mounted on linen and bound with substantial cover, and is thus very handy as well as service. able. Parties will find them at Robert. sons bookstore.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27

THAT Oury wants to be our next delegate there is but little doubt. That Ben Morgan wants to become a candidate for the office there is no question; that Hon. John G. Camp. bell will be in the field we are pre- pared to state is a fact. Who will be the successful man? Campbell will have the money to carry his point. Now, with these war horses in the field, it seems to us that the importance of the matter should in- cite republicans to action. We want a live, wideawake, active man to battle successfully against the heavy batteries of the democracy of Ari. zona. We don't want any lame limbff,the republican family to poke
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
A Story of Webster.

Daniel Webster's centennial birth day was all occasion for many anec- dotes in the New England papers. It is related that friend from Nan tucket once objected because Mir. Webster asked him $4,000 to go to the island to argue case. "l would as soon argue the whole docket" " said Webster, who did not wish to make the trip. The friend said that he would give the great lawyer s4,000 If he would argue such cases as he should present before his own case was called. Wher Mir. Webster got to Nantucket he found that the friends case was at the foot of the docket, and he was expected to argue the whole docket through. He did so and received the S4,000, but his client, who had "farmed'' him out, cleared $500 besides winning the case.
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The Huac.lucns.

From the Citizen, March IS.
 MT. J. P. Preston, who arrived d few days since from the south end of the Huachucas, reports extensive de- velopments as being made in the mines of that section, which on the whole are said to be looking better than was even at first anticipated, although big things had ever since the discovery, been expected from the mines now owned and controlled by the Black Bear Copper Mining Company, which under the superin tendence of Col. w. F. Witherell are now working about fifty men, making roads and grading preparatory to the erection of two thirty-ton water jacket smelters which are now said together with all other necessary ma chincry, to be at Pantano awaiting shipment to Ash canyon, their place of destination. The foreman of the mine stated to Mir. Preston tha, enough ore was in sight to run both smelters for fully two years. MT. Preston also said that the Garrett mine in the same neighborhood was all that representations had made it. The vein on top being near one hun dred feet in width yielded according to forty average assays, the certificate of which he himself saw, fully $20O per ton. The property is reported to. belong to the Preston Mill Com pany. It was at this mine that the trouble occurred between Messrs. Paplin and McCartv winch few days since resulted in the death of the latter.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-27
Tulare AblQZe.

California IS noted for its esthetic journalism, but the following greet, ing from one Tulare journal to d rival sheet takes the state leather medal for this sort of writing. The editor says:
 "Our attention has been called to the last number of this travestie on journalism, and reading over the sinking catterwallian, tatterdemalion whimperings of the thing which pre-, sides over that nondescript journal istic nottingham, we are in doubt as to whether he knows or not, the cor rect meaning of "cat's paw" Sir, we greet thee to the field of journalism. even toozIe and bamboozle thee; we'll tickle thee under the gills; we'll toss thee on our toastng spit d turn tn over till well uohe; we'll annoint thee and annolnt thee, thou trump fed ronyon; and when we have thoroughly plckled thee in the salt brine of our amiabil. ity, and sufficiently preserved thee, we will carve thee with a Damascus blade and serve thy minced carcass up an a dish fit for the Olympian gods. We wish you success, sir; and in the language of St. Paul, relative to Alexander the coppersmi,h-'May the Lord God award you according to your merits You have tried us in court. Perhaps you would like to try us in the newspaper field. The chances are, there may be ''pistols, and coffee for two." We love thee, so much that we see thee damned ere we'd fight thee.
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The following remedy, found in the

The following remedy, found in the diary of Deerfeld man: "Derek- shons from Doc Hsstens for fowle stomak. talk the insid skin of the gis. erd of foul cigens chickens?l is best. Mux it to Powders and that must be half the compound and nut meg and sinniment and mase the other half of the holl quantity must be as muck as candy on nue En- gland shellun at wons and drink a good draft of strong Der or fiep after it; dou it weak or fortnit run ming"
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An Accidental Strike.
From the Arizona Gazette.

We hear of lucky strike made by teamster on the Wickenburg road, in the Antelope range, short time since. It seems that some one else
 was driving his team, and wandering off the road his attention was at tracted to rich piece of float. Further search disclosed from whence it came, and thus was discovered d very rich pocket, which yielded Tn a few hours work, free gold to the value of over Sl,00O. Some very
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How Much Max es . Man Rich.

"To be rich," said William L Marcy, at one time secretary of state. "requires only satisfactory con- dtion of mind. One may be'rich with hundred dollars, while the man of millions may think himself poor, and If the necessities of life are en. joyed by each it is evident that. the man who is best satisfied with his position is the richest" ' To illustrate this idea Mir. Marcy relates the following anecdo. e: While 1 was Governor of the State lof New York I was called upon 'one morning at my office by a rough specimen of backwoodsman, who stAlked in and commenced con- versation by inquiring ''if this was MT. Marcy?" I replied that was my name.
 "Bill Marcy?" said he.
 nodded assent.
 "Used to live in Southport, didn't ye?"
 answered in the affirmative, and began to feel little curious to know who my visitor was, and what he was driving at.
 "That's what told 'em," cried the .bacAwo dsman, bringing his hand down on his thigh with tremendous force. "T told lem you was the same Bill Marcy who used to live in South port; but they wouldn't believe it, and I promised the next time came to Albany to come and see you, and find out for sartin. Why, you know me, don't you Bill?"
 1 didn't exactly like to ignore his acquaintance altogether, but for the life of me couldn't recollect having seen him before, and so Ireplied that he had familiar countenance, but that l was not able to call him by name.
 "My name is Jack Smith," an- swered the backwoodsman, "and we used to go to school together thirty years ago, in the little red school house in old Southport. We'll, times have changed since then,and you have become a great man and got rich, 1 suppose"
 1 shook my head, and was going to contradict that impression, when he broke in:
 "Oh! yes you are, I know you are rich; no use of denying it. You was comptroller for - for long time; and the next time we heard of you you waS governor. You must have had heap of money, and l am glad of it-glad to see you getting along so smart. You always was smart lad at school, and I knew that you must come to something"
 l thanked him for his good wishes and opinion, but told him that politi cal life did not pay so we'll as he inn agined.
 "i suppose" said I, fortune has smiled upon you since you left South port?"
 "Oh yes," said he, "I ain't got nothing to complain of. must say l have go; along right smart. You see, shortly after you left Southport our whole family moved up into Yer mont, and put right into the woods, and 1 reckon our family cut down more trees and cleared more land than any other in the whole state"
 "And so you have made a good thing of it. How much do you con- slider yourself worth?" l asked, feel ing little curious to know what he considered fortune, as he seemed to be so well satisfied with his.
 "Well," he replied, "I don't know exactly how much I'm worth, but l thlnk Strengthening himself up) if all my debts were paid l should be worth $500 lear cash"
 He was rich, for he was satisfied.
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sstl Exuberancc of Figures.

From the Virginia City Chronicle. '@s''sns ~,
 The next lot of miners for the Santa \ aria mines of Mexico,s of which Phillip Deidesheimer is su- perintendent, will leave III week or ten days. It will consist of about $50 men. Mir. Deideshelmer says the company he represents intends to employ 5000 men.
 '"Didie" always ran largely to fig ures. We all remember-but there let us forbear.-S. F. Exchange.
 Just let "Didie" alone will you 1? The people have forgotten all about that s6OO,OOO,OOO in the Con. Vir- ginia bonanza.
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Ex.Gov. A. P. K. SAFFoRp has become one of the board of directors of the Flor ida Immigration association. The gov. ernor is largely interested in the reclama- tion scheme of Disston and other Penn sylvanians.
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Two Men Shot.

SAN FRANCIsco, March 19.--A Dallas dispatch says two men were shot and instantly killed on March l5, near Willow Creek, by Lucian Langdon. The names of those killed are A. H. Crooks and S. J. Joyce. Langdon, af CT shooting, mounted his horse and escaped. A large posse is in hot pursuit. The trouble is sup. posed to have grown out of law suit-
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WE are glad to hear that Col. Tiffany has been given grand reception and dance by his wards, the Apaches. We hope they will continue to love him so dearly that they will not go of on any more little scalping pic.nics through the neighborini country.
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Complaints were filed against several theaters and music halls, but the prosecuting attorney declined to take action on them, holding that they do not come within the law.
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soon az se11 I
 "Vhas you under 6dSllQ son in dis fight?" v
 "No."
 'I tell you dot vhas an awful fight, my frendt. Blood poured out shust like 1t vhas raining. Maybe you vhas under Sheneral Lee, up dot blank road?"
 "No, 1 wasn't"
 "Not under Lee? But dot Shen eral Lee vhas an awful fighter Maybe you vhas mt Early, up init fredericksburg"
 "No."
 "So. Vheil, dot Early he vhas a shplendid Sheneral, und he like to fight all der time. feel sure you vhas init Early. Maybe you vhas init Hooker, eh?"
 "No."
 "Not nit Hooker down here! Den you vhas init Sedgwick up der road?"
 "No."
 "Vhell, by gollv! Not init Shack son nor Lee; not init Hooker nor Sedgwick! Vhell, dot beats me all oafer."
 Both of us fell to and began eat ing. and nothing further was said until the meal was finished, and we had gone out to )ook at some old cannon wheels in the yard. Then my friend put his hand on my shoul der, lowered his voice and said:
 "My friend, if you vhas not init Lee, nor Shackson, nor Hooker Tn dis fight, maybe you und me vbas in der same place?"
 "Maybe so. Where were you?"
 "In Canada!" he whispered. He called "good-bye" after me as l rode away, but wouldn't have answered him for sl00.