Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-10
TarritoriaI IO0f

What country has more beautiful
 weather than we are at present enjoying Monday last Messrs Snow and Thatch
 CT, Of the Council of Twelve of the Nor
 mon Church-the highest dignitaries o that organization, excepting, of course the President-arrived at Marlcopa, where they were met by Bishop McDon ald and taken out to Mesa City. These gentlemen are visiting the various Mor- mon colonies throughout the Territory
 Lotus Contreras was arrested in Phe-
 nix Thursday by Marshal Gsrfias,
 charged with stealing a horse, saddle
 and bride, valued at S90, from Felipe
 Amabisco, at or near Prescott. At the
 examination 1t was proven that the anI-
 nal was stolen and by the thief sold in
 Yavapai, consequently Judge Richards held him subject 10 the action of that
 county's officials.
 A MT. Goodfellow, of Pheni1, secured
 the wood contract from the Arizona Gen.
 tral Co. The price for the wood at the | dump on the Hassayampa IS S4 and at
 the mill or mine something over S6. In | former years $S per cord WAS paid for
 wood by the old Vulture Company. | Twenty-Five dollar ore in these days
 would not pay the expenses of mining. | hauling and milling, while at this late | day S4 ore pays a nice profit.
 | Jose Sanches came to Prescott from | Walnut Grove Sunday with gold bullion
 the result from 3,1O0 pounds of ore | recently worked In an arrastra, from
 mine at Walnut Grove. The bullion
 was weighed and found to be worth ! $j76. This mine Is banning out well l and bids fair to become one of the best p.opers;Ns n the country.
 Articles of incorporation were Wed i nesday filed with the Secretary of the Territory of the Ida Gold and Silver Mining Company, incorporated under | the laws of Wisconsin. The principal
 place of business in FOn du Lac, Wis consin, and the location of works, Pima county, Arizona Territory. Capital stock S1 .5O0,000, all subscribed for and non-assessable.
 Arizona should become a State, and to that end let the Territorial legislature memorialiIe Congress. If not made State let 1t be divided into two TerritO- ries, with the Gila river as boundary. It would, no doubt, put down sectional ism, possibly obliterate 1t entirely from the pages of Arizona journalism.-Pres-I colt Miner.
 The Grant County Sentinel says: Head and Hearst have purchased about all tho watering places in the Animas valley. The valley takes III . large scope of country and Is excellent graz ing land. It has capacity to pasture at least ten thousand head of cattle. When l those gentlemen get done buying they | will be the owners of the largest cattle | range in the Territory.
 Peter BrOisand, the faithful old gar dener who has held forth for many years | just north of the city limits of Prescott, | IS about tO leave for a years visit to his | old home in France, which country he | has not seen for thirty years. Peter has laid away a nice nest egg of some | Sl5,O00, which he has safely deposited | in one of the safest banking institutions | in his native land.
 Tuesday evening last, ct about half past seven o'clock, three thieves stopped | three soldiers, who were returning from Prescott to Whipple, "stood them up" and took six dollars from one of them. One soldier who had $60 and a watch on his person slipped the money and watch into a package of meat he war carrying, and thus foiled the robbers, who, on hearing footsteps, fled, leaving the soldiers to return to the post with out farther molestation-
 Mir. John Slsven arrived in Tomb stone from a protracted tour through Sonora Thursday. He had the cold comfort of shivering around fire on the summit of the Huachuc.s Wednes- day night. having been belated in cross ing over the range, and darkness mak- ing it too dangerous for night travel. He had no blankets with him. therefore he had to mako the most of such fire ss he could keep going until morning, when he rode down to Charleston and got some breakfast, and then came on to town, where he has hosts of friends.
 NRvajOe Bill and party of Indians recently sent by General Crook to SO- nora to hold a barley with Juh and Ger onimo and ask them to return to the reservation, reached Stafford on Sunday last on their return trip. They report ed that they found the renegades, who would not communicate, but fired on them, and hence they returned without effeeting thelr object. It Is doubtful policy to invite back Juh and Geroni- mo. They have been invited back be- fore only to create disturbances and cause death and desolation. The peo- pie of this valley do not look with ia yor upon their possible return.
 The brother of Yuma Charlie, Captain Joe, son of Pascual, Chief of the Yuma tribe, passed over to the Golden Shore on Wednesday morning. Joe travelled with Coles circus for some tune, visiting Australia and other places of interest. This style of life did not agree with him, and he contracted consumption, from which disease he died. Captain Joe was an intelligent and industrious fellow. and his funeral pyre was sur rounded by an immense concourse of Yuma and COcapah Indians, who partic- ipated in the Obsequies of the deceased chieftain. All of his horses were killed, and his relatives have sInted their faces ln stove polish, or black paint, the usual badge of mourning among the Colorado River Indians.