The weekly Arizona miner., 1882-05-12

Passengers arriving by the A. S F. coacl last night were W. P. Harvey, John Fuller J. Hill, Jones Foster, Ben Baker and twc Sweedes.
 E. J. Monroe and C. A. Bancroft were ul to-day from the Agua Fria, proving up theii homesteads and settling with Uncle San for the same.
 L. C. Palmer, the gentleman who pur chased the Plaza Stables, expects his family ere from the East, in short time, wher they will take up their residence in Pres colt permanently.
 District Court convened this morning The case of the Territory vs. Phil McDon- aid, for the murder of Frank Richardson, iS up for trial, but up to three o'clock 1t had been impossible to empannel a jury
 The Prescott Rifles held special meet, ing last night for the purpose of perfecting their military organization, by the election of officers Frank Ingalls, was elected Cap tain; w. H. Johnston, 1st Lieutenant; J. F Mead r, 2d Lieutenant. The company will meet again on Friday evening.
 Phenix Gazette: A couple of fine setter dogs arrived by the stage, Sunday, from Pennsylvania. They were consigned to J. M. Hill, Prescott, but as one of the canines had bad attack of "sea-sickness," they were taken off at this port to recuperate.
 Parties were in from Lynx Creek last night with pieces of quartz from new dis covery in that district. The specimens fairly sparkled with specks of free gold, and the ledge, which is said tC be quite large,
 IL, Il, it carries much rock like the pieces exhibi- ted.
 The Albuquerque Journal of the 9th inst has an article headed "Uneasiness at Gal lup,' in which it appears that distrust and uneasiness were filling the minds of the Gallup people, occasioned by certain mys- terious movements of some of the Navajo Indians; but nothing of definite character has transpired to warrant very serious alarm.
 The Dosoris mine at present gives en- ployment to twenty-five men, which. with those at work III the other claims in that vicinity, makes quite a respectable sized camp The Dosoris Company are shipping about twenty tors of frst-class rock East, and are piling up a large stack of second class ore preparatory to packing it to the Lynx Creek smelter.
 C.. D. Brown, who has had charge of the hoisting works on the Black Warrior Mine, came in from that camp last night. The pump worked successfully and drained the mine entirely free of water, lifting it out at the rate of over 60 gallons minute. Two shifts of men were put at work to-day taking out rock and piling it up on the dump. The mine will now be opened up thoroughly and no more sbut-downs take place.
 The Tucson Star has discovered a mare's nest in the Presidents proclamation in re- gard to the cowboys. and casts its weather eye around and sees visions of Federal off cials interfering with Territorial elections In the same issue it ''taffies" the central and northern portions of the Territory by telling them of the dense population they can support, and ill the next breath mildly hints that Tucson would make lively Capi- tai. We think the Star is getting excited uselessly, as the next Legislature will have enough to occupy its time without wasting any of it on bills to locate the Territorial Capital at every cross roads in the different counties; and as to Federal troops overrid- ing Democratic majorities, we think the voters of the Territory can take care of their own political affairs