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Avalanche Items.

The great avalanche of Lake Can yon that proved so destructive to lie, , swept away trees that were more than three hundred years old-show- ing that no such storm or snowfall had occurred in this section for at least three hundred years.
 The fact that of the eight ava lanches that wrought destruction to life or property in Mill Creek and Lake canyons, and in Tioga, six of them moved at II o'clock on the night of the 18th of March, has led to the conjecture that slight disturb ance ot the earth in this region might have occurred at that hour.
 During the night of the 18th, the period of greatest activity of the avalanches, small snow slide slipped down the side of Mount Gilcrist, skipped across mill creek, stove in a shed against the rear of Uncle Jim my Lundy's dwelling house, near the Reduction works, moved the main building (which is 30 feet in length, heavy and strong) about one inch from It's place and twisted the walls. windows and doors out of line. Mir. Lundy and his wife had taken the precaution to stop down town that night.
 When these houses were wrecked and the people buried on Chicago avenue, Mir. Mayes had large num- Der of chickens buried, most of which were dug out alive. He also owned black wooly jackass, one of the "characters'' of the canyon, known to everybody by his ability to discount foghorn. Jack always took care of himself, and lived on old gumboots, barley sacks, and such, and was never so happy as when he had pack of yelping CUTS near enough to his heels to enable him to tickle one of them in the ribs now and then. He came and went when and where he pleased, fed when he could find a boot, and hence no one thought of him when the calamity came. He was buried deep, on the bank of Mill Creek. Three nights afterward, he dug his way to the surface, backed his busi ness end up against big pine tree, and opened hls throttle-vaIve, and for the space of five minutes the howl of the storm and the thunders of the perambulating avalanches were hushed into comparative silence by the superior compass and power of his musical voice.-Homer Mining Index, April l.
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-.----------- An Artistic NewsDaDer Liar.

A Louisville reporter has been in- terviewing MT. Joseph Mulhattan, whom the Kentucky papers have honored with the proud title of cham. pion liar of the state. The immediate cause of the interview was the publi- cation of sensational report regard ing the discovery of an alleged cave in Grayson county, Ky. Mir. Mul- haitian, finding that the authorship of the item had been laid at his door, acknowledged that he was responsi- ble for the hoax, and at the request of the reporter, related some inter esting facts about himself. A com mercial traveller, employed by a Louisville hardware house, he has, according to his own statement, orig mated more newspaper canards than any man living.
 "How long have you been en- gagged in this thing of selling news papers," asked the correspondent, after having obtained the foregoing explanatory admission from the re- markable prevaricator.
 "About seven years. l wrote first an account of wedding in Australia where the bride wore S20O,OOO worth
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of diamonds, and dress that cost $l5,O00. The groom was supposed to be worth sl,000,000,0OO, and gave each of the attendants at the wedding princely fortune. If you remem- Der, this story Was first written for a Pittsburg paper, and shen went the rounds of the American and English press. It was good while before the pubic began to understand that 1t was hoax. After that I wrote many other canards, including the reported cave discovery in Hart county, Ky, which was first printed in the Louisville Commercial"
 Mulha:tan enumerated for the cor respondent many of lis plausible Actions which have heen printed in many of the prominent newspapers in the country. He tells in one in stance of an old farmer in some re- mote section of Kentucky who found, while digging in his garden, pot containing fabulous sum of gold. Again, there Is story of thrilling tragedy, in which Louisville drum, mer is supposed to have killed al couple of ferocious tramps who had attacked hin upon the public high way. In another instance he writes of wonderful fall of flesh from the heavens, and again, of a jewellers drummer who was attacked and rob- bed of his samples, containing many gems of great value. All of these stories and hundreds more have been written by Mulhattan and published by metropolitan as we'll as rural ne ws- papers. He is smart enough to To- cate the many marvellous occurrences of which he writes, in out of the way places, and it is only once in a while that their truth is questioned. Though not an educated person, he writes tolerably good English and writes it plausibly. His object in this sort of work is merely to gain notoriety, and thereby increase his trade as drummer. He is exceed ingly popular in the southern coun- try, and earns fine salary in the ca pacity of commercial traveller. The newspapers here have long ago ceas- ed to pay any attention to his ca nardS.
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;;yy- Six-Page Edition.
This Page is from the Daily
 of Wednesday, April 12.

TIE EpITAPu's remarks on the subject of the proposed special school tax, yesterday, have met with very general endorsement by the taxpay- CTS. This is one of those cases wherein ''enough is as good as Q feast" and if the board of directors will act upon the plan to ask for no more than is actually required, there is but little doubt about the amount being cheerfully voted and paid. If, however, they ask for more in this one special levy than it takes to run the whole school department of Tue. son for q year, then there will be oposition, and in all probability a veto of the measure.
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TuE action of the board of super visors in advertising for proposals to build court house will, no doubt, meet with ths eearty approval of the taxpayers of the county. Since May last, almost one year now, interest has been paid on twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars bonds sold, the money for which has lain idle, so idle, so far as the county is concern ed, in the hands of the treaurer. In addition to this, rent has been paid for buildings to serve as county offices. These two items have added a double burden for the taxpayers to bear. There has been some excuse for the board on the ground of inse- cure title, but whether the cloud in the past was larger than now we are not prepared to say. At all events, their action in this instance is so guarded that there ought not to be any embarrassment on that question in the future.
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DISSOLVED, THAT THE CLERK OF THIS

DISSOLVED, THAT THE CLERK OF THIS Il Board be and he Is hereby authorized and directed to cause the following advertisement to be published Tor the period Of thirty (3C days: Advertisement for bids for the construction of a Court House and Jail for the county of Cochise. be received by the Board of Supervisors of the county of Cochise on or before the twelfth (f2thl day of May, A. D. 1852, at two (2l o'clock P. m. of said day, for the construction of Court House and J all for Cochise county to be erected st the corner of Tough Nut and Second streets, in the City of Tombstone, Cechise county, Territory Of Arizona according to the plans and specifications tract price of said building is to be paid in cash as follows: Twothirds of the value of materials used and two-thirds of the cost of labor performed to be paid for on the first Monday of each month, on the certificate of the superintendent Of con struction to be appointed by the Board, until the said building shall be fully completed and accepted by said Board, when the remainder of the contract price shall be fully paid said building to be com pleted within i've l5) months from the date of signing contract The plans and specifications sf said building will be exhibition st the office of said Board until said 18th day of May at all times, in office hours, subject to the inspection of bid. ders. All bids must be accompanied by 6 good (S1O0O dollars, conditioned that the person or persons offering the bid will enter into contract in accordance with said bid, if required to do 60 by said Board. The person or persons to whom said contract shall be let shall furnish good and sufficient bond, with two or more suretiea in the sum of S20 900, conditioned for the faithful per formance of said contract. The Board of Super, Al! such bids will be opened on said 12th day May, and said contract will be let ts the low responsible bidder. RICHARD RULE,
 Clerk of the gosr
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Tombstone Scientific Society.

The Tombstone Scientific society met at the office of Dr. Goodlellow last evening at 7:30 o'clock.
 It being the first annual meeting the fol. lowing officers were elected for the ensu- ing year: l. E. James, president; John A. Church, vice-presldent; Geo. E. Goodfel- low, secretary; Tom. W. Moore, treasurer.
 On motion, it was resolved to continue holding the meeting of the society in the office of Dr. Goodfellow until the compile ton of their own building the contract for which will be let this month.
 The subject for an essay at the next meeting will be Concentration of Ores" by D. B. Huntly.
 The society then adjourned until next Tuesday.
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Pearls Of Thought

From the Denver Trbune
 If you ask me for an honest man, l answer "Pitkin;" if you ask me for an able man, 1 answer "Pitkin.'' D He is, in my opinion, the embodi- ment of moral purity and intellect. ual strength.-Tabor.
 A grander, nobler gentleman than Frederick w. Pltkin does not breathe.-Ward.
 l not only admire him-I love him. He is good and great. Yes, Pitkin is my beau ideal of American manhood.-Steck.
 Pitliin has been my one bright star of consolation in all the dark, dreary night of woe and desolation. -Chaffee.
 E pluribus, Pitkin.-Moore
 A gift from Pitkir's fair hand would be like the dropping of a oTumb to a starving orphan.-Has- kell.
 care not what other men may think, but, as for me, give me Lib erty or Death-with a pronounced preference for Pitk,n.-Routt.
 l have known him long and I have admired and loved Pitkin as only a man can admire and love another who is better and purer than all oth. ers.-Jackson.
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A. Good Investment.

Tombstone District, Arizona, is now the lead ing silyerproducng mining camp of the South west. The ore is all free milling, and of high grade, and with the development that has been at tained in the past two years is now yielding . bullion output of over S500,00O per month, giving handsome returns in both dividends and enhanced value of ock to fortunate holders. The attention of the public is called to the stock of the Mesa Consolidated Mining Co.,, in this district, as one of the safest and best investments that can be made. Stock with par value of Sl0 per share is now offered in limited quantity, for development of the mines, at $1 per share, guaranteed against assessment. Send for circular and any other in formation desired to 1T. R. SORlN.
 Secretary Mesa Consolidated Mining Co.,,
 Tombstone, Coehisc CoEntv, Arizona,
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TIE subject of Illuminating the city with gas will come up in the city council tonight. It is understood that there are two, and there may possibly be three applicants for sup plying citizens and Illuminating the streets and public offices. In order to shut off all cry of unfair dealing and favoritism the best course for the council to pursue will be to give all applicants the privilege of laying pipes throughout the city, subject to rigid supervision in regard to the streets, the same as it has the various water companies. This will insure competition and cheap light, the great desidefatum of consumers and taxpayers. Each and every appli- cant, where an ordinance is required to give the rights asked, should be compelled to pay the cost of adver- Using said ordinance thereby pro- tecting the city from loss on that score.
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GOVERNOR TRETLE
Determined to Enforce the Lay

Determined to Enforce the law. From the Star, April 2.
 Yesterday afternoon the Star office was honored by visit from His Ex- cellency, Goveror Tritle, and Il. NJ. Van Arman, secretary ot the terri tory. This is the first visit of the latter gentleman to Tucson. He passed over the road on train and glanced at our surroundings but not until this visit did he see the interior of the city. The secretary express ed himself as favorably impressed with the location and business pros- poets of our city, but on other mat ters was decidedly uncommunica tive.
 The Governor expressed his deter imitation to put down lawlessness in the territory if the people would give him anything like fair support in the undertaking. He said with truth that the state of affairs that have ex- isted in Cochise county for some time past was a disgrace to civilization, and that the facts of the matter should be promptly laid before con- gress and that hody requested to ap- propriate sufficient funds to put down cattle stealing and smuggling. It was not a question of party or the success of party candidates with him; his ambition was to do his duty according to the letter and spirit of the law and let the odium fall on whom it would. When he asked for power to suspend county officers he did it in no arbitrary spirit but sim. ply as an ax he could hold over the ,pecks of officials in case of malfeas- Fance in office. He said that if it Afas generally known that he was s2ossessed of that power, county off. 'tcers would be more careful in attend. { sing to their duty; but by the present loose arrangements county officials are practically their own bosses therefore do about as they please.
 The Governor expressed the belle that ruf1ianism was coming to a ter minus and that few months more would see the most remote corners of Arieona as free from violence al her sister states and territories.
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LOCAL SPLINTERs.

THE company of rangers, under con- mand of Mir. J. II. Jackson, is ready for effective work when demanded.
 GOVERNOR TRITLE told the Tucson Star the other day that he is determined to put down cattle-stealing, smuggling and law lessness, if the people only give him any thing like fair support. This is the right kind of talk, and he will get liberal support in this county.
 FROM Mir. Charles N Thomas, who came in from Cumpas, Sonora, yesterday, it has been learned that Captain Thorn, dike and party had arrived there safe and we'll It is to be hoped that there is no mistake in this good news, and that the many friends of the party will return within the promised week or ten days.
 IT was reported on t,e streets this after noon, for fact, that members of the Earp party were in town last night spending several hours here. It is hardly probable that such was the case. However, improba. ble things are always coming to pass, or as the French put it, "The impossible comes to pass.
 THE case of the territory against A. l. Caldwell, who is charged with an assault, using deadly weapons and intending to do bodily injury, was called before Judge Wallace this morning. A demurrer was filed by the attorney tor the defense, which was sustained by the court, who dismissed the complaint and discharged the prisoner; ; whereupon said Caldwell was rearrested on on new complaint, and the trial came on at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
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How Chinamen Bargain Tor Wives.

How Chinamen Bargain Tor Wives. North China Herald.
 An Australian Chinaman, when anxious to have wife of his own nation, sends letter to an agent in Hong Kong. The following is a condensed translation of one of these epistles:
 "I want a wife; she must be a maiden under twenty years of age, and must not have left her fathers home. She must have never read a book, and her eyelashes must be half an inch in length. Her teeth must be as sparkling as the pearls of Cey- lon. Her breath must be like unto the scents of the magnificent, odorous groves of Java, and her attire must be from the silken weavers of the Ka Iii Ching, which are on the banks of the greatest rlver in the world the great overhowing Yank- tse-Kiang." The price of Chine SC woman delivered in Sydney is G3S; but two Chinese women only cost f52; therefore the heathen Chinese i'm port women in couples. The inn porter never sees his women before they arrive and then he generally selects the best lookIng one. The other is shown around to number of well-to-do Chinamen and after they have inspected her she is sub mitted to what may be called public auction. At a recent sale at Sydney a young girl, aged about 19, was of fered, and, after some spirited bid ding, she was purchased by we ilthy Chinese storekeerer, whose place of business is one of the leading to wns of New South Wales, for f120. The melancholy aspect of the Celestial girl as she went away with the man who purchased her, was deplorable to the last degree,
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Central Pacific.

A statement of the Central Pa ciGc railroad, for the year 1881, shows that the company operated 2,707 miles of road, an increase of 240 miles for the year. At the be- ginning of 1882, 2,S65 miles were in use. The gross earnings of the year from transportation were 24,004,- 10O.95; operating expenses, includ- ing rentals, amounted to $13,S59,- 3O6.91, leaving S10,234, 793.9S. In the income account from sources other than earnings were the pro- ceeds of land bonds redeemed, amounting to $40, ,000; express contracts, s592,6 40; sinking fund earnings, $262,500; dividends on in- vestments, $20,000 making a grand total of 11,529,950.3S. The pay ments from income comprised inter- est to the amount of $3,50S,291.56; taxes, $720,12l.45; dividends, $3,- 556, ,430; United States requirements, S1,200,000, a total SS,9S4, ,943.0l, leaving a surplus of $2,546,007.37 to be carried forward to the credit of the profit and loss account. The capital stock remains at $59, ,275.500; the funded debt has been reduced to S54,9l7,000; the z per cent con- vertible loan of S1,500,000 has been retired, with the exception of s7,0O0. The company's sinking funds ag- gregate S5,Sl6,G59.17, exclusive of about 8l,500,000 deposited in the United States treasury.
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Remarkable CoIOred Man.

From the New York World.
 A remarkable colored man in Washington is Wormley, the pro- prietor of the hotel of that name, which is acknowledged to be the best house in the city. Of MT. Wormley, to his honor be it told, that if the members of his former masters family would have allowed it his house and his purse were theirs, The first use he made of his prosperity was to bring his old mistress to his fine hotel and give her the best room in it, and on hearing that a granddaughter of his master was in Washington in a government office he went to her, and invited her to make his house her home, and when she told him she could not saaccept that he pro- posed that she should pay him what she would have to pay in boarding house and take the best his house af. forded. "Don't you know," she an- swered, "that if It were known that l lived at Wormley's it would be said that my poverty was pretence, and l would lose my office in week. And if l explained how 1 lived there nobody would believe that so much disinteresteduess existed in the world."
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Coch,se County Records

The following instruments have been filed in the recorders office as county records:
 DEEDS--REAL ESTATE. Jas $ Clark ct al to J w Locker lots 3, 4, 5, 6, I, s, 23 and 24, block 16; $2O0O. Briggs Goodrich to Louis Zoer, part lot Ii, block 19; $600. Mrs Mary Powers to James Ryan, lot in Wilcox; $175.
 DEED OF TRUST. o 0 Trantum ct al to NJ 5 Clapp, lot 3, block 32; $600
 MORTGAGE. Louis Zoer to Briggs Goodrich, portion lot II, block 10; $500.
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Mir. Harris Rack Pay

A Washington correspondent says a very good story of back pay is told by ex-Representative Harris,of Vir- ginia. "I voted against the bill," said he, "but 1 took the money. When 1 was up for reelection they threw it up at me on the stump. l told them that I had tried to beat the bill, but had taken the money, yet l thought they would forgive me when they heard what I had done with it. I took the money down into Virginia,' said I, 'and gave it to a poor woman with seven children, and told her to use it for herself and the childrkn-and the thing is not bit worse because that woman is my wife,. l don't think l lost a vote by that back pay business.
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TELEGRAPHIC,
Special Dispatches to the Epitaph. Exciting Time in Sacramento.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 12.-A Sac. ramento dispatch says that James Lansing, who was shot by James Ro- ten on Monday, died last night. A crowd surrounded his hotel and sub- sequently went to the jail where Ro- ten was confined. Fearing an attack and fynching, the chief of police called for military assistance, and four companies of the national guard occupied the jail yard. Tbe mayor then addressed the crowd which finally dispersed. Subsequently the military withdrew, with the exception of twelve men and one Gattling gun. It is known that meeting to organ ize an attack on the jail has been ho11
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The Late George T. Russell.

Mir. George T. Russell, until recently the efficient foreman of the EPITAPH, died at the hospital yesterday afternoon while undergoing an operation for the removal of cancer from his stomach. Mir. Rus sell was well known to all newspaper men on this coast. During the tweny. five years past he had filled responsible positions on several of the leading jour nals of San Francisco About a year and half ago he came to Arizona and was connected with the Tucson Journal and Star and afterward with the EPITAPH. His knowledge of the details of the print ing business was thorough and extensive. He also possessed great ability as writer being very familiar with the standard works of literature Deceased had suf- fered intensely during the past few months, and the fatal results of the surgical ope- ration only afford relief from great pain which must have ended in death in a short time. MT. Russell was fifty-two years of age, and leaves an invalid wife at the East. The funeral will take place at o'clock this afternoon.
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Suffering Refugees.

NEW ORLEANS, April 1l.-Refu. gees from the flood are suffering greatly on the hills about Troy. Sad stories of suffering and want are told.
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The Porter Case Disposed Of.

WASHINGTON, April 11.-It is understood that the cabinet disposed of the Porter case, and will make a special communication to congress soon.
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REWARD.

TOHN II. BEHAN, SHERIFF OF COcHIsE c County, is hereby authorized and directed 10 offer 8 reward of five hundred (s50o) dollars for the apprehension of the person or persons whs murdered Patrick McMnimen, on the San Pedro Rlver in this county, on or about the list day of March, A. D. 1Ss2. M. E. JOYCE,
 Chairman Board of Supervisors.
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Served Him Right.

DUBLIN, April 12.-An American suspect named White has been un- conditionally released from Naas jail.
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From the PhenIx Gnzcttc.

We saw to-day specimen of the stone coal from the new discovery in the mountains in the vicinity of the VuIture mine. It is bituminous coal, and although the specimen shown us was of croppings, the indications are that it is of superior quality. We regard the discovery as of great value.
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The Burlinganc Treaty |.

WAsuINGroN, April 10.--In the house McLane introduced a bill for the abrogation of articles 9th and 9th of the Buriingame treaty with China.
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$500 REWARD.

ToHN H. BEHAN, SHERIFF OF cocHIsB County, is hereby authorized and directed to offer reward O! i've hundred (stOC dollars for theapprehension of the person or persons whe murdered M R. Peel at Charleston, on the s5th day Of March, 1882. N. E. JOYCE,
 Chairman Board of Supervisors.