The weekly Arizona miner., 1882-06-02
WEDNESDAY,.

! Mil)Nl-SDAl.
 The Tucson Citizen is now good pa per.
 " J. Cook, of the New River dairy, ha, gone to Turkey Creek. i Joe Meford, the freiqhter left Phenix a few days since for the East.
 The Prescott Rifles will meet at Howey's Hali on Saturday evening.
 Jas Rcsborough, Superintendent of the M ohave stage line, Is in Phenix. ! We hear that new saloon and dance house is about to be started at Tiptop.
 Wm. Mulvernon has returned from his trip to Maricopa with prisoners.
 The Daily Tucson Citizen tells its readers that Virgil EaIp is a native of Kentucky.
 Charley Wurth, Mrs. John Raible and children, departed this morning for Cali fornia.
 l. is said that the Dauphin mine is show ing up wonderfully well, and, of course, Joe is happy.
 The PheniX Gazette has pronounced in favor of Democracy. The editor must have prepared his stomach for some time to be- come a martyr for d lost cause.
 Dc Witt C. Bates, man who has gained many warm friends in this city during his short stay here, departed for his home at Antelope Valley this morning
 Joseph R. Walker, after depositing Territorial prisoners to the Warden of Yutla Prison, returned home, arriving home to-day.
 Tucscnites observed Decoration Day by closing their places of business, and by a parade of the members of Negley Post of the G. 4. B.
 The Mexican troops are chasing the hos tiles back into Arizona. Two companies of infantry and one of Indian scouts left Huachueca on the 29th to go in pursuit of them.
 Mrs. Miles received the news to day that Mrs. A. L. Haskell. of Williams, was lying dangerously i'll with heart disease She went out immediately to assist her in every possible way until she may recover.
 If country would prosper it must deal fairly with every interest in it. The people should not allow themselves to be swerved from course of justice by the cries of demagogues.- Citizen.
 Between sixty and seventy miners were discharged in one batch by the Tough nut company, Tombstone, last week, and they have organized themselves into grand prospecting party fo r Sonora. A captain will be chosen and d community of interests prevail in all locations and discoveries.
 Robert Groom has recently sold copper mine on Castle creek to some gentlemen from the East, Messrs. Rodebert and Camp bell, we believe, who are at work opening up the property in good shape. Two teams loaded with supplies arrived at the mine last week, and the owners feel confident that they have regular bonanza.
 3Ir. James Stewart is gradually placing in Prescott large, l2-passenger coaches to be used by him on his line between Pres colt and the Atlantic and Pacific R. R. His contract commences July list, 1882. He is purchasing young, California hor- Bes for service, and will work six on each drive between stations, which are to be arranged at short distances one from the other The time from Prescott to the railroad at Simms will not exceed ten hours.
 The extent to which the abuse of opium mas enslave and degrade an edu- cated American is graphically depictd in a di patch from Portland, Oregon. kn eminent lawyer of that city was found dead, at nigh noon, in Chinese opium den. This vice Is also practiced to an alarming extent right here in Prescott, and any one making visit to one of the low Chinese dens would be shocked to see some of the fair, but freil, damsels of the town mixed up promiscuously with the teIuer sex, all under the influence of this vile drug.