The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-02-20
LOCAL SPLINTERS,

IT is understood that the Grand Hotel will be occupied by MT. Archie Mcbride and MT. J. H. Behan.
 THE Girard mill is steadily pounding away; thus adding another bullion pro ducer to this prolific camp.
 PERCY THOMPSON, of Kansas City, is in the city on mining business. He repre- sents Kansas City company.
 TO-DAY is the Chinese New Year. Fire. crackers, bombs, etc., were the order last evening among the Mongolians.
 THE excavation for the Huachuca Wa. ter company's reservoir is nearly complete, and work on the wall commenced yes terday.
 THERE is no word yet of contract hay. ing been closed for working the Ingersoll ore Both the Boston and Bradshaw mills are bidding for the job
 THE case of Chenoweth ct al. was con- ple.ed before Judge Spicer yesterday. Mrs. Rutan p.ead guilty, and was fined $5 Chenoweth was discharged.
 II. R. EwALT, one of the Sumner-Earle party, returned yesterday. He parted with the party on the road from Fronteras to Bacuachi, leaving them all well.
 CF. McCoNKEY, EsQ, one of the pro. prietors of McConkey & Karns' stage line, came into town on Wednesday night from New Mexico, and is at the Cosmopolitan
 THE large stock of goods assigned by D. Calisher to Adolph Sultan, on the 11th instant, have been nearly all sold, and at remarkably good prices--for the pur. chasers.
 THE case of the Territory vs. James Dill lon, charged with obtaining money under false pretences, was set for hearing before Police Judge Wallace on Feb. IS, at 10 o'clock a. m.
 THOMAS GARDINER, proprietor of the late Union, was seen upon the streets yes. terday. From the glossy nature of his tile it is inferred that fortune smiled upon him in his late journalistic venture in the City of the Angels.
 SENIOR EPTTAcIo PAREpEs is visiting his friends, M M. Corella and O. F. Thorn ton, in this city. Senor Paredes is large land owner on the headwaters of the So- nora river. This is his first visit to live American mining town, and he sees much of interest to him.
 FROM private letter received by gen. tleman in this city it is learned that Robert Perrine, owner of the Babacomari, has made arrangements with party in Ari- zona to stock that ranch. This will be good thing for this county as the ranch lies within our borders.
 VIM. A. CUDDY leaves today for Tucson, where he will remain for few weeks. The play of Robert Emmett" which Mr. Cuddy was getting up for the benefit of one of our local churches, and which was to have been produced in March, has been postponed until after Lent.
 TIE weather for over month has been exceedingly fickle. Its makeup has been principally wind, rain, snow and frost, with occasional patches of clear sky thrown in to keep in memory that the sun exists and shines above the clouds. Yes terday was warm and pleasant, but how the wind did whistle last night!
 A PETITION was in circulation yester- day asking the city council to remove Mir. B. c. Quigley as city clerk. It is under. stood that the cause for this action grew out of certain reports that MT. Quigley made, in his official capacity as mercan- tile reporter for San Francisco mercan- tile agency. If this be true, it looks much like petty piece of persecution.
 A COMMUNICATION appears in another column making complaint against the in- encountered at the Black Bear mine, in the Huachucas. This case is the first that we have heard of in Arizona, where respectable gentlemen could not get for love or money. Ross Browne describes parallel case in his first article on Washoe, published in liar pers' Monthly, in the beginning of 1860. Such cases are scarce on the frontier, be it | spoken to the credit of the prospectors and | pioneers who make civilization possible.
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