The weekly Arizona miner., 1882-05-26
Local intelligence.
SATURDAY.

The new store of DOugherty, West Pres colt. Is about completed.
 Wilson & Co. are doing good business at their saw mill at Williams
 Bulfum received yesterday a large quan- tity of barbed wire for fencing.
 Prescott, we hear, IS have new minis ter of the Methodist persuasion.
 Tombstone enjoyed 512,0OO blaze last Wednesday. Insurance light
 A. o. Moves, we hear, is convalescing. H has had severe spell of sickness.
 E p. Clark, Territorial Auditor, is absent in the San Francisco mountain country.
 Assistant Secretary Ingalls, went south yesterday to meet Mrs. l. and bring her to Prescott.
 Marshal Dake is perfectly easy over the appointment of Mir. Reed to succeed him Tn office.
 Water in Lynx Creek is gstting low, and placer miners are consequently shutting down operations.
 4 miner named Jim Plate. formerly of Bodie. was killed at the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Wednesday. The TucsoE Citizen remarks that strangers are scarce on the streets of that city. They have all come north to Prescott.
 Secretary Van Arman is preparing to move his office and the Territorial Library into more central part of the city.
 (;ilmer. Salisbury X Co.'S stage south yesterday. took out five bars of bullion, the result of the recent run at the Tuscumbla mill
 Tucson boasts that if their Census Mar sbal runs short of names he has grave yards with three generations of Mexlcans planted therein to draw from.
 The population of Dos Cabesas was pre- paring to move on the county seat of Co- chise county at the time of the convening of the District Court.
 T.. s. Jackson and his partner are getting ready to take paSear through the moun- tains to see what they can pick up m the way of mineral discoveries,
 Mir. NJ. Y. Howard has arrived in Pres colt. and will, we understand, soon take charge of and open the Military Telegraph office in Prescott as operator.
 Canyon Diablo bridge will be completed in three or four weeks, when track laying on the Atlantic S Pacific R. B, will con- mepce at the rate of two miles per day.
 Tn Oakland, Cal, on the 14th inst, Col Aaron Seeley was made the happy dad of a nine and half pound girl Mother and daughter reported to be doing well.
 Burke, charged with having attempted the life of a man named Limborg, was found yuilty of having made an assault with deadly weapon with intent to do bodily harm.
 Mir Wilcox. good prospector and ex- cellent writer, left yesterday afternoon for Castle Creek, where he has a number of valuable copper mines. He expects to be gone about three weeks
 We have not heard what progress IS being made by Deputy Census Enumerators of Yavapai county put we do know that the Census Marshal, Mir. Hance, is doing his part honestly and faithfully.
 Salt River valley is unfortunate. First, it was set apart as an Indian reservation, and now comes q bloated monopolist and claims the whole section by virtue of Spanish grant. The people are used to such schemes.
 The railroad bridge across Padre canyon IS completed and ready fGr the ralls. The bridge is six miles this side of Diablo, and passengers via the A. & P. line are not now compelled to make the tedious transfer at that point as heretofore.
 Father Deraches left this morning by Mohave stage, and will be gone about one morth. During his absence priest from Tucson will take care of the Catholic church.
 Doctor Lincoln is home from visit to Williamson Valley, where he IS extensively engaged in farming, etc. He tells us that many of his young colts have died from the effects of pink eye, one of said colts being valued at $500.
 The Prescott Rifles met last night at Howeys Hall and were put through course of drilling by Lieutenants Johnson and Meador. The company Is making rapid strides in military tactics, and will soon be ready to start out on a scouting expedition.
 LAND RECEIVER. see by the dis patches that Mir. Thomas Wing, of Ohio, ias been appointed Receiver of the Land Office at Prescott. This, of course, will re- lieve Mir. W. x. Kelly, who has long and ably conducted the affairs of the office on very small salary.
 NJ. Goldwater X Son have just placed in thelr store an elegant show case manu- factured by Mir. Miles. It Is the finest specimen of carpenter work seen by us m this city. It is now in position, and under the direction of M. Goldwater, so arranged as to present a most beautiful appearance.
 George w. Hance and his depaties are still skirmishing through the hills enumera- ting the population of Yavapai. The Pima Marshal may yet have to invade the pre- cinct of the bone-yard oa the Santa Cruz, where the Star says three or four genera tions of Mexicans arc peacefully sleeping.
 Mir. j. II. Ketner, General Agent of the \. & F. stage line, predicts a rush into Northern Arizona from the East this sum mer. He says large posters, setting forth in glowing co!ors the facts about the vast gold and silver deposits of this section are being scattered broadcast throughout the States. Let it come, the country can take care of them all.
 A report was in circulation the other day at Tombstone that gang of rutfians had organized for the purpose of making