The weekly Arizona miner., 1882-05-12

loon in Tombstone.
 A small blizzard" with thunder and hail stone accompaniment, visited this section yesterday forenoon.
 Quite a number of placer miners are at work on Granite Creek, above town, and are meeting with pretty fair success.
 The Epitaph of last Friday says that Archie Mcbride was gradually growing weaker, and that his case was very criti- cal.
 The Fl Paso Herald says the Boston ex- cursionists only spent three dollars outside of hotel bills. Of course those three dol lars went for chewing gum.
 Jas. Stewart, the General Superintendent of the stage line between Prescott and Mari copa via Wickenburg, Is i'll th;s city on business connected with the line. lie re- ports everything quiet.
 Sheriff Walker was skrmishing around to-day serving notices on thirty-six good and lawful men of the county of Yavapai, to appear at the Courthouse at a. m. Wednes- day to serve as jurors.
 There must be some very popular young lady in Prescott, judging by the frequency of the mention of ladys name yesterday during the hail storm. Our reporter could not catch the exact name, but it sounded like Hellenblazes.
 The Southern Pacific has made returns to the County Assessor of Yuma county of ali their property at the rate of S6, 900 per mile for their road bed, which, with their ether taxable property, will yield the county I a reVeuue of ahOut BIB coo
 Msricopa was visited by very severe wind storm last Friday which moved whole blocks of real estate without regard to houn- daries or anything else The only damage of any consequence, however, was the par tial demolition of Nandevcr Bros. s store house.
 We understand that in view of the h. dian complications in MOhave county, a com pany of one hundred men has been organ ized in Mineral Park to act under command of the Sheriff. Application has been made to the Governor for arms, and the guns will be sent as soon as the proper order IS issued.
 A TOW occurred on Saturday evening be- tween two prominent residents of Prescott over game of draw, which resulted in some improluptu dentistry being done on
 
 | the other one's boot. Dr. Gladwin made things all right, however, Tn a short time in fine style.
 In its weekly report of the 'Industrial condition Of the Slope" the Alta California says: ''The trout fishing season in the noun tains has fairly opened, and, daily, parties leave Trlckee to enjoy the sport" Now this Is encouraging, for we are assured that there will be full crop of fish stories for next winters amusement.
 A large number of prospecters visited Lynx Creek yesterday, and We presume that | everything having the appearance of quartz | lode has been located. A number of i'm | portant sales have lately been made of Lvnx l Creek properties, hence the excitement in regard to mines out there. The starting of the shelter will also add Co the boom that l is destined to take place.
 A real live English Lord went through | Southern Arizona with the Boston excur- sionists last week, and as the train pulled | across the bridge at Yuma he was heard to | remark, ives, queer country, you know: why blast my hyes, the trees don't have | henny leaves, and some of the country is 80 | poor they actuallSS have to white-wash it | to make it look presentable, you know"
 The Yuma Sentinel wants the next Terri | torial Legislature to pass a bill malin. an appropriation for bridge across the Gila, so that travellers to Castle Dome, Ehrenberg and those districts lying north of the river will not be lnconyenienced when the high water comes each year. A ludicious eX- penditure of money in public improvements Is always an outlay that is never regretted, and bridge across the Gila would prove not only a benefit to Yuma county, but to the whole northern part as we'll
 Arizona bids fair to be turned into an is- land ere long, Fremont and Wozencraft's scheme for turning the Colorado desert into lake, and thus giving us a large body of water on the west was all right; but now comes some genius in the Albuquerque Journal, and proves conclusively how we can have lake larger than Erie on our north by simply throwing dam across the Colorado River at some point where the walls of the canyon are five or six thousand feet high. By these schemes we are promised abundant rains, vast forests and waving fields of grass and grain. The chronic hard-up dry rancher would dlsap- . pear, all the vexatious law suits about water rights would cease, and we would again be { happy and united people. !
 Now that His Excellency has had his to the Cowboys sown broad cast over the land, we suppose that all we 5 will have to lois sit down and wait until the 10th inst, at noon, when these mild-man V nered men, who are so light and free with the pistol, will hie themselves away to their respective places If abode" It's C really too bad that such lawlessness is allowed to exist in this land, and of course we I must render all peaiSe to the President for c hastening to our relief with lis proclama- |, tion. We can now tack copy of this off : cial document on our door, and seek our couches without fear, for what bold, bad s cowboy would have the temerity to molest zs after noon of the 18th! Everything must have an ending but we are sorry these ger- ; tlemen are to lose their occupation so soon. From the Phenix Gazette of the 9th we V glean the following in regard to the late O wind storm which prevailed at Marie ,pa: tI "A terribly heavy wind and sano storm prevailed On the desert yesterday, from two
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