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 Arizona stock raisers, it is said, con. ] trol 65 ,09e, ,520 acres of grazing land, The Yuma bridge has been com, l pleted. It is 520 feet in length and cost s1Oo,0Oo.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad Co have paid their taxes in Maricopa county, amounting to Sl6,22i.32
 The Florence Enterprise reports the shipment of the first car load of cop, per bullion by the San Carlos Copper Company
 Harry Williamson, late of Final was accidentally shot last week, in a saloon at Phoenix. The wound is said to be dangerous,
 Judge DeForest Porter has gone to San F-ancisco to persuade, if possible, the Southern Pacific railroad mana gers to build branch road to Phoenix.
 Tho municipal election in Tucson resulted as follows: Mayor, Geo. Ray field; Councilmen, M. J. Sullivan, Marcus Kaz and Taomas Driscoll; Treasurer, w E, Stevens; Recorder, 0has, Il. Meyer Assessor George r. Foster
 Tie Phoenix Gazette says: We have t on good authority that tue Southern Pacific has made liberal reductions to points in this territory on shipments of grain from California, and by this discrimination our farmers vill be unable to successfully compete for the soathern trade
 The report of the Secretary of War for tho present year shows that for improvements on military posts Ari. zona has received the following sums: Fort Huachuca, s57 ,82O. .50; Fort Grant, g, ,2S8 ,29; Fort Apache, 2,271 .O6; Fort Bowie, S3,33s g contingencies, g., .sl st; total, S75,O00.
 The Tombstone Record reports feat of endurance at the gaming table; Billy Dorner, a well known sport, en- gagged in play at faro and retained his seat for thirty-one hours, keeping his own cases, During tie entire sitting he was not heard to speak word, al- though diversity fr5wned on him throughout, he losing something like si,000.
 From the Wilcox Stockman we learn that Joe Hill, wsll.known cattle man, met with { fatal accident at Bowie, on Wednesday of last week. While driving cattle into corral, rid ing at fnll gallp, his horse stum- bled and fell Air. Hill was thrown violently to the ground and received internal injuries from which ke died within an hour.
 From ths Citizen we learn that the East.bouud trains on the Southern Pacific are delayed in consequence Of | # heavy rains on the Colorado desert, which have washed considerable sand onto the track. It is said that tue water was running over tho track at Sentinel, beyond Gila Bend, but dii not impede the running of trains.
 MT Chamberlain, representing a company of Ohio capitalists, went out this week to inspect the celebrated yekol mine, in the Casa Grande dis trict, with a view to purchase We understand that tho price asked for the properly k $S9D, 900. Judge J. D, and Lncien Walker, the fortunate owners, have just cansed a ten-stamp miIa to be erected on the property and have already made fortune by ship ping selected ore from the mine to the snlslters at Kansas City-Index
 The casc of Wm. A. Poindexter, whose arrest for buying stolen steer belonging to T 2. Hunter, was noted in the stockman some weeks since, came up yesterday before Justice Nich- ols It was generally supposed that the jurisdiction cf the court extended no further than that of any other eI- ainining magistrate, inssrauch as the crime of eattle-stealing is generally regarded as a felony under the com piled laws of Arizona. But the court in this case ruled that as the value of the animal was named ii the com plant at only s3o, therefore the crime could be of no greater degree than petty larceny A jury was according l summoned and the trial proceeded with, the result being verdict of ac- quittal. Wilcox Stockman.
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