The Clifton clarion., 1885-08-05
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

MA SAbA6Sh3 OA >aNO->-'N be tried at the present term of the United States Court for selling whisky to Indians.
 The Prescott Journal wants to lay a wager that Prescott will hear the whistle of a locomotive before Phoenix does.
 Grants memorial obsequies are being arranged for upon a scale unequalled in Wilcox by any pre- vious public demonstration.
 The Fronterizo is doing well, with its daily edition, having al ready 300 subscribers. The sub scription price is only 5 cents a week. The paper will soon be en- larged.
 Mir. c. D. Reed informs the Florence Enterprise that he has just completed a 100-foot shaft on one of his coal claims on Deer creek, and that at the bottom he has a three-foot vein, lying almost flat.
 Clifton and Globe are reduced from third to fourth class, Phoenix and Prescott remain as last year, salaries being $500 and $500 res pectively, Tombstone is cut down from $500 to 1890; Tucson, the only second class office ln the Territory, from S23OO;to S21O0. The military band and escort from Fort Grant got lost while going from the post to Hot Springs in the early part of the week, and spent the night on the open prai- rie near Point of Mountains. Such troops are invaluable on the trail of an Indian.-Stockman.
 At the last meeting of the board of supervisors of Apache county an agent of a Prescott bank pre- scented county warrants to the board of supervisors. and among them the board found warrants to the amount of S60 which had been raised and thus became for geries.
 According to the returns made to the statistical department of the agricultural bureau, the per centage of increase in cattle the last year was greatest in New Mex ico and the losses the smallest in Arizona and New Mexico, each Territory showing the same per centage.
 We are pleased to learn that D. M. Sanford, Esq, of Prescott, has been appointed Assistant U. s. District Attorney, vice E. W. Wells, resigned. The Department of Justice looks to the man, and not to his politics las Mir. Sanford is a Republican,, when filling the offices under his control.-Cham- pion.
 County Clerk W. B. Horton has returned from San Carlos. The 5000 Apaches there are now guar ded by six soldiers. The Indians are all qulet and industrious, at tending to their farming and stock raising. They held a grand d war dance when the enlisted scouts left to fight the renegades.- Tailinss.
 David K. Udell, bishop of the St. Johns stake of Zion and q yard ard-wide-died-in-the-wool polyg- amist, is to be tried in Prescott on the charges of polygamy and perjury. Private advices from the capital informs us that the chances of the bishop returning to St. Johns, via Detroit, are very good.-Herald.
 Ex-Brother NJ. P. Romney, late of the Orion Era, under bonds to appear before the next U. $. grand | jury to answer charge of per jury, has failed to put in an ap- pearance. He is reported to have emigrated to Mexico, leaving his boadsmen in the lurch. $. P. Be | han, of Prescott, is one of his | bondsmen.-Journal.
 Last week an extensive fire de vastated the range a few miles north of Wilcox. It IS thought that the grass was set on fire by on the north side of tue railroad, as the flames broke out some distance from the railroad track, while the fire on the south side was probably occasioned by a spark from the locomotive.
 Wilcox was visited Tuesday by the heaviest hail and rain storm that has ever been wit