The Clifton clarion., 1885-05-20
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


 amounts to S100,0O0.
 The Tucson Citizen report Quijotoa camp as looking up.
 Lake Valley, N. M., is reported very dull, the mines there havin, closed down.
 Bishop Bourgarde. the new Ro man Catholic prelate of Arizona is native of France.
 The Prescott Miner says Gov Trltle has suffered a relapse, anG is again confined to his bed.
 The Southern Utah and North. ern Arizona Stock Association ha: sent twelve cattle thieves to the pen.
 An attempt was made to assas sinate Lieutenant Mason, 4th cav airy, at Fort Lowell, on the night of May 10th.
 It is reported that the Old Do mlnion Copper Copany, of Globe, has been reorganized and will start up agaln.
 It is feared that none but China men need apply for work on the proposed railroad from near Mari, copa to Phoenix.
 Agents of a Scotch syndicate talk of purchasing 100000 acres of land from the Atlantic & Pa cific Railroad Company.
 Sergeant G. J. Jackey, E con- pany, 1st infantry, was assassi- mated in Whipple Barracks, Pres colt, on the night of May 18th.
 More silver claims will be worked this season in Globe dis trict than ever before since the camp started. So says the Silver Belt.
 F. NJ. Murphy, Arizona's Con- missioner to the New Orleans Ex- position, is expected to arrive at his home in Prescott about the 25th.
 Theodore F. White, who was recently appointed cattle quaran- tine inspector for Southern Ari- zona, has declined the appoint ment.
 W. A. Vincent, of Las Vegas, of Illinois, las been ap- pointed Chief Justice of New Mexico, ln place of Axtell, re- 
 Dr. McSwegan, of Tombstone, was last week held by Justice Alvord to await the action of the Grand Jury on a charge of abortion.
 The Tucson Citizen is authority for the statement that in one of the shafts at Deer Creek coal fields a seven-foot vein of splendid coal has been cut.
 Tombstone's assessment shows S634, ,6S0 in real estate and S90,0O0 in personal property, a falling off from last year of nearly half a dollars.
 The monthly bullion output of the Copper Queen Company, of has recently decreased, according to the Tombstone pa pers. No reason is assigned.
 The Rio Grande Republican says that the land office at Las Cruces, N. M., did more business last month than in any four in the previous history of the office.
 The contract for building the east wing of the New Mexico cap- tol building in Santa Fe was ct last week to Denver parties for s155, 900. Work will be com nenced at once.
 The new Montezuma Hotel, at he Las Vegas, N. M., hot springs, S one of the finest buildings of he kind in the United States, and will prove a popular resort be- Yond all question.
 The sentence of Frederick J. Glover, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung for the brutal murder of his mistress at Prescott, has been commuted to for life.
 $. Lindauer, of Deming, re- ,eived the contract for furnishing he San Carlos Indian agency with beef for the ensuing year at s2.S4 per cwt. The amount called .or in the contract is 2,500,000 pounds.
 The first reported arrest and under the new obscene law comes from Flag ;taff. The culprit gave vent to l blue streak of oaths in the pres snce of ladies, and was fined S10 md costs.
 Thirty applicants for the Gov ,rnor's chair of New Mexico are n awful suspense awaiting the of some one of the number to the coveted position. The CLARION is of the opinion hat James Mullen, of Silver City, will be the lucky man.
 A number of teams that have been employed freighting between lere and Globe have pulled out 'or other points. Their return nay be expected soon, however, f there be truth in the report hat the Old Domlpion Company las been reorganized.-Willcox otockman.
 A Solomonville correspondent