The Clifton clarion., 1885-12-09
TERRITORIAL AND GENERAL.


 mining exchenge office in Pres colt.
 J. O. Dunbar has purchased the Tombstone Epitaph and is now
 the editor.
 When doctors disagree the un- dertakers get thelr work in.-New Orleans Picayune.
 J. H. Norton says that his cattle recently brought in from Texas are improving rapidly.
 Helena, W. T., taxes Chinese laundries S600 dollars a year and allows saloons to run without taxation.
 Joe Hampson has taken posses sion of the Windsor hotel, at So- zorro, by virtue of a chattel mort gage on the contents.-Lone Star.
 Major r-General Alexander Sha- Ter, of New York, has been arrested charged with bribery in connec- ton with the purchase of militia armory sites in that city.
 The workmen in the railroad yards at East Oakland are busy getting out material for d perma- nent bridge across the Colorado River, at Yuma, Arizona.
 Ex-Mayor Strauss and wife, of Tucson, have returned from San Bernardino Ranch. Mir. Strauss Is much improved in health and is thought to be on the high road to permanent recovery.
 An expedition is organizin g at Guadalupe canyon for the purpose of pursuing the hostile Apaches into Mexico. Captaln Dorst's troop and the scouts under com mand of Captain Davis will CO., operate.
 A recent investigator into the causes of consumption says that the disease is often inherited be- cause the heir has taken for his personal use the decedent's old mattresses, upholstered chairs, and carpets.
 Capt Davis, who went to White Oaks to look over the coal fields and report thereon, reports that the coal thera is equal if not supe- rior, to the Trinidad coal, and that 1t appears to be in unlimited quantities.-Lone Star.
 The report of Postmaster Gen eral Tm. F. Villas, gives the gross receipts of the Tucson postoffice at S9,47 annually with a surplus of $40 in the box rents and com missions over the total salary and | allowance.
 Territorial Treasurer Butler has signed the Apache county bridge and wagon road bonds, and will toward them as soon as he receives a resolution from the Apache Su- pervisors. They amount to S12,OOO and call for 8 per cent interest.
 J. R. Fisher has been arrested on the charge of burning the Pioneer mill at Globe, and after a preliminary examination has been held in the sum of S1,OOO, to await the action of the Gila county grand jury.
 The Silver King Go. shipped during the last week two carloads of concentrations, 22,5O0 pounds each; also two bars of bullion. Nos. B and 36, valued at S745.60 | and S1,S56. The two bars stolen last Friday and recovered Sunday were shipped Wednesday.
 The Washington Republican says: ''On the ground of deser- ton and non-support Anne NJ. nee Weeden, has ap- piled for divorce from her hus- band, David K. Wardwell." Can it be possible that this is the "wah boss of the Wanchukeys?"- ?"-Star.
 The bridge at Florence, across the Gila river, Is completed and turned over to the bridge commissioners by the contractors this week. It is an imposing looking structure and will un- doubtedly last for many years. About 10000 feet of lumber and about 50,0O0 pounds of iron were used in its constructions.
 1. new time card went into eff feet on the A. T. &. s. F. Railway the 20 ult- By the new arrange ment the tram from the north will arrive at Ell Paso at 3: 5 D. m., instead 3:30 p. m. as heretofore and depart for the north at 10: l5 a. m., instead of 10: 30. a. m.