The Clifton clarion., 1885-11-04
TERRITORIAL AND GENERAL.

~> committee to eradicate the foot pads that now infest the place.
 ". L. Gaston, ex-City Auditor of Tombstone, who was charged with embezzlement. was last week tried and acquitted.
 It is quietly rumored that q committee of one hundred citizens are organizing who propose to request certain hard characters to find some other climate than Tucson.
 Large deposits of alum have been found in New Mexico. not far from Silver City, which are thought to be the first discoveries of this mineral that have been made in the United States.
 The United States and Territo- rial calendars of the November term of the 3d Judicial District Court at Prescott, contain an un- usually large number of cases, some of which are very important.
 The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. from Waterman to San Dle0o. will be open for traffic in a few days, when it is expected that through cars will he run between Kansas City and San Diego via Albu querque.
 The Sl50,000 of bonds issued by Pima county in aid of the Cal basas, Tucson & Northwestern Railroad, are now iu escrow in the Bank of Tucson, awaiting the call of capitalists who will undertake to build the road.
 The Marquis of Lorne, Liberal candidate for Parliament from the Borough of Hampstead, England, was pelted with rotten eggs while attempting to make speech at that place. The Marquis fed, and the opposition party took po- session of the platform and passed resolutions conforming the Lib eral policy.
 Jos. Hampson yesterday shipped forty four grade bulls to his Eagle Greek, Arizona, ranch. This ranch is thirty-tiye miles south of Hol- brook. Gnd is one of the best in the Territory. MT. J. Y. Wilson, of Fl Paso. Texas, was in charge of this shipment of stock, and carefully discharged his trust Albuquerque Journal.
 Hugh NJ. Brooks, known as Wal ter Lennox Maxwell. the alleged murderer of c. Arthur Preller, in the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, was identified by his father, Samuel Brooks, of Hyde, England. The scene between the two was most affecting. The elder Brooks. who returns at once to England. de- clared his belief ln his sons inno- cence.
 John N. Goodwin was the first governor of Arizona, Richard Mccormick second, A.P. K. Stafford third. John c. Fremont fourth, and Frederick 4. Tritle, who has just resigned, fifth. John A. Gurley of Ohio was first appointed gov erncr by President Lincoln, but Mir. Gurley died before coming to the territory. Gov. Zulick will be our first democratic governor.-I Courier.
 4 rich harvest awaits the man who will establish at some con. venient point in Northern Arizona a tannery of sufficient size to utilize the thousands of hides that are yearly permitted to rot for want of purchasers. So far as we know there is not Tn either New Mexico or Arizona an establish ment of this kind; although both territories are among the leading cattle raising sections of the country.-Hoof and Horn.
 The last off ,ial report of Slper- intendent Smith, of the Peerless Mining Company, at Quijotoa, represents everything abont the mine working satisfactorily. He says that the stopes in the Crocker north drift are opening remarka- ply well, showing a body of free milling ore sixteen feet wide, and that from the general appearance at the present time, there Is a large body of ore at that point which can be handled very cheaply.-Star.
 There is greater activity in the i ranch business at the present time in this county than at any other