The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1885-03-26

men are trying to keep out of our
Territory wealth and population by
setting up an embargo against Tex
as cattle, it may be well to impress
upon the people the fact that it is
estimated by a competent authority
that Arizona has grass enough to
feed 100000 cattle, and that with
the aid Of artesian wells, it is but a
question of time when there will be
water enough and to spare for this
number.
Flagstaff Champion
Wyatt carp is in jail in Hot Sp's,
Arkansas, for attempted burglary.
Some of our citizens observed
the eclipse through smoked glass,
but the majority of them preferred
the beer glass.
Accounts from the different sec
tons Of the territory are to the eff
feet that the grass is springing up
finely and that stock never looked
so we'll before at this season of the
year.
Flagstaff is one of the most de-
lightful summer resorts on the At
lantic & Pacific railroad There is
the most beautiful and picturesque
scenery in the territory its imme-
date vicinity. Tourists and pleas
ure seekers can here find a cool and
pleasant retreat for the summer.
prescott Journall
Judge Murphy, of Mohave coun-
ty has opened his first term of the
county court in that county.
Chief Justice Howard and wife,
and A. E. Foote and wife have re-
turned from their California visit.
Under the new law, creating a
Board of Pardon, the chief execu-
tive of the territory is relieved Of a
very grave and extremely unpleas-
ant responsibility,
NJ. M. Rice, the versatile CORES
pondent of the Tucson Star during
the recent legislative session, left
this morning for a prospecting tour
through the Navajo country.
[Phenix HERALD
Qmiotoa promises to be place
of six or eight thousand inhabi-
tants within the next two years.
Judge J. B. Miner, the Mormon
attorney who attended the Supreme
Court here in behalf Of the polyga-
mists, was once Methodist preach
er
Judge Haynes who was in Phoe-
nix during the session of the SUI
preme court has been appointed
| Judge of the new county court Gre
ated for Pima while Judge Stillwell
who was also here has been appoin-
ted Judge Of the new Cochise coun-
ty court.
The water is now running in the
new Arizona canal down to a point
directly north OF town and will by
the end of March fill its entire
length of thirty-five or forty miles
and will form one of the grandest
irrigating schemes in the U. S. in
active operation.
Tucson Weekly Citizen.l
Gold dust continues to find its
way into this city from Sonora in
considerable quantities.
There are well defined rumors to
the effect that new, and what bids
fair to be a prosperous mining camp
will shortly be opened within TWEEN
ty miles of Tucson.
Mr.. Dick Starr on his recent Wis
it to Nogale8 was, while there, a
witness to our sister republics me-
thod of conscripting. A party OF
soldiers came up from the interior
and, without parley, began to gath
er the residents of Mexican Nogales
in. They succeeded in netting a
bout thirty before the denizens
dropped to the racket, but when
they did they broke for the Ameri-
can side of the line heller SHELTER
and then ensued a pandemoniar
scene. Those that had escaped in.
to the United States hooted and
yelled defiance at the conscripting
squad as they bound the unfortun
ates who had been caught together
with ropes and then marched then
into box car ,where they were KEEP
until the denartnre of the train.