The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1885-02-12
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


The Prescott Miner has secured
, the contract for doing the county
printing.
. The Catholic church is endeavor-
ing to have the legislature establish
an orphan asylum in Phoenix.
The latest railroad proposition
is a branch from the Mineral Belt
Railroad, via Jerome to Prescott.
The agent of the Papago In
dians, has gone to Washington to
lay his grievances before the &c
partment.
The Prescott printers arc kept
hard at work, grinding out copies
OF the many bills, ordered printed
by the Legislature.
Governor Tritle has pardoned J.
r. Adams, who was sentenced in
1884, to serve five years in the
penitentiary for the killing of a
constable in Tombstone.
Gov. Tritle has appointed J. W.
Eddy president of the Mineral
Belt Railroad, to represent Ari-
zona at the dedication ceremonies
of the Washington Monument.
Capt. J. G. Burke, U. :. A. is
lecturing in Prescott. His subject
is, the Indian Campaign of General
Crook and his command through
the Sierra Madre Mountains.
The Florence and Silver King
stage was robbed by highwaymen,
about two miles from Pinal, last
week. The robbers took the ex-
press box but did not modest the
passengers or mail.
Anyone glancing over the Co.
chise Daily Record, published at
Tombstone, cannot fail to mistake
it for any other than the Official
paper of Cochise County"
The Two Republics published
in the City of Mexico, urges the
Mexican government to adopt some
precautionary measures, in view Of
the threatened invasion of that
country by the Mormons.
During a drunken brawl at Camp
Thomas, Frank Tarbell, gambler,
shot and seriously wounded Thom-
as Pickett Tarbell made his es-
cape and is still at large, but the
chances are he will be captured.
The dance house and saloon, To-
Gated near the line of The Ft. Hua-
chuca military reservation was en-
tirely destroyed by fire a few nights
ago. The buildings are supposed
to have been fred by soldiers from
the Fort.
The Prescott Miner says, "Dur-
ing q heated argument last night,
over the organization of the House,
revolvers were drawn by two of the
members, and bloodshed was only
prevented by the interference of
friends.
The House has passed q resolu-
tion granting a clerk to each COM
mittee There are twenty-three
committees and this item will cost
the tax payers over $4,000. For
merly the House employed one or
two clerks at an expense of $500.
Sub-Agent Hart, Of the Papago
Indians, who refused to obey the
mandate of the court, and subse-
quently resisted arrest, was tried
before Judge Fitzgerald, who SEN
fenced him to imprisonment in the.
county Jail for five days and to.
pay q fine of $500.
1926 is the aggregate amount of
mileage claimed by the members of
the Thirteenth Legislative Assem-
bly, They having certified to have
travelled a total of thirty-fve thou
sand and forty-one miles. The
largest amount claimed was by c..
G. Stephens, Councilman Southern
District, and Messrs. Leatherwood,
Risley and Aram, of Pima. county,
each being 2200 miles, while the
was that of R. Connell, of
Yavapai, one mile.
The Cochise County Records
Prescott correspondent, in speaking
of the House of Representatives,
says: yesterday was field day
for all, kind Of 'go-as-you-please,'
or 'Susan's Sunday out. Scrapping
occurred al hbertum. Con
gressmen, lobbyists, milliooaires,.
cowboys, schemers, professional
buns, and even sergeants-at-arms,
intermixed and looked smilingly
on as the distinguished parties
slugged each other. 1t is learned
this morning that several disabled
gentlemen have retired to the syl-
van shades Of the Aqua Fria to re-
and getinto physical con-
dition to again enter the bloody
arena. The remains of Yesterdays
battle have been gathered up and