The weekly Arizona miner., 1885-07-17
From Thursdays Ddiiy.

From Thursdays Daiiy.
 Jun Stewart. one of the best known st.ge men in the southwest, is in town.
 PArd Pierce, prominent mail eontr scto, of Mohavs county, is in town. Barnard & Benedics's Cryst~lissd Fruits boxes for sl, at HubbArds. Lcuis Traur, ono of the bss: known and nsst popular citizens of Apache county, is in town.
 N. P. Pierce and L. Trauer arrived last night from Ash Forx. No pa ssengers iron the south.
 Under the direction of Joe Ti6eid, tn, new store room of the Osenburg Brother adjoining Br.ysi is being rapidly completed.
 sEssd Hubbard left this morning for Ann HRbor, Michigan, where he intends spend ing the sumn,er months.
 W. K. Meade, the recently appointed .. S. Masshal for this Territory, hAs tsls- gnphsd Chief Justice Howard that hs vilI |assiss in Prescott oa Sunday next
 John c. Perkins and F. s. Hubbard ds- for Ash Fork this nor, ing, while Captain Williams was the only passenger on the Marieopa stage.
 AnsW disease seems to have made ita appearance in Portugal. It kills in . few houm and the nature of it is unknown to
 othe physiciana
 The excellent band of the Tenth Cavalry wouA soaf@ . favor on the citizens of Pres- colt by follewing the example of the mu- sicians of the Third by giving . weekly con- cert in the Court House Plaza.
 Recent adviees from Walnut Grove stats that Col. Bigelov and Jef Davis have s.ssruck it rich" and taken out several hun- dfsd dollats worth of gold dust from couple of pockets they recently encountered in their placer claims.
 Reliable information has been received from New York to the effect that Dan Thorne has about completed the sale of the Silver Belt mine to . syndicate of Gotham eapitalists-the pries to be paid being $7o,- 6oo.
 Brian Obesr returned last evening from . two-weeks' prospecting trip in the vicinity of Tiptop. He reports that san unusually large number of miners are engaged in in that district, who find no difficulty in making good wages, while at the same time developing their mining 
 John and Thomas Graham, who were in. dicted for perjury committed at the Octo- Der term, 1884, of the District Court in this county. are reported to have left their bondsmen badly in the iurch by ''skipping'' the country.
 A prominent citizen of New Orleans, at present visiting Prescott. expresses the in- tention of beginning the erection of . first class hotel, to cost not less than e5O. 900, es soon as the first ten miles of our branch railroad is completed.
 Joe Wilson con.emplates starting free library for the benefit of his numerous patrons, who prefer loa6ng in the cool corners of his extensive estab- |ishment to ''rus.ling' for . living during the present heated term.
 The new hose cart for the "Toughs" has been shipped from Davenport, Iowa, and is to arrive early next week. It is said to be one of the finest running csrts ever turned out and its cost will be s3l5. A photograph taken of it by its manufact- urers shows it to be a beauty in every rt-j Ipect.
 Several papen in the Territory are hand Iing Adjutant General Sherman without gloves for neglec. of official duties. At the | best his appointment was but . burlesque on the militia, and that his incumbency of .n office for which he is totally united is very dlstasteful by our Territorial guards men, cannot but be expected.
 When Captain Cook wis tied New Zealand the native popula tion numbered over 100, . DO. Nov there are not 45, 900 of them left. The Maori, no better than our own Indians, Is able to exist in the pres snce of cur Anglo-Sa1on civilization, which llways carries . demijohn with it on its grand, triumphant march.
  Hon. wm. N. Kelly, last evening, re- ;eired letter from Tom Bullock, in which | hat gentleman stated that he -wonld leave l Or Prescott by August lss, to assist in | building our branch railroad, under the re- ,ent consolidation of the companies repre- 'ented by himself and Nessn. Wilson & ! Hamilton. Mfr. Bullock also stated that, as 'oon as contracts covering freight and fare. ztes were signed by the Atlantic & Pacific, an additional force of men would be placed at ,ork on tho road, and that track-laying gould be at once commenced.