The Clifton clarion., 1885-02-25
TERRITORIAL lTEMS.

Arizona's Legislature will adjourn March 18th, 1885.
 Phenix, has beeh exempt from fires for over two years.
 Bisbee, in Cochise county, had an $50, 900 fire on the 17th inst.
 John w. Fleming, of Silver City, has lately sold ranch for $100.000.
 SIP. Nelson intends to build big hotel at Nogales this spring, with fine park.
 Several artesian wells have already been struck around Deming and the work of boring still goes on.
 Wm. Lennon, young miner, fell down a shaft and was killed last week in the Bisbee mines. Companies, "F," of Ft. Bowie, and "I," of Ft. Lowel, will ex- change stations this week.
 The Mexican and American citizens of Socorro, N. M., are at outs, and serious trouble may come of it.
 By bill recently passed at Pres colt the district attorney of Pima county will get $500 per month.
 The care of Arizona's criminals and insane costs the Territory more then half of her running expenses.
 Silver City has caught the roller skatophobia, and has established a rink for the benefit of the afflicted.
 The bullion production of New Mexico in 1884 was S4 4,660,614 gain of S274,093, over the previous year.
 PheniX is having a series Of revival meetings. It is said that over fifty people have been converted since the meetings commenced.
 Tombstone is certainly going to the dogs fast. The Epitaph says there is not a single tennant in the Cochise county jail.
 Stockman in this vicinity report that all kinds of stock have stood the winter finely, and that their losses are very light.-Lordsburg Advance.
 Many wild ducks are killed in the vicinity of Phenix, by barbed wire fences. The ducks often fly low, and strike the wire with great force.
 The Chicago Mining Review thinks investors are tired of hearing about wide veins and high assays and want to learn something about profits and results.
 All the proposals for the erection of the new capitol buildings at Santa Fe were rejected, because, it is claimed, they failed to comply with the requirements.
 Flagstaff is expecting big boom this spring. It is now settled fact that work will be begun at that point about May 1st, on the Arizona Min eral Belt Railroad.
 Magdalena, Socorro county, N. M., is growing rapidly. Fifty houses have been erected within few months, and the foundations of new ones are being laid daily.
 The Territorial penitentiary at Yuma employs fourteen guards eight are on duty during the day, and six at night, and are composed of persons who stand well in the community.
 According to the Prescott Miner, employment is scarce in Northern Arizona, and any man or set of men who contemplate going there with a view of procuring employment had better stay away.
 Henry Miller and John Trofer, two cattle men whose ranches are located on the Gila river, near Rich mond, N. M., have sold their cattle to Hart Bros., of Lordsburg, who now own between 5000 and 1000 head of stock.
 Geo. Bent, foreman of the Gun sight mines, in Pima county, and formerly of Clifton, was recently seriously wounded by the accidental discharge of revolver, on the train, near Sedalia, Missouri.
 The Courier calls attention to the fact that Prescott's three printing offices now pay out every week, for lador, material, rent, etc., between Sl, ,5OO and 5000; two thirds of which sum is spent, or will be spent in Arizona.
 From 1863 to 1873, according to the Prescott Courier, the Indians killed over 1000 people in Arizona. They also killed and stole stock worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, burned houses and destroyed other property.
 W. $. Read was arrested at Tucson last week, on charge of presenting for payment false Alabama claims, with intent to defraud the Uuited States. It is rumored that two prominent public men of California are implicated in the transaction.
 A collision occurred on the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad near Bluewater station last week, between freight and passenger train. John Breed, Jr, and Morris Earth, of Holbrook were killed, and number of others injured.
 Goverifor Tritle has turned his at