The Clifton clarion., 1886-12-29
TERRITORIAL NOTES.

SaVNAo NSLO hS'ci oO Suo1P III Arizona'as they are at present,
 The sales of Tucson firm amounted to $l,00O the day before Christmas.
 Tho merchants of Tombstone closed their places of business on Christmas.
 A Wilcox Justice of the Peace recently fine a woman S10 for us ing vulgar language.
 The entire indebtedness of Co., chise county is S2l1,O00. The floating debt is nearly $60,000.
 The Sanders concentrator and amalgamator is woiking d revolu- ton in placer mining in Pinal county.
 'Less then five miles from Pres colt to the railroad'' is the way the papers of that place have it now.
 The News says: Tempe needs 8 drug store, a saddle and harness maker, boot and shoe maker, barber shop and a gardner.
 A Phoenix butcher recently kill ed for beef a COW which Is suppos- ed to have been the first ever brought to that valley, nineteen years ago.
 It is said that there is plenty of available argentiferous lead ores in the Sierrita mountains to keep a twenty-ton furnace continuous ly in operation.
 The Board of Supervisors of Maricopa county have awarded tho county printing to the Phoenix Herald. That concern being the fortunate bidder.
 A Kansas City firm is contem- plating the purchase of 5000 acres of land in the Salt River valley. They intend engaging in the rais- ing of hogs on large scale.
 Richard Hughes, a section hand on the A. $ P. railroad at Flag staff, while, intoxicated, was run over and killed by the east bound passenger train on the 2lst inst.
 Last Sunday afternoon game of base ball was played between q Sunday school nine and a public school nine. The good little Sun day school boys got away with the wicked pupils.-Tucson Citizen.
 A match game of "Indian Bill iards" was played recently at the Yuma base ball park between the Yuma and .Cocopah, Indians for $50 a side. The Yuma's were de clared the winners after a strug- gle of two hours.
 All the employees of the Southern Pacific railroad are to be uniform el. The color will be navy blue, brass buttons and the name of the road and occupation of the person ou metal plate attach ed to the front of the cap.
 The Journal-Miner says: Judge Porter stopped smoking in the court room to day by threatening to send violaters of the order to jail. Jailor Hickey in a semi off cial undertone added chewers to the proyiso, but the judge failed to catch his remark.
 Wm. Neal of Tucson, was paid 8 roll of fifty S2O gold pieces by mistake for fifty silver dollars re- gently by a Tucson bank. He re- turned it on discovering the mis- take, and Mir. D. Herdersoa tie banker, presented him with fine suit of clothes for his honesty.
 There were 6,076 childred enroll ed in the public schools of Arizona for the year 1S35-6, against 4,974 in the preceding year. The ave rage daily attendance was 3,5O7. The average salary of male teach CTS was $S0.45; of females, S76.1S
 The District Attorney and Sheriff of Mohave county have moved their offices to Kingman the new county seat. A writ of has been issued to all the county officers of that county to show cause why they should not immediately move their offices to Kingman.
 The sobriquets of some of the witnesses in the Riggs case are very suggestive of life in the far West as it is pictured in the popu- lar literature of the day. Dead shot, Hair trigger John, Salt grass Bill, and Charley Behind the Stove, gre all here to give in their evi- dence.-Tombstone Epitaph.
 Dr. B. M Thomas, late register of the U. s. Land office in this city, left to-day for Santa Fe, New Mexico. where he will resume the ,,,.a ofiaa of 1aDIiefr1- h. TbOro,e