The Daily Tombstone., 1886-03-11


 Sine looked at the telegram. and hand ing it back. said "John, that ain't Williams handwrite, it's trick ef some of them town folks to beat you ort of fifty dollars" The old man thought his wife Was right. William laid in Inc Texas jail until he got a reply from letter.-Detroit Free Press.
 News reaches THE TOMBSTONE office ot the destruction of the house of rancher living cn the Barbacomari grant, immediately this side of Mrs Rouths, the daughter of Judge Lurty. The Barbacomari grand Is a first-claSs fraud and was engineered through the land office by Brewster Cameron, while he was receiver or registrer of the Tucson land office. The atten- ton of our Sonora Governor and Act ing Marshal Mead is called to the robbery, with the recommendation that jlry take steps to declare the grant invalid.
 The Chicago Herald says: Mexico has not yet given a satisfactory ex- rlanation of the killing of Captain Crawford. The case affords good ground for. the assertion of the prin- ciple that our southern neighbor must be taught to treat our country and citizens with respect.
 The investigation of the rolls of employees of the house of representa- tives, prompted by allegations that many names are carried of those whU 1 perform no service for the pay drawn, Is proving to be fruitful of interesting revelations. It shows that the door keeper has on his rolls 140 empl6yes, 1 the clerk 45, the sergeant-at-arms s, 
 postmaster 21, the speaker 10, annuai clerks 70, and session clerks 45 d total of 2y3, and drawing salaries that aggregate $407 7e23 per annum.
 When connt,y editor, who is struggling along, heroically, trying to. rear large large family of children and build up town on an income of $500 year, reads a telegraphie dis- | patch that d baseball pitcher can't write his name has "signed" with league club to play for 5000 for next season he is 20 overcome with the depth of his feelings that he at once sits down on the roller-hox and pom ders these sayings in his heart.- Exchange.
 On Tuesday last two gentlemen of this city took a drive to Benson, and while between Contention, and St. David, they espied County Assessor Burke riding leisurely along. They at once leveled their Winchester at him. and told him to throw up his hands, which he did at once, and held them so until the parties drove up to him. As soon as he recognized the parties he dropped his hands and asked whether they had bottle. He is expected to reach Tres Alamos this afternoon.
 An Indiana woman named Weaver, and Texas woman named Pierce are having legal contest at Atlanta, Ga, over corpse. About two months since man was killed by railroad accident, near Atlanta, and was buried in the cemetery there. He hailed from Fort Worth, Tex, where the Pierce woman resided, and she immediately vert to Atlanta to get the remains, claiming them as those of her husband. Prior to her arrival the Weaver woman had appeared and 1 identified the remains as those of her husband who had deserted her d few years before and had gone 10 Texas. Before disinterring the body she de- scribed several marks, enc a bullet wound in his neck, all of which were found correct. As the deceased left an estate valued at $2,000,000 the con test is quite interesting.