The St. Johns herald., 1886-06-17
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Items of Interest to StOckmen, Gath
 cred from Reliable Sources.

range near Silver City. were arrest ed last week and taken to Silver fol examination.
 Flagstaff Champion: We are iu- formed that w. J. Hill, one of the largest sheep owners of Northern Arizona, has purchased the entire flock of sheep owned by W. w. Prentiss.
 Wilcox Stockman Tom Shipp, of Mohave county, has contracted to furnish parties in Southern Cali fornia with 700 beef steers. The first lot of POO have been shipped from Peach Springs.
 Wilcox Stockman: And. Pringle, we'll stockman, was shot and kill ed last week by John Thomas, on Eagle Creek in Yavapai county. The cause of the shooting was a dispute over a saddle blanket, Thomas was arrested.
 Exchange: The Delano-Dwyer Company, of Colfax county, N. M., will ship out 2J000 steers to their summer feeding ranch in Kansas. The same company has lately pur- chased a very fine thoroughbred stallion and several fine mares.
 International Live Stock Jour nal E. J. Simpson, of the Aztec Cattle Company, has once more visited our city. He is superin- tending the shipment of cattle from their Texas to their Arizona ranch. The company wisely concluded not to drive.
 Tombstone Democrat: R. D. Hudson, of Wilcox, has secured the contract for furnishing sixty bead of the one hundred horses advertised for by the Chief Quar- termaster of this Department. They were to be delivered at Fort Grant on the 10th instant.
 Tombstone Democrat: A rodeo under the direction of the Mount Graham and Gila Valley Cattle Association, commenced on the San Carlos Reservation the 2d instant, Captain Pierce, Agent at San Car los, gave his consent to the round up on the reservation.
 Tombstone Democrat: The peo- pie of Tonto Basin are fearing trou- ble from the San Carlos Indians. Last Saturday night North Wilcox telegraphed to Phoenix for 2,000 rounds of cartridges, which were taken up the following day by Fred Wilcox on his way home to his stock range.
 Exchange: Some idea of the i'm mense proportions which the stock cattle trade of Texas has assumed in the last few years may be in- ferred from the National Bureau of Statistics at Washington, according to which about 3,0O0,0O0 young cat tie have been driven to northern ranges from Texas, valued at $45, | 100000.
 Wilcox Stockman: George Frisk went to Lordsburg on Saturday last to inspect another lot of Texas stock cattle-seventeen carloads belonging to F. A. Caufeld. They were given a clean bill of health, and passed through here Monday. They were uploaded at Benson, and driven from there to Mr. Caufeld's range in Sonora.
 Flagstaff Champion: Hon. W. G. Stewart, left this morning with the Messrs, Vanderlips, who recent ly arrived from the East, on a tour of inspection of cattle ranges. If Mr. Stewart can satisfy these gen tlemen we expect to be able to chronicle large sale of stock and land in the next few days. Globe (Kan.) Journal: So far the horsemen have struck a good market at Dodge this year, and al- though several thousand head of horses have arrived here, the buy CTS keep the number on the market down to about four hundred head. Several herds will arrive here this