The Clifton clarion., 1886-12-08
TERRITORIAL NOTES.

TlVe hundred men Ire HOW at
 work on the Prescott & Arizona
 Central railroad.
 The treasurer of Yavapai coun
 ty received $S,045, of taxes during the month of November.
 St Johns wants telegraph line
 built connecting that place at Ma
 vajo with the outer world.
 Hon. Sumner Howard has con sented to be candidate for Mayor of Prescott, at the coming city election.
 The Prescott pap@fs tell of de- layed mails. Stages days behind time, and of rain, snow and mud hub deep.
 The society of Arizona Pioneers, of Tucson, are preparing for an interesting annual celebration on the 29 inst.
 The people of Globe are rejoic- ing over the prospects of the early completion of the Narrow Gauge railroad to that point.
 The prisoners in the Yuma penitentiary were given splendid dinner Thanksgiving day by Sup erintendent Thomas Gates.
 The Florence public schools have an average daily attendance of three hundred pupils. Three teachers only are employed.
 General Royal A. Johnson is a candidate for Mayor of Tucson. The papers of that city endorse his candidacy enthusiastically.
 The fall calf crop on the Tonto and Salt river ranges is reported unusually light this season. No reason is give for the falling of.
 California is taking kindly to Arizona beef, a half dozen or more California butchers have representatives buying cattle in this territory.
 Wilson Douglas, who killed Gle ment Lindstrum, at Tombstone in August last, has been sentenced to imprisonment in the Yuma peni- tentiary for life.
 Charles Cohn, who killed his partner Charles Spencer last week i near Blackberry, will be tried by | the U. $. Court as the killing was done on an Indian reservation.
 A syndicate of eastern capita lists recently purchased of the At lantic and Pacific railroad a mill ion acres of land. They propose to stock their purchase with Texas cattle.
 The Indian school at Fort Yuma has regular attendance of seven tv five children. They are fed and clothed by the government. The school is under the charge of the sisters of St Joseph.
 Arizona mountains are full of mineral of silver, copper and gold, her mesa lands are rich in nutri tious grasses; and the valley lands fat with vitality and anxious to be converted into grain, fruit and vegetables.
 B. s. Stover, of St Johns met with painful accident recently. While returning from a hunting trip his gun was accidentally dis charged shattering his left arm in such manner that amputation was necessary.
 William Hall, the first prisoner confined in the Yuma penitentiary and who was pardoned two years ago, was sent back to that institu- 5ion last month from Pinal county under a two years sentence for stealing cattle.
 Sheriff Hatch, of Cochise coun- y delivered three prisoners to the penitentiary last week Pantaleon Frajillo for grand larceny goes for ,ne year, John Jackson horse stealing two years, and Wilson Douglas, murder for life.
 Francisco Ortiz mllkman, liv- ng two miles this side of Nogales was robbed recently of S1,5O0 by masked bandits. They tied their 'ictim with ropes and by beating md threats made him confess where his treasure was hidden.
 The Fl Fronterizo of Tucson avs: "We have information from eliable sources that the smallpox s rapidly spreading in Nogales, md it is not impossible for this ity to be invaded if the necessary are not taken in time. Children ought to be vaccinated, = nd no time should be lost"
 Last week at Nogales, Charley Anderson, negro, had words in a aloon with Billy Long, who was a : .uide and scout with Capt. Lawton