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 tis sail that the Mexican Govern
 mont employs about 1000 mounted
 custom inspectors along the United ! States boundary line.
 A large quarry of gypsum has been discovered @ few miles from Pheniz, and tests are to be made of its quail ties for the manufacture of plaster.
 Geronimo and his band are safe. Tie Board of Supervisors have with drawn the reward offered for the sealps of the renegades.-Tombstone 1 Dcmocrat.
 Three tramps were arrested to-day for yagrancy, and are now straighten- ing out and ioveling the streets under the watchful eye of officer Vim. Clan cy.-Tho Tombstone.
 The Hsraldsays that a much less acreage of grain has been sown this year in the Salt River valley and that the coming harvest will not yield more than enough for home consumption. It is reported that Mrs. W. A. Dut- ton, who formerly ran a paper at Holbrook, has left her husband and skipped out from Wichita, Kansas, with handSomer man.-Champion.
 The attorneys of Eugene Shaw have served notices of a motion for a new trial in the celebrated Paul-Shaw con- tested election case, and it is thought probable that the courts will be called upon again to pass upon this action. Times.
 The parties that were arrested on the charge of having stolen that elev- en thousand dollars from the county treasurer at St. Johns, have had an examination and were liberated, as there was not a particle of evidence against them.
 The Phenlx Gazette of the 9th inst. says: The contractor on the mail route between Phenix and Prescott, via Vulture and Wickenburg, has been directed by the Department at Washington, to reduce trips from three to two times each week. Thus the Vulture camp is further discom- moded.
 The Quiiotoa Mining Company has found the recent strike Q convenient excuse to shut down. Every one who can do So is leaving the city of the near future. It is said that a few men will be employed to run the 2,000-foot tunnel through the noun tain, in search of the wonderful riches of which so mpch has been said Peerless stock is aud dted at 15 cents in San Francesca:
 The Tombstone school district has been notified by the County Judge of Cocbise County that there remains now to it's credit in the treasury only $175 with which to pay the salary of teachers until next December. This occasions a serious outlook for edu- cational matters in that city, but it is probable that the difficulty will be met by voting Of special school tax.
 A match race has been made by Bob Schultz and Jeriah Woods, back ing Sleepy John," the three-quarter fayorte of this section, agalnst Bald Hornet" the Florence horse, upon whom Smith Turner is risking his money. 1t is to be Q quarter of a mlle race and will be run on the fair ground track on Saturday, January 23rd. The stakes are $500 a side. 1 There has been much diversity of opinion as to which of these animals are the feetost, and the question promises a speedy solution in the com- ing contest.-Gazette.
 A bold robbery took place below Casa Grande on January 1st. Judge Marshall and Mir. Talkington were coming III from the mines, and when about twelve miles from Casa Grande they were stopped by two Mexicans, who relieved them of their vaIuables and then made them drive up into deep gulch about two hundred yards from the road, and there informed them that they intended 10 Kill them. The Mexicans told them that if they were allowed to go free so near the town that the Sheriff would soon be on the trail and would capture them. Marshall was without arms and was compelled to resort to fine talking and finally succeeded by agreeing not to send the Sheriff. The Mcxicans then took both horses and lode off towards Sonora. Marshall soon afterwards sent an Indian to Casa Grande for help, and party at once responded and took up the trail with him. The