Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-07-18
OUR TERRITORY.
Chips From Our Territorial Ex.
 changes.

lishment.
 P.J. Bolan is sick with typhoid fever,
 at SOlomonville
 Hattie Earp committed suicide in
 Phenix recently.
 Phenix thinks her prospects for i sampling works are good.
 ] Maricopa county republicans are or ganizing for the fall campaign. More people left Tucson for Cali'or- nia this summer than ever before. w. A. Hall, of Pheuix, has been ap- pointed postmaster at that place. The ArizOnan says that Prison Com | missioner Little Steve has club house in Fl Paso, where he talks of moving to. w. T. Lake, of Crittenden, Pima
 county, has been appointed postmaster
 of that place, vice Judge Baldwin, re- signed.
 Paul Maroney, former proprietor of the Cosmopolitan hotel in Tucson, is now manager of the Baldwin in San Francisco.
 A postoffice has been established at Edith (Pheni1 Mine), Maricopa, county, and JudsOn s. Todd has been appoint
 ed postmaster.
 Thomas White, engineer of the Phe- nix Mining cOmpany's mill, died in Phenix recently from drinking cyanide of potassium, by mistake for water, Antonio LOrette, ex-cOunty treasurer of Yuma county, and prominent Yuma merchant, committed suicide at that place last Saturnay, by shooting himself through the head. Depression caused by long continued sickness Is said to be the cause.
 A reporter of the Phenix ArizOnan was recently shown pear from the orchard of Clark Churchill, that was eleven inches and a half in circumference, and weighed one pound. The pear was green and had not attain ed its full size when picked from the tree.
 The PrOspectOr says that COchise county lays claim to producing the best
 potatoes, the most delicious peaches,
 sweetest grapes and largest plums of any county in the territory oi Arizona.
 The proof of this assertion will be forth
 coming when the Territorial Fair
 judges render their verdict this fall.
 The Citizen says that rattle-snakes
 have become quite plentiful at Fort
 Lowell during the past week. Lieut..
 Slavens was awakened the other morn ing by finding one rattling pleasantly beside his cot, and few days after ward Lieut.. Dean killed quite large sized one in his house. Last evening Capt. Mason killed a small one in h,s house, just as he was about to retire.
 Three hundred cows, with sucking calves, the property of William Slaugh ter, of American valley, passed through St Johns last Monday, en route for Holbrook, from which point the calves are to be shipped to Los Angeles, Cali fOrnia, for veal, and the COWS to be driven back to Slaughter's range. This is the first shipment of this kind made l in this section.
 By the report of J. H. Behan, super intendent of the Yuma prison, it Is shown that there are now 12O prisoners confined in that institution that for l the quarter ending June 3Osh, fifteen men have been received: eleven dis l
 
 pardOned by Governor Zulick, three sent to the insane asylum; two sent to the government prison at Columbus, Ohio, and one committed suicide.
 The Silver Belt learns from reliable | source that the affairs of the Silver King Mining company are in d serious plight. The cOmpany's checks were allowed to go to protest for two success i've months, and an arrangement was finally effected whereby the Bank of California takes up the King com pany's paper and issues their own notes payable several months hence An assessment, the first, has bcen levied upon the stock, and shares have de- clined to $l. The Silver King mine is famous. having paid sixty mine divi- dends aggregating $2,OOO,OO0.
 Too AwfuIIy Awful.
 A three-legged dog started from the post office, the other day, with tin can tied to his tail. A two cent man threw a one cent brick at the dog, who ran under the lower extremities of Il big Dutch woman, who Was carrying a jug of molasses in one hand and :, basket of eggs in the other, which she bad bought at J. I. Gardiner's dude, close be- hind, slipped on the m"lasses and sat down on the Dutch woman, who said ''Mine Got" The dude said something about "mad dog" but said it backwards. team coming :long just then got fris htened at the dog or Ouch woman, ran away, and crc c-sing the railroad track, at the depot, tore a rail from the track, wrecking freight train, which killed 700 hogs. The dog kept on the evil tenor of his way, up Monte zuma street, and ran over a horse in Alexander Ayres' saddler shop, where he was lariated by Riley Johnson, the boss vaquero of Yavapai county. It is now mooted question whether the man that threw the one cent brick, or the man that owns the dog, ought to buy box of G. Washington Ford's ' Beauty" cigars, Some think they do
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