Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-02-22
OUR TERRITORY.
Chips Fron Our Territorial Ex-
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| Chips From Our Territorial ex- 1 changes. Tucson wants a $lOO, 900 hotel l Cot;onwoOds in Phenix are out in
 foliage.
 The artesian we'll at Phenix Is to te {, abandoned.
 Florence boasts of green foliage and
 bright blossoms.
 J. o. Dunbar's new paper will be
 called the Leader L. H. Orme and wife, of Phenix, are
 visiting in New Orleans X PhenA man found $96 in silver
 while digging a post hole. The outlook is good for revival of
 the Quijotoa mining camp in Pima
 county.
 Tucson dogs will be ripe February
 18th, when the dog catcher will com
 mence his harvest
 Tucson is booming, every hotel is crowded, in fact they cannot accommo- date all of their customers.
 During 1887, Pima county sent twenty-three convicts to the peniten- tiary and twelve insane to the asylum.
 There are thousands of acres of arable land subject to irrigation on Lereux fork of the Little Colorado within few miles of Holbrook.
 Tucson Is experiencing tree plant ing boom. The alder is the favorite. there being more of this kind planted than of all others combined.
 In fight over card game which oc- cured at Bisbee, few days since. a man named Ruth bit the lobe from the ear of Ed. Garland, his antagonist.
 Walter Hastings, a miner, and a man named Crow, are in jail in Phenix, on charge of assault to commit murder. their victim being man named W. H. Thomas
 It is estimated that I2,OOo, ,OoO pounds of grain will be shipped by the Mari copa S Phenix railroad from Sacaton switch next fall-all raised by the Pima and Maricopa indiaus
 The Phenix base ball club publishes a card in which they state t',at they ! will neither play with, noragainst Hape- man, the pitcher, whom they import cd to beat the Whipplc club with.
 The Gila City canal Is running bank full of water and Is completed for l eleven miles in length. l. will irrigate lO,OO0 acres of mellow and fertile land The valley through which 1t runs in Yuma county Is d warm and prOduc- tive one.
 It is reported that wonderful bo- nanza of high grade ore has been de velOped in the San Xavier mine. Par ties who have recently been in the mine say it Is the largest showing of high grade ore ever developed in Ari- lona. The ore was struck in one of the lower levels.
 A man called Oscar Sawyer died at Mesa City, Monday night, of pneumo- nia, after an illness of about two weeks Deceased Was travelling through the on his way north, in company with his wife. whom his death leaves done in a land ot strangers
 The Typographical union of Phenix has adopted the following scale of prices or composition on morning papers, l3 cents per thousand; evening papers, io cents; time hands, SIS per week night foreman, S2i per week. day fore man, T2O; book work, 4U cents per thousand, and 10 cents per hour extra ime
 The ailable and energetic U. S. col- cctor of customs at this place, Hon. F.. Trippcl. was somewhat astonish.d when q Mexican stepped into lis office and offered to pay duties on himself and family of seven, having just ,rrived frem Sonora; the Mexican also ,skcd If small children were not allow ,d to "come in" at half rates. He WIS iighly pleased when the astonished officer assured him there was nothing o pay.-Sentinel.
 The Citizen reports that Mrs. Neal, mother of EngIncer Chas- Neal, who lied from the effects of injuries received n the late railroad accident, while en outc to Oakland with the body Of her on, received a dispatch stating that mother son had teen blown to pieces y powder. This double afIliction was more than the poor woman could stand lnd the shock killed her.