Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-29
ARIZONA NEWS.

Leslie Baird, an old pioneer and Mexican war veteran, died last Satur- day night; death caused by general debility.
 Several hundred Yuma Indians have gone down to the fiesta of the 1 Diegano Indians. The harvest festival will continue for one week.
 Cummings and Widney two con victs from Maricopa County, whose terms had expired, were discharged from the Penitentiary on Thursday.
 Captain J. A. Mellon left few days ago for the mouth of the river on d tour of ofinspection and also to make arrangements for the excursion to the | gulf neXs month.
 Hon. E. J. Trippel has written an ! able and exhaustive article on the his tory and legends of the Yuma Indians, which is to be published in an Eastern | magazle.
 [silver Belt.
 Rev. F. w Downs and wife left for 1 Prescott to attend the annual mission meeting at that place. They will be absent a month.
 John Newman, of Pioneer, has pur- chased Huntington mill, of a capa- city of I6tons per day, with concen- trating tables, which he intends put ting in motion at Pioneer.
 Messrs. Fitzsimmons and Armand are now confined to their beds at the hospital under the care ot Dr. Largent, and although quite sick, hopes are en- tertained of their recovery.
 Geo. 4. Allen is in receipt of let
 ter from Hon, Mark Smith stating
 that he was assured by the President
 that the Chiricahua Indians now in
 Alabama will not be returned to Ari- zona.
 Mrs. Vena Thomas, who has been
 engaged to teach the Tonto public
 school, arrived from Oakland, Cal, on
 Wednesdays blackboard. Mrs. Thorn
 as formerly resided in Globe, and after wards at Florence. Mrs. Thomas is a capable teacher and the people oi Tonto school district are fortunate in securing her services.
 :. lClifton Clarionl Billy Mimmick, while fooling with . pistol at Morenci last week, acci- [ dentally discharged the weapon and received wound through one of hi, , fingers.
 Last Friday night at Morenci, while Francisco Carrasco was visiting tht . circus, somebody cut into his tent . broke opened his chest and help them e,1v t.,& RI
 clue to the perpetrators. Recent arrivals from Solomonvill,
 report that the dead body of a whit,
 man was found last week at the ciene
 ga near that town at the bottom of 7 bluff He was recognized as a mal l who had been suffering from fever an, if some time previous had left on foot
 It is supposed that his death aros s from accident, as his neck was broken e evidently from a fall
 s George Mccormick and Mexican ,f whose name we did not learn brok a into the China restaurant adJoinin
 Hovey's saloon last night about o'clock and at the point of a pistC W drove the occupant out, firing two shot e at the Celestial as he fed across tn II street. They then took an axe, brok 10 into trunk and extracted therefor " about $50 in cash. Constable Shit le arrested the Mexican this mornin Il and locked him up, but McCormic le skipped.
 is Last Saturday night, about 10:2 r o'clock, as a wrecking train in charg 2 of Engineer Wm. r. Polk, with Joe { VI Martin as fireman, was rounding tn
 curve at the point Of rocks just belo
 town, an object was discovered on tl 10 track some twenty feet in advance ( IFS the engine. The alarm was given, tE h. lever reversed and the brakes put ol ;r but without avail, and the engiI
 struck and threw to one side th IT. body of Monico Villa, which, in som ce manner not yet satisfactorily explain re ed, was lying between the rails of Il ts track in crouching position. E VI, lived some twenty minutes after reacl 'i- ing the hospital. His injuries were |; Id follows: Both legs were badly broke il- in two or three places each, the le lv limb especially having suffered. Or
 arm was almost entirely severed ar the body showed evidences of severe
 not fatal bruises. In addition the
 was badly confused wound on u ue right side of the head.
 as Tombstone Prospectorl ay Charlie Smith, an employe of u en custom house, was shot and seriousl .n if not fatally, wounded in Tombstol 'D about midnight Saturday night, an Charlie Cunningham, with whom )s- had quarreled. The assassin is in ia m Ward & Courtney, contractors, ha he brought fifty men from Fl Paso od work on the Bislee road in place N the Mexicans, who struck for high we wages.
 The Ross mill in the Chiricahuas ., cutting an average of ten thousal 0' feet of lumber per day, the bulk ral which is delivered at the Copp on Queen mine, in Bisbee, in the shape m- square timbers and two-inch plank. yer The Old Guard mine and mill W - not be sold until November next u 1e' der the judgment rendered by t ne District Court. It is expected tI ,od money will arrive to pay of the is debtedness by the first of October, he which case the judgment will be ., leased.
 Charley Cook, who has been chlor
 ing on the Three Brothers mine wi
 Sol Prescott for several months pa ard started out about half-past thu ex- o'clock, in company with Walter No du- and Thomas Sandys, on a hunti