Mohave County miner., 1888-07-21
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An Odd Fellows Lodge is shortly 10 be
started in Nogales.
The cost Of running the Territorial
prison during the last quarter was t11,-
749.74.
Tempe and surrounding country has
5000 acres in wheat and barley tho pres
cnt year.
An Odd Fellows Lodge will be insti-
tuted ut Bisbee on the Path inst. This
win make the ninth Lodge in the Terri
tory.
Judge Barnes will not 60 to Prescott 10
attend the Supreme Court, having been
informed by Judges Porter and Wright
that there ID nothing Of importance there
10 be attended 10.
Ihs Board Of Supervisors Of this county
have fixed the valuation Of cattle at $40
per head, which Is plenty considering the
price at which other property is rated
Tombstone Epitsph.
The Indians are busily engaged In
planting corn, beans and melons. They
viii harvest but small crop thus year,
owing TO the low stage Of water in the
Colorado. Yuma Sentinel.
In answer to letter written 10 him by
City Marshal Blankenship, Mr.. Claude
M. johnson, Indian agent at Sacaton,
writes thst there are no cases OF small
pox among the Indians. Phoenix Gazette.
J. w. Roberts says that II the citizens
will stand the expense he will donate his
services in experimenting with the ex-
plosion Of giant powder, with the view Of
producing rain. Prescott Journal-Miner.
The contractors on the Florence canal
sunk q well last week just within the
lines Of the proposed reservoir, about
fiftes", miles south Of Florence. Abun-
dance of water was found at depth OF
fifty-two feet. Enterprise.
Antonio Lorette, ex-County Treasurer
Of Yuma county, and prominent Yuma
merchant, committed suicide at tha. place
last week by shooting himself through
the head. Depression caused by long
continued sickness is said to be the cause.
At meeting Of the Board Of School
Trustees held last evening w. w. Gillette
was chosen al Principal and A. X. Hitch
cock an Assistant. The salaries Of lady
teachers were fiEsd at s85 q month for
primary and t75 for grammar depart.
ments. Tucson Star
An onion twenty inches in circumfer-
ence and weighing two and half pounds
was brought to town to-day by Alex.
Silva. The Salt River valley can pro-
duce as large vegetables and in greater
variety than in any known section Of the
Southwest t-~Ariznnan
George Stevenson, telegraph operator
at Glamis, thirty-four miles west of Yuma,
was found shot through the heart in his
office on the afternoon Of the 14th instant.
A Mexican was arrested on suspicion and
taken to Yuma by the trainmen. The
particulars are not yet known.
II Phoenix had another railroad like
the little burro, what FIX she would be
in. II takes about as long TO come from
Maricopa station--a distance Of "a miles
az 1t does from Los Angeles to Maricopa,
nearly 500 miles. Surely we need an
other '1ightning" train Gazette.
Messrs. Pete Dumphey and Postmaster
Elliott have made big strike on the
Fairbanks mine in Olive Camp. At
twenty feet they have well-defned four
foot vein Of solid galena ore, which runs
from thirty to fifty dollars in silver.
They win commence shipping at once,
and thus add another bullion producing
mine to the Olive Camp.-Star.
Mr.. Thos. White, who was the engineer
of the Phoenix Mining Company at Cave
Creek, was brought to this city last Mon
day suffering from suppossd poisoning.
Everything that skill and affection could
suggest was done TO save his life, but
without avail. He fingered until yester-
day afternoon, when death relieved him
Of his suffering. Phoenix Gazette.
Three hundred cows with sucking
calves, the property Of William Slaughter,
Of American valley, passed through St.
Johns last Monday en- route for Holbrook,
from which point the calves are 70 be
shipped to Los Angeles, California, for
veal, and the cows to be driven back to
slaughter's range. This is the first ship
ment of this kind made in this section
81. Johns Herald.
BY the report Of y. H. Behan, superin-
tendent of the Yuma prison, 1t is shown
there are now l20 prisoners confined In
that institution; that for the quarter end
ing June Goth fifteen men have been re-
ceived; eleven discharged by expiration
OF terms, three pardonsd by Governor
Zulick, three sent to the insane asylum,
two sent to the Government prison at
Columbus, Ohio, and one committed
suicide.
Jose Nad-i-go-dey and Constanbret,
younq San Carlos Apaches, arrived here
Tuesday evening from Carlisle, Pennsyl.
vania, where they had Just graduated
from the Government Indian school, after
four years course. Both are very in.
telligent red men, and stated that they
would each locate 100 acres Of land on the
San Carlos reservation and "settle down. -
They left for San Carlos Wednesday,
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