Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-08
ARIZONA NEWS.

w. A. Werninger has located some rich placer ground within fifteen miles of Yuma.
 The tax rate of Yuma county has been fixed by the Board of Supervi- sars at $2.6O per $100.
 The settlers on the Wills ditch claim to have the largest watermelons in Arizona; they weigh 454 lbs each.
 The Pasadena mining company's claims in the Cargo Muchacho coun- try are looking fine. A contract has been let to deliver twenty-five tons of ore per day.
 The work on the prison sewer is be- ing pushed right ahead. A large force of convicts are at work and the trench es are nearly all finished The tun- nel under the hotel will be 263 feet in length; the men at work in the tun- nel are driving ahead at the rate of ten feet per day.
 The Southern Pacific company has paid Lewis J. Good, late arrival from England, now living in Pasadena, $4,- 800 for the loss of his wife, who was killed at Gila Bend in the accident where the train ran off bridge, full account of which was published in the Sentinel at the time.
 D. A. and M L. Lindley, prominent business men of Sacramento, Califor- mia, spent the week in the Mohawk valley, examining the prospects and advantages of that favored section, Both gentlemen are highly pleased with Mohawk, and say their visit will prove of great advantage to this coun- ty as they will induce others to join them in the investing capital for the purchase of land and water in Mo hawk valley.
 On last Sunday morning Mir. Camille Roullier, the genial proprietor of the $. F. hotel, and his bride arrived in 1 Yuma. Mr. Roullier's friends gave him and the fair bride an elegant re- ception; the bridal party received many l beautiful floral tributes from their ac- quaintances and well wishers. The hotel was magnifcently decora ed with festoons of eyergreens and flowers, the stars and stripes floating in the breeze in close proximity to the tri-color, Mr Roullier being son of la belle France
 [Silver Belt.
 Joe Torres and another Mexican while cleaning out well west of Van
 Wagenen's store were asphyxiated, and
 with difficulty rescued.
 The Board of Supervisors have
 shown their h lstility to partners and
 lions by offering to pay $15 for each
 scalp, and 90 cents for lynx, coyote
 and wild cat scalps.
 There is a large supply of coke for
 the Old Dominion Copper Company at
 Wilcox. The Stockman reports the
 arrival of nine carloads-270 ,000
 pounds-last week.
 S. Klein & Co.,, on Monday last
 shipped 3420 ounces of-e;lrer. nine
 hundred fine, this being the product of eleven tons of Fame ore reduced in the Centennial mill This last ship ment according to Mir Kline, make: the l06 bar, aggregating S1S2,000 Al present the condition of the mine i. : most hattering; showing rich ore II two places, with promise of an album dant yield.
 Alfred Trippel, son of Dr. Alex Trippel, Is in Globe for a short stay He has recently been in the employ 0 the Reymert Mining Company, at D' Noon, in Pinal county. He inform us that their new 10-stamp mill vii ! soon be completed, giving them 2
 stamps in all, and the company vii : then work force of 30 to 40 men il the mine, which now looks exceeding U well.
 Joe Thompson while taking an air - ing with his family, accompanied b n Mrs. Taylor and Mrs Walsh, on Sun = day last, behind his spirited team, me ,- with a mishap which narrowly misse if being a serious accident. When nea d Alex Graydon's the horses took frigh f at freight team and running up a V embankment turned the vehicle ovel v MT. Thompson although pitched ou f f and cut and bruised about the fact ,s maintained his hold upon the rein e and prevented the animals from ruI d ming. The ladies and children escape n with slight bruises.
 Il Tombstone Epitaphl D. It is claimed that the proprietor ( f. the Mexican circus took in $17S in tw Il exhibitions and then refused to pa ,s his performers or the bills he had Il d cured, in consequence of which h
 show is in the hands of the constabl Tombstone Prospector.l y The Board of Supervisors has ike ,o the rate of taxation in this county '99 $3 on the $100, and $3 .35 in this scho ,n district.
 of It is estimated that $1,650 is pa q. into the pockets of the managers Id the Louisiana lottery scheme evel es month from Tombstone alone. It
 evident that the fool-killer has not Vi
 tied this neck of woods in some tim Id lPhenix Heraldl SC. Within few months Phenix W of enjoy the convenience of a thorou, Id system of Holly water works, and u lis proper move then to be made is to $ e. cure thorough sewerage. of Another new money institution on promised for Phenix, this fall, in t re- shape of savings bank. Such an h. stitution should do a good busine ow here, and will, in hands that will pu he it.
 UT Our city hall strikes visitors mo let favorably and with surprise that ls- town in Arizona should have mo H. extensive and beautiful building
 city purposes than nine tenths of t
 owns of larger size east or west. he Judge George Jackson, of Waln Tor Grove, one among the earliest pionet ,is of this section, died yesterday mol