Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-02
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'' on the San Pedro, resuming operations During 1887 the Ameriean Lumber t Company of Flagstaff shipped 531,OO( 2 feet of lumber to Kingman. f Work is being vigorously prose n cuted cn the several irrigating canal. l in Yuma county, and great deal o g land is being taken up, cleared and i cultivated.
 The receipts at the U. s. Land Of
 fee, Tucson, during the month of
 May, from the entry of pubic land in Pinal county, under the desert land
 act, were $24,0OO.
 The Messrs. Allison, of Tucson have
 carp pond from which they sold 700
 pounds Of fish last week at 15 cents
 per pound. They are able to supply 1000 pounds of carp week.
 4 fabulous strike of silver is re-
 ported ten miles west of Nogales, in
 the Pajarito mountains. Photographic
 reports ting from Kogales are,
 however, very untrustworthy.
 During the nine school months of
 the Tombstone pablie school, from
 September 1887 to May 1888, the
 number of scholars enrolled was sos.
 The average daily attendance 194'
 The City of Tombstone has been
 sued by City Attorney Reilly for
 money clalmed to be due him for com
 mission on delinquent taxes which
 were collected by the tax collector.
 Loco weed Is reported to be playing havoc with horses in several sections in Northern Arizona at present, and many of the oldest stockmen unite in saying that 1t is unusually thick Losses of horses are reported by many. |
 Citizens of the northern portion of Apache county held mass meeting at Holbrook, on the 18th, to inaugurate measures looking to the removal of the county seat from St. Johns to Hol brook at the ensuing November elee- ton.
 A collision between an engine and i freight train occurred at Walnut sta ton, twenty-four miles east of Flag staff. on the A. 6 P road, May 26th, resulting III the death or brakeman named Howell, and the serious injury of an engineer, fireman and two brake men. The track was torn up for half a mile and twelve cars demolished.
 Mrs. Brisk, wife of Geo. Frlsk, stock raiser and keeping a Station six miles from Wilcox on the Grant road, committed suicide last week at her home, by shooting herself. Mrs. FrlSk was bitten by a coyote five days pre- vlotS, making painful hut not d dangerous wound. It is supposed that the dread of dea b by hydropho- bia so worked upon her nervous sys- tenn as to render her temporarily in- sane and prompted tine sad taking off.
 The manner in which all classes of cattle are being showed into Arizona from disease-infected sections without sven the formality of passing a quar- antine inspection, is leading many stockmen throughout the Territory to anxiously enquire what has become of the Territorial Live Stock Sanitary Commission. Wake up, MessrS. Com and threw the safeguards of some sort of quarantine around the stock interests of the Territory.-Hoof and Horn.
 The following named prisoners have i been received at the Territorial pris- on: Maricopa county-Hicks, bur glary, tblee years; Buter bnrglsrY, three yearR; Barney, burglary, three years; Sanchez, grand larceny, one year; Foster, grand larceny, one year. From Cochise cOunty-Perfiiio Lingo nes, grand larceny, two years; Zaca- ' .ias Bustamante, forgery, one year; Manuel Lopez, grand larceny, five ' years; Ramon Estella, grand larceny, one year.