Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-06-27
OUR TERRITORY.
Chlps From Our Territorial Ex.
 changes.

Carpenters are in demand in King man at present.
 Twenty-one buildings were destroyed by the Kingman fire.
 The railroad depot at HOlbroOk was destroyed by fire on Saturday. P.J. Bolan thinks of starting paper at SOlOmonville, Graham county. Pete Gabriel is improving, and his ! friends hope for his ultimate recovery. A Phenix woman realized $47.5O from the fruit on three apricot trees this year.
 Billy Arlington, the black cork
 artist, is doing the southern towns of the territory.
 l.. H. Orme has realized $23.8O per acre on $50 acres of grain this year in the Salt river valley.
 s. D. Lount, of Phenix, Was confined | to his room for week from blood poisoning, caused by fly bite. Kingman lodge of I. o. 0. r. have so many applications for membership that they were compelled to hold extra ses- | siOns.
 Graham county, it is said, will place an independent ticket in the field during the coming campaign, and it will win all along the line. The weather Is getting so warm in Phenix that they have 70 feed their hens clipped ice to prevent them from laying hard boiled eggs. Bob Thomas, who was shot at Spring erville recently, died last Tuesday night ! between eleven and twelve o'clock. He was an exceedingly popular young man, and his death will be regretted hy many.
 The Apache Review says that the trout fishing season Will begin in a | couple of weeks in the White mOun- tains on Black river and the Little Col. | OradO. No where in the world can this | fish be found in higher state of per lection and beauty.
 After Dick Bumgreaser's death, in ! Apache county, his foreman on the | roundup every morning placed Dicks saddle on one of his horses and, thus | sadtlled, the animal ran with the horse herd. It was very suggestive of the old | mans absence.
 A herd of cattle on the tr ,il from | TeastO Canyon creek crossed the Little | Colorado river at the meadows, a few miles below 1t. Johns, during the week. | When the herd started it had ,9OO head. Through losses it now has only HOO.
 A fatal accident occurred at Silver King on Thursday evening of last
 week. Joseph Costa, a miner workin g on the SOO.fOot level of the min", at-
 tempted to get into the ascending cage and only partially succeeded in doing so. Other wOrkmen in the cage tried | to assist him in, but h. was caught be- tween the cage and the timbers and his head was crushed, causing instant death. It also tore him loose from the cage and the bo.iy fc, to il,e 900 .out
 level, where it was picked up.
 The Herald says that tbe particulars cf the accident last Saturday on the Highland canal are, that a man by the
 name of Syms was going along the cut
 placing giant cartridges in holes that
 had been drilled for the purpose, and
 he was followed by Mexican carrying
 cartridges. While inserting a cartridge
 it is supposed he jammed it, and the re-
 snlt was an explosion by which he was
 blown several feet in the air, falling a
 msngeld and lifeless corpse. The Mex
 ican, who was several feet distant, ap-
 peared to be stunned by the explosion,
 as no mark or wound could be found
 on his body. Nevertheless he fingered
 along for several hours, and died with. ont becoming conscious.