Tombstone epitaph., 1888-12-22
ARIZONA NEWS.

years in me IcIIuoIlAI penitcntidIy ST. Santos Corona a native of Sonora, age 76, died at Florence last week from lead poisoning. He leaves widow and six children in straightened circum- stances.
 Thomas Donovan an old timer, aged s7, d,ed at the Florence hospital last Monday.
 The Florence Enterprise complains of the great scarcity of eggs in tha, section. They should import some cells and cross them with the Florence hen.
 Diphtheria continues to prove fatal to children at St. Johns. The News says: Considering the population of St. Johns the death rate during the las, few months among the children, has been fearful and unprecedented To date over. forty chil. dren have fell victims to the dreadful scourge.
 Tim O'Mara formerly of this place died suddenly at Phen,x las, Thursday, from the bursting of blood vessel. He was a member of the C. A. R., and was buried by that order.
 The wife of George H. Luhrs, of Phenix, presented him with a daughter last Thursday.
 The Gazette says that Thomas Gre gory, of Tempe, formerly of this place will assume charge of one of the lead ing hotels Of Phenix soon.
 A party of Prescott trappers have caught a good many beaver on lower Verde.
 Mich lee, the Navajo Indian, says the St. Johns Herald, charged with the murder of Ben Swift, while on a pros- pecting trip for the lost Adams digeinss on the reservation, had . hearing before United States Court Commissioner, Dr. Dalby, on the 9th, and was held without bail
 Deputy Sheriff James Speedy, of NoIales, arrested at that place Juan Enriquez. the confessed murderer of An Foy, alias Sullivan, at Tucson. l, ap- pears that he and the two women de- ceyed the chinaman to where he was killed, when he struck him in the back ot the head with a rock and broke his skull and then went to work on han with his kaife. Jealousy was the cause. It is foregone conclusion now says the Star, that newspaper will be started at Solomonville, Graham county, in the near future.
 Business at PresC"u is said to be livelier than for several years, owing to a revival in mining.
 Sheriff Mulvenon, of Yavspai, earned a fee of $500 in the sale of the Mineral Belt railroad.
 Henry 5paulding, Of Agua Fria, Yava. pal, has sold his ranch to Rober, De. Large, New Mexico stock raiser, whe will place large number of cattle on it..
 The Globe Bel, says that the bad roads between that place and Wilcox, has seriously in,erfered with the ship. ment of coke and merchandise.
 It is said that Col. !. B. Morton has been appointed postmaster a: Yuma.
 The Yuma Sentinel says the market at that place is overstecked with water. naellons and canteloupes.
 The s. P. railroad company paid into the Yuma county treasury, las, Monday, the sum of S73,II8.6s taxes for the year 1888.
 James M. Vandeburg, q well.known citizen of Yavapai county, died at Pres colt last Friday.
 Isabel Rivas, wife of Juan Giron, died at Prescott last week She leaves hus band and five children to mourn her less.
 Wing Lee, the Chinese murderer of George F. Parks, at Phenix, a shor, tune ago, was held without bail to ap. piar before the next Grand Jury.
 Lawrence Russell has resigned as General Superintendent of the Arizona Copper Co. at Clifton.
 J. F. Meador has resigned as agent for Wells, Fargo & Go. in Prescott, and F. w. Blake have has been appointed to that position. Mir. Meador has gene to Phenix to reside, where he is largely in. lerested in the Highland canal.
 J. C. Turner, one of the early pioneers of YavaPai county, after an absence of nearly twenty years has returned to Prescott
 Kelly X Stephens of Prescott have | been awarded the contract for furnishing he next Legislature with stationery for s45+9o.
 Dick McNary, says the Miner, was luite seriously injured recently a, Copper Basin, by the premature explosion of . ,iant powder cap. He was blown up at Walnut Grove nearly two years ago.
 Fre'ghters, says the Courier, are ask.