Mohave County miner., 1888-01-28
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The melting SHOWS viii cause Q rich
harvest for placer miners.
The Copper Queen mine at Bisbee is
now lighted by electricity.
Bncklayers at Pho,nlx receive six dol.
lars per day and want seven dollars.
VIM. Lowell Ess resigned tho position
o! Deputy United Statss District Attorney.
The delinquent tax liz. Of Coehiss
county takes eight columns Of the Ep.-
,aph.
The Supreme Court is TO meet la al.
journed session at Tucson, On the frat Of
March.
Two men were injured by ths preina-
tura discharge Of blast a, Walnut Grove
last week.
A number Of new enterprises will 10
started up near Yuma within the next
two months.
A prisoner by the name Of }. spis nas
released from the peni,entiary last week,
his term having expired.
Eight different canal projects are be-
ing prosecuted between the junction Of
the Salt with the Gila river and Yuma.
There are sixteen invalids FROM Po.
mona, Cal. wintsring at Yuma, and the
Sentinel says they all are growing
stronger.
Deputy Marshal VIII Smith has arrest.
ed Ballard Brothers for stealing telegraph
wire from the Government telegraph line
IN Graham county.
Mr.. Geo. II. Daily, Clerk Of the Dis
trict Court Of Cochise county. has been
appointed Commissioner OF the same
Court by Judge Barnes.
The Ph1nix Herald wants sampling
Works. and II claims that the mining
country adjacent to that town would
make the works pay handsomely.
Last week Detective Smith arrested
and convicted, at Wilcox, six Mexicans,
three Americans and two nesresses on
charge of stealing goods from the train
near Wilcox.
Tucson is determined to have an arbor
day. Mr. J. s. Mansfield, of that city,
offers 900 to the boy or girl that will
plant and keep alive the greatest number
OF trees In that city for one year
John o. Dunbar, through 8. C.. sy-
monds, to whom was assigned the ac-
count, has instituted suit against 4. r.
Merritt and the Gazette Publishing Com.
pany for the recovery Of one thousand
odd dollars for services rendered as editor
Of that paper.
In the train robbery case, tried at
Tucson in the United States District Court
last week, George Green turned State
evidence and gave the whole thing away.
Doc. Smart and Geo. Green were found
guilty. Snyder and skidmore were found
not guilty and were discharged.
Kid Single, charged with stage and
train robberies, was recently captured in
Missouri by Sheriff Owens, of Apache
county. While returning via the Texas
Pacific Kid, though shackled, escaped by
jumping from moving train near Toyah,
in Texas.
A Tucson Star special from the San
Carlos says an Apache Indian who had
been put IN the guard house for getting
intoxicated asked TO SEQ his wife and
child. When they were taken TO him he
cut their throats, put them in bed, set
the bed On fire and rushed for the ser
geant o! the guard with . club and knife,
but was riddled with bullets and killed.
For the quarter ending December Slst
last ~ prisoners were received at the
Yuma prison, eight were discharged, 2
pardoned and 1 killed IN attempting to
escape. There are now ON hand l34
prisoners. 1t is q remarkable truth that
during the past six months the only
deaths that hare occurred were the four
Mexicans killed in tho recent desperate
break for liberty.
The Supervisors Of Apache county, at
their January meeting, examined the
financial condition OF that county. The
total Indebtedness is 10000. Jacob
Barth, Of Grand Rapids, Mich, presented
warrants aggregsting SIS 900, 81 900 OF
which were found TO bs forgeries, and az
snch marked and returned to Barth. Sol.
oman Barth, brother TO Jacob, is now
serving . ten.year term in the Yuma
Psnitsn.isry for the forging Of these same
warrants.
Deputy Sheriff James Thomas arrived
on Thursday afternoon from successful
chase after Mcneil, who escaped about
three weeks sgo from the Phoenix Jail.
Mcneil 1t seems went through Florence
riding one Of Mr.. E. F. Kellner's horses,
and he was recognized u few days later at
Mineral Creek. Sheriff Fryer then de-
tailed Deputy Thomas TO trail tho man
and he followed the culprit TO Duncan,
near Clifton. where he caught him and
recovered Mr.. Kellner's horse. Mcneil
Is quite young man and affects yer.
dancy that is In strange contrast with his
alleged rscord.-Florence Enterprise.
A somewhat novel ont exciting foot.