Mohave County miner., 1888-09-08
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

uACh Wy dac Dodfu VI CuktINiboFS AZ S@,oo
1per 800, the lowest rate in the territory.
The Board of Supervisors Of Pima coun-
ty have levied tax Of 1913 on the 800.
This is twenty-eight cents less than last
years levy.
Noga,es now has five newspapers. and
locally they are designated by names the
mention Of which would make Boston
mans hair turn gray.---Herald.
Buck Mcdowell, Of Pinal, joined the
Good Templars and then committed
suicide with morphine. His determina-
ton TO die sober was commendable.
Fifteen dead dogs are said TO have been
gathered up on the streets yesterday
morning and twelve more this morning,
the result of strychnine Tucson Citi'
zen. ...
Judge q. NJ. Mcknight has sued out a
writ of mandamus to force the county
treasurer to pay him his salary as district
attorney in cash, instead Of warrants
which are below par.-Yuma Sentinel.
The tax levy for the present year has
has been fixed by the Board OF Supervis-
ors at 81 .63 on each 800 assessed valua-
ton, that being just seven cents below
the levy Of last year.-Florence Enter.
| prise. .....
After January /, 1889, the only salaried
Office in this county will be the district
attorney, whose salary viii be reduced
from 5000 TO 81, 800 per year. All other
offices win go back TO the fee system
Journal Miner.
II is estimated that 81 $50 is paid into
the pockets OF the managers Of the Louis
lana lottery scheme every month from
Tombstone alone. II is evident that the
fool-kiler has not visited this neck OF the
woods.-Prospector.
| Orders have been received from the
Secretary OF War TO abandon Fort Thomas
as a military post and the garrison is
ordered to be moved to San Carlos. A
board OF officers will be at San Carlos
next Tuesday to select site for the
post.
| The other morning John Judd's pei
crow amused large crowd by picking
the nails out of the shingles on the roo
of the house adjoining the Internationa
hotel and swallowing them. 1t was prob
ably trying to get up an appetite.-No
gales Herald. M
Eight years ago last Sunday the FRS
locomotive ever run in Arizona wa,
fred up and run on the Coronado railroad
between Clifton and the Longfellow mine
Henry Arbuckle, who still manipulate'
: the throttle on this road was in charge
Clifton Clarion.
t The railroad from San Diego, by way O
G Ensenada and Yuma, and up the Gill
: valley, will be commenced on the first o
e October and it's construction will be push
+ ed with the energy that characterizes tn
B Santa Fe company, There is strong hop
g that the road will be built to Florence. al
Though nothing is known Of the intention
Of the builders after Il reaches PhGnix.-
Enterprise.
\ The campaign is opening up IN lin
], shape in Phoenix. L. III. Chalmers, dem
ocratic candidate for district attorney, di
= the opening act by severely beating X. I
:, Jackson, editor OF the Advance, a demo
cratic paper The instrument Of warfar
= used by Mr.. Chalmers in his openin
argument was heavy cane, with whic
he pounded Jackson into inconsistencies
Journal Miners.
Ie About twenty-five ministers with the
,t wives will compose the Arizona Misslo
r Conference of the Methodist Episcop'
n- church. The conference will meet Sep
Is 9th in the Marina Street church at Pre-
I'd colt, and will continue In session abo'
II one week. Rev. Thomas Bowman, u.
bt L. L. D., who will preside, has been
ct Methodist minister for fifty years and
e. bishop sixteen years and resides at s
o. Louis.
The democrats Of Maricopa county ha'
nominated the following ticket: Counc
~ man, Samuel F. Webb; Assemblyme
Z. ]. Edwards and w. L. George; Sheri
- w. 2. Gray; District Attorney, FraI
:, = Cox; Treasurer, j. w. Crenshay; r
~ - corder, Neri Orborne; Probate Jude
Frank Baxter; Assessor, J.K. Murph
VI Supervisors, G. B. Hakes and Char
" Standard; County Surveyor, w.
=, Breckenridge.
al Mr.. Ryan, Of the Southern Pacific ra
.Iv road, stated yesterday that his compa
he would pay its taxes in the various cot
ties OF this territory on the value as ass
sed by the board OF equalization, on
ne ceipt of notice that they are due. II
ny railroad has acquired good reputati
for promptness in the payment Of tar
sa being among the first TO pay in the cot
.he ties through which it runs. The mon
u.s. they thus pay is immediately paid
Inn again by the counties and put in circu
the ton and makes money easier for oil
be taxpayers. As in Yuma county they +
70 seven-eights Of the entire revenue Of
les. county this is q very important ite
Iur- Cochise county also receives large ?
the ton of its revenue from the Southern
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