Mohave County miner., 1889-07-06
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The assessment OF Gayapai county for
1889 figures up 81, 2,645,oO0.
The census marshal reports l400 child
rem Of school age in Tucson.
Chief Justice Wright is holding circuit
court in Apache county this week.
George f. Norton has been appointed
postmaster at Harshaw, vice Mcdonald,
resigned.
A soldier named Hethwick committed
suicide at Fort iIuachuca on Tuesday Of
last week.
Governor Wo.fley and Secretary Muir
ply are attending the Fourth Of July Gel
ebration at Prescott.
Tucson is about the only town OF any
importance in the Territory that did not
celebrate the Fourth.
The water supply in Prescott is limited,
and the city only allows consumers
enough for domestic purposes.
w. s. Read and Miss Gertrude
Strauss, daughter Of Hon. G. NJ. Strauss,
were married in Tucson recently.
Three Mexican miners were asphyx-
lated in the keystone miro, Pima
county, last week. Two Of them are not
expected to recover.
One day last week a fruit dealer at
Phoenix shipped 100 boxes Of apricots,
the largest single shipment that ever left
the Salt river valley.
A southern exchange says II Casa
Grande isn't the hottest place in Arizona
it will rank second. On last Tuesday the
mercury reached ia.
The sahuara fruit 10 ripening, and it il
said that never before in Arizona was
there such q quantity Of it. The Indians
and Mexicans will have feast while il
lasts. ts.-Prospector.
II. C.. Hooker Of the Sierra Bonita
ranch in Cochise county il authority ior
the statement that 100000 has been
paid into the hands Of Arizona cattle
men during the past year for purchases
from their herds.
Stein and sulli Van are going to work
, their rock in arastrSs. Each man il
going 70 work his own rock-that is, they
cannot agree to pull together and each
J man will work different parts OF the
mine, which is the bonanza Of Harqus
Hala.-Prospector.
The blackleg that appeared among th'
cattle between Florence and Casa Grand'
few weeks ago has about disappeared
but not until quite large number o
cattle died from its effects. Foul wate
supply was the supposed cause OF the dis
ease.
A moderate estimate Of the amount o
copper ore in the sixth level, 30 far a
prospected, of the Old Dominion Com
pany's mine, places it at 5000 tons
enough TO run one furnace for year
Other levels also show good bodies 0
ore, sufficient for another years supply
Globe Belt.
Pedro Rebel, wealthy Mexican, OF
lis way from Tucson TO Sonora will
$500, when about sig miles out OF Tue
son was attacked by six mounted Mex
lean bandits, who robbed him 1t the en-
tire amount Of money and made thei
way toward the Mexican line. There
no clew to their identity.
The fireworks for the Fourth OF July
which were received some time since
we're placed in the old powder house nea
Prescott for safe-keeping. On saturda
the discovery was made that the entir
lot had been burned up, nothing remain
ing but the ashes oil 800 or 500 wort
} of them.-Journal- Miner.
Broom-making at the Territorial prison
after q short trial, has become grea
success. With the machinery now O
hand six men are working and turnin
four dozen brooms daily. They are be
ter brooms than are offered for sale i
Arizona, and in q short time the prise
vill be able to supply the entire Territor
with 6rst~clsss brooms.-Yuma Sent
mel.
i A deplorsble accident occurred one an
half miles from Mesa City yesterda,
The threshing machine Of Lewis * Pt
terson was operating at the Lewis farm
when by some means unknown tn
boiler bursted and Eve men were badl
burned. Two, David Holman and San
uel Openshsn, it is thought, were fatal
injured, the other three quite seriously
, Gazette.
The somewhat disheveled red maj
poking into town astride sack of whe'
and . csyuss pony, don't impress OF
with any great capacity for accumulation
And yet these single Indians in tho
leisuriy way have managed thus far tn
season 10 fill . warehouse for Treasur'
J. Y. 7. Smith. Some 1900 sacks hay
been piled up and about 1890 paid OF
to Poor Lo therefor. Herald.
. Superintendent G. II. Adams covers
, largo territory in his missionary supe
: vision of Arizona and Sonora. He Ina
however, carried the gospel light to a
| noinfs hefween Panama and the NorI