Mohave County miner., 1889-09-28
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

There are at present eleven prisoners
confined in the Cochise coanty Jail.
A chinaman was arrested at Globe last
week, for selling whisky 10 an Indian.
4. w. Kingsbury has been appointed
postmaster at San Carlos. Gila county,
vice w. w. Chapel resigned.
The Journal-M Miner says that an able
bodied male teacher Is wanted by the
trustees Of Walnut Grove school district
/ The Tombstone Prospector says that .
beef buyer On the west side Of the Hua-
chucas is paying one and three-q quarters
cents Tor cattle on foot.
Wilcox held an election last week ON
the question Of voting $1,000 tar TO
build a school house. Eleven votes were
east, all in favor Of the tax.
Casa Grande was visited by wind
storm last week which blew down one
house, and unrooied several others. One
person was injured by falling walls.
The remains Of q man, badly torn by
the coyotes and buzzards, wese found the
other day seven miles from Casa Grande,
in Pinal county, by the track walker, aud
could not be identified.
The Nogales Herald. II is hard mat
ter for some people to understand that
mail from Sonora must first pass through
the postoffice on the Mexican side and
then come 70 the United States postofiice.
Assurances have been received by q
mining man In this city, that the present
ruling Of the department in Washington,
affecting the importation Of Mexican lead
ores, win not be changed but viii remain
for action when Congress meets. Tucson
Citizen.
Two drunken Yuma Indians assaulted
two young sqnaws on the reservation
near Yuma on the 20sh inst. The bucks
deliberately choked ono Of the women TO
death. The murderers are in the hands
Of Chief Miguel, and a big pow WOW il
being held by the principal members Of
the tribe. II 10 believed they viii be ex-
ecuted according to tribal Law. ,s
Capt. Jack Benton, an expert cowboy
and an employee at the San Carlos
Agency, while corraling cattle one day
last week for issue, had bis horse disem-
boweled by an unruly steer. Mr.. Benton
mounted another horse and while at.
tempting to rope the steer, it leaped upon
the horse and struck Benton in the back
with its horns, inficting q dangerous
wound. Benton is under medical treat
ment and will recover In few weeks. d
The Phoenix Herald gives the following
particulars of gold strike sixteen miles
from Phoenix: wm.I Taplin has been
sinking shaft on his Hidden Treasure
lode, and at q depth Of thirty feet. un-
covered on Wednesday streak Of free
milling gold ore from two to three fee,
wide, and showing the bright metal
clearly to the eye. on course the usual
miners excitement placed value on the
ore away up in the hundreds, but an old
timer here estimates It's value In the
neighborhood Of 800 per ton.
+. s. Slower, who was arrested last
week charged with assault with a deadly
weapon, had hearing last Saturday be
fore Chas JaYyia Juetice of the Peace
and was held TO answer before the grand
jury in the sum Of 800. There was fu.
tile attempt made on the part Of the de-
fendant to prove that 1t was pipe in
stead Of q pistol which he drew. The
testimony to the contrary, however, was
too strong, and the pipe racket was no go
The similarity between = briar root pipe
and nickle-plated English bulldog, was
not strong enough to go down with Judge
Jarvis.-st. Johns Herald.