Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-12-14
WILCOX ITEMS.
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP BY THE
 STOCKMAN.
Forced Sale of Herd of HerefOrds- Miscellaneous Items of General
 Interest.
iStocknan.l |

As will be seen by advertisement, the entire herd of thoroughbred Here ford cattle belonging to The T. l.. Mil Ter Company is to be sold at public auction at Phenix on Friday, Decem- Der 20th. The sale is to satisfy judg- ment against the company in favor of the First National Bank of Chicago. AS this is one of the best herds of Herefords in the country, the sale will doubtless furnish an excellent oppor- tunity for stockmen who desire to purchase cattle of this fine beef breed to do so at low figures.
 Postmaster King has received noti- ficaiion from the Postoffice Depart ment that after January 1st, next, that Department will use two "l's" in the name of our postoffice, making 1t "Willcox." This is really the correct spelling, as this town was named after General o. B. Wilcox of the army 1; but heretofore the P. o. Department has employed but one "P-likewise The Stockman As we have no desire to be "odd," we suppose we shall also have to double up" on our Is.
 At tfe meeting Saturday evening last of Wilcox Lodge, No. II, A. o. U. w., the following officers were elected for the coming term: Master Work man, D. N. Hunsaker; Foreman Chas. w. Pugh; Overseer, T. J. Reynolds Recorder, Geo. H. Stratton; Financier, w. F. Nichols; Receiver, J. A. Bright ; Guide, Otto Moore; Inside Watchman, F. E. Caldwell; Trustee, H. A. Nor gan Medical Examiner, J. A. Bright.
 On Monday the last of the machin- cry of the Golden Rule mill was ship ped from Cochise to Casa Grande. Ii took quite force of men over forty days to take down the mill and load il on the cars at Cochise. About dozen cars were required to transport it. Pete Cunningham, Jim Waters and Bill Baxter were among those employed in doing the work They all returned tc town Monday and have been enjoying themselves after their season of labor NJ. E. Joyce, who was a member o
 he first Board of Supervisors of Co
 VI county, died at San Francisco ssst week, and the papers of that city have published large crop of lies 1T regard to the so-called thrilling chap ters in his life. Joyce, at the time O his death, owned a ranch, known a the Leslie place, situated near the southern portion of the Chiricahus and Swisshelm mountains, in this county, and also herd of several hun dred head of cattle.
 Messrs. Wilson and Dumont, the artesian we'll borers, abandoned worl on the well-or rather hole-whicl they had sunk to a depth of nearly 300 feet before the pipe arrived, ant 1 are now boring new we'll (and drivins the pipe as they sink) which is dowI between 100 and 200 feet. No furthe drawbacks are anticipated.
 MT. George R. King, on Monday received notice of his reappointmen as postmaster at Wilcox to succeed himself, term expired. MT. King ha been postmaster here since Octobe 2d, 1883, and is kept in office alik, under Republican and Democratic ad ministrations.
 Captain L. A. Abbott, U. S. A., re tied, who has been in Wilcox severa weeks, on Monday left for Seattle Washington. The Captain has a herr of several hundred head of cattle run ming on the Chiricahua Company range, and his visit here was for th' purpose of looking after them.
 Col. Cox, foreman Of the Whltbeel Cattle Company, recently fell from
 train and broke a rib while accompany ing shipment of cattle to Los Ange les.
 Pete Cunningham has gone to Gas Grande to assist in putting up tn Golden Rule mill