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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
That Cutting Affair


 Everybody in the city has heard of that cutting scrape which took place at the depot yesterday morning. and each tells a somewhat different story, even parties seemingly interested ignore positive knowledge of the same, so that 1t has been almost impossible to get correct statement of the facts connected herewith. Both parties to this deplor- able affair are young men, and both were employees of the railroad company. The pay car having passed here day or two ago, placed few ducats in their pockets and both came down town for a good time. They indulged in gambling and drinking and staid about the saloons till the small hours of the morning, when they walked to the San Xavier hotel one of the young men having won consi- derable money at faro. Their names are, Joseph Griffith and c. D. Fouts. Here they were joined by man named Emory, an invalid, who also had been indulging in strong drink. He seemed to be flush of money, having a roll of greenbacks in one of his hands. Fouts seeing this en- deavored to borrow few dollars, but Emory refused. Fouts took hold of the roll and endeavored to take 1t away from l him. Paul Moroney, who has charge of | the San Xavier hotel, in the absence of $. l C. Heaton, now in California, interfered and prevented Fouts from getting the money, as MT. Emory was a guest of the house. Soon after MT. Emory retired | Fouts then started for Mrs. Heaton's room to borrow some money. This Moro ney also prevented, and told him that he must not disturb the lady at that late hour. Fouts then turned on Moroney using abusive and threatening language At this Moroney threw him down stairs and followed by putting him out of the house A few moments afterward Griffith, who was i'll the bar room at the time, stepped out onto the porch, when at that instant he was jumped upon by Fouts with { knife, cutting him ill the right side, pen etratng the liver, and also twice in tn, right groin, each of which wounds is con sidered fatal It is believed that the at tack was intended for Paul Moroney The whole affair Is one to be deplored- much more so because they were stead, young men when off the influence of Ii quor and the gambling table Griffitl was taken to the Orndorff house, as h. could not be taken to the hospital on ac count of high water, where he now is in critical condition under the care of D1 J. c, Handy. Fouts is under arrest ant will have his examination as soon as tn result of the wound is known.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
A Strong Mining Syndicate.
Phenlx Herald.


 The Silver Girt mining company to- day filed its articles of incorporation with Recorder Osborn. The incorporators are James c. Rankin, Uriah Johnson, Nelson F. Acers and Thomas s. Morgan Prin- cipal place of business Phenix Duration of the company twenty-five years. Its business will include buying, selling and working mines, mills and milling ores, to- gether with all the details incident to a general mining business. There are 400,- 600 shares of capital stock with par val ue of S25 each, making a capitalization ef $lO,0OO,0OO, payable upon subscription and subject to cancellation upon 30 days default in payment. This stock may be increased by an affirmative vote of 70 per cent of the original stock. Liabilities are limited to $5000000 The board of di- rectors includes eleven members. Until December 10th next these will be James c. Rankin, Uriah Johnson, Thomas s. Morgan, Nelson F. Acres, E. S. w Drouglet, E. B. Mechan, M. R. King, F $. Daggett, F. B. Mclean, Eli Titus and Wm. Hutting, Jr
 l 1t is understood that the company has purchased the well known group of Gun sight mines, about AS miles south of GiIa Bend. They have been pronounced by experts, who came in on special cars, to be magnificent property.
 Our fellow townsman, J. c. Rankin, has been east for some time working uI the enterprise. He will return shortly and after visit to the mines will proceed to San Francisco for the heavy mining machinery. Extensive workings will bt opened.
 The company includes wealthy Kansas City capitalists, who propose to apply some of that energy which has given theil | pork packing town such wide celebrity
 Mir Rankin is to be congratulated or securing such responsible backing fol the developing of this great property.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
NaNanai,s DeIegates.

The Republican Central Committee of ' avapai county met in Prescott last Fri dly evening and appointed the following de egates to the Territorial convention, August 26th:
 Prescott F. NJ. Murphy, w. c. Bash fo d. J. M. w. Moore, W. o. O'Neill, E. W. Wells, w. A. Freeze.
 Flagstaff NJ Riordan, Ralph Cam eron, G. A. Bray, James A. Vail.
 Williams-John Davis.
 Congress G. w. Vickers.
 Walnut Grove -Abner Wade.
 Peoples Valley Geo. R. Parker
 Agua Fria-Geo E. Brown.
 Williamson Valley-Joseph S. Cook. Alexandra-E D. Gobin. Crowned King c. Shekels.
 Boggs and Big Bug-J. J. Williams. Senator and Hassayampa- NJ Whit tier.
 Lynx Creek and Walker Joe L Rob- erts.
 Jerome and Upper John Kir waggen.
 Lower Verde-W. S. Head.
 Bayard and Tip Top-O. A. Ensign Walnut Creek A. Doney
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09

attempt was being made to work up an Indian scare. Now, however, they will hardly dispute such authority as that of General Miles.
 The escape of the Indian Masse and his making his way back from Missouri to Arizona should be a conclusive argu- ment against the plan proposed by the late General Crook and urged by the h. dian Relief Society, or whateverits name is, for the removal of the captive Chiricahuas from Florida to Indian Territory If Masse could find his way back. alone and unaided, from St Louis to San Carlos, how long would take that eminent Sunday school teacher Geronimo and his band to get from Fort Sill in Indian Territory to their former home in Arizona, and how long would life or property be safe ill the Ter ritory after they have got back? It Is not more than seven or eight days loUr- ney from Fort Sill to the former home of the Chricahuas, and 1t IS certain that | their trail would be marked by the ashes of burning cabins and the blood of mur- i dered white men.
 Perhaps the Apache may be tanned, but thus far the experiments ill that line have not been brilliantly successful Those who know them best regard them as in tractable irreclaimable, savages, possess ed of high degree of cunning, but de voured by the lust for rapine and murder and no more capable of being civilized than a grizzly bear or rattlesnake.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
GRAHAM COUNTY.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED DURING THE
 PAST WEEK.
Burt Dunlap for the Legislative Coun
 cil---Uncle Josh Trips the Light Fantastic---Other Items of Interest.
solomonville Bulletin.

Hon. Burt Dunlap, of Aravaipa came in Saturday night and remained until Tuesday, meeting all of his friends Satur- day night at the ball. Burt Is being urged by many friends to again become a candidate for the Council this fall He was elected two years ago by handsome majority over the 'wheelhorse" of Ora ham Democracy, on the Independent or Peoples ticket. He Is a man of the strictest honor. and if elected to the Council again would be found always on the side of reform. MT. Dunlap will go on trip to California in short time, and although he has force of men now at work improving his residence in the Aravapa, he declares that it has no signif- icance whatever. The Bulletin wishes Burt much pleasure wherever he goes.
 Uncle Josh Bailey came in from the San Simon to attend the ball on Satur- day night, and "cut the pigeon wing three times. He Is now nearly 57 years old but is quite lively yet. A series of misfortunes visited him last week On his way home from Solomville he was caught in storm and had to lay out all night without blankets; small sized cy- clone carOmed on one corner of his barn. carrying two-thirds of it over in the cor ral. Besides this some one made haul on his cash box at two different times securing about ten dollars each time Uncle Josh' has the thief spotted and may yet be able to send him to Yuma.
 Graham County can show the largest valley Ill Arizona, where can be found more inducements to draw immigration to Arizona than anywhere else in the Territory. Commissioner of Immigra- tion Black, who is in search for informa- ti'7n ts'-ns to nsihlish- in his forth coming pamphlet has not vlslted tlI1s valley ' ct and it Is very doubtful if he will do so
 Mir. J. T, Owens has just completed boring well at Stafford, succeeding ir procuring bountiful supply of excellent water at a depth of AS feet. Several months ago he dug well about eight feet from the present one and the water was salty and unfit for use. A great many wells have been bored in the valley during the past year.
 Sheriff Whelan and Capt J. NJ Thomas returned from their trip to the Aravaipa, and Clark mining district. Plenty of rain has fallen up to date in the Aravaipa, and cattle are in fine condition, with the grass improving every day. But very little is being said in that section about the com ing campaign.
 The Union Canal Company have just completed a large Hume across the sand wash between Solomonville and Stafford at cost of about 5000 The sandwash has given this company much trouble and expense in the past, which will be obviated by the new Hume.
 J. T. Fitzgerald, Secretary of the Dem ocratic County Committee, has called the Committee together, he being next in authority, in the absence of the Chair man, Geo. H. Stevens. The meeting Is to be held on August 14th.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
Politics no Bar to Friendship.
Phenix Herald.

q can't understand" said Judge Barnes to a Herald man, "why political contests should have any effect on the private friendship.
 "In my Illinois boyhOod days Lincoln and Douglass were great leaders of op- posing parties. They fought hard for political mastery of each other, Yet so- cially they and their families were the closest friends
 Later on Logan and Morrison led the rival political armies. You know how hard they struggled. Yet they soldiered together in the same war; both were carried wounded from the same battlefield. Their wi yes together escort ed the disabled husbands home in the same railway car. They were none of them ever other than warmest friends.
 Yet we all know that not one of those great Captains ever faltered in his party fealty.
 Well, grew up in such an atmos- phere. On settling in Arizona 1 was naturally attracted to men of good prin- ciples and companionable tendencies, re gardless of their politics Those friends of opposite political faith kept their DO itical schemes and mannuvres to them selves. I did the same with mine We found many avenues of mutual enter tainment outside of the politics, and we pursued them gladly.
 Yet l often hear such action criticised as showing lack of political sincerity and steadfastness,
 Tt does no such thing. God pity th, man whose friendships are limited to lii. political associates. l propose to culti vate good fellowship wherever it comes within cIlltivable distance"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
The'earth is fully saturated with moisture and vegetation is awakening to it's mag ical toueh
Mining, etc., in Tonto Basin,
Payson Corr. Prescott Courier.

Payson Corr. Prescott Courier
 The fact that mines can be developed and made to pay without the aid of much capital, is being demonstrated here in rOnto Basin.
 Wm. Burch and four other men have pooled their mining interests. Their lodges are small, that is from six inches to two feet in width, free gold and will work from fifteen to twenty dollars per ton. While two of the men work on the mines, the other three are building ditch from the East Verde, a water wheel and arras- tras. They will haze everything in run ming order in about month, without any more care, worry or privation, than the ordinary farmer experiences in planting his crop. Tho beauty of this thing is that it only has to be done once and the in come begins right away, while the ranch man has to wait six months for his returns and repeat the operation yearly
 The trouble with too many of the mine owners of this county is that they think | they ought 10 make a fortune at one bound | so keep being around waiting for some | body tO come along and pay them a big | price for their prospects The sooner they | do away with the boom idea and ge down to a clear business proposition, tho sooner will mining be paying and pros | porous business.
 | Talk about a man or men having thC world by the tail with down hill pull, i strikes me the owners of the Grand Prizl mine on Webber Creek, have about tn, best hold of anybody that know of. The, have a complete mill outfit with stean hoisting works and pump at the mine A shaft down lG0 feet, 250 1t. of level and an average of IS inches of ore, tha will go $50 per ton, besides an air shaf 100 feet in depth in ore all the way, an, two other shafts, one 60 feet and the othe 20 feet in depth, also in ore that mills sb2j per ton. There are five men interested il the mine, all workers. 1hey.gO to work and take out lot of ore, when they ge enough for run they start up the mil and the work they do Is development worl getting enough ore in that way to pa them we'll The result will be in a fey years they will have well developed mine worth plenty of money.
 The exact location of the dividing lin between Gila and Yavapai counties IS dis turbmg a good many people, some claim ing one line, some another, according t their own personal interest. It is hope that the next Legislature will amend tn act so that the lines can be followed inte ligently.
 Showers have been light and not yer well distributed, still the impression that this will be good summer for feeC
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09

TIE frowns of nature upon Arizona as indicated in early summer, have given way to smiles of hope, and joy is mani fested throughout the length and breadth of our beautiful land that the promises of the future are so bright. All through the mountains and valleys the rain has fallen copiously, and the farmer and stockman feel that they are indeed favor ed. The mines arc also developing into new life by the appreciation in the price of silver, and upon these three great in- dustries the whole prosperity of our peo- pie rests. The one black cloud of evil the Indian troubles-has been dissipated and in it5 place there appears a rainbow of hope that in this direction the end of our apprehension IS nearly reached Aside from our political misfortunes, Ari- zona stands to-day upon a better plane of progress than at any previous period and the expectation is not over sanguinC that looks to the next semi-decade tc advance the material growth of the Ter rtory to happy condition of prosperi ty that is unequaled upon the Pacific coast.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09

TIE republican county central com mittee of Pinal county will meet to-day for the purpose of selecting delegates to the Territorial convention and for the transaction of other necessary business pertaining to the approaching political campaign. While we are unalterably op- posed upon principle to the appointment O. delegates to represent the whole peo- pie, by any small body of men, however we'll disposed they may be, yet we feel assured that the best judgment of the committee will be exercised in the present instance and that little of the arbitrary power assumed by them will be exercised excepting for the good of the party and the people of the Territory. May they have the grace and rigid backbone to do their duty conscientiously and unbiased by fear or favor.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
A New and Novel Enterprise.
Globe Silver Belt.


 The Yuma Sentinel says: "As soon as the convicts get through running the cut in the hill west of the s. F. Hotel they will be employed grading the hill south of the prison walls. When the latter work is completed the construction of a large reservoir will be commenced. The reservoir will be used for the purpose of supplying the town with an abundance of pure water It Is the intention of the prison authorities to hurry this important work along so as to furnish the village of Yuma with Colorado river water at low figure and at the same time have the rev enue so obtained pay q heavy interest to the territory on the investment"
 If such is the intention of the prison authorities, they are not as jealous of the prerogatives of the people as were Sam Purdy and John w. Darlington when, as members of the 10th Legislative Assem- bly,, from Yuma county, they voted against territorial appropriation to assist Ill bridging Salt river in Cila county, and now that there Is about to be a pervertion of law under their very noses we expect their moral sensibilities to be so shocked as to cause vail of anguish that would | stifle the devil, the father of all evil. l We do not understand that the town O Yuma proposes to employ convict labol to construct large water reservoir, but simply to become a co-partner in tho enterprise with the prison commissioners and without investing stiver shar, in the project to supply the town at "i low figure" with Colorado river water | Should the arrangement here contem plated be perfected it will necessitate tn, extension of the prison walls, for the reas on that leased convict labor can be em ployed nowhere else. If arrangements o this kind can be legally entered into Gila county should call upon the prisol authorities to build the bridge, so great ly needed, across the Salt river, i'll orde that its revenue may be materially ill | creased
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
A Fayarite
St. Johns Herald.

We clip the following complimentary notice of an ex-resident and an ex-dep- uty sheriff of this county from the Al buquerque Citizen: ''Twenty-four years ago, July 26, 1866, Thomas Hubbell. one of the popular and competent deputy sherif1s under Sheriff Perea, was born on the pretty Hubbell ranch at Pajarito this county. Tom was out at Gallup yester- day and the day before assisting in patching up the difficulty between the coal operator and miners, which duty he performed successfully and returned to the city this morning to celebrate in an ap- propriate manner the 34th anniversary of his life. He is general favorite among long list of friends: has made a cour- ageous, efficient officer; has well bal anced head on his shoulders, and the Citizen, whom he can always recognize as a friend, wishes him many pleasant an niversaries to come"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
"A GROWL."

MR EDITOR: Although my taxes are small, yet they are as burdensome to me as if I paid much more. And as a taxpayer, I feel that have right to criticise those extravagances that are factors in the creation of high taxes. have in my mind the county hospital No sooner does the impecuniOus citizen become broken down and debilitsted than he rusLes cf to the hospital. Even persistent dyspepsia and constipation are getting to be excuses for admig- sion. Hence. allow me space to enter my feeble protest against further continuance Of this per nieious practice. It costs the county many hard dollars for the treatment of every one of these unfortunaes, aId it is hig time that they should know that they can save the county that expense, and themselves those distressing ail- ments, by the judicious use of 2 few bottles of Joys Vegetable sarsapariIla, remedy that within my observation is sovereign cure for thoset too common disorders. II they won't take it they ought to be compelled to by some law that would nee, the case. Under the circum- stances full hospital is inexeusable II hence this growl CITIZEN.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
BarbCcue.
Prescott Courier.

Fridays train, which conveyed the Prescott delegation to the barbecue, ar rived at Chino at 10 a. m. After select music had been rendered by the band, Col. J. r. Wilson made a short speech. At one o'clock the feast began. It was partaken of by about 175 persons, after dinner dancing was commenced Shortly after o'clock the clouds sent down tor rents of rain-the heaviest of the season washing out railroad bridges near Banghart's so that the train had to lay over all night at Chino. Dancing was kept up till 6 o'clock Saturday morning. Much praise IS due Messrs. Storms, Snow, Banghart, Shivers, Drew and others for their successful management of the entertainment. Prescott folks were well pleased.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
/ The Arizona Murderers
s. F. Chronicle.

General Miles has reported to the ad- jutant- General at Washington the cap ture of six of the outlaws concerned in the murders of Hardie and Baker and Sheriff Reynolds in Arizona some time ago. The Generals dispatch says that an Indian wounded in Lieutenant Michie's fight acknowledged being one of the Reynolds murderers, and had Sheriff Reynolds rifle at the time he was captured. He also admitted that he was present at the killing of Hardie at Fucker Canyon, and that it was an Indian who killed him. Mr. Baker was killed by an Indian named Messe, who escaped from the cars near St Louis at the time the Apaches were being moved to Florida and worked his way back to the mountains near San Carlos.
 This puts an end to the theory insisted upon by some of the newspapers, that these murders were committed by Mexi- cans disguised as Indians It will be re- membered that the Chronicle asserted, upon reliable information, that the mur- derers were renegade Apache. and that some of the journals of this city pooh pOohed 1t, declaring that the Indians were not off the reservation, and that an
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
Turquois Mining Co.


 The working shaft of the Silver Bill is now down to depth of 150 feet on the lime-quartzite contact. Two floors have been cut out below the 80 foot level, and the ore stopped out and shipped or held in reserve. The extent of the ore is so thoroughly demonstrated that no further floors will be cut out until the main shaft has reached a depth of 240 or 250 feet Over 1000 tons of second grade ore Is now on the dump. The most important strike on the property of the company is that made in an old assessment hole 10 feet deep, located west of the fault that was encountered in running the west drift on the S0-foot level. Samples taken from the bottom of this shaft led to the prose- cutlon of work, which has resulted in un- covering for an extent of 25 feet square the apex of an immense ore body, the ex- tent of which can only be surmised, but 1t Is of good shipping body and is evident " bonanza in itself