The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-26
Territorial Items.

News comes from Camp Verde that Chas Morris, who was bitten on the nose by skunk, six weeks ago, during the spring roundup, died in great agony the other day, of hydrophobia.-Jour- nai-Miner.
 In q l:tter written to Hon. Samuel Purdy recently, onr delegate in { ongress Hon. Mark Smith says: T had the Col oYado placed in the River and Harbor bill with directions 10 the Secretary of War, to have an examination and sur vey made as preliminary to the improve ment of same. The Committee on Ap- propriations cannot appropriate any money for improvements until such suT- vey and examination have been made. :" Yuma Sentinel.
 John H. Norton has been officially mo- tifed, by the Interior Department, that he will be awarded the contract to sup ply SG0,000 pounds of beef at the San Carlos Indian Agency during the fiscal year beginning July 1st next, and 500,- 900 pounds at Fort Apache. Mir. Norton will purchase all this beef from cattle men in the counties adjacent to the res ervation. We also learn that the Chiri- caiIua Cattle Company was awarded the contract 10 supply 300 600 pounds of beef at San Carlos. Figures not stated Wilcox Stockman.
 The Silver City Enterprise was inform ed during the week, by very reliable gentleman, that the Justice of the Peace at Central City was carrying the law out with excessive stringency. As told inc Enterprise: CA soldier was fined for some trivial offence, whereat colored woman remarked on the street that il would injure the town" The Justice ordered her arrested for contempt and fined her $5. She went to her house and closed the door, when the Justice order rd the door broken in and the woman e-ariested. Mir. Bruesch, who is in the butcher business, noticing that the wo- man was in delicate condition, gave her $5 to pay her fine, and remarked that her treatment had been very harsh severe, whereupon an order for his ar rest was issned; coming into the room where cuu.t was to be held with his hat an, he was fined for another contempt, fines and costs amounting to $17. NJ. Dfuesch offered to give bonds and ap- pear, which were refused, and he was given the option of paying or going to jail. He accordingly paid the $17 for which he holds receipt"
 One million eight hundred thousand pounds of beef has been contracted for ioy the sustrnauce of White Mountain Agency Indians, for the current year, 1900 ,0d1 of which is for San Carlos and JO0, ,000 for Apache.
 Agent Wilcox, in his report to the Commissioner in 1883 said Comply ing with the wishes of General Crook c,n- scented to an arrangement by which some SIX or seven hundred White Mountain indians were permitted 10 live near Fort Apache, in the northern part of the res ervation. The conditions of my assent were that such Indians that chose to live there should be self-sup- porting, and that Gen. Crook should be responsible for their good conduct. Dur ing tine fall and winter little trouble Was experienced from tue arrangement, hut the clamor for supplies has been loud this summer, and under the plea that they were planting and needed rations until the ripening of their com, they have drawn heavily on the agency. The original number has been largely in- creased from the agency by relatives and friends, who seeing the advantages of pleasant summer resort, have from time 10 time abandoned the hot valleys of the San Carlos and Gila." They are still there, doubtless, waiting for the corn to ripen. The large supply of beef ordered for them the current year sug- gests that idea.-Silver Belt.
 While they are waiting for that corn to ripen, they are amusing themselves by killing cattle and running off an oc- casionally horse or two that happens to stray across the reservation line for a short distance. We have heard there