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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
Mining.
Prescott Courier.

Steve Mott is benefting himself and the country by working several mines and giving employment to good many men and animals He recently shipped a carload of ore worth between $4,000 and $50O0; Is shipping another carload of richer ore and has the Tuscumbia mill almost ready to run.
 The Etta mine, near Verde, is opening up well. Reserves of ore are large. It will have new mill shortly.
 Dell Thornes teams arrived here recent ly with gold sulphurets from the Con gress.
 MT. Claypool, manager of the Prescott ore works, is busy sampling and shipping for Frank Kuhne and other miners.
 The gold ledge that was found, a short time ago, near Iron Springs, is said to look very promising. The ore is well provided with free gold.
 Lots of placer gold have been coming Ill pretty regularly since the rains made water for rocking and sluicing. Experts have examined the onyx prop erty i'll Big Bug district and may buy 1t.
 The Phenix Republican, of recent date, says,
 Frank Luke has returned from his trip to the Bradshaw mountains. He is full of enthusiasm in his description of the mines of that section, being especially in terested in those of Bradshaw Basin.
 The Crowned King mine, located in the Basin, he considers one of the finest prop critics in Arizona. Place x Shekles, the owners, are now having active work prose cuted upon it and every added foot of development but further shows the high worth of the claim. The ore body is about four feet in width. It is opened up by a tunnel LOO feet in length, with an air shaft at the end, 130 feet, to the surface. At another point a 300-foot tunnel has been run. Ali these workings are in solid ore for their entire lengths. The ore is of uniformly high grade, much of it assay ing over $60 to the ton in gold. In charac- ter it is the basest of sulphuret, and can only be satisfactorily worked by smelt- ing.
 Place < Shekles own near the mine a ten-stamp mill, well equipped for work ing refractory ores, and have managed by its means to pay all the expenses of devel opment from the property itself. They are now collecting in Phenix a carload oi ore, and will ship to Fl Paso for reduc ton, as an experiment.
 Frank and John Luke own the Gretna an extension-of the Crowned King. The ore is somewhat different in character from that of the other, running higher il silver. They have upon their property 160-foot tunnel, 75 foot shaft and mum Der of smaller workings. Frank, while not growing so loudly over his own claim still anticipates fortune from it.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
The Case of TurneF-
Prospeetor


 Asa Turner, who was recently arrested in Sonora, Mexico, and sent to jail, has written to Sheriff Slaughter and Joseph Hoefller, of this city, stating the fact of his arrest aI.G that he could be released on $500 bonds and asking that the bond be forwarded. It was promptly lhrG.sh- ed and sent to Magdalena and MT. Fur ner will in all probability. be treadlng free soil in short time. The Mexican government does not seem to have over stepped the law in this case and has only done that which was proper under the circumstances. MT. Turner has been working a mine about thirty miles be- yoRd the line, in Sonora, and had occa- sion to frequently pass from one country to the other. In doing so he neglected to inform the Custom House Of the fact not only once but presumably many times, and during one of these trips the Mexican guards caught and contiscated his team and outfit but did not mOlest him. He returned to Sulphur Spring valley, where his friends advised him to let the matter drop and not transgress again and all would be well in the future. But he refused to listen to them. He was going to have that team, which they had taken from him wrongfully, he sad, and they dare not arrest him; he was an American citizen and James G. Blaine was his friend and they (the Mexican government dare not touch him. So he went after the team, with American citi- zenship and the friendship of Secretary Blaine resting upon his shoulders, and demanded of the Custom House officials why the outrage had been committed. For answer he was asked why he had not reported to the Custom House, and, still steadfast in the faith of the burden upon his shoulders, he claimed exemption from that triting duty, and his subse- quent words and manner landed him Tn the precise position his friends had warn ed him against the interior of a Mexican prison. Mr. Turner is undoubtedly a | good and peaceful citizen of the United | States, but he ignored the fact that while American citizenship is recognized and protected the world over, the possessor of l the honor must respect the laws of any country in which he may happen to be. Even the friendship of Secretary Blaine is powerless to change an international law for the benefit of one who has de- liberately disregarded 1t. It is very sad and extremely unpleasant to be prison CT in any jail, and the lesson so bitterly learned will do a great deal to cause due 1 respect and observance of the customs laws hereafter, however insignificant and unimportant they may appear to be.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
PLACER MINING.
THE YAVAPAI MINING AND IRRIGA-
 TION COMPANY.
Extensive Operations Upon Humbug Riv- er---A strong Storage Reservoir to be Constructed to Supply
 the Canal.
Phenix Republican.

ilSltAN httblltiU- NJ. B. Clanton and M. P. Bowen vas- terday closed a contract with the Yava- pal Mining X Irrigation Company for the construction of ditch one and one-half miles in length. The ditch is to be nsed for the purpose of conveying water from the Humbug river to tine rich gravel banks which the company designs working by hydraulic giants" in true California style. The canal will be an expensive one to excavate, 1t being necessary to cut three tunnels on its route all in the
 solid rock and to construct fourteen aqueducts. It Is designed to carry 2000 inches of water, which will be delivered at the workings under a head of from 50 to 100 feet. The contractors are under bond to complete the job in seventy days, and will at once put over fifty men at work.
 More than that number of men will | soon be put to work Upon the dams which are to store up the waters Of the Humbug and divert them into the ditches of the company. A side channel of the river IS to be obstructed by a crib dam sixty-nine feet long, which will turn the stream into the main reservoir and serve as a waste way. The dam at the lower end of this reservoir IS to De constructed Gt granite boulders set in cement and will be made absolutely safe. It will be seventy eight feet In length, thirty feet high and twen- ty-fiye feet thick. In the bottom will be two flood gates, each six bs four feet in size.
 Superintendent Keating has, it great expense already constructed an excellent road through the rock of the damsita and suggests that it be used as a portion of the proposed road into the Bradshaws. A movement for the construction of this necessary highway IS now on foot in Phe- nix and within a few mouths tradle will find no difficulty in reaching Minnehaha Flat, whence to Prescott a natural road exists
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
|, HE BENDER FAMILY AGAIN.
Why Dete, Wives Do Not and Did Not
 Catch Them.
Corr Phe 'uiX Republican.

"Nhat ecame of the Bender family ? is a question that for mHny years has pug zled the officers of justice and furnished the plot for many a border story. But at last from the hills of rock-Ilbbed Arr zona comes an echo of their fate, and the old saying murder will out, is again vindicated. It was the writer's fortune, while iourneying in the mountains some time since, to fall in with an old prospec- tor who had spent portion of his life ''in the early days of Kansas" He told the following story: One day while travelling down the valley of the Gila l stopped for the night at little cabin, whose only occupant was an old man whitened with age and bent by the cease- less march of time. He was from Kansas and the conversation turned upon the past
 Did you ever learn the fate of the Benders?" said he "No," said I, enquir- mgly. Well listen and 1 will tell you Old Bender you know, kept the half way house between Coffeyyille and Fort Scott Kansas"
 In the spring of 1877. Dr, York, Il man of no little prominence in Coneyville and the last victim of the Renders, started from his country residence to Fort Scott after load of nursery stock. Not re- turning within q reasonable time, his wife became alarmed, and on sending to town found he had not been heard from. She then informed his brother, Colonel York, who immediately went in search after hlm. Arriving in Fort Scott he learned that the doctor had got his. trees and started for home. He then tracked him to little knoll or hillock near the half way house, where all traces Of him were lost. The reputation of the Renders was well known and the colonel discreetly re- turned home, but his mind Wa5 made Up. Two days later, as the shades of day were drawing, Col. York, in company with two young men in his employ, and one of whom Is now my son-in-law, wended their way to the Bender house. It Is useless to enter into details. A brothers revenge and the justice due an outraged community did it's work After the faith CT and mother had been sent to their reward, Kate Bender confessed portion of their crimes and led the officers of Judge Lynch to the last resting place of thirtean victims. After this horrible con fession, she, tco, was ushered into the presence of the Supreme Judge of the world to plead in behalf Of herself and her parents. Their remains were placed Tn the Bender wagon aud drawn by the Bender horses to Humboldt river. After they were quietly laid to rest in its gen tie bosom, the horses were tied near the station Tn order to leave the impression that that they had made their escape dur ing the night
 Fms is his story said the prospector, and 1 can corroborate 1t as 1 am acquaint- ed with all the parties mentioned and have frequently eaten in old Bender's house, and l might also add, said he, that Kate Bender's only regret was that she had buried alive two little children after having murdered their father for his money.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
UNFORTUNATE WOMAN.
MRS. BRIDGET BERGHOFER's MIS-
 TAKEN JUDGE.
An Arizona Decree ability That it Will be Sustained-Result of A Wife Building Houses on Her
 Husbands Land-An
 Odd Affair.
San Francisco Examiner.

Abe Davies, courtroom clerk m Judge Hoge's department of the Superior Court, had narrow escape yesterday, when Mrs Bridget Berghofer sweft down upon hlm and demanded an immediate decree or divorce from Conrad Berghofer.
 "I want my divorce right now, and 1 want my share of the property" shreked the unhappy woman.
 'Very sorry that l can't help you, but you see I'm not the judge" said the moo est clerk.
 Don't you tell me you're not the judge; guess l know"
 Really, madam, you are mistaken" |" began MT. Davies, but Mrs. Berghofer only talked louder than ever and was more demonstrative in her demand for a decree. She said she had been waiting long enough.
 At length Baliff Finnegan, assisted by the woman's attorney, succeeded in carry ing her from the court room and she soon regained her self-control.
 Mr. and Mrs. Berghofer have been Ill trouble great many years. In 1883 she sued her husband for permanent support, alleging that when they were married she loaned him $2,000 to build houses on his real estate and that he, after getting the money, refused to have anything more to do with her.
 She obtained judgment from him but up to the present time has not been able to get any money from him. In 1885 Berghofer went to Arizona and got a divorce. Mrs. Berghofer says she was never served with a summons in the case, and declares that the Arizona pro ceedings were not legal. To test this she instituted a suit for divorce.
 After examining the papers, Judge Hoge said it looked as if the Arizona divorce was legal and binding, but withheld final judgment on that point in order to give counsel an opportunity to present author ities.
 In her last complaint Mrs. Berghofer says that in order to deprive her of means of livelihood, and to reduce her to penury in her old age, Berghofer has con spired with his daughters and has trans ferred all his property to them. This, she says, has been done with the secret un- derstanding that he shall have the reve- nue derived from the property, and she shall be left without anything. She ayers that she would be satisfied if he would give her back the $2,000 which she put into the houses on his land.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
A Great Newsnarer.

The Weekly Examiner is one Of the best papers in America. It Is attained long ago it's present position as the leading Weekly of the coast. Years before the Examiner was known as the monarch of the dailies, with the largest circulation of any paper west of the Missouri, the Weekly Examiner had tine largest cir culation of any Pacific Coast Weekly. Every new subscriber who will send be fore November l4th, $1.50 for one years subscription to the Weekly Examiner. and every old subscriber who will send before November l4th, $1.50 for the re- newal of his subscription from the ex- piration, will be given his choice of foul beaulliul pictures which are regarded as masterpieces of modern art
 They are Mokowskys Russian Wed ding Feast" Rosa Bonheur's "Scottisl Raid, bLillet's tAngelus," and Meisson | eir's "Friedland 1897
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
saaden Death.
Noeales Record

Courier Cunningham of the Omeoa mInes arrived from that camp last We'd nesday When he was at Santa Cruz. on his way here Mexican came into that town and reported that Judge Vim. ' Wheeler, had died of apoplexy while on his way to Nogales Judge Wheeler left here about cue month ago in company with Frank Wallis and Joe Cayof. on bHsiness connected with the Sonora Land Company, and as it appears they were on thelr return tripwhen he met his fate. As the Judge Is well known in that part of the country we give the report consid- erable credenee. If Is supposed that Frank and Joe are now on their way to Nogales, and friends are anxiously await ing their arrival
 The Judge is from Chicago. and has been ont here in the employ of.the So nora Land Company for the past four years. During that time he has been engaged somewhat in mining. His age was about 60 years. Regarding his family or relatives We know but little. ex- cept that he has son, Lieut. Wheeler. in the U. 5. Army. Tho Judge was q great Glg-hearted man, most positive in his likes and his dislil1es, and able, well posted man, and, best of all, true friend.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
From BIanmoth.
Tombstone I5nitanh

iomhstope bpltHph
 Andy Ritter came tn from Mammoth last nlghb being compelled to travel about i6O mics on account of washouts. although that aampis only about ninety mlles from tlns city. All bridges are gone and he came by way Of Tucson and elreled down toward Harshaw, finally ianding at falrbank. lie was unable to cross there and had to % to Contention. and at that place the crossing was very dangerous, owing to the rapid rise of the rNer lie says the Mammoth mine Is i truly mammoth property, the output oi the mill being at present ahout 100 ounces or amalgam DOT day, worth about twelve dollars per ounce. Two weeks ago tue company purchased the Collins mine for S54000 cash down. and fine Collins brothers are now in Tucson. The company will soon begin the cree ton Of a lO0-stamp mill at the Mammoth mlne and will pump water from the San Pedro, three miles away. This will save transportation and enable them to yirtu- ally shovel the ore inio the mill, A good si2ed village has sprung up at the mine. there being several restaurants, four stores, two e0rrals, one blacksmith shop, two saloons, number of other business houses and large number of dwelling houses. The plaee is orderly and quiet and pay days regular. Andy has located and done considerable work on few lair-ioollng prospects near the claims oi C; \. Thomas, and will have assays made Whlie ID town There seems no doubt that Mammoth will be big town in the near future The much -taIked-of new road from Tucson has been surveyed and l sh9rtens the distanco to foFty-six miles i ii hA enc af tii. siaes. roads iii the I Territory when completed, and 1t is not l improbable that a railroad vii be built over the same route in q few wears ! Should the Globe road ever be built il wlil undoubtedly go very near the mine. About %5,000 have been subscribed for She road which srm is deemed sufficient to put 1t in first-class condition. Andy will reman in town several days before returning
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
THE sTEREA arAnnrs.
A Trip That win be One of Comprshen-
 siVe Research
Tombstone Prospacfol


 Professor Lumholfz, of the New York S6Iteo&fapmcal " Society, passed through Tombstone this morning on hia Nll,,,,'s1 ws, 3r :, Blsbee. from which place he will starf on ms journey to explore the Sierra Madro mountains. From an interview with the gentleman the Prospector was informed that he had just returned from the Citv of Mexico, where lie has been to make ar rangemonts with the Mexican royern- ment Tor few favors, which were readily granted Ho will have an escort of Mex leah cavalry to whatever point he may Wlsh to go and at any time he may care toask Tor them. He anticipated gajning some information among the records af the capital relating to the Ceographical contour ot the country, but was unable to learn anything whatever, owing to the eiltlre absence of any data concerning this range oi mountains. There will be a dozen men ID the party, and number of them Will be solentlsts in various branches. whose research will be of great value to the society, under the orders of which t1ey Wlli make the Inyestigationa
 7, | IFoiessor Lumholtz was unable to give inc names oi those who would accompany nm, owing to the fact that they are on then way from New York, and his mail n05 Aafipg reached hum for ten days the names of those sent him by the society have not reached him. Suffice 1t to say. however, that they will be prominent workers in the field of exploration and in vesi1gaton The Professor will oive synopsis of his travels to the public through Seribner's Magazine. which will be eagerly scanned by an iXpectant pub hc. Ihe party will start ia about one weekend will enter the Stale of sonora through the San Pedro custom bonse at Falominas. The equipments Of the Darfy are complete. A photographer accom- panles the party, and one of the most in terestlng results to tho general public will be tile reproduction by photograpbv of the people who iuhal)it this range of moun- talIis together8ith their villages.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
Strange Visitor.
t,ani. rt,r.1t


 A queer character arrived from the Boaz mines this morning. He was a foreigner, heavilysbrlrded; his left hand hngerless; shirt sleeves in tatters, toes staring through the worn out shoes that once eneased them. His outfit proved stranger still A little white jack that carried an empty candle box on each side of it's pack saddle, and a still smaller bur TO that seemed to be the Don QuiXote charger Neither of them had evidently seen box ditch before. and they persist euJy refused to approach the gutter trenches in front of Ihalheimer's. A rope was around their two neeks and the wild looking owner tugged till his lungs rasped stento. lusly. But nearer than ten feet they wonld n)t approach
 Where the expedition was going, lts leader would not tell. He did not care to announce his tnamo Hail, he said bigger than marbles fell at BOaz last Sunday. A lump of lead ore, showing free gold, had been picked up by him in that vicinity.
 He might have been King Lear. His stock was small enough and his beard sufficiently long to have proved hlm one of Hendrick Hudson's queer companion. in the gnome-haunted Kaaterskills. Ont of the desert west he came; into the boundless, sandy wastes he seemed tC disappear.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
Tho Territorial Fair.
Phenix Gnzette

We notice with pleasure that ever county in Arizona IS preparing for the October fair, and 1t looks now as though it would be phenomenal success. Ari- zona has within her boundaries sufficient material to astonish the world, and tho opportunity is approaching whereby we can display it. The Gazette trusts that every county in Arizona will be fully rep resented at the coming territorial fair. It Is not often such opportunities are offered for the display of our products, and We hope that this one will be embrac- ed The fair will open on the 14th day of October and the weather will be nearly per feet; hence no objections can be urged on that score If the different counties are desirous of advertising to the world their products, this fair will present a splendid opportunity for so doing. as the city will be crowded with capitalists and visitors from abroad. Do not neglect this golden opportunity for giving our territory lift in the proper direction The mining men of Maricopa county are bestirring themselves, and we can expect a fine showing from this quarter,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
A Grand Project.
Yuma sentinel.


 The purchase of nearly, f not quite all of General Andrade's lands, on the west side of the Colorado river. below the boundary line, in Lower California. by an American syndicate of capitalists, which intends at once to bring in the wa ter necessary for irrigation, and then to settle and develop that fine region. speaks well for Yuma and her back country On the very day that the deed was ex- ecuted, the purchasers began negotiations for the survey and building of the great canal, that Is to take the water from the Colorado river, out on to, and over these lands Until a railroad can be built from Yuma across these lands for a hundred miles, or more, the syndicate will put on a steamboat to run from Yuma 10 the mouth of the New river, or IS 1t is known, Hardy's Colorado. One of our leading civil engineers has been offered the position as chief engineer of this great work, which they propose to com mence at once.
 The e lands are known as the Blythe Concession but when Thes. H. Blythe | died the court did not see fit, or think best to furnish the money, with which to carry out Blythe's contract with the Mexican government For some time, many thought that these lands would fall into the handso of the ofd Interna- ! tional Company of Mexico. as organized i by Luls HUlleT and Major Geo. II. s5l-7--l'l and which IS now succeeded by the Mexican Land and Colonization Com pany line," under the direction of Sir l Edward Jenkinson K. C. E. ol London l but General Andrade went to Mexico. and bought the lands outright Of the Mexican government, and paid the cash for them. This made General Andrade sole owner of this great body of land. which according to General Andrade's statement, includes all of the territory ly- ing between the boundary line and San l felipe, and the Colorado river on the east. to the Cocopah and Signal moun- tains on the west This includes nearly 1 are of the good land in the great valley of the lower Colorado. General Andrade has shown good judgment in thus placing the valuable lands in the hands of live i American syndicate of well known capi- | talist. instead of letting them fali into the mismanagment of a class of foreign CTS, who may, or may not be mixed up with questionable ''fillbusteringa plots of men who have neither money or brains
 The development of this vast, and rich regIon oI country means everything for Yuma. Negotiations are well under way for the opening up of the wild hemp trade, also for the planting or sowing the ramie plant, which has proven so profit able in other like sections of the country. | The cultivation of rice will be thorough 1 ly tried by several rice growers from the 1 Carolinas
 The syndicate propose to have the rail road completed by the time they get the | water on tO the lands for irri0ation and are ready to offer their lands for sale.
 No land will be offered for sale until these two projects are completed far enough, so that settlers will know exactly what they are buying, and not be obliged to pay for talk, gas, and climate as too often .has seen the case, in projects of this kind