Mohave County miner., 1890-03-22
rRRRrroRIAL ITEMS.

Everything indicates a prosperous year
for Arizona.
Pinal Lodge No. 4. /. 0. o. F., has re-
moved from Pinal to Florence.
Thousands Of strawberry plants are be-
ing set out In and around Phoenix this
month.
Naomi Rebekah Degree Lodge No. 4,
l. o. o. F., was instituted last week at
Tucson.
The Attorney General has appointed
Calvert Wilson Assistant U. 8. Attorney
for Arizona.
George Fits has been appointed city
treasurer Of Tombstoe vice Oliver Travil-
lian, suicided.
w. A. Daggs, Of the firm Of Daggs
Bros, the Flagstaff sheep raisers, had
his leg broken in two places, near Tempe,
last week.
Tho flagstaff Democrat says: Cattle
In Yavspai county will be assessed at ~
psr head this year, which is reduction
Of d per head over that Of last year.
The PresbyteTy Of Arizona will meet at
Florence, on Tuesday, April lst, at 7:3O
p. m. and will be opened with q sermon
by Rev. H. Magill, Of Ph9nix the retir-
ing moderator.
The members Of the Southwestern
Stock Association, Of Grant county, New
Mexico, viii hereafter pay $225 for the
arrest and conviction Of parties stealing
stock in their brands.
A number Of cattle buyers are in the
city, but owing to the high rates Of trans
portation charged by the railroad com
pany, and low prices offered for cattle,
few sales have been made. .-Tucson Cit
issn.
The smeltsr viii soon start up on the
rich copper ore Of the Lake Shore prop
critics, south Of Casa Grande, under the
management Of the Loss brothers. These
mines are regarded a. among the most
promising in the country and the out
come Il expected 10 be something hand
Soma. e.--Flosence Enterprise.
A report 10 going the rounds OF the
Territorial press to the effect that "eat,le
in Cochise county are being thinned out
BY disease" A few cattle have died re-
Gently In some sections Of the county
from disease Of some kind, but the loss is
trivial and no fears are felt Of defamation
by disease 10 any extent.--Stockman.
7. F. Hudson has sold 300 head Of two
and three -year-old steers from his South
Pass ranch to Harris, the Kansas buyer,
On terms equivalent to $l4 per head de-
livered at Wilcox. One half the pur-
chase prics Is paid down and the balance
upon the sale Of the cattle when ready
for market, which will be after the have
been fattened on Kansas corn.--Pros-
pector.
An order has been issued for the trans
fer Of about 125 Apaches from San Carlos
to Fort Union, New Mexico. II Is given
out that these Indians are relatives OF
those who killed Sheriff Reynolds and
deputy Holmes Of Gila county. 1t would
not cause much sorrow if the government
should remove all the Apaches and throw
the White Mountain reservation open TO
settlement. .-Epitaph.
Over at Bisbee last pay day there wore
. number Of belligerent miners who sue
ceeded in blacking each others eyes dur
ing the night. The novel idea originated
in the mind Of one Of the number Of get
ting their pictures taken. He gathered a
number together and went down to Fly's
photograph gallery, where about twenty
Ill told were photographed in group,
each one carrying partially closed optic.
-Prospector.
The committee from Kansas who Wis.,
tied Phenix few days ago TO investi-
gate the resources Of the Salt River val
ley, with view Of locating a large colony,
were wonderfully pleased with the conn
try, and will return with their friends
within thirty days. 1t is expected that
some five or six th sand Of those Kan
sas farmers win take up their residence
in this section soon. They are thrifty,
sober, industrious men, and will add
largely TO the taxable wealth and prop
erty Of our county.-Gazette.
Lieutenant Duncan, Of whipp,e, has
returned from the inspection Of the supai
Indians. He was detailed for this service
On the report of . citizen Of Williams,
thst this small tribe u rn9ble reds"
were dying of rapidly Of starvation and
disease. Lieutenant Duncan found 223
Of them, sll 1T and enjoying good health,
with plenty Of the nscassaries to eat.
They were little short on some 81 the
Injuries enjoyed by their civilized neigh
boss, bat could worry through the winter
without thsm.-Journal. Miner.
The Tombstone Prospector says that
Hon. @. @. Hicks, Of that town, left for
the east Last Saturday never to return :.
and that the reason why he left is that
JsrTy Barton, who Is now in the peniten-
tiary and will be liberated this month,
had sworn to xiii Hicks when he got out.
Barton was sent up = little over three
yesxy go for breaking an old mans
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