Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1890-09-06


Phoenix wants Telephone exchange
The debt Of MAricopa county ID esq.,
3Ca 80.
The rate Of taxation for 1880. 10 Gila
county, is ~. aoL.
The Arizona q Sonora railroad il again
in operation from Benson to Guaymm.
having been stopped by usshouis for the
past thirty days.
Superintendent Monk estimates that il
viii require tls,705-5l 10 conduct the
public schools Of Cochise county the CON-
Ing school year.
The order Tor the abandonment Of
Camp Thomas, in Graham county, has
been revoked, and Il 10 stated that II sill
be made permanent post.
The Sentinel says: Yuma county
Democrats will endeayos to have Hon.
Thomas Gates, nominated by the Ph1-
nix convention for Joint councilman Of
this district.
The Maricopa Indians CLEAN barley
from the fields left by tive reapers, and
take IL 10 Phenir for sale. They some
times spend week in order TO CLEAN .
dollars worth Of barley, a. the straws
must be picked over one ut time.
The supervisors djouss,ed t~o days
session last evening. Among other basi-
ness done, they made the tax levy for the
ensuing year. which 10 for Territorial and
county purposes $3.50. So cents ii this
il for school purposes.--Tucson Star.
The Superstitious Mountaip possesses
some promising mining claims. The
Buckhorn mine has recently been bond-
Ell 70 = California company for s2o 600,
and parties have been inspecting other
claims In that neighborhood. -Gazette.
The census of the Indian population Of
Arizona has been taken and shows .
total population Of 5000 souls, dirided
among the different tribes a. folloxs:
Navajos, 1900; Pspaso~s. Pimas and
N aricopas, 1900: San Carlos Apachcs.
$3.50; Moquis. 200; Mojayes, 200;
and Yavi-Supais. $50.
c. @. Brown, who Is collecting photo
graphs Of the pioneers Of this Territory,
has now orer forty-fvs Of them. He
thinks there will be over one hundred.
when he gets them all collected. Mr..
Browns object is 10 have all the pictures
enlarged 10 uniform size aud present
the same TO the Society Of Arizona Pio-
ncep.--Citizen.
The nominations made in Pima county
by both parties fail TO entirely meet the
appreciation Of the people. There are
some excellent material on both tickets,
bit an independent ticket will be placed
10 the field for members of the Legislature
and supervisors. with perhaps few Of
the regular nominees Of both tickets for
other Offices. --Enserprise.
A young lady Of this town expressed
herself in the following srgumentative
IN amer q few days ago: "Yes, the
Yuma Indians are peculiar. In the sam
mer time they put on all the clothes
they own to keep the sun away from
their bodies; and in the winter they wear
bat little clothing 80 that the sun can
reach them Selah.-Sentinel.
Frank r. Sargent, Grand Master Of the
Order Of r.. X. Firemen, and presiding
officer over the council at Terre HAute,
Indiana, for the purpose Of adjusting the
difficulties between the strikers Of tine
New York Central and the road manage
menf, is an old Tucsonite, having been \
fireman on the Southern Pacific. He
left here in 1884 as delegate Citizen.
The Democrats a Masicops county
have nominated the following ticket:
For sheriff, Sam r. Webb; treasurer. X.
L. Rosson; recorder, Neri Osborn; die
trict attorney, Frank Cox; probate judge.
Frank BAXTER; assessor, H. c. Orme;
surveyor. W. A. McIinnis; supervisors,
c. r. Hakas. J. A. Lutserdingi council,
Q. Meyer Zalick; assembly, 7. Z. Parish
and L. H. Chalmers.
The board Of Supervisors met yester-
day and fixed the tax levy At t2.l5 for
county and school. The Territorial levy
will probably be . little higher than last
year-ssy s. rents-thus making the
total levy %. There ID quite . difference
betseen 50 for this yVzr and t4.04 fur
last year on every 500 Of valuation and
the news will be received with welcome
surprise by the taxpayers Of Cochiss
connty.-EpitaPh.
Cal Glenn, foreman Of the Chiricahua
cattle company's sulphes valley range.
and Sell Anderson, in the employ Of the
same company, performed . daring feat
one day last week. They we're riding the
range in the valley near the foothills Of
the Dragon mountains, when they en-
countered large cinnamon bear snd two
cubs. The old hear At once charged on
the boys, who were without firearms. o.
course they rstrested at first. but Enslly
got the cubs separsted from the mother
bear, when they rvred the former and
dragged them 10 death, the old bear
chasing them sill the time. When the
cubs we're dead Cal vent to the nearest