Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-02-08
GRAHAM COUNTY.
THE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK IN
 CONDENSED FORM.

CONDENSED FORM. ' The Epidemic Along the River--A Jockey Club Organized-Applicants Refused
 Citizenship-LivelyT Times During
 Court tweek--Personal Men
 ton.
 ISolomonville Bulletin.
 From the number of deaths in the towns on the river below Solomonville, chronicled in this weeks Bulletin It looks as though the epidemic men, toned last week was going to prove serious and great care should be taken to prevent it from spreading. People should not visit the sick unless it Is necessary All public gatherings should be suspended for the present, churches, schools, etc, and with proper precaution the malady will soon become extinct. But if people | continue to visit each house where a new case is heard of it is liable not to stop until every family has been visited by it. We understand that it Is not considered contagious, but all the same persons should remember that nearly all diseases of a pronounced type, if they are not contagious are usually so highly infectious, that as sociation and contact with the sick usually endangers the health Of the attendant.
 There has been formed in Solomon vile, an organization known as the
 Solomonville Jockey Club gotten up
 for the purpose of matching races to be run on the Solomonvil1e race track.
 The Club announces that they have a string of seven or eight horses to run, and that parties can get race for any distance they desire from 200 yards up to half mile, for any ssuai up to
 $5,OO0. No horses owned and kept in the Territory barred All racesto be run on the race track at Solomonville, 1 and, as an inducement to get horses :. brought here the Club offers the fol lowing conditions to outside parties
 Good and cheap accommodations for
 both men and horses, good track to . run the races over, and they will give all losers back ten per cent, of the
 money they put up. All communl
 cations should be addressed to B
 Palm, Secretary, Solomonyille, Arl -I zona.
 a a Two applicants for United States s citizenship appeared before Judge Sloan Wednesday, but on account o :, the dense ignorance of the men on al ~ matters pertaining to the governmen - of the United States, the constitution r, and the duties of an American citizen T they were given a chance to becom n ~ government, before they will be pel 'e mitted to enjoy all the rights an
 privileges of this illustrious land of tn
 free.
 Sig Weisl, the affable manager ed the Arizona Copper Company's Store
 of Clifton, came down this week
 appear against Mexican who is gel
 orally called "the green devil" aroun o Clifton, and who is under arrest fC % %,n. breaking into the Copper company w. store. While in town Sig could n' sr y resist the temptation to spend 2 da nn angling for the wary Gila suckers. n ';s Col. NJ. J. Egan is down rom Cli ,;S ton looking after the legal iHterests ,n1 , the Arizona Copper conapany G Al All Egan is an able lawyer, and yel ;, pleasant man to meet aoelally | ht- says that the mining outlook of Cl hu ton and surrounding camps HQs nev better than at present, and predicts ow prosperous year in IninsnG elrcl or throughout Arizona.
 nI Judge Sloan and exJudge Rfrn ,Ii came up from Bowie in private co ;o veyance on Monday. The train ,xo the s. P. road was several hours Ia on and delayed them to such an eXte Sni I that Judge Sloan did not arrive 1bt time to open court on Monday. ';th M Solomonville is booming this we' .nh dSn The advent of about 900 people il ou town to attend court has made bu ~ ness very brisk. All the hotels .nd crowded to their utmost capacity, a the saloons and stores are reaping ;no rich harvest. @ The arrival of two four-horse coa .,o es in less than half an hour of ~ same time last Sunday, bringing F ho pie in to attend court, reminds on'
 the early days in the mining campl Selv Arizona.
 s'1i3 Considerable gambling is being if ;s dulged in through court week, and he saloons have the appearance ofthe l o;nt son saloons during the Wham robt who case. mid Moie lottery liohe's ale solu ;.a ;i 0 so s.~' in the Territory. This is a sure { tTo that there is money here sOmewh ,t in About fifteen Apache Indians G ,;rr in from the reservation on Thur ,s;Jo They are all witnesses in the Inc ,ort cases to come before the present t h;n,y of court.
 aoI5S Court opened on Tuesday morl I;s and the calendar is being cleared poht prompt and business-like manner. b;s Born in Thatcher, on Sunday, aoai. 26th, to the wife of MT. c. N. Bir ocoo. a son.
 Ios 1o Died, John Golden, of Graham,
 on the road between Thomas
 Globe on Saturday, Jan. 25th, of n
 les.
 In Thatcher, on Thursday, eased Both, at o'clock, p. m., of mea the Ella, wife of A. Cunningham, age ie"u years. s. and, At Thatcher, on Saturday, com 25th, Mrs. Owen Davis and il sheu' child
 sup In Thatcher, Monday, Jan. 27t the young son of Mrs. Harris. acres -------- o the Gone to Rest, ~ Gen. Manuel Escalante, of this ~nar3. and one of the best known me ,d ora Sonora and Arizona, died in Qua