The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-27

arrested at Solomonville for stealing {, newly planted fruit trees from his neigh- bors' orchards and transplanting them in his own. Aseveda's desire to have
 an orchard is commendable but lIis
 method of obtaining it questionable.-
 Stockman.
 II. S. Deputy Marshal Neustatter ar rived yesterday with U. S. prisoner
 named Lizzie Spears. She weighs 307 pounds and was indicted by the last
 grand jury for selling liquor to San Car
 los Indians. Very few such whisky deal CTS escape from Deputy Neustatter. The
 same might be said, possibly, of their
 whisky also.-Phenix Herald.
 An exchange says an order has been
 issued directing that a general practice of the heliograph system be held for two
 weeks, beginning May 1st, next, at the
 following places in this Territory Forts
 Bowie, Grant, Huachuca, Lowell, Me
 Dowell, Verde, Whipple and San Carlos
 Reservation; also at Fort Bayard, New
 Mexico.
 The Journal-Miner in answering an article written by J. D. Lynch to the Los Angeles Herald, in speaking of our tim Der belt says: The timber belt through which the Atlantic & Pacific railroad runs is one of the finest in the United States to-day Instead of being of stunt ted growth, the trees are tall, majestic pines, many ot them being from sixty to eighty feet to the first limb. The lum- Der manufactured from them is of su- perior quality and finds ready market wherever shipped. In fact, so great is the demand that three new saw mills will be built this summer to meet it, there being already six or eight mills in operation.
 From line rider Aguirre, who came up from the line Sunday night, we learn that two Mexicans had been murdered on the road from Bisbee to the Sand Pe- dro custom house. One of them is SUD- posed to have been a custom house guard. Horses, guns and ammunition had been taken. When the report reach ed the custom house detachment of Mexican guards were sent to the scene but had not returned when Mir. Aguirre left. There seems to be no question that the killing was done by Apaches, as sig nal fires have been repeatedly seen of late in that vicinity and considerable stock has been stolen. The red devils are having bowling good picnic and apparently there is none to say them nay.-Epitaph.
 The terrors of the desert are coming to light during the winter. A party of railroad men examining the old stage route eastward from San Diego toward Yuma, found on the desert two different travelling outfits, one wagon and two horses with camping outfit, and at an other place blackboard with similar outfit The people with them had evi- dently ran out of water, their teams gwen out and the whole perished. Such trips should never be ventured in the summer time by persons unacquainted with the necessities of desert travel, and strangers to the route proposed to be fol- lowed, in such regions of the Colorado desert where there are stretches of so miles along the travelled roads, without water, and off these trails it is morally certain that lost traveller has only death before him.-Phenix Herald.
 In making some remarks on the kill l ing of freighter Herbert, the Globe Sil yer Belt has this to say: "The action of eastern philanthropists CD who exert an influence in preventing the application of criminal law upon offending Indians as is visited upon white transgressors are the primary cause of Indian cruel ties inflicted upon white men, women and children, and, therefore, it is safe to class such persons, for every inch that is not fool, as worse than rogue, or too ig- norant to realize the character Cf those for whom they sympathize. Sympathies are wasted upon Apaches; rather should tears be shed for whites in eastrrn peni- and efforts made to throw open the doors of all prisons, as they are now trying for the liberation of the murder ous Chiricahuas at present confined at Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama"
 From an editorial in the Tucson Citi- zen it appears that the bill now before Congress to legalize the laws of the Ter ritory does include provision confer ring on the Governor the power to re- move county officers, In defending the l