Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-12-02

Stages leave Prescott every Mon
 day and Friday for Phenix, via Cop
 per Basin, Walnut Grove and Castle
 creek. Returning they arrive in
 Prescott every Tuesday and Satur-
 day.
 Dennis May, the we'll known
 miner, and discoyerer of the Con-
 gress mine, returned to Prescott to-
 day, after an absence of over two
 years. He received hearty well
 come from his many friends here.
 In the town of Huron, Iowa, the
 other day, Mary Allen held her hand
 on derringer while she refused the
 hand of an objectionable suitor, and
 when he pulled his revolver she took
 the drop on him and broke his pistol
 arm. There is a girl and a gun with some snap.
 Capt. Hardy is sinking shaft on the site of his recent coal discovery near Yucca. Work is progressing at the rate of about six feet day, and he expects to cut the coal seam some time to-day, when drifts will be run and the ground thoroughly pros pected.-Mohave Miner.
 It is said that work will be shut
 dawn at the Bisbee copper camp during the meeting of the silver convention at Fl Paso, which con
 venes December 15, and that fully l50 men will attend the meeting from that camp. Arizona promises to be we'll represented at this i'm
 portant silver meeting.
 Rear Admiral Luce does not be- lieye that arbitration is an adequate measure for the settlement of inter national disputes. He sees moral as well as a physical advantage in war, which he describes in an article which he has written for the Decem- Der number of the North American Review.
 The lady managers of the Worlds Fair have decided that their presi- dent, Mrs. Potter Palmer, shall drive the last nail in the woman's build ing. The nail is to be gorgeous affair made of gold, silver and cop per. There are grave apprehen- sions, however. that the plan may fail at the last moment. Anybody who has ever seen a woman try to drive nail knows why.
 A Flagstaff telegram dated No vember 18th says: On "Wednesday night Sam Dittenhoffer was killed at his store, 100 miles north of this place, by Thomas Collins. Ditten- hoffer was we'll known Indian trader and had ordered Collins, who is a horse-thief, from his place, when the latter pulled his gun and shot Dit tenhoffer, who was unarmed. the bullet going clear through his body, | killing him instantly. Collins stood those present off with his gun and made good his escape.
 The workingmen and the silver | question will be discussed in the December number of the North | American Review by T. V. Powderly. | The same number will contain an contribution by Hon. Carroll l.. Wright, United States of labor, ou his recent | investigation as to the effect of the | tariff law upon imports and exports, .he growth, the development, pro- tuction and prices of agricultural and articles at home and abroad, and upon wages domestic md foreign.
 The mill of the Alice Mining con- Dany at their Silver Belt mine is ioing good work. A shipment of a ar load of ore and concentrates has ust been made to the sampling works. A very imporant strike of ,re has also been made recently in he mine just south of shaft number hree and above the 260-foot level. While engaged in drifting they en- ountered a body of orc twenty.one nches in width which gives an aver ge value of SIS per ton. This trike has been made in entirely new round and Superintendent Clark is iuSh ciateu over IL altnough the nine is generally looking we'll.
 A telegram from Durango, Mex 20, says: Total failure of the T orn and bean crop in the state. wing to drought, is causing intense nifering among the poor. The rice of corn has raised to an enor- !, lous figure. The laboring element Durango have neither work nor , pod. Whole families covered with s lew rags and half dead with hun | CT drag themselves to the moun- b 'ins, hoping to prolong their lives O feeding on the fruit of the cac- & IS: Only severe measures of the 'ldiers keep the people in subjec- on."