Arizona silver belt., 1891-12-05
ArArAL aFFEaY.

on Sunday last, in the boarding house at the Rescue miue, between Thomas Floyd, Q miner, and Charlie Sing the Chinaman cook employed by the com pany, resulting in Floyd's being stab bed flow inches above and to the right of the left knee cap, cutting the largo artery, and causing death in a very few minutes, from hemorrhags.
 The gist of the evidence adduced at the corOner's inquest is as follows
 Thos, Floyd and partner Bernard King, who lived not far from the board ing house, were preparing to start on a trip. md having no bread, they asked Mir. Klmple and then Larry Ryan, who passed their cabin, to get bread for them, from the Chmaman, Both men, on their return stated that the China man had refused to give them bread, and had applied an insulting epithet to Floyd, charging the latter with stealing his quail Floyd at once left the cabin, saying he was going to see the China man. King and Ryan testified that they did not see Floyd in the posses sion of pistol, while Kimple ayers that Floyd put on a gun before he started.
 Mir. and Mrs. Louis Sultan and their three sons, Harry, George and Edgar, who had accompanied Supt L. J. Web ster to the mine, were the only wit nesses to what occurred from the en- try of Floyd into the dining room un- til the pistol was drawn. Mir. and Mrs. Sultan were sitting at table near the door opening into the kitchen, They testified that Floyd entered the dining room, passed by them into the kitchen, where the Chinaman sut peeling pota- toes, and after some remark about quail, commenced striking the Clipa- man with his fist He struck him ten or twelve times before Mir. Sultan reached the kitchen door, intending to stop the quarrel
 As Mr. Sultan reached them Floyd stepped back and drew his pistol when the Chiuaman caught his arm, and the muzzlo of the weapon was diverted in the direction of Mrs Sultan. MT Sul- tan, alarmed for the safety of his wife, hurried her out of tho building, and there was no witness to what trans pired after their exit, When Superiu, teudent Webster and mine foreman Lorn Lynch entered two or three minutes later, they found Floyd ezpir- ing, lying on tho dining room floor in a pool of blood
 A, the examination of Charlie Sing, yesterday, before Justice Cook there was no important eyidepcs introduced further than that brought out at the coroner's inquest, which showed that the Chinamap acted in self defense and, therefore, he was discharged.
 
 The burial of Jeff Brsmlett in the Globe cemetery, and the farce of issu, ing a warrant for his arrest in the flesh in Yavapai county was played out by the sheriff producing | man represent ing himself as twin brother of the verituclo Jeff The arrival of deputy sheriff Beubrook on Wednesday after noon having in custody the man for 'Lr arrest of whom the warrant was issued caused DO little stir among those be. heving in the supernatural resurrection of Jeff They gazed upon hin &ilh scrutinizng eyes at first douhting their sense of sight, and finally concluding that the Bramlett in view was some other man theu Jeff Nevertheless there was Q resemblance, not as strong, however, as to justify the belief that the man in custody was the person who had passed the boundary of time in the Globe hospital
 The decline of the dipping orb on  Tuesday witnessed the result of public opinion upon the question of State or no State, and We are sorry to say that the floating vote, in great measure, determined in favor of State. This result was forsesn by the framers of tho constitution when they handi- capped the taypayers, the men who arc cXpected and will havp f0 nav for the