The Coconino sun., 1891-06-06
Territorial Notes.

The Tombstone Prospeetor saysI The hotel project lacks but S2,OOO of turning the wheels and starting the machinery in motion.
 The St. Johns Herald says: The Aztec Land k Cattle company finished the shipment of 5000 head of steers from Holbrook last week. They were purchased by Mir. Boise for Montana parties.
 A block of Big Bug onyx was re- ceived at the penitentiary a few days ago, about two feet square and weigh ing 400 pounds. It will ie sawed into three slabs and made into table tops. It is hoped to utiliza prisop labor in the manufacture of various ornamental onyx work.--Yuma Times,
 A bridge on the railroad between Clifton and Guthrie, on the New Msx. leo & Arizona railroad, was burned on Friday of last week. This is the second bridge burned in fourteen days in tho same neiyhborhood. The rail road offers Sl 900 reward for the cap ture of the incendiaries.
 Messrs. Imus, Stsrkey and Burns, of Moha,o county, who have just re turned from Kansas City, to which point they made shipment of cattle, brought with them instruments for de. morning cattle, and propose to dehorn all the cattle on their ranges. They state that during their trip they dis covered the fact that dehorned cattle can be sold to much better advantage than those wi.h horns. Journal, Miner.
 Hon. 0. R. flakes was down from Mesa one day this weeK He says the fruit crop in his section will be enor. nous this srason. The grain crop will also be excellent Mir. flakes con. templates erecting in the near future a fine hotel in Mess City Our sister is rapidly coming to the front as one of the growing and progressive towns of the territory. Surrounded as it is, by che largest and best body of fruit land in the southwest, Mesa City shoul'l rank among the first cities of the state of Arizona Tempe News.
 One of the latest innovations of the Southern Pacific company is the aaop. ton of the 3,000-mile ticket, which is sold for S75, or just swo cents and a half mile. The ticket is string of paper several yards in length ruled into lines numbering from to 5000 and enclosed in a little book. A personal description of the holder is attached to the back by mcaus of punch marks Every time piece of the ticket is torn off by conductor the holder has to sign his name to it. The ticket will prove great saving to people who travel much, as local fare is five cents mile.
 Barnabe Palm, proprietor of the Solomonville saloon, is one of the boys who landed in Arizona ih 1863. Speaking to the Bulletin one day about xotting a suppiy of ieo for his -saloon during cout week and figuring up the expense, he remarked: "Let me tell you that in Tucson I made the first ice ever manufactured in the territory and sold it for S2.50 pound. How did l make itl Well. I froze it in an ice cream freezer with some chemicals fixed by Boss Levin It was hard work and I could only freeze about three pounds at time, and there was a scramble for every lump even at that high price Those were the good old days" ."-Solomonville Bulletin.
 At Tombstone on May 2Sth, the jury in the case of the Territory vs. Shankland, after being out forty.two hours, was unable to agree on verdict and was discharged. They stood eleven for acquittal and one for conviction. The defendant last December killed Dr. G. C. Willis, the county physician, as he was entering his buggy to visit patients. Willis was the resident agent of the Old Guard Mining com pany, which owed Sh.nkland several hundred dollars. Shankland sent word to Willis chat he would kill him if he did not pay him at certain hour. He carried out his threat The defense was justifable homicide There IS great excitement over the mobbing by Shank. lands friends of the one juror who stood out The better class of people. are with him and indorse his action in hanging the jury. Vigorous steps to prosecute his assaiIants are being taken.