The Coconino weekly sun., 1891-12-10

without any provocation.
 Charley Thompson was in town ou Sunday. He had about 500 steers gathered on the fourth and last ship ment to be made by the Wabash and G-bar Cattle Companies to Nebraska, St. Johns Herald.
 The pumps of the Yuma Pumping Irrigation Company are doing good work and the water is carried down the canal on to Judge E. NJ, Sanford's land, which is being thoroughly irri- gated.
 Geo. w. Marian, a prominent citizen of Phoenix, committed suicide on Tues day, in the Commercial Hotel of that city, by shooting himself through the head. Financial and domestic troubles are said to have been the cause of it,
 Yesterday morning was the coldest of the season, and some early birds saw the thermometer at Is degrees above zero. On the 9th of December, 1890, there was light fall of snow in Prescott and eight inches at the Sen ator mine, but the weather was quite mild.-Couricr
 Horse thieves seem to be doing a thriving business just now. J. NJ. Baker reports thirteen animals missing from Chino valley. It is thought that regularly organized band of thieves exist there and that they are the ones who stole two horses and mule from Jerome recently.-Journal-Miner.
 The Journal-Miner says the Gallagh- er-Moran ease was given to the jury yesterday afternoon. The jury return ed into court this morning and au- nounced that they had agreed upon a verdict, being guilty as charged with recommendation of mercy to the court. The verdict gives general sat isfaction.
 G. E. Katzenstein, of Sacramento, D. R. W. G. T., for Arizona, will in- stitute the Grand Lodge of I. o. G. T. on January 17, 1892, at Phoenix. Del egates from the various lodges scat tered throughout thu territory have been notified and will be present. Arizona contains fifteen lodges, having total membership of about 800.
 The Indians at Sacaton will soon be provided with a first class, full roller process grist mill, the bountiful gift of dear old Uncle Sam. It will be of 3O- barrels per day capacity and will be erected early the coming spring, the appropriation for that purpose being 5000. It is intended solely for the use of the agency Indians Citizen.
 Bob Samuels was in from Pleasant Valley on Wednesday, and gave a fa- yorable account of the live stock inter- est in that section. Cattle ~are in fair condition and the losses if any, will be light. He takes more cheerful view of the range business than most stock men visiting Globe. He thinks the losses of stock in Gila county will be mach smaller than estimated by oth- erc Silver Belt,
 C. B. Stocking, formerly a guard at the Territorial Prison, was convicted last week at Florence of an aggravated assault He was sentenced to term of three years imprisonment in the penitentiary. It is said the case will be appealed. The crime of which Stocking has been convicted was the severe beating he gave prisoner in the Pinal county jail, where he filled the position of jailor.
 Capt. W. II. Hardy reported several weeks ago that while drilling q well near Yucca that he had encoun- tered vein of coal at the depth of 65 feet. He has been sinking shaft during the past two weeks and is now down some 76 feet, but has found no indications of coal, and it is now thought that the coal encountered was dropped down the shaft by some mis- chieveous loving person.
 Jules Bauman sent to St Louis and | has received samples of Photographic l stone of first, second, third and fourth qualities, and has compared same with of Arizona stone and is conii- | dent that one of our miners has dis | covered a quarry of Photographic stone of second-grade quality, Many kinds | of rare metal and stone have been found in Arizona, and there is no reason why Photographic stone should not also be found, It has been but 2 short time that onyx was known to exist here, and since then hardly a month has gone by without the dis covery of new quarry of that precious stone, -Journal-Miner !