Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-05-28
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Mohaye County Miner


 town this week addressed to the Terri torial Board of Equalization praying that the taxes of the Atlantic and Pa cific Railroad be placed at S5,000 pel mile. This Is the amount upon which the railroad will readily pay, and is tbt amount the people will have to accept without suit at law. The fact of the matter is the railroad at present pay. over half the taxes now paid into the county treasury and should be showr some consideration.
 Ex-Governor Stover, of New Mexico is in Kingman, and 1ill devote some at tentIcn to our mines while here. Ha will find Mohave county the banner mineral section of the United States and worthy of all the time he may devote to the inspection of her mines.
 Tombstone Prospector,
 The custom house receipts at the fol- lowing points are given Iu the Anglo American, and represent the duties paid during the month of April. These include both import and export duties in Mexican silver:
 Nogales... ................... 2,06S Fronteras. 44o
 The immense trade done as Nogales. Sonora, can best be judge by calling attention to the fact that It IS in the free zone and imports pay but ten per cent Of the duty on goods imported into .the interior or Guaymas.
 More press reports are being sent ont from Phenix regarding the cattle plague in Northern Sonora. There IS absolute ly no truth in this statement. Juan Elias who is in town stopping at the San Jose House, pronouDces the story of his cattle dying of a diseasa, as being the grossest fabrication and that it Is doing the cattlemen along the llne a great in jury.
 Coceonino Sun.
 Tuesday night, about half past nine. the citizens of Flagstaff were statled by the firing of pistols, three shots in rap'd succession, it being the well known alarm of fire. The fire was Tn the resi- dence of Mrs. Mary J. Huffman iu the western part of town.
 When the fire broke out Mrs. Huff man was visiting at neighbors and had left three -year-old child asleep in the house. After being there short tina she looked out of the window and saw her home in flames, and at once started for the house to rescue the sleeping child. She entered the house by the rear door, passed through the flames, which, by this time, had filled the house She reached the child and made her way to the front door where she fell, over come by the flames, losing her life in the vain endeavor 10 save the life of A child entrusted to her care. The child was three years old, son of John Hovey, formerly of Clifton, but now re- siding in Ash Fork.
 Last week Sheriff Little, of Apache Johns and lodged him in the Flagstaff ail for safe keeping. Bell is a notorious and recently made his escape rom the Apache county jail, but was and returned to St. Johns in ,ime for trial at the April term of court, when he was convicted fer assault and 'ecelved sentence for one year in the county jail. He was also indicted by he grand jury for murder and for horse stealing, both crimes alleged to have been committed in Apache county. He will be confined in the Coconino county ail until the next term of court In Apache, the jail in the latter county lot being deemed safe enough to keep such a desperate character in without keeping a day and night guard over Jim. The Apache county authorities pay the expense of keeping Bell in our ail.
 Yuma Sentinel.
 O. R. Townsend was up from the Lower Colorado, Tuesday. He cut his ,rop of wheat for hay, since which, the itubble has sprouted at the roots and bids fair to give them a good second ,rop. This is caused by the sub-irri- ,atlon of the Colorado near the banks If which is his field.
 Pete Gabriel and Johnnie Tooh ey, lrrived Tn town Thursday with some beautiful specimens of silver ore, which hey found in the mountains about 20 niles north of Norton's ranch in Mo- hawk valley. They believe that section O be rich in minerals and that they lave struck @ bonanza in their new ield.
 c. w. Anderson, veteran prospector md an old friend of George Humphrey, Irrived in town yesterday from San Diego after a trip of several weeks searching the desert waste near Salton md -Indio for minerals. He found ome very rich silver ore in vIens near Yuma. which he believes to be bonanzas when developed. MT. A. is after gold md will now try Yuma county for it.
 The average height of the water of he Colorado river at the bridge for the ,ast five years has been 21 feet and 9 nches on May 2l. To-day It stands at 7 feet and ? inches, or , inches higher han the average, and Is rising. The are that it will reach 20 feet
 Tombstone PrOspector.
 Col. Herring's Bonanza mine is prov Dg to be a verItable bonanza. The haft is down 1l5 feet and is all in ledge natter. One streak four inches wide Vill assay in the thousands. Ten tons # ore were shipped last week. The nine is being worked under a lease. This mine IS Tn the belt running toward )harlston and there is scarcely a doubt ut that with depth nearly every claim which has been abandoned in that yici- lity would have proved paying propo- ition at hundred feet. Ten years ago Tiny. little, suggr-cUated granules, are what pr. Pieroe's Pleasant Pellets are. The best Liver Pills ever invented; &C., i've, yet mild in operation; cure sick and bilious headaches. One dose. There has been signs of rain, and u @ irst thing we know there will te showers.
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