The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-07-20
TERRITORIAL NOTES.


 an enthusiastic silver meeting in King man on Friday night.
 The assessment roll of Pinal county amounts to $l ,994, 1852 an increase of $275, ,0S7. 20 over last year.
 1. P. Orme threshed an average of l,S00 sacks day during all last week. and on Friday he turned out l,ooo sacks. He says the crop in the lower part of ohe valley is light this year, not running over 1000 pounds to the acre. -RhoeniX Gazette.
 A Mesa farmer has twelve apricot trees from which he sold an average ot siXty-eight pounds to the tree. He re- ceived five cents per pound on the tree, giving him S2, 10 to the tree, equal to $367.20 to the acre, or an income of $3,672 from ten acres; and yet we are sometimes told that fruit raising does not pay.-Free Press.
 Capt. John T. Hogue, aud John ". Morrison started for the western end of Socorro county, New Mexico, last Mon- day morning, to examine and perhaps locate some the coal land which is so plentiful in that locality. Some of it has been tested and is said to be num- Der one coking coal. Johns Herald.
 Judge French has completed compi- lation of the school census, from which 1t appears that there are 1926 white children and 20 colored, between the ages of and Is in Yavapai county. Of these 979 whites and 10 colored have attended the public schools during the year. Forty white and two colored have attended private school; 24S white and 8 colored have not attended any school; 59 have attended . dcnom- national school l-Journal-Miner
 It is said that d valuable discovery of tin orc has been made in the low hills about one and half miles east of the Arizona canal dam. It is an oxide, averaging by actual assay iu San Fran cisco P per cent tin. The vein on the surface is about four feet wide and can be traced on the surface over one thou sand fest. Considerable stream tin is found in the gulches and arroyos. EX- perts say that it is equal to the best Banca tin, and superior to the Austra lian product.
 An Indian school girl named Alice Smith, was murdered near Sau Carlos, on Tuesday, July 4th, by Tonto In- dian. The girl was home from the Agency school on two months yaca- tion, school having closed on the pre- vious Friday. Upon her return home this 1Onlo wanted her to live with him again. as she had done before going to school. She refused, SO he knifed her in three places, from which she died almost instantly, and he the made an intellectual attempt to kill himself. He was arrested and is in the guard house at San Carlos. The murdered girl was buried on the afternoon of the tragedy.
 Photographic instructions wero re- ceived last evening from w. A. Clark, of the United Verde Copper company, to have all freight to and from the the United Verde mine shipped over the s. F., F. & F. railroad. The freight will be transferred at Granite station Carpenters were put at work today, putting in new platform and making other improvements for handling the freight. The business averages be- tween thirty and forty carloads per week, there being from fifteen to twenty carloads of of coke brought in each week, while the shipment of bull lion amounts to about as much more besides the shipment of merchandise. -Journal-MIner.
 Gila Bend was visited by severe windstorm about 3 o'clock Tuesday af- ternoon of last week, which, for few minutes, assumed the violence of a cy- clone. The wiud came up suddenly and the first thing the people knew timbers and roofs of houses were flying around in the air. The coal shed of the Southern Pacific railroad was the first building 10 be unfoofed, and then 1ollowed the greater portion of the round house roof. The calaboOse shed was completely wrecked, and The roof of Tom Gage's new residence was blown off. A large number of trees were uprooted, and fences blown down. The damagh was considerable, but the railroad company will commence to re- pair their dismaniled houses at once. Fortunately no persons were injured. Star.
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 Collector Webb's Deputies.
 The following appointments have so far been made in the collectors office