Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-05-16
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 Patrick Shamley, a veteran of the civil war died at Globe recently aged 57 years.
 John Cline of Tonto Basin is shipping cattle to the Salt river valley to pasture.
 Track laying on the Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway began at Bowie last Monday.
 The democratic scalp knife should be sheathed, and Judge Bethune's confirmation should be allowed without protest.-Bulletin.
 The White Hills mining company in Mohave county, is using gasoline instead of wood for fuel and steam making.
 It is almost certain now that with in less than ninety days Solomon vIlle will be connected with the balance of the world by rail, and within few months more the road will be built through the valley.
 Phenix is importing wheat from California.
 4 firm of windmill manufacturers is turning out mill that is called "The Arizona Kicker" The first one to be placed in the territory is at Nogales.
 The Agua Fria water storage en- terprise is going steadily ahead, and the company will probably be ready to furnish water by the beginning of next year. Herald.
 Charley Bradley's rabbit which gave birth to eleven little ones in one week and devoured them all last Thursday, astonished the neigh borhoOd by giving birth to five more last night.-ProspectoF.
 Over S12,OOO of the Pima county delinquent taxes for 1893 have become involved in litigation in the district court. This sum is made up largely of taxes on land grants. Tue proposed suits with banks for taxes on their capital stock will not be brought, a decision adverse to to the county in a parallel case hay ing been given recently.-Citizen.
 R. C. Brown is making arrange ments to resume the publication Of the Weekly enterprise at Tucson Gazette.
 Con Woof was brought in from Maricopa yesterday morning with a fractured skull, the result of a fall from a train on the Southern Pacific near the junctiOn.-Gazette.
 Headers all over the valley are being pht in readiness to commence work upon the heavy grain crop. The first cutting will probably be done about May l5 in the fields where the farmer doesn't have to wait for his sour clover to ripen.- Phenix Herald.
 The steamer Mohave will leave the Needles on or about June lst, on a trip through the Black Canyon of the Colorado river. This canyon Is about l65 miles above Needles and 8 miles in length, and is said to pos sess some of the most awe inspiring scenery of any steamboat route in the world.-Yuma Sentinel.
 LII. Hawkins, we'll known as an attorney in Tempe for several years, has committed suicide. He was resident somewhere in Minnesota. Hawkins was not a success in Ari- zona. and continued i'll fortune no doubt caused the deed.-Gazette.
 It is reported that one of Tucson's fair young cyclers ventured out on the streets the other evening on her wheel wearing "blOOmers." She kept in dark places, however, and did not ride down Congress street. The first lady that appears in this latest style of bicycle costume m broad daylight on the main through fare will create a genuine sensation in the ranks of the opposite sex Star.
 The woman who has done more for the improvement of Tucson than any other-and possibly than any man in the way of house and lot building and improving, is Mrs. Sadie Oliver. Several frst-rate houses with lots we'll supplied with trees and shrubbery are due solely to her efforts. A year ago she bought vacant lot south of the public school. She put water on it by a we'll and windmill, and applied the water iudiciously. To-day the lot is really handsome. The fruit trees are already bearing heavily, the rose bushes are in the height of bloom and the shTubbery is a marvel for its age. Mrs. Oliver has begun i'm proving the adjoining lot where she will put up a fine six room brick cottage for a tenant. A well is now being dug.-Citizen.
 It is learned from reliable sources that a large canaigre plantation will soon be established on the Gila river. in Yuma county, and that the capital has already been raised for the carrying out of the enterprise. The undertaking will be more or less of an experiment, but if it proves successful, as it is anticipated 1t will. it should be the beginning of the production of canaigre on a mammoth scale in the territory. The water for irrigation purposes will be pumped from the Gila river.
 Harry DeBow, formerly justice of the peace at Tempe, and one of the best known prospeetors of Arizona, is in the city from Chaparral Gulch, Yayapai county. For number of months he has been working on lease of a portion of the Little Jessie mine. He has prospered, and now intends to start out on a pros pecting trip into the remoter parts of the territory, full of the idea that better mines are still under ground than any yet discovered. Speaking of Chaparral Gulch, De Bow affirms the Little Jessie, which is owned by John s. Jones, to be wonder. ''Why," said he, about the last day was there, was down at