The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-29
TERRITORIAL NOTES.

got the drop on him and Big Con" is dead and buried. He was distin- guished ex-train robber.
 The Southern Pacific company showed au obliging spirit this year in the pay ment of county taxes. At the request of Treasurer Overton they paid their $l2,000 taxes month ago, he explain ing that it would be favor to the county for them to do so. The two next largest taxpayers are L. Zecken- dorf & Co. and Maisch & Drisroll each having from $3,000 to s4,OO0 to pay.--Tucson Citizen.
 The craze for political persimmons seems to have struck the newspaper gang of Arizona awfully hard A lot of beardless Loys are running for the city offices at Tucson, and the as pirants for the city treasurer's chair arc Bob Todd and Paul Heermans, the city editors respectively of the two lailes. The race promises to be an exciting one. Todd rides a "Daisy" bicycle and Heermans is sprinter of acknowledged prowcss when there's a scoop in view.
 A man who might really have been suffering from hunger, but whose hunger even in it's extremity mani fested u discrimination entirely out of joint with the present hard times, selzed three cans of Saddlerock oysters (and everybody knows that every Saddlerock oyster involves fortune) and started up all alley. The oysters belonged exclusively to J. A. Phillips. They were owned by no syndicate Three individuals who had no interest in them, but cared only that vast capi- tai should not be lost to Arizona, gave chase. They overlook, captured him and turned him over to Special Officer Webster, who was also camping on his trail. He will be tried for treason. - Republican.
 Trains on the North and South road are now running ten miles this side of Congress junction. The stage station has not been removed from Congress 
 yet, as the trains this side are used only for construction purposes Within three weeks the track will be finished to the Hassayampa and rcgu- lar trains will connect with the stage line at that point. From the Hassay- ampa in, the work will be pleasant recreation compared with the char acter of it beyond It is said that the contract for building the passenger depot has been awarded, but the pane of the contractor or the character of the plans has not been made public, = Republican.
 A man drowning in two feet of water is very unusual affair, espe- cially when it is not done deliberately. Such case occurred Friday night It was at Huachuca station, in the San , Pedro river, and befell an old man, name unknown. He was evidently a packer or prospector. He was too drunk to know what he was about While fording the San Pedro he fell He was too intoxicated to get up and drowned in two feet of water. His body was found later. A coroner's jury was summoned and pronounced the expected verdict and the old man was laid away Sunday at the expense of the county. His sole possessions, so far as available, were five burros. A similar case once occurred in Ar kansas, where man drowned in three inches of water, he falling face down ward and being too drunk to roll over. Tucson Citizen.
 The recent strike in the Morning Glory mine, mention of which was made in our last issue, proves much greater than was announced. In con ycrsatiop with J. P. Hedigan, foreman of the mill there. it is learned that the ore body was encountered at q depth of 7S-fcet in cross cutting the forma- ton. Two parallel veins were struck. One is fourteen feet wide, of solid sul- phuret ore of au average of $40 per ton. The other is ten feet wide, the ore being white quartz, going s50.S0 in free gold Tie owners of the prop erty have been compelled to close their mill for some time on account of q lack of water, but struck all abundance of wnfpr l.nrpntlA in a wall sunk oproSs e