The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-15
AROUND ARIZONA,

Property Ill Ulla county for 1895 | amounts to $886, ,339.
 Tucson was visited with rainstorm last week which washed down a num- Der of adobe buildings.
 The next years work of the Univer- sity of Arizona will commence Sep- tember 25th. Circulars containing and information will soon be issued by the faculty.
 Abe Humphries lawyer from Flor ence, Arizona. has skipped by the light of the moon, taking with him money and valuables belonging to others; also, among the valuables, one Mrs. Douglass. grass widow from Bob Williams diningroom.
 Contractor Napier informs the Tempe "News" that he has now on the ground one-half of the necessary cut stone trimmings for the new normal build ing. The stone is from the Flagstaff quarries and is made ready for the walls before it is loaded on the cars. The work of making brick is pro- gressing very satisfactorily, and it is expected that work on the building will be instituted early next month.
 Joe Campbell died from the effects of gunshot wound received in the shooting scrape last Sunday night at Turkey Creek Station, near Prescott. He made statement before dying that he had been shot by Ed Payne, who is now in the hospital department of the county jail. The shooting of Ernest Arnez was accidental. as the bullet which hit him was intended for Payne The trouble was caused by Payne pay ing too much attention to Campbell's wife.
 A sad death occurred last night about midnight when the little three year-old son of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Ebert, living on South Third street, passed away. Tuesday afternoon while playing about the house the little fellow found some matches which iguited and set fire to his skirts. Be- fore his mother could extinguish the flames he was terribly burned from the ankles to the face. He fingered in terrible pain until last night, when death relieved his sufferings. Herald.
 The great Crowned King mine in the Bradshaw mountains, forty miles from Prescott, has been bonded for $500,0 ,000 by the owners, Place, Sheckles and Harrington. These gentlemen received cash surety of $l0,000. The purchasers were the Il. B. Chamber lam Company of Denver, who are one of the largest handlers of mines in the United States. The mine is an inn mense proposition and has already given a fortune to its owners. The new owners will place improved ma chinery at the mine and with large force of men will make it one of the greatest mineral producers in Arizona.
 The home of Mir. and Mrs. w. R. Perry, on South Stone avenue, was struck by lightning about l2 o'clock and shortly after the family had re- tired for the night. The bolt first struck the gable of the house which faces north, then ran east about four teen feet, tearing of the shingles for two feet wide along it's course, then turned down and into the diningroom, tearing a furrow in the wall as it passed. A dresser filled with dishes and fruit was simply pulyerized. It passed through the adobe, boring d hole about one and one fourth inches in diameter, and entered the ground on the outside. The hole where it entered the ground is about ten inches in diameter and about eighteen inches deep.-Tucson Citizen.
 Sheriff Scott and Dr. s. M. Craig of St. Johns went to Navajo the first part of this week and exhumed the remains of the prospector who it is supposed was murdered some weeks ago, for the purpose of ascertaining if possible the cause of his death and searching for clues that would tend to throw some light as to his murderers. There is now scarcely any room to doubt that he was foully murdered and that rob- bery was the object. Those who per petrated the heinous act, however,