Arizona republican., 1896-11-28

among thelr own cOunCrymen, WllHlH easy reach of their friends by tele graph or rail- and in climate as good of it's kind as any in the world.
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 TERRITORIAL NEWS NUGGETS.
 The reported killing of Chas. Cook below the line is false alarm. Both Cook and Garrett are in good health.
 Indian legend says that at one time in days gone by, a number of Papago warriors with their women and child ren were driven by a gang of maraud- ing Apaches to the summit of the fla nous rock on Baboquivari peak and there held till starvation compelled their death. They did not, as expect ted, surrender to their bloodthirsty foes, but like the Jews in the temple at the taking of Jerusalem, by Titus, they killed their women and children and threw their bodies over the cliff and then followed with themselves. This act of courageous desperation on i the part of the Papagoes so inspired 1 the Apaches with superstitious fear that they at once broke camp and it is said that for more than one hundred years afterwards an Apache never stood within the shadow of that great rock-Tucson Citizen.
 A. Nicola, who is the inventor of a placer mining machine which it is said has been demonstrated to be success ] in saving fine gold, has gone with an outfit for a point on the San Juan river, about seven miles from San Juan, where the machine will be used in working a claim belonging to E. c. Foster. There are bars all along the San Juan river that are rich in placer gold but it is fine and difficult to save by the ordinary processes of placerng, and if Mr. McOla's machine is all he claims for it he has a valuable inven- tion and one that will come into exten- sive use in this portion of the country. Mr. Nicola was accompanied by two or three other men and the party was wagon load of supplies and a few pack burros. Prospector.
 Many farmers on the San Pedro are already blowing and sowing wheat. | A Mexican threw himself in front of a train six miles west of Flagstaff and was cut to pieces.
 Since the ordinance requiring a li- cense of $50 per month for women en- ployed in saloons in any capacity went into effect, says the Flagstaff Democrat, the females have been con- spicuous by their absence.
 Wool is quoted at g cents for spring clip and cents for fall. Yearlings have advanced from 25 to 30 cents per head.-Albuquerque Democrat. Two hobos at Wilcox baited fish hooks for chickens and made a good haul for Thanksgiving. They threw , the lines over the fence and yanked the , fowls over to their side. They're il jail now.
 A freighter named s. Pointer re-
 ported last Wednesday that he hat
 
 , camped about midway between Gram , and Wilcox The robbers, who are sup , posed to be some of Black Jacks gang = took two dollars, all he had, his provisions and a blanket, anu IoGe ol , in a southerly direction. Thursday
 afternoon report gained circulation
 that the stage from Grant was to bt
 held up and a posse from town wen out and escorted the mail in A part, 6 of mounted men have been seen re gently in the foothills of Graham , mountain but it is not known posi- i, lively that they were members of thu . Separ gang.-Willcox News
 Hon. Ben Heny writes from Aransa
 Pass that notwithstanding the old gov ernment jetty the pass is slowly deep ; ening. The Goodyear contract will b.
 in force by December 1st when activ work at blasting and dredging will be / gin. Twenty-Five thousand pounds o
 dynamite are now on the way for th y purpose of blowing up the old jetty = Since going to Aransas Ben has be c come an expert fisherman and quit Q recently landed the biggest Tarpol o ever caught in those waters. It meas r ured nine feet six and one-half inches -Tucson Citizen
 c The teamsters engaged in hauling
 ore from Pearce mine have struck fo higher wages.