Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-08
SOME ARIZONA NEWS
TAe Principal Happenings Throughout
 the Territory Nowadays.

Fred. Seegar is again making trick st his yard east of town. He
 now shipping 60.0O0 to fill an rder from Jerome.-Winslow Malli
 In the rivalry for the Queen of the Fourth" at Tucson, Miss Lulu Hill won by a vote of S,45O to S,2S6 for Miss GeOrgie Scott. Votes cost five cents Sach.
 Quite a large number of Mcquis went down from the reservation last werL to get turtles from Clear creek. to Ue used in their dance ceremonies. -WiRslow Mail.
 Leo. Goldman was the first man ou- on the morning of the fourth. DI ssed in slumber robes he took a walk for fresh air and was captured by Barry Goldwater.-Gszette.
 L. or about Pheni1 there resides sn individual who has peculiar fsd, being nothing less than to slit the ears of drunken men, much as cattle are marked for the purpose of identihcstion.-RspublicaR
 Marion Mitchell, superintendent Ct the Arizona Copper Companys works st Metcali, in Graham county, was murdered by a Mexican last Thursday. Mitchell was justice of the peace and had fined the Meu- can, when the latter for revenge committed the deed.
 Windy Bob" was bitten on the back of bis left hand by a rattle snake some ten days or two weeks since on Salt river. He says the only remedy he used was the pulpy leAf of the prickly pear, which he applied as 8 Poultice immediately after receiving the bite, and the wound gave him but little trouble.
 Tho press dispatches to the Globe Democrat say that Arizona terri torial bonds are refused in New York at fifty cents on the dollar. Last January they were going at two per cent premium, and last March $S00,000 were contracted for at the same price. The credit of Arizona don't seem to be booming these days.
 Cochiss County, Arizona, has add cd more than one hundred million dollars to the worlds wealth in gold, silver and copper, yet the valuation of its property while dO- ing this dwindled from nearly fifteen million dollars in 1888 to less than three millions in 1895. Isn't this a sermon in itself on the financial questioni-Florence Tribune.
 The case of Rogers, the convicted train robber, now ia the Florence jail, seems to be one in which execu- tive clemency could be fairly in voked. He committed no murder. and it seems repugnant that a man should bs hanged for a crime in which human life is not taken. Gov. Franklin sl ould commute the sen teDce to s tSrm of imprisonment.- Tribune.
 A. J. Conley, better known to old timers as Jack Conlev, died at the residence of his sOn-in-law, in Plaza Sueva, St. Johns, on the 20th of June. He was among the first set tlers of St. Johns; in fsct, of Ari- zOna. Jacks career was checkered and varied. He served thirteen !. years in the regular army and was h-aorably discharged during the . late unplessAntnsSs- After his dis 1 charge was in the confederate ser vice until after the close of the war. l Returned to Arizona after the war s ! was an active participant in in- ! numerable Indian skirmishes; l freighted for C. C. Bean in the l palmy days of Wickenburg, and 1 s' erwards was chief of scouts under Lieutenant Gatewood. His adven- lures and experiences in the hands O. a g od writer would have made an interesting book of the trials, adventures and hardships undergone by the pioneers of the wild and wou fly west. ."-Winslow Mail.