Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-05-13

The loan commission has required
 of P. J. Cole, territorial treasurer
 an increased bond of $S60,OO0 to
 cover the new bonds now being is
 sued.
 The We. A' Orb is the name of a
 neat new paper just started at Bis
 bee by c. II. Porter and A. W.
 Howe, the first number of which has
 been received.
 ! Cattle shipments have just com imenced from Glendale. Thirty car loads have been shipped and 1t is sAid that there are one hundred and forty to ship yet.
 Three car loads of fat sheep and lambs were shipped to Phenix this morning by James May, the sheep man. About 1000 head are being driven now from Glendale to North ern ArizoDA.
 Superintendent John Burns, of the U. V. & P. railway, has contracted with Master Mechanic O. H. Jack son, of the :. F.. r. k P. railway, for the repair of the two engines of the former road at the Prescott shops. : The first one will be dismsntled and brought in here in few days. Camille Flammariop, the cele- brated French Astronomer, con tributes to the May number of the North American Review an enter tsining paper on Mars and Its Inhabitants" M. FlammsrIon re- gards our Martisn neighbors more advanced in planetary life, and in- habited by beings more intelligent than ourselves.
 Cheap telegraphy makes a largely increased business. Since the ad- ven. of the Postal and Western Union telegraph lines to Prescott, and the reduction of rates, each line ,ioes as much or more business than the single line did prior to their arrival here. The California rate has been reduced from 90 cents for ten word message to 50 cents, a reduction of nearly one-han.
 Judge Barnes is good stayer. as IS evidenced by the Dunbar libel case. The judge had the matter in charge, and maintained from start Is haiSh that he would win, and the decision of the supreme court very clearly demonstrates that hls head was clear, and the Gazette desires 70 extend to the able gentleman it's sincere thanks and gratitude, as 8 newspaper man in Arizona has little else to give, we can only say that we hope, in time, to be able to recipro- cate. The Gazette omitted 10 mention that Mir. Dunbar's attor- ney, in his devotion 10 his client, even suffered imprisonment for con tempt of court.
 The promotion of E. ". Gillette to be general agent of the Santa Fe at this point has resulted in a mum Der of other changes along the line. The place of ticket clerk al the local office Is now occupied by L. Il. LIadis, formerly agent of the company at i-acria. The Peoria office has passed to J. T. Waldin, formerly of ihe Prescott office. J. C. Jackson, agent of the company at Aihambra, aud Frank Fl. Holder, chief clerk O! the PheniX freight office, have also changed places in the general shake-up.-Phenix Re publican.
 The board of control went through the salary list at their meeting on Tuesday and applied the pruning knife to some of the sslsnes At the insane asylum the superiUtsnd- ent was reduced from S2,500 year to S2I00; tiIe jcatTon was cut down from S750 t4 500. while the farmer was ofereI reduction of $50 per month .o S4O. This was done on the the ory JEat n proportion to other salaries those at the asylum were oU; of proportion, as the above figures inciude board, room rent, team and other cJuvenieuces.-G a. Zette.
 Dr. Reynolds left on Tuesday afternoons train telling some par ties that he was going to Ash Fork to see some friends and that he would return yesterday morning. yesterday morning came but the doctor didn't. This morn- ng ditto. His failure 10 re- turn to day has given rise to the rumoT on the streets that he does not intend 10 do so, but the proba- bility is that he has been called un- e1pectedly to California which &C., counts for his delay. This seems all the more probable from the fact that he told au attache of this office, that he expected to go to Los An geles this week to remain about 8 week.
 F. D. Barnhart came in on this mornings train.
 John Mcdonald was among the arrivals by this mornings train. s. C. Wynkoop, the electrician, came up from PheniI yesterday. Mrs. J. D. Moore and her daugh- ter, Miss Ida, returned to-day from their visit to Phenix.
 E. F.. Wann, the we'll known mining man, was a passenger on this morn lng's south bound train, en route to Phenix.
 NJ. H. Dodge, a capitalist of Cleve- land, Ohio, who IS interested In the Prescott and Cleveland Mining Company, and in other properties in this section. arrived on this morn