Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
ARIZONA NEWS BUDGET.
Matters of Interest From all Parts of
 the Territory.

Matters of Interest From all Parts of
 the Territory.
 The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad company has agreed to pay to Mohave county the sum of $16,211.40 taxes on it's assessment for 1896. There was a dispute over $113, which the supervis ors agreed to strike from the roll.
 The Apaches of the Carlisle, Pa., Indian school are winning fame as foot ball players. They have defeated every team they have lined up against excepting the big four-Yale, Prince ton, Harvard and Pennsylvania-and might have beaten Yale but for a wrong decision of the umpire.
 J. Knox Corbett was circulating among our citizens today with a peti- tion for his appointment as postmaster under the incoming administration, and it is being pretty generally signed by the business men of the city. MT. Corbett has served Tucson in that ca pacity before and gave universal satis- faction.-Citizen.
 The bull fight advertised to take place at Tucson last Friday to SUD- plement the ordinary festivities of Christmas was an avoidance of fight, a Chantilly affair in which the bull was the Sullivan and the picador toreadors, the Mitchells. The bull was ready and willing at all times to earn the gate money and gratify the spectators by carrying out the programme. The op- position, though, was never ready to do anything, but displayed extraordi- nary, but not skillful, agility in avoid ing the efforts of the bull to conclude matters.
 Last week reliable information was received by several prominent Mexi- can citizens of Nogales that another descent upon that town by Yaquis was in course of preparation, and that about 15O we'll armed warriors would come from the north. Mexican Con sul M Mascarenas and Collector Ro- dolfo Ogarrio wired this information to the City of Mexico. In turn the authorities of the republic communi cated it to the war department at Washington, and from there Colonel Bacon was instructed to take steps to head off the invaders and protect the town. Accordingly the train from the north Sunday morning brought from Fort Huachuca a company of the 18th U. s. infantry, commanded by Captain Davis and Lieutenant Hurst.
 B. A. Finlen, a man about the age of P years, who has been working in the roustabout gang at the shelter, had a few hours of idleness thrust up- on him Wednesday morning, and to fill up the time thought he would take a look around at the works. He strolled into the fifty-foot tunnel, and while trying to look down into the mysteries of the shaft cage came along at about the rate of mile min ute, hit Finlen on the head and car ried him down the shaft 100 feet to the 150-foot level The arrival of the cage was the last that MT. Finlen re- members of his sightseeing, and when he returned to consciousness he was I in the hospital with fourteen stitches along the left side of his head just above the ear.-Jerome Mining News Tom Kolar, a Wallapai Indian, died at the camp near Kingman last Thurs | day evening. Tom had been charac- | ter about Kingman since the Organi- zation of the town and his demise was loudly mourned by his dusky friends the livelong night. Tom was employ ed early in the week by w. M. Richards in cleaning up his saloon. During the cleaning up process Tom discovered a bottle of wood alcohol in one of the back rooms, and, thinking it straight goods, proceeded to drain it to the dregs. Toms copper bottomed stom- ach, that had stood every known grade of flrewater for years, was not strong enough to stand this powerful brand Despite the efforts of the doctor he sank gradually from the day of de. bauch and is now enjoying the balmy and perfumed zephyrs of the happy hunting grounds.
 Chas. Bowman, Esq, who was ap pointed some weeks since by the board of supervisors of Pima county, to eX pert the books and accounts of JohI s. Woods as probate judge and clerl of the probate court, handed his re port to the supervisors last Saturday The chairman of the board stated tha the balance due the county by the pro
 bate judge which should have beer collected and paid into the treasur. was $9,O53. Rochester Ford presented the law in the case to the board, urg ing it's enforcement, and the immedi
 ate removal of Woods as probat
 judge This was opposed by Woods
 attorney, who claims he was entitlet to be heard The board on motion o
 MT. Vail, fixed Monday, the 18th, a
 10 o'clock a. m., for Woods to appea
 and show cause if any he had, why h
 should not be removed from the offic