The herald., 1896-12-06
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q story of the fight at Deer creek, which
varies slightly from the one told by the
officers. 1t was Black Jack himself, not
Jeff Davis, who was riding with Bob
Hayes. When the shooting commenced
his horse began to buck and his pistol
flew out of his holster. Then his horse
was shot and fell on his Winchester. He
turned the horse over, got his gun and
then ran and hid behind cactus. The
officers hunted for him. and at one time
were within twenty feet of him, but
failed to see him. When they abandoned
the hunt he gracefully retired. He was
not hit by bullet. He was riding a
Diamond A horse when at Holn-ng's
ranch.-Lordsburg Liberal.
Mr. James F. ST. Clair, mining man
interested in Picacho mining district
near Yuma, is visitor to Tombstone.
Mr.. st. Clair states that his section is
proving a bonanza producer. Eastern
capitalists have acquired some property
there, which in every instance are prov
ing valuable producers for their owners.
The Capella, White Gold, Golden
Dream, Monday and Leon groups of
mines, owned by various companies, are
among those working, and the erection
of mills on two of these properties will
soon be in progress
Mr.. st. Clair states that a rich strike
Of $4,000 ore was found in one of the
the extent of which has not yet been de-
termined. 1t is cautiously guarded and
worked.-Tombstone Prospector.
The special train bearing the officials
of the Santa Fe system returned Satur-
day from the tour of inspection to Quay
mas and southern points, and continued
their journey north In the party are
Mr.. j. j. Frey, general manager of the
Santa Fe system; John Player, super
intendent of machinery; H. c. White
head, general auditor; II. G. Short, gen.
eral travelling auditor, and John Nc
Carthy, private secretary to Mr. Frey.
The local officials of the n. NJ. and A.
and Sonora roads, Assistant General
Manager Naugle, Roadmaster Mon
tague. Trainmaster Gibson and Master
Mechanic johnson accompanied the
party to Benson.
The whole party will probably pass
over the new line of the S. F. P. and p;
via Phoenix. The Vidette thinks it is
understood that the company have in
contemplation some decided improve
ments in the service between Benson
and Guaymas.-Tombstone Prospector
Ernest Walker of Phoenix has an in
teresting collection of confederate
money,which can hardly be equalled out
side a museum. 1t comprises authentic
sued by the southern confederacy dur
ing the time of the late unpleasantness
In evidence are $500 bills and treasury
notes of smaller denominations, the
notes of state bankers and those of firms
privileged to issue currency and several
thousand dollar bonds, with many of
their forty-dollar coupons still uncut
Contracts for new buildings are being
1,t1i1d ioo ie.
being done at the present time in this
city than in any town in Arizona The
committees have the work of instituting
an Odd Fellows lodge well in hand and
Jerome will do herself grand on the 7th
OF December in the way of entertaining
the grand officers of Governor Franklin
and his staff. The grand officers will
be here on Sunday, the 6th and the gov
ernor and staff with other visitors on
Monday morning. On Monday after
noon the grand officers, governor and
his staff and visiting Odd Fellows viii
be given banquet at the Grand View
hotel; during the day the lodge will be
instituted, and at o'clock in the evening
the public installation of officers will
take place, after which there will be
grand ball with a supper at the Grand
View. The Whipple band will furnish
music for the banquet and the ball
Every citizen of Jerome should take an
interest in the success of this affair, it
being the first Undertaking of the kind
ever attempted in Jerome since she has
thrown off her infant garb-Arizona
Mining News
Five counties will unite this year in
Joint institute. to be held in Phoenix
from December rs to January 1 inclu-
slVe. These counties are Coconino.
Yavapai, Pinal, Pima and Maricopa
Three days will be devoted to institute
work, and the latter two days to the
n rS' ;o<;
Gazette.
Colonel Brooks, who recently took a
trip across Death valley, thus speaks
to Yuma Sentinel reporter of that
wonder of nature:
1T is truly regretful that this phe-
nomenal country cannot be seen by the
thousands of people who read of its
indescribable wonders" He saws that
when the descriptive powers of our most
able writer's have been exhausted in an
effort to convey to the public a correct
impression of the precipitous depths
grandeur of its confines, combinations
or all known minerals, and adding to
this the solemnity of awe, of future. OF
death to many travellers, the readers
most grasping imagination is still vague.
and as far short of the reality as is the
possibility of an OK drinking the waters
of the San Francisco bay.
An indefinite idea of the exceeding
grandeur of the salt precipice--mles in
length-that is situated at the head of
Death valley, as the sun shines upon il
each day of the 1865 of the year. may be
obtained by directing ones thoughts or
imagination to the sublimity of Niagara
rails, when its dimensions have been
multiplied by one hundred, and the wa
ter is converted into transparent icicles
with the rejecting brillancy of ten
thousand chandeliers. and then by some
unnatural expanse of the imagination
an appreciative sense of the stubborn
facts is had; of the deep brown or oxide
OF iron color, the crystallizing salt ex-
tending over fifty miles in the lowest
depth of Death valley.
There is nothing, not anything, that
has name or shape, more abrupt. un-
even or topsy-turvy, than is this mass
of salt as spewed from the unknown
depths of the earth. The projecting
points, one above another, are generally
oblong, and of all dimensions, from one
inch to five feet and as the inner pres
sure of the unknown forces have thrust
and crowded the millions of varied forms
and sizes of fragments promiscuously
to the surface, it presents a distressing
confusion. The salt is of the ordinary
hardness of stone"
JOTTINGS
Lieut.. Charles p. Reiss and family
passed through Phoenix last week on
their way to Fort Whipple, where the
lieutenant will be stationed Ee kns
been at Fort Clark, Texas
During the next three or four months