Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-26

Pass, under the direction of the Re- construction D4partment of the com pany, which is in bhe immediate charge ot General William Hood. who has for many years been chief engineer of shls vast corporation. There will be four miles of track iH the vicinity of Drs- Roon Summib and eight miles near Railroad Pass, to be changed, placed out of the washes and on higher ground beside strengthening the road bed in other places.
 McMahon and CoegFave, two prospect ors, discovered 8 cave in 8 mountsir about fifty miles north of Gila Bend. In the cave they found a skeleton. Upon piece of felt was written ia slmoss il- legib'e letters under the date of Jsnu- sry, 1S6S that the writer had been pur- sued and shot by Iodiane, that he was dying, and then followed confession that his name was Paul Somers and that in 1863 he murdered Frank Merdon in New Orleans and robbed him of sev- eral hundred dollars.
 When Lieut. Shuttle worth U s. A.. who is in charge of she topograph re- connoisssnce of the district west from Tucson, WIS recently here, his stten Sion was called to the continuous deprede- tions of the Papago Indians who roam on the west of the Quij0toa mountains and from the Saosbon agency to their hsunts in Sonora, subsistipg mean while almost entirely on meat obtained by the slsugh ghter at will of range cattle. To such eu extent has this been done as to almost break up two or three large bands of cattle and force the owners out of the business. Lieut.. Shuttle worth became satisfied of the great wrong to the cattle owners and made 8 report on the subject to the officer oom- msndinR this military department. which resulted in his being ordered to make an exhaustive investigation into the matter. Yesterday, Judge 0. w.. Wright was giving some time grstui- sousIy in securing sworn testimony ss 50 specific acts of depFedations of this character and putting it in shape to be forwarded to the proper official through Lieut. Shustleworth.
 A. H. Emanuel, District clerk of Go ohiee county, is iu the city. He has been 8 resident of Tom bstone continu- ously since 1879 and was appointed District clerk by Judge Sloan, Judge Bethune continued him in office becGuse of his eff oiency, and now that his first love, politically, is sgsin lon top" be will doubtless be appointed for the third time.
 There is much activity in mining in Silver Hill distrIct, and several mines are being worked upon good paying basis, she two foremost among them be- ing the Liberty mine, owned by Joe Goldtree of this city, who have been shipping high grade silver lead ore for long time at 8 big profit. Several old mining properties ia the district are being uncovered and from which some excellent results have been ob tsined. Among them the old Monte Cristo mine, which has not been work ed for several years. Pieces of solid eilveE nave been picked up after rsin on the dump from this mine and fl is thought that it is still capable Of prod ucing sn enormous amount of rich ore.
 Considerable prospecting is also be- ing done for gold in the Gila noun tains Rich deposits of placer gold have been found from time to time ip the past, at the fo7t of these mountains and there are several parties of miners searching for the leads, which are ever bssn able to fad.
 A man who gave his nsme as Busch and claiming to be superintendent of mine near Congress, played 1t sharp in this city yesterday end consequently he is wanted on 8 charge of obtaining money on false presenses. He gave 1t out that he wanted men to work in the mines and succeeded in interesting two men who had been working on the bridge gang fes.she s. P. Hallway, who agreed to go with him and work in the mines They were all as the depot yes- terdsy afternoon waiting for traiu, when Busch stated that if they would each give him $3 5O he could get them through to Congress for that amount. They thinking that hs had some pull with the train crew which they knew nothing about gevs him the money and he disappeared, presumedly to go and fix mettere, and the two men did not suspect anything wrong until the train upon which they were to go started tt pull out and no Busch came. Then it suddenly dswned upon them that they had been "buncoed," but 1t was too late and the supposed mining supePintend eat was then ou his way to Maricops. They immediately informed the police, and Marshal Finley telegFaphed to Dspusy Sheriff Williams, ct Msrioops, to arrest the man es coon as he arrived there aud bring him back to Tucson. Up to this sttsrnoon nothing had been heard in regard to the natter, and it ie probable that Busch made good his