The St. Johns herald., 1897-12-25
OUR TERRITORY.
News Notes. From All Sectf0us
 of Arizona

News Notes From All Secti0us
 of Arizona
 Stafford. Graham county, wants to b incorporated.
 The Tempe News complains or petty thieving in tEst place :.
 F. ". Gatke, the Salt river poet, uieo at his home near Fhoenix last Friday
 WlnsIow had Sl000O fire last week five buildings were burned i; partly in sured.
 An engineer named Patterson was killed Tn a collision near Benson last week.
 Colonel J. D. Monihsn captured the pr'ze doll at the late doll show held in Phoenix.
 The Mesa boys, Daly. Steel and Riggs have been acc uitfed Of the charge o1 murdering tramp.
 Tn water in the wells at Phoenix is turning gradually warmer, said to be caused by warm subterranean currents
 4 case of hazing has been reported at the University st Tucson. From all accounts, It was 8 Tufianly perform ance.
 Sues, who is suspected of n1urdering r. F. Lynch, at College, Phoenix, has been arrested at San BerDardiuo, Cali fOrnla.
 Seme uneasiness is felt in Prescott regarding the fate of George Merwin and party, wlo started for the KIondike last summer.
 The jury Tn the case If Territory vs. Greene. charge with murIer. in the Cochise count district court. returned a verdict "f uot guilty.
 A dining room <0x80 feet is being built on the grounds ot the nsane asy- lum. The entlre work of construction Is being done by the patients.
 Arthur Eckhart. express messenger on the Maricopa < Phoenix railroad. vas accidentsi1y killed, while in dis charge of his duties, af Tempe, on last Saturday.
 pr. Hughes proprietor of the Arizo- na Democrat, ass arresteiin Phoenix, last week, on beach w'.r-ant, charged with criminal libel He gave bail in $500.
 A dispatch from Washington says that congress has exterded for two years the time for construction over the San Carlo reservation of the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern railroad.
 Tie Gazette says thatLerry Sullivan. the weIl-known cattIeman, will ship twenty-five cars of cattle from Glen dale, over the santa Fe tuesday or W Wednesday next The stock will be on Kansas ranches.
 Wm. Stowe DevoI, late professor of agriculture ir the University Of Arizo- na. has embarked iu the newspaper business in California, having assumed the associate edilorsiip Of the Red- lands Daily Record.
 Charles w. Pugh, editor Of the South western Stockmsn. and eT-Secretary of the Live Stock Sanitary board, was ar- rested last week on a bench warrant. MT. Pugh had been indicted on charge | ,f being short in his accounts. He gave bail in the sum Of $l;5O0.
 Suit has be-, filed in Denver sgainst l W. c. BashfoEl, or Prescott. and Dan. el E. Heating. Of Denver, for O,OOO damages for eslting B mIne and sellirg 1t to a syndicate Of London capitalists. The mines were the Jersey Lily group, D Yavapai county.
 Predatory animals have become so numerous in Gila county ,depleting the lerds of cattle and horses to such an ,xtent that stockmen have been driven o make vigorous war upon the beasts of prey. The consequence is that claims ,pon the county for scalp bounties have ,een unusually heavy the past month, Iggregating S6O0 to be presented to the board of supervisors for payment Silver Belt.