The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-06-24
TERRITORIAL

AVwutsc - sVsUC MuO Wub WuvU So~s " nf the construction of the cssmpAny's st"rxEs dam at Walnut Canyon. east M Flagsta6. .-Pho-nix Gazette. A is.year.,ld Mexican h"y was fsnling with pistol st Trm.s . m'npl~ of days ago when. strange [" say. the unloxdrd weapon explod~d. and later, much m the ls,,'s ns,Onisl'- n.rnt. . lrmsl-n pill was extracted frm his stomach. He will live, bu' h~ will never fM,l with an ,,nl"a'lesI gun Hgain.--Ph"rnix Gazette.
 l The annual adjustment of postma@- ter's salaries has been made and affccrs Arizona as follows: Tombstone is made a fourth class :. fife l; increase of Bisbcr. from Sl. .2O0t to$l 800; Globe. $l.20O n l.400; N"gales, $i.l00 W $l.200; Yuma. sl.2U0 z" | $l 300; Tucson. g. 100 to $2.200. Dccrrase--WilIisms. *l 200 ,o $l. 100.
 The Territorial Board of Eqnalz,- ti"n has fixed the assessment "f ihr different railroad companies in Ari x"na as follows: S"nthern Pacific. &6,570 per mile; Arixonx & South eastern, &5. 5.36O; Maricopa < Phoenix, *4. 300; Arizona & New Mexico. s. 346, and the Atlantic & Pacific. @, 0OO. The Pullman ears were valued at $3.- 900 and tourists at q, 200.
 We ar. informed that one evening early in the week Mexican man and x woman were under M ear on a tr. e, al Clifton, when a car higher up The track was started in some way. run ning against and starting the one un- der which the man and woman were. The ear passed oyer and cut bnth the w"man's feet. and one f mt and onr hand uf the man. Graham Guardian.
 The Indian school has S6 scholars. which is large for the summer months, a- msnv Wallnpais are "f planting their little patch If ground Mir. and Mrs. Minrr have charge If the sch.s,l. Agent Ewing is doing g."M work ss agent and \ drunken Indian is seldom seen any more on the streets. Ewing k the greatest chief If them all. not excepting L-ve L-ve.-Our Miueral Wealth.
 IL is stated at the office Ot the Santa Fr that sirvpyors are at work survey- ing N route for N railroad from D-m- ing. N. M, to Globe. The iins will rmn as directly as possible t0 Duncan. thence. to SOlnm"nvillr aud on through ,Ia vall-, io Gl"b~. The Sania F. people have leei considering the project far somr tune of running n r,n,.l from Phoenix io Gl,I's.. and if ihis is done the road will undoubtedly be bnilt over ,h- route mrnii"''rd above. It. will connect the tw, great lines controlled by il.at company, aud as, tap Ariznna's agricultural. min eral aud timber region. IL will als, l give to Arizona direct communication lmil, east and west over the Santa Fr system.
 | Last Sunday evening while D,lph l Wilson and Jnln Stewart were riding | in the river bottom north of Stafford they saw m Mexican believed [" be Cha con, the escaped murderer. The man they saw wss seated on the rlvei bank preparing f"r bath. They rode cl"se mp aud sp:'k~ to him several times but he did not answer. when they r'air "n some distance and on account "f his sus spicions xcti,,ns and white skin they believed 1t to he Charon. They re. burned 0n fmt and cOncealed thsn'- .elv-s in the brush. where they g"t ' g.nd ln,k at him. He was armed. but they were not. They came 'p town aud reprl~,l. when number "f armed men went in search of him. but lid mt tind him. On Monday whsn ' picture of ihs murderer was sln'wn h' ,hs boys they said it was the picture "f the man they saw. No trace of the l L... d;sau,v.