Arizona republican., 1898-03-16

was provided by the Seventh cavalr
 orchestra which came about sixty mile from Camp Grant.
 Considerable canaigre was shippe
 to Bowie from this vicinity in Janu : ary and February. There it was drie : and ground and shipped east. Owin , to some hitch the enterprise failed : Canaigre is plentiful in this locality , but better arrangements are necessar ; to make shipping successful. John Blake & Go. have received al , invoice of a carload of spuds and on , ions-the first lot from Oregon.
 Merchants here are classed A No. by Bradstreet's.
 Flour is shipped to Clifton at 9 cents per 100 pounds, thirty-eigh
 miles wagon haul and IA cents rail t.
 destination. Whole distance sixt.
 miles.
 James Vaughn, a we'll known miner
 received an arrow head in his shoul
 der in the seventies and the man ha:
 been tortured ever since the cusset thing has taken to travelling about 1T his anatomy. Vaughn's brother anG two others were killed Tn the attack 1 Vaughn has been to San Francisco tc i have the arrow head removed and the i doctors failed in the effort. He was in critical condition on Saturday. ! Smith & Morris have had the foun- dation of the $5,OOO school house laid 1 and brick will be laid we'll up to the roof line by April first.
 Word reached Stafford On Friday that MT. John Foster, an old resident and prominent member of the Mormon church, died at Pima Thursday morn ing.
 Miss Katie Futile has fitted up the postoffice conveniently since last Oc- tober when she took charge by ap- pointment, one of the first Arizona changes in the list of postmasters. W. B. Fonda is authority for the statement that he has capital in sight to invest in making the proposed En- terprise canal a success. It is under stood that he expects number of Swedish and German families to locate on the line from the Narrows to fol- low the base of the Grahams down the valley. MT. Fonda was greatly pleas ed with his trip to Phoenix and the Salt River valley towns about two months ago.
 Stafford has a mining fever in view of the prospect of development in the Lone Star and Yukon gold and copper districts of which I will write in the letter to follow.
 sOLOMONvILLE. The absence of MT. and Mrs. I. B. Solomon at Las Cruces is noted MT. Solomon went over to the New Mexico town to meet his wife and together they will journey home on Wednesday, being due here on Thursday.
 Among the active young merchants is Alturo M. Elias, who graduated from Solomon's store. Alturo has worked up gradually and while yet a young man is in second place and is rated well.
 Harry Solomon and a trio of Mexi- can musicians serenaded the Hotel Solomon guests on Saturday evening" The little band was called inside the spacious parlors and the floor was cleared for dancing Among those present were MT. and Mrs. John A. Riley of Los Angeles, MT. and Mrs. Frank Conkey of Phoenix. Miss Bes- sic Mcfarland, Agent c. J. Me Cormick of Pima, Max Strauss of Ell Paso, Mrs Will B. Kelly, Miss Lillian and Charles and Harry Solomon, MT Fisher, Hon. Wiley E. Jones, Mrs David Cough, Miss Blanche Solomon Mr. and Mrs. Charles Belknap, G. w Pittock. As entertainers the Solo, mons are equal to any emergency. Sev- eral of the above mentioned people were driven to Stafford on Sunday, as guests of MT. Charles Solomon and a fine dinner awaited them on their return in the evening.
 Sheriff Birchfield and District At torney Wiley B. Jones left late last night for Klondyke. Dr. Lacy could not obey request to join Messrs Jones and Birchfield. Agent McCor- mick carried MT. Jones as far as Pima on his railroad tricycle.. where Dr 1 Wightman was to be met and all three will cross the Grahams on long ride to the scene of the difficulty, of whicf wired The Republican on tht strength of a dispatch received iron the sheriff.
 Judge Mcfarland demonstrated hi: ability to make horse change h1: gait from pacing to fox trot, yester day before a select few. As resul l Sheriff Birchfield bought the obedien animal and has an opportunit! l to test HIS Qudllll6S III Ih' saddle on the trip to Klon dyke, an embryo town near th'
 Table mountain and Grand Reef cop per mining districts. The ride is ; rough one of sixty miles.
 | Dr. Lacy, who has had busy week reports several new residents who ar' not old enough to give an intelligen account of themselves. Mrs. Lacy ha
 been in poor health of late.
 Harry Solomon is at the Cliff dwell ings today, a point about eight mile
 north. This and the hot springs nea Fort Thomas are among the attractiv
 spots in the valley aside from tn
 Arcadia and Columbine resorts re
 ferred to above.
 The rains of the past three day
 have been welcome, especially for tn
 cattle in Gila county, and in the val
 ley for alfalfa, etc.
 In September last thousands of dol lars were lost in hay and grain by tn
 cloudburst The railroad suffered t a great extent. The loss of grain wi l in nart ChOrtaCo How