Arizona republican., 1898-08-07

ed. The blaze started among a pile of stored mattresses and infammable goods. A few moments later and the whole would have been in flames. A patent fire extinguisher was brought into play and the fire put out The fire is believed to have been due to the carelessness of an employe who threw a lighted cigarette near the heap.
 The dead Mexican who was brought in from South Pass was identified here as Rafael Guiteraz, who has been about Tombstone for many years. The further fact has developed that an other Mexican was with the deceased prior to the killing. They had stopped at the Ryder & Swayzee, house over night and left evidences showing that they had cooked breakfast before the quarrel The sheriff's office is at work on a clew and are making every effort to ferret out the murderer.-Pros- pector.
 David L. Stinson, formerly ma chinist in the employ of the $. P. ma chine shops at this place and later a. dairyman on the Santa Cruz, left here about two months ago and took ser vice on the United States cruiser Charleston, now at Manila. Later he was transferred to the Philadelphia, and was to have sailed on her when she sailed for Honolulu last week to raise the stars and stripes, but he had | the misfortune to break a leg and was | left behind. He will follow as soon as able to do so.-Tucson Citizen.
 A few days ago MT. J. K. Brown was in the Santa Rita mountains accom- panied by young nephew. Coming down the mountain and near an old camp he turned to see where the boy was and as he rightly surmised, he was hesitating at a rattlesnake crossing ] the trail before him. MT. Brown went to the assistance of the boy and threw 1 rock at the snake, which then cross ed the trail and entered an empty fruit can that was lying in the grass. It coiled the can full till nothing but the tail was sticking out, and in that man. ner was killed. It had nine rattles on and was about two and a half feet ilong.-Tucson Citizen.
 Joe Soldine is in receipt of letter from J. B. Miller at Dawson. MT. Mil Ter it will be remembered kept the Horseshoe restaurant opposite to Wheeler 6 Perry's on Congress street about a year ago. The letter was dated July 12 From it's tone the writ CT evidently has great faith ill the lcountry It is, he says, all it has been represented to be. From his estimate Dawson City contains between 10000 and 15.000 people, some coming and some going all the time Wages are from $1 to '$1.50 per hour and provis- icns correspondingly high. Beer Is 50 cents per glass and cigars 50 cents each For himself he has bought a quarter interest in claim on Hunkel creek in the district and in due time hopes to become a millionaire-Tuc-
 son Citizen.
 The assessment rolls of Cochise lcounty for the year 1898 as computed (by the clerk of the board of supervis-
 ors foots up $2,77O,SOO.5O as against l$2, ,412,276 in 1897, showing an increase
 for the present year of $358, ,524. The
 increase of assessment places oul county well up in the list as compared
 with the other counties of the terri
 tory and reflects credit upon the abil
 ity of Assessor Harwood, who covered
 the county personally and thoroughly
 assessed each taxpayer. The raise ot
 nearly S400,O00 besides showing that
 our county is faring well despite the hard times, also shows that the new investments in the mineral and other
 resources Of the county is making it. self materially felt in the increased assessment to a gratifying extent This gain was made notwithstanding
 the reduction by the territorial board
 of equalization of s70,125 on the rail
 road ssessment-Prospect
 The improvements in the Southern !, Pacific yard at Benson make it lool like new place. The water tank ha, been taken away and two new one.
 erected upon the top of a hill neal
 by. whence the water is piped into tn,
 yard and through the town: the stocl
 pens have been removed to the wes
 end of the railroad yard: the coal biI
 and derrick have been moved iron the north to the south side of tn
 yard; the old round house has beel demolished and a new one with stall for five locomotives is to be erecte, . at point further down the track an,
 more to one side, for which the track are already laid and new turntabl has been put in. With all thes
 changes approaching trains can se
 their way the entire length of tn yard. The view of the track was ob structed by the former arrangement o Il the various structures, which, with tn heavy grade made it very dangerous Oasis.
 The storm in Lonesome valley, Yav . apai county, last week was the heavi
 est ever experienced there The stream were swollen to a height never befor known. The rain came in sheets. I
 was accompanied by hail. which GOV : cred the ground after the storm wa over. The hail beat the fruit iron
 the trees and did considerable injur
 to gardens. c. B. Seymour can als testify to the terror of the storm an / the dangers of swollen streams. as h had an experience which well nigl : cost him his life, He was on his wa
 to Prescott and in an attempt to eros Lonesome valley wash the high wate