Arizona republican., 1899-02-02

There was g report on the street last evening that S50000 gold ore has been struck in the Crown King mine.-Pras- colt Courier.
 H. Nj. Merriwether came in Saturday from his mining camp on Black Can yon and will leave on tOnight'6 train for his home in Kansas City.-JOurnal Miner.
 On sufficient evidence, U. s. Com missioner Culver of Tucson, ordered the deportation of Lee TCO, Fong Man and Wong An, who were aTreste1 Wednesday morning, on their arrival from Sonora.
 As a result of the smallpox in Will Hams, says the Journal Miner, quite Q number of the residents of that town have gone to Phoenix to live till the contagion is over Phoenix has no quarantine against Williams.
 A man was brought in on yester- days train to the Sisters hospital from near Bagdad, Cal. He was in the employ of Lantry Bros, and was injured by an accident. Another man, a railroad man, also injured at the same time was taken to the Railroad hospital at AlbuQuarque.-Jou Miner.
 In justice court ''Dutchy' was bound
  fore the grand jury on the charge of embezzlement Bonds were given. This was the outcome Of a sudden con- traction of currency at a west end Ie- sort, "Dutchy' maintaining that 9 fel- low laid $10 on the double o and clean ed out the bank on first call. The owner of the game thought there was colusion, hence the complaint and above results.-Tucson Star.
 We congratulate Arizona as bene- ficiary Of an interesting mark of wide awake Enterprise. Arizona will lead all the rest of the great west in prac- tical introduction of the automobile, or horseless stage. It is reported that a company has placed orders in Chi cagO for several more stages, to run from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon. The stages will each hold eighteen passengers, and will be propelled up the mountain grades by gas engines of fourteen horsepower. The novelty will certainly prove to be q happy idea in railroad anagement.-LC Ange -es Herald.
 Tombstone attorney, who resides not thousand miles from the cOult house, says the Prospector, received letter today from a citizen who de sired his professional services. No en- closures were made to cover expense of making the necessary trip, andthe only reference that was construed to mean reimbursement for services was g line which read: q am certain that the outcome of the legal battle will mean more feathers in your hat The at tOrney, having already been hardened with more fame than he can cOnven- iently carry without the aid Of a cane, immediately wrote his correspondent that he had already more feathers than he had hats, and had long since discovered that the railroad would not honor any kind of plumage for fares, while equal difficulty was eXp5rieacaI in passing feathers for legal tender even in Tombstone.
 Civil engineer W. R. Stevenson has returned from q survey of the Aiga- dOnes grant in southwestern Arizona. says the Los Angeles Times This i; the 5O,000 acres of desert which the settlers of that section propose to re- claim with irrigation canals, fifty feet wide, carrying 30000 miners inches Of water from the Colorado river. Mr. Stevenson finds the plan for irrigating the district practical from an engf- neer's standpoint and thinks the place may become Q great beet-sugar cOun- try. The land lies directly south cf Yuma, a stretch of twenty-five miles along the Colorado. When the big canal is put in he thinks the river will no longer overflow. Stevenson says also that manufactur- ing firm has men along the Colo rado gathering wild hemp, which is very plentiful on the desert at times. The engineer saw the shifting sand hills in the southeastern portion ot California, and thinks they would de- feat the. proposed plan to carry q cana4 from the Colorado at Yuma into the low Salton district The sands would blow over the canal and fill it up. The Southern Pacific is finding trouble with these sands, which cOv-