Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-07

bONefnOf Murphy mas PranleQ res pite until January next, to give the condemned man $ attorneys q chance to make plea in behalf of their eli ent. A very grave doubt has arisen, says the Williams News, as to whether what at the time of the trial appeared murder was not one of those ignorant, but awful accidents made by fool where q life was sacrificed. The gov ernor is being petitioned by many claiming knowledge of the facts in the case to change the sentence from death to life imprisonment. The pe- titions have been signed by many of the jury which voted for the death sentence, also all the officers of the county where the crime occurred, as well as the parish priest to whom the condemned made his death confession.
 A story has been circulated around Tucson for several days which is to the effect that Al Carpenter, who has since last spring been the manager of the Mammoth-Collins Supply com pany, has absconded The rumors are to the effect that since he has held his position MT. Carpenter has purchased his goods upon credit and that he has pocketed the money derived from their sale and has fled. Rumor fixes the date of his mysterious departure at about one week ago. It is claimed that Mir. Carpenter owes large sums to Tucson firms. The local firms have decided to make an attempt to collect the money due them from the Nam moth-Collins Supply company by pro- cess of law against the MammOth-Col- lins Mining company, as it is claimed that the company can be held respon- Sible for the debts of its supply agent. The local firms have combined and a test suit in the name of one of them has been started against the Man. moth Collins Mining company in the district courtof Pinal county Tucson Citizen.
 The following interesting account of the recent session of the United States court at Florence is taken from the Phoenix Republican,: The defaulting treasurer of Pinal county, r. R. Brady, IT,, was tried and convicted, and Judge Doan passed sentence after the district attorney left Florence. Ten persons arrested for selling liquor to Indians were tried and nine were sen fenced to one years imprisonment in the penitentiary and fine of Sl00, and one was sentenced to two years and fine of S20O. The offenders were white men and Mexicans. The cOlored soldiers of the Ninth cavalry who caused considerable trouble to the government at San Carlos few months ago, were tried and q most re- markable combination of the figure thirteen was established. 1t appears that there were thirteen troopers ar rested on the 18th day of october and thirteen witnesses testified against them before the grand jury. The thirteenth man arrested plead guilty, and it looked as though the fate of the others was sealed. In the trial the hoodo was broken by the discharge of ten of the troopers, and the other three were sentenced to a year each at Yuma. The three troopers who will go to Yuma were in Cuba during the late war The trouble caused by the troopers very nearly resulted in an outbreak of the Apaches which might have proven disastrous 10 the settlers of the Gila valley. MT Morrison said there were large number of Apache Indians at Florence as witnesses against the troopers, and one night the people of that place were attracted to the camping place of the Indians by devil dance, which was ar ranged by the warriors present. Mr. Morrison says that il was remarka- ble physical test, and some of the In- dians who participated in 1t were not able to appear in court the next day. | They were completely exhausted from 1 the violent exercise. The spectators
 thoroughly enjoyed the dance. and it i was witnessed hy most every one in ] the town