Arizona republican., 1899-02-16

favor of the Hearst estate, says the Tucson Star. The grant extends from
 two miles above Charleston on the San Pedro to within half 9 mile of Colonel Lands ''stCne ho9se." It includes Fair banks, but net St David The .wid' iz seventy-six cuerdas 15G feet to the cUerd2) and takes in the San Pedro riv- CT boo.-rn land The court announced that it was ready to deliver an opinion or the same principle as that of the BCrQuilias, being eight leagues, if the question of it's surplus within the ex- teriOr boundaries was cut of the way. This has reference to the BabocOmari grant
 Last evening Attorney E. M. Sanford received a telegram that his mother.
 Mrs. Jessie Jasper, Of Mt. Morris, N. Y, was very low, and he was making arrangements 10 leave in the evening for her bedside. This morning he re- ceived q telegram that she had passed away during the night She visited Prescott several years ago and her friends remember her as a very pleas ant and intellectual woman. She was one Of the first women to advocate wo- mans suffrage from the rostrum, and that under the auspices of the Fox sis ters and Susan B. Anthony at Roches- ter in 1S46 The telegrams were the first news of her illness. he having re- ceiVed a letter from her only a day or two ago, in which she spoke of her eX- cellent lth.-JOurnal-Miner
 Yesterday morning Mrs. Oxer, the lady who attends to the zoOm5 of the Norton house, while making her usual rounds, discovered one of her l0dgers, A. M. McLane, dead in his bed. A coroner was a- cr.ce notified and a jury od To I,r ce death. There were no marks of any kind on the body Dut @ small empty morphine bottle in the cuspidO~ told the tale. The deceased was a man Of middle age and a brOther-in-laW of Thomas Tate. He WIS employed by the A. 6 $. [. railroad company as a blacksmith and was well liked by all lis associates. Whether he took the morphine to end h;s life or acciGen ally took an overdose will never be known as he left no statement of any kind. The funeral of the deceased took place this morning and was quite well at tended by his many friends and ac- quainrances.-Bisb Orb.
 M. NJ. Conn of Tucsc1 received q let ter on Friday. dated Rampant City, Alaska, October 10, and signed R. B. Dawson. MT. Dawson's name appears on the letterhead as general manager of the Dawson Transpol tation and Trading company. He halls from Tue son and the persons referred to in the letter will be recognized by many here He says: Almost every person is out on the creeks working their claims. The mines are from four tc twenty miles from the town and will be WotkeJ for all they are worth during the winter, My engineer, Charles Suter, and the Kid, are working on fifteen claims on Little Minook creek and if they strike pay they will clean up some big money. I am running tine store and am doing very well. Have tha boy to help me. Have spent $2,- eco for leg building and we are very comfortable for the winter Will not come out in the spring if the camp is . extra gcod. I am satisfied this is q good country, but it will take a long time to develop it. Whiskey is sold at 50 cents a drink. There are five sa- Icons, and some gambling. P Char loue of TucS-n, c CNner of the Legal Ten l der building, is here. He has two very good claims and if he strikes pay he will make some good money. Tell John Brown 1 have not forgotten about his nugget, as I have a bottle full of them and will send him one just as soon as I can find a reliable person go- 1 ing out