Arizona republican., 1899-03-13

low last week that had been blockade,
 in snow bank in Colorado since tht
 18th of January. The messenger livet
 on some chuck he found in the car
 It is rumored that J. o. McIntosf
 contemplates selling his entire inter
 ests in Winslow and will make his fu-
 ture home in Manila. He speaks the
 Spanish language f1uently and would
 undoubtedly do well in our newly ac-
 quired ssessions.-Winslow Mail.
 There is a report, says the Tucson
 Citizen, that the English syndicate
 which bonded the Roy group of mines
 on Mineral Creek, has closed the deal
 and contemplate narrow guage rail
 road to connect with the Southern Pa
 cific at Picache distant some thirty
 five miles. The mines have been
 stocked on the London market for ST.
 O0O, 900.
 A we'll known miner who does not
 wish his name used, whose reputation
 both for modesty and verarcity is great says he yesterday refused an offer ot
 S1O,OO0 for an undeveloped prospect near Prescott; that the offer was made by local capitalist who made his fortune out of Yavapai mines and who knows a good thing when he sees it. Prescott Courier.
 The greatest duck killing we ever heard of was done at the old Twenty Four ranch, by Henry Barrett, who has one of those repeating shot guns. He states that at first he frightened the ducks and then shot three times rapid ly. He says while shooting it looked like il was raining ducks and in gath ering them up he found that he actual ly killed twenty-fOur.-St. Johns Her ald
 Stafford is fairly well supplied with doctors at present Not less than thirteen professional gentlemen are stopping in our town with the prefix Dr. to their names Thirteen is usually regarded as an unlucky number, and we would advise the medical fratern- ity to break the combination, or the "hoOdoO'' number thirteen may prove more disastrous than their medicine. The ArizOnian.
 w. J. Quinlan, Jr, of New York, is here looking over his mining interests in the Lynx Creek region, says the Prescott Courier. He is accompanied by N. A. Bibicon, late professor of the South Carolina Agricultural college and present geologist of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad. He holds a gold medal from the Academy of Inventors, Paris, France, and accompanies Mir. Quinlan in the capacity of an expert Prescott Courier.
 !, The Red Light saloon at Tucson was held up on Saturday morning about o'clock by two masked men. F. A. Valenzuela one of the proprietors of the Red Light was sitting behind the bar playing his guitar when the rob- bers entered. There was $10 in the drawer and the robbers took all of it. The two men wore handkerchiefs over the lower part of their faces and one is described as a tall man and the other as short and stockey. It is believed that they have not left the city and will be captured.
 Engineer Holiday of the west bound flyer this morning had one of his arms broken at Wilcox. There was q dOuble-header pulling the flyer and MT Holidays engine was the second one He got off to feel of his engine when the engineer of the first engine started to pull out. MT. Holidays arm was caught by the driver and broken be- fore he could remove it. He was brought to Tucson in the care of Dr. Nicholson, the company's surgeon at Wilcox and taken to his home in the city.-TucsOn Citizen.
 Hon. A. G. Oliver is in receipt of q newspaper published at San Juan Porto Rico, which contains an account of the death of Lieutenant Russ. after two days sickness in that city on the 18th of last month. Lieutenant Russ was with the Eleventh infantry at Ft Whipple, and was quite popular with Prescott people. He served all through the Spanish war. was much broken down in health and came back to the Atlantic coast to recuperate. He had fully recovered when he returned to San Juan, but died suddenly of heart failure the second day after his re- turn.-Prescott Courier.
 Surveyor Genral Christ has filed with the United States land office, township r south. range 25 east. This town ship will be officially filed in thirty days and in that day will be opened for settlement This township is To- cated in the central portion of Cochise county and contains a great deal of good grazing land. The Sulphur Springs valley is in this township and there is no doubt agricultural land there which would be valuable if it were not for the absence of water. Ar tesian water might be obtained, but so far nc attempts have been made in thls direction. A small portion of Pearce camp is contained in the township at the southern boundary.
 The party of capitalists headed by General Andrade who left here three weeks ago on a trip to the Gulf Of California for the purpose of inspect ing the agricultural possibilities and mineral resources of the country, re- turned last Saturday evening. They | were much pleased with the prospects | of the country and will return the lat ter part of April and make a more | thorough inspection. The party had | a novel experience on the down trip. | They camped the first night at the | line and pitched their | tent across the border with one-half | in each nation. Some of the party | slept in Mexico while others reposed | in the United States, a number of the T03lxinO fhpir bpdS. ho;