Arizona republican., 1899-04-26
Arizona Day by Day
 Live News Taken From Territorial Exchanges.

H. H. Brown, it is understood will
 be appointed to take the place of c.
 w. Atkinson, who has resigned os
 supervisor of Santa Cruz county
 Tucson Citizen.
 A movement is on foot in the new
 county of Santa Cruz, Arizona, to have all idle mines assessed at the full value
 at which they are held by their own
 CTS. This movement is against capi-
 talists who are holding mines for
 purely speculative purposes.-El Paso
 Times.
 The Coconino Sun states that fire has been raging in the timber south of Flagstaff for the past week and it has burned over many miles of timber and grazing land. The wind during the forest fire was first in one direction and then in another. A force of forest rangers, aided by number of ranch
 CTS, have been fighting the fire anc have kept it away from the ranches. The origin of the fire is not known,
 Editor Tu.ly while circulating about here last Saturday got into a oOnversa- tion relative to when Hughes and ne get out the first daily paper ever is- sued in Arizona. The press used was of the FArm-strong" variety and had been brought around Cape Horn. It is still in existence at Tombstone, where it passed through fire and get warped The subscription rate for the daily was the moderate sum, in those days, of $2 q month. The firm had to pay $15 ream to get paper from Yuma to Tucson. J. M. Vasquez was the foreman of the office.-Tuc- son Citizen.
 Sunday afternoon while Line Riders Hitchcock and Miller were making their usual ride along the line between the custom house and San Bernardino, they came across the fresh track of 9 large wagon, sevral mule and burro tracks. Thinking something might interest them in this direction they followed the track sevra1 miles in the direction of the Nigger Head. Up in q small ravine they came upon an outfit consisting of a four horse wagon, two horses, four mules and five burros, to- gether with all the harness, pack sad dies, hooks, etc. In the wagon and on the ground were a number of kegs con taining mescal, but the owners, who ever they were, failed to show up. The line riders took the whole outfit to the custom house.-Bisbee Orb.
 Delegate J. F. Wilson arrived in the city yesterday from Phoenix, accCm- panied by his wife General Wilson had just visited the Fort McDoweu dam site, in order to acquaint himself with the mammoth proposition to inn pound water in Verde valley. No aD- propriation has been made, but Gen. eral Wilson intends to use his utmost efforts in that direction. Tomorrow morning Delegate Wilson will leave for the Twin Buttes on the Gila near Florence. He said $20,000 had heen appropriated to enable an examlna- tion to be made regarding founda- tion upon which to build dam. Other places will be visited during Q stay of about ten days in the south. General Wilson was particularly impressed with the improvements in Tucson made since his last visit in October Tucson Citizen.
 Word reached the sheriff's office Sat urday last that two men had a shoot ing scrape on the train at Yampai sta tion and that one was killed. A later report located the killing at Peach Springs It seems that two gamblers were aboard the train-No. 1, a pas senger with a lot of money, which gambler No. 2 claimed that No. had fim-fammed him out of Gambler No. 2 was accompanied by 9 deputy sheriff and warrant for the arrest of No. 1. No. 1 drew a pistol and fired three ineffec- tual shots at No. 2 whereupon the lat 1 ter brought his weapon into action and laid No. 1 low with one shot, which passed through his windpipe When the train passed Ash Fork the wounded man was in a dying condi- ticn. Names of the parties were nos Courier.
 The government is going to be asked, through petition, to establish l a forest reserve for the protection Ot | the timber on Mount Graham. Some i people are opposed to @ reserve being | established for the reason that they 1 believe it will entirely prohibit cutting | timber within the reserve limits. Thta | is not the case The petition will ask 1 that a reserve be established to pro- | hibit the wanton destruction of young 1 timber; to prevent it's destruction by i fire and the cutting of young timber, | but it will not in any way interfere 1 with cutting of timber for legitimate MT. Holsinger insured us | that the establishment of a forest re- 1 serve instead of working an injury | would prove lasting blessing by pro- tecting such timber as should not be gut until it is of such size as to become of commercial valUe.-Graham Guard ian.
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