Holbrook argus., 1900-06-09

of two cars of canaigre this week
 They are bound for Liverpool, Eng
 land.
 A reward of S75O is offered for the arrest and conviction of the parties who murdered the three Chinamen in Morenci short time since.
 The Coast Railway agent who took two hundred men from Phoenix a few weeks ago to work on that rail road, is in Phoenix again after more men.
 A hydrophobia skunk bit the thumb of Bob Weaver while ou the roundup in Graham county and in twenty six days he was dead. The wound healed and nothing more was thought of it until symptoms of hydrophobia set in.
 Tiffany & Co.,, the diamond mer- chants of New York, have closed a deal for the Turquoise mine belong ing to James Haas, near Chloride in Mohave county. The price paid for the property was $l5O,OOO.
 It will be welcome news to the miners of Northern Arizona to know that the smelter in course of con- struction at The Needles is rapidly approaching completion, and that it is expected that it will be in opera tion by August 1.
 Edwin Payne, the Western Union messenger boy, was bitten on the foot by rattlesnake at Browns ranch, reports the Prescott Courier. Thomas Brown sucked the wound and made slit in it. After having been given some brandy the boy was brought to town and was getting along all right at last accounts. The boy was walking around bare footed in the rhubarb patch when the snake bit him.
 J. W. Abshire, the we'll known sheep raiser, who has been in San Francisco hospital for treatment of cancer, submitted on Saturday last to the painful operation of having the cancer cut from his face. He is improving slowly and the physicians are hopeful of his ultimate recovery. Coconino Sun.
 On or about May Is, at Metcalf, Teido-a Acosta murdered Cruz Rodriguez. The murderer escaped and succeeded in eluding the vigi- lance of the officers for some time. Constable Buckner located the mur- derer in the mountains near Dos Cabezos, Cochise county, and now has him in jail at Clifton awaiting preliminary trial.
 In cowboy camp at Casa Grandes, Mexico, Bob Lee shot and killed Andy Wilson. Both are we'll kpown American cowboys. Lee was asleep when Wilson entered the tent and put the muzzle of his Winchester to Lees side. Lee grasped the barrel of the rife with his left hand, drew his pistol and fired three shots into Wilson's breast.
 There is move on foot to erect plant in Prescott for the manufac- ture of woodenware from the cedar which grows so plentifully in Yava. pal county. Samples of this wood have been sent to Los Angeles and reported upon as being of an excel lent quality. Should this project be carried out some S25,OOO will be invested and employment given to a number of men.
 There was a killing at Guthrie on Tuesday evening, June 5. Simon Herrera, who has been working for G. E. Hopkins, came home and found Francisco Garcia playing the guitar for Mrs. Herrera. He took his axe and split Garcia's head open. He then pulled out the ridge pole that supported his jackal, letting the brush down on the dead man, drew his time, cashed his check and with his wife left for parts unknown. The d0ad body was not discovered until "A hours later. The murderer and his wife are supposed to have gone towards Lordsburg.
 The canaigre industry of the Salt River Valley is becoming very re- munerative. The product is being