Arizona silver belt., 1900-02-08

territory and went into the cattle business with his brother He is mar ried and has three children. Accord ing to Joseph's story quarrel came up between them. the particulars o1 which he has not told, and James at tackled him with knife, the marks ot which he shows. To save his own life he was compelled to kill his brother which he did with his pistol. Joseph came into Deming and gave the news Joe Taylor has always had good rep. utation in this section of the country, and his many friends were greatly shocked to hear of this tragedy. It is reported that James has killed three men in the Indian territory.-West- ern Liberal.
 A correspondent of the Los Angele Herald, in an article on the recent i fight in Coconino county, between a sheriff's posse and band of Navajos, says that one of the most remarkable features of the affair was the wonder full vitality and endurance of Chief HOstens Bouten, an Indian over 70 years of age. In the fight he was shot through the lung, through and through, and he lay where he fell in his own blood in the thick cedars. without water or food, for a period of three days, before being rescued by a searching party of Navajos, who came and transported him on a Navajo pony more thgn so miles to hls hogan" on inc reservation. No physician at tended him except the medicine man or the tribe. He is now fully recov- cred. Phoenix Gazette.
 s. J. Holsinger, special agent of the land department, spent Monday and Tuesday here. Mir. Holsinger has re- ceived instructions to make report on the condition of the many prehis toric cliff and cave dwellings in Ari zona. He will visit during the next six months, all the known locations o these dwellings and then report to tho Smithsonian Institute, Washington the condition of the dwellings, to gether with such information as car be obtained as to the restoration O. the most accessible of these ruins Mir. Holsinger expects to visit thi section in May or June next, anC would like to correspond with such O our ci tizens as can give him any infor nation on the subject of our prehis torit ruins. His postoffice address il Tucson. Sun.
 Sixty-eight applications for entr! on land in the Algodones grant claim near Yuma, which were made at tn, local land office last May, and whicl have been held since that time, and was thought probable that the clain might soon be thrown open to entry have been finally rejected in full b. the local land office for the purpose o avoiding all possible complication says the Citizen. Ward Priest, form erly of Tombstone, now of Fortuna who was one of the applicants, ha taken an appeal to the commis sioner from the rejection of the loca land office. The Algodones gran covers 30,000 acres of the most fertil land in the United States, and extend along the Colorado river, on the Ari zona side, from Yuma to the inter national boundry, and determined effort is being made by settlers to hay it thrown open for homestead entry.
 A peculiar man, with peculiar act ions, has been seen in the northwest ern part of Maricopa county. freighter furnishes the story to tn Republican, which is as follows: 9Th
 freighter met him first, and when h
 first saw the stranger he was standin
 about a hundred yards from the road with his back to the caravan. Tn freighter hailed him and asked him he wanted water. He replied nega lively, and as he did so turned around keeping one hand over his face an
 partially cOncealing it. A short COT yerSaton followed, in which tn
 stranger made several inquiries rt garding the country and water hole! He had no canteen, no team or an, thing else, and was seemingly pc , fectly contented to "foOtit' along oye
 the desert. He talked little and al parently did not want to be question r ed. The freighter meanwhile was si
 ing him up. He was about six fet l tall and portly, his weight bein
 guessed at 23O pounds. He wore
 black cutaway coat, black vest ar a white shirt, black Fedora hat ar 6 striped pants. He had taken off h l. collar. His shoes were tan, wit pointed toes. On the third finger
 the left hand he wore ring, and h Il shirt front was decorated with wh; t appeared to be diamond stud. Tn meeting took place Monday mornir II on the desert between Harqua Ha Il mountains and Cunningham pass, u the Harcuyar mountains fter lea