Arizona daily citizen., 1901-05-16
Daily Grist Of
Arizona News.

morning and were Inferred in the after |
noon. The funeral was held from /
Mohn & Easterling's, DIR. Pratt oficiat-
ing. 1t is claimed that Yoho started |
the quarrel with S. r. McAllister, the |
man at whose hands he fell. Yoho had |
been discharged from a mine short |
time ago and it is said that he walked |
up to McAllister and charging him
with being responsible for his dismissal,
fred two shots at him. McAllister, it is
said, returned the fire and killed Yoho |
with two shots. Yoho had wife and
six children, living four miles north of
Phoenix, to whom the tragedy comes as
terrible calamity. McAllister was ex-
honerated by the coroner's jury.
A few days ago The Republican print
ed communication from Hassayampa
purporting to give the origin OF the term
"Hassayamper" as applied to an old
timer in Arizona. Yesterday letter
was received from NJ. w. Kales, former
ly of this city but now a resident of Oak
land, in which he sees Hassayampa and
goes him one better. Mr.. Kales says
"Tom Luther, wag from Nevada whose
expressions are found in Mark Twain's
'Roughing IT, made use OF the word
Hassayamper before Dunn (the man re-
ferred to by The Republicans corres-
pondent) ever saw Arizona" Continu-
ing, Mr.. kales says: "Luther, the
writer and Burt and viii Foster were
rooming together at the time. Bill Head
remembers the circumstance, as does
Will Foster. 1t amounts to nothing but
brings up the old doubt as to anything
being original under the sun. RE-
publican.
Under recent date the following con-
corning the discovery OF lost mine on
Navajo reservation was sent out from
Holbrook: "Hillery Dockson and Ja-
coby Bush, two prospectors who went
into the Navajo reservation when it was
opened to miners two months ago, have
found the famous lost mine of Bald
Rock. Bush reached Holbrook ON Fri
day and renewed their stock of supplies.
He and Dockson, he says, made no par
ticular effort to locate the traditional
treasure vault, and in fact had not be-
lieved OF its existence, They were pros
pecting on the south side of the Carriso
mountains, near the head of the Gothic
wash, in the extreme northern part OF
the reservation, when they came upon
the entrance of a shaft hidden by large
bushes and rocks. The two men follow
ed the shaft down for fifty feet, followed
a series of tunnels, reaching as far in
several directions. On all sides of the
shafts and tunnels were streaks OF gold
bearing ore, some OF it showing free gold
in large flakes. From all indications no
human being had been in the mine for
years, but many wild beasts hal made
their dens there. The underground
workings were foul from thousands of
bats and snakes that had taken up their
abode near the entrance. 1t has always
been the belief that the Navaios obtain.
ed steady supply OF gold from the ia
NOUS lost mine, but it is likely they abb
andoned it when the supply of visible
free gold began to dwindle. 1t is the
opinion of the discoverers that the mine
will prove fabulously rich, and that the
primitive original workings have not
reached the best ore bodies. .''-Republi-
can.
A Phoenix Republican says: A ses-
sion of the water storage commission
was held yesterday, at which the princi
pal matter under consideration was the
question of raising funds to carry on the
work of investigating the Tonic Basin
site, the most immediate object for
which the commission was appointed.
There seems to be an annoying deficit
in the law creating the commi ssion,
since it provides no means of procuring
fund until after the collie ction of taxes
for this year. The members of the COM
mission at first discussed the pronosi-
tion to borrow the needed money and
reimburse themselves from the fund to
be regularly created. They could, how
ever, find no authorization in the law
for such step. They then went before
the board Of supervisors and requested
that fund be created at once by trans
ferring money from other funds. The
board replied that the estimates showed
that there was only one fund from
which such q transfer could be made
and that was the road fund, which will
have about 81, 900 to spare. This amount
the board believed would. have to be.
transferred to other funds to meet the
current expenses of the county. or else
the board would have to resort to the is
| suing of warrants. No decisive answer
was given, but the matter will come up
before q meeting of the board to be held
today. 1t is safe to say though, that
the money required by the commission
viii be raised somehow, since the in
vestigations now in progress at Tonto
were undertaken upon the understand
ing that the county would bear the ex-
pense, the Government appropriation
for this purpose having been exhausted.
Mrs. Ada Irwin, one OF Arizona's two
honorary members Of the board of wo-
men managers Of the Pan-American Ex-
position, has received handsomely en-
graved invitation from the president and