The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1901-07-04

Capt. Mellen is building large
barge at the Needles for freight ser
vice on the upper Colorado river.
Many cars OF lumber and five cars o
cement arrived in Kingman for use in
the construction Of the Harry eating
house. The building will be 26xlll
feet and two stories high.
Two brothers, ID. +. and Z. Il. Hall
will start weekly paper at Wickcn-
burg. "A small mining camp. They have
incorporated the Wickenburg Publish
ing company and will start the paper
this week.
Some OF our oil prospectors have dis
covered a very large deposit OF gypsum
above RiYersk--sA-ta -tael zreatl.E: er;
couraged because they have been told
that the presence Of gypsum is q good
Indication OF oil.-Florence Blade.
AS previously announced by the
Courier, Prescott is to have "a big
brewery plant. The Los Angeles
Brewery people, associated with home
capitalists, are behind the enterprise.
II is stated that the machinery has
been ordered.
L. +. Hopkins was in town yesterday
from his sheep ranch on the other side
OF the mountains, where he now has
about 100 OF those animals. His wool
crop this spring amounted to about 49,
600 pounds, which he has stored away,
with last seasons shearing, in all
amounting to about 30, 900 pounds. He
will hold the wool until the prices are
little igher.-Bisbee Review.
While two deputy sheriffs OF Cochise
county were taking a number OF prison
ors to Yuma last week, one OF them,
named Baker, who had received a
sentence Of three years for burglary,
came near making his escape just be-
fore reaching Yuma. He had made 4
key that would unlock the shackles and
no had them off and jumped out the
car window before the deputies knew
what he was up to. One of the depu
ties jumped off, too, and captured him.
Deputy Sheriff Phelps OF Cochise
county was en- route TO Phoenix Sunday
with a Mexican, who had been adjudged
insane. At Vail station the Mexican
died very quietly and remained sitting
upright in his seat. The deputy was
sitting beside him, but did not know
that he was dead until he had been
dead several minutes. The body was
taken of at Tucson and buried. The
deputy was kind to the man and was
ignorant of the fact that he was suffer-
ing from a dangerous malady.
The Indians of the territory predict
that more rain will fall the coming
season than at any time for many years.
These children OF the forest and plain
are the best weather prophets in the
world. The officials of the Santa Fe
railway have so much faith in their
ability in this direction that advanced
orders have been issued to all bridge
gangs, construction and track crews,
etc, OF the road to be prepared to meet
ex traordinary emergencies in the way
of repairing the track and bridges.
Tho Santa Fe railroad company is
just now engaged in promoting u big |
colonization scheme in Oklahoma, New |
Mexico and California. In this country |
it is the intention of the railroad to |
colombo the Colorado river bottom
lands with Italians, who will be brought |
over from Italy. There are thousands |
of acres Of rich lands in the valley of |
the Colorado, but we could find more |
desirable class to colonize that country |
than the usual Italians, the lazzaroni |
Italian is far worse than the Chinese |
or Japanese and very undesirable |
class to have among us. The railroad |
people say that they will bring over |
only the better class OF people, such as
the vineyardists and viticulturists OF
southern Italy.-Mohave Miner.
Matt Burtts shot u cowboy named |
Bob Warren yesterday at a COW camp |
near Wilcox, breaking his arm be-
tween the elbow and the shoulder. |
been working together
on round up in the Sulphur Springs
valley during the past week. On We'd
uesdav they had n quarrel in camp |
and fist Sight eusued in which Burtts
got the worst of it. He Immediately |
left on horseback and rode TO johnson,
n nearby mining camp, where he pro-
cured gun, and returning to the COW
camp opened fire on Warren. War
rem was sitting in camp when the first
shot was fired. He jumped to his feet |
and at the second shot fell to the |
ground, shot through the arm.-Ga-
zctte.
Il. +. Perry, who is here from Ar
lington near Buckeye visiting the mem
bers OF his family, his wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Benson and others who are
staying here temporarily brought in
an interesting story. He says several
mornings ago on arising and going
back to his tent kitchen he found the
flour, provisions and furniture scat
tered pell-mell through the room. The |
next night it was repeated and the
next night the same. The fourth |
night watch was set and it was dis
covered that two big mountain lions
were doing the destructive work. The |
lions were not allowed to make much |
progress however, before both we're |
laid low aud their scalps were ready for |
the supervisors. The boldness of the !
made the evant itafn of com