The copper era., 1905-09-14
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Althee Modesti and Paul Morett
 have sold their rich placer claims in
 the King of Arizona district to a
 company of eastern capitalists, who
 will develop them at once. The con-
 sideration named is S5O,0O0
 Governor Kibbey and Attorney
 General Clark have concluded to
 wait until the supreme court meets,
 and then present the mining tax
 cases direct to that tribunal. This
 will save an appeal, and bring the
 matter to a final issue in short order.
 The supreme court will meet in Phoe-
 nix September 27th. This looks like
 a sensible way to settle the matter.
 Lote Gould, for some time con
 nected with the Miner as city editor,
 left last week for Douglas. He
 spent few days there with his
 mother and sisters and then pro- x ceeded to Gallup, N M., where he acquired possession of a weekly news
 paper that he expects to conduct in
 the future. MT. Gould is a young
 man of agreeable address and ability
 with many friends in this city and
 Douglas who regret his departure
 from the immediate field, but wish
 him much success in his new loca-
 tion. MT. Owen succeeded to the
 position on the Miner vacated by MT. Gould.-Review.
 Felipe Apadace was shot and se- riously wounded by Pablo Valenzuela one day last week, during the pro- gress of a quarrel at Fourth street and G avenue. It appears that Apadace began cursing Valenzuela when the latter passed him without speaking, and finally let out an oath which stirred the bad blood of Fable. At any rate the latter started for his enemy, when -Apadace pulled a heavy revolver and struck his as- sailant on the head, infiicting scalp | wound. Valenzuela, being much the larger, it is said, wrenched the gun from Apadace's hand and shot the | owner.-American.
 Chappo, who was in the Tombstone jail, awaiting execution on the gal | lows, had his death sentence con- muted to life imprisonment by Gov ernor Kibbey. Chappo is charged |, with murdering Arthur Wright, a | former sheriff of Graham county, but recently Mrs. Wright, wife of the murdered man, wrote Governor Kib- bey, saying that her testimony in the trial of the case wherein Chappo was convicted and sentenced, was er- roneous, and that she undoubtedly was mistaken in reference to Chappo. On this statement and those of oth- CTS, the governor commuted the sentence.
 Last week J. E. Carpenter called Harry Prior, the foreman of the Bell Group of mines, for the purpose of paying him off. Prior became en- ragged without the slightest provoca- tion, seized a most deadly weapon from the table in the room, known as the miners candlestick, and plunged about seven inches of the dagger end of the same into the body of MT. Carpenter. The weapon entered near the heart. The timely inter- ference of Mir. Sawyers, who was standing nearby, prevented the con of the fiendish intent. Mir. Carpenter will very likely recov- CT. Both men are well known , f thrOu0hOut the territory
 At the properties of the Derby Mining company, in Yavapai county, recently, lightning struck and shat tered tree and killed burro which , was standing beneath the tree. Six feet from the tree struck is the Derby Mining company's shaft. f This shaft is down 100 feet and a drift extends 500 feet from the bot , tom of the shaft. The men working f on the face of the drift received a z severe shock when the lightning 7 struck 300 feet above them. The , men at the bottom of the shaft re- 6 ceived no shock, showing that the bolt struck the ledge exposed on the f surface, followed the ledge through f the earth and shocked men working q 300 feet below.-Prescott Courier f
 ASplendid building to cost S75, 1000 C is to go up on the Johnson addition s IS soon as plans for the structure | ;an be finished. The building will c be for use as miners boarding | house, and will be constructed on e ines that will make it probably the | inest house devoted to the uses of h in all the west. The t that is to be erected will be t -hree stories high. It will front on - Naco road at the corner of the addi-
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