WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER           PRESCOTT          March 9, 1877
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Mr. Milligan arrived in town yesterday from the Little Colorado, and reports that section of country fast filling up with farmers and stock men. Just complaint is made by Mr. M. of the inadequate postal facilities from which his neighbors are suffering, and urges the necessity of a mail line from Obed to Clifton.
L.B. ST. JAMES, Post Trader.

Camp Apache, March 19, 1877

Dear Mr. Cooley: In answer to your note asking me if I consider Pedro's band of White Mountain Apaches self sustaining, the fact that they have not received rations or any other assistance from the Government for about two years, would seem to be the best answer to that question. As Pedro farms regularly every year and sells his grain

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER PRESCOTT ARIZONA, page 4, April 6, 1877

CORRESPONDENCE

The following correspondence will show in what light the Indians are held at Camp Apache, and also give the reader an idea whether Indians can take care of themselves and become self-sustaining, when they have a chance and are let alone:

C.E.COOLEY, Esq., Camp Apache, A.T.:

Sir:--I have purchased from Pedro's band of White Mountain Apaches, and the other Indians in the vicinity of Camp Apache, about two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of corn and over three hundred tons of hay.  Said corn and hay have been purchased since the removal of the Indians to the San Carlos. Pedro's band has drawn no rations for about two years, and I consider him and his people self sustaining.  He has credit at my store on the same equality as a citizen.  I have always found him truthful and consider him entitled to become a citizen. I am very respectfully, yours at liberty,

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER           PRESCOTT            May 11, 1877
FRIDAY
W.R. Milligan, Deputy Sheriff for the Little Colorado and the eastern portion of this county, has completed assessing the property in this section of the county and informs us that it will foot up about thribble [sic] the amount of last year.
WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER           PRESCOTT           May 18, 1877

Local Intelligence
SATURDAY

Wm. R. Milligan, from Round Valley, near Springerville, came to town last evening and represents the mail facilities as entirely inadequate to the large country east of us which is becoming thickly settled.  He thinks mail service should he extended from Obed to Concho, St. Johns, Springerville, Nutrioso, San Francisco, the head waters of the stream that bears that name and thence to Clifton in the eastern portion of this county where a new postoffice has recently been established, and which has a mail from Silver City, New Mexico, on the east and certainly is entitled to one from the west.


WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER           PRESCOTT            August 10, 1877 LOCAL NEWS

Mr. Milligan, of Round Valley, in the eastern portion of the county, has 200 acres planted to wheat this season and good judges inform us that no better crop was ever raised in Minnesota or any of the Western States than that of Mr. Milligan's.

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER                         PRESCOTT, ARIZONA

September 7, 1877

POLL TAXES

Many persons complain because the Sheriff, through his Deputies, has collected $3 poll tax when the new law stipulates that $2 shall be collected, only, after the 12th day of February, when the law was approved and came into force.  The Sheriff is entirely blameless in the matter, and only been acting in accordance with instructions.  The poll tax books were issued to the Sheriff and he was charged three dollars for each receipt contained therein.  The matter has been referred to the Board of Supervisors by the Sheriff, and they will undoubtedly order the Sheriff to call in the poll tax receipt books and issue new ones of two dollar denominations in their stead.

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER PRESCOTT           SEPTEMBER 7, 1877
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
WEDNESDAY

A CHANGE OF PROPRIETORSHIP--William R. Milligan; of Little Colorado, has purchased the interest of C.T. Rogers, in the butchering business of C.T. Rogers & Co. , on Gurley street, and hereafter the business will be carried on by Orlando Allen and William Milligan.

Mr. Rogers retires from the business for the purpose of devoting himself exclusively to the rearing and purchase and sale of cattle and other stock. Rogers and Allen have a fine stock ranch, and a large herd of cattle in the Big Chino Valley where we presume he will make his headquarters.

Mr. Milligan has an excellent range, and a herd of fine beef and stock cattle near Springerville, in the Little Colorado country.  So that when one side of the county fails from drought or other cause, this new firm will have two strings to their bow, and a double chance to keep their market supplied with fat beef.

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER PRESCOTT      September 21, 1877
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PRESCOTT MEAT MARKET
MILLIGAN & CO.
Gurley St. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prescott

CASH PRICES
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BEEF:
Porter house steak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20¢
Sirloin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15¢
Round and Chuck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10¢
Carved Beef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10¢
Roasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--20¢
MUTTON:
Hind Quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15¢
Fore Quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10¢
Chops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15¢

Prescott, Arizona, September 12, 1877

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER PRESCOTT, ARIZONA

November 16,1877

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

C.E. Cooley, one of the men who did much to bring the White Mountain Apaches under subjection, and now a resident of Show Low, 28 miles north of Camp Apache, has been doing some excellent work in the way of capturing outlaws, for which he should receive the thanks of every law-abiding citizen of the Territory. Mr. Cooley was backed by Captain Kramer in making the arrest of these outlaws, murderers and thieves, that have been a terror in the eastern portion of our Territory.  Five of these desperadoes have recently been killed, which, it is thought, constituted the whole band.

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER         PRESCOTT, ARIZONA
December 14, 1877
Local Intelligence

We hear it newsed that N.B. George, who is Deputy Sheriff in the eastern portion of the County, has collected taxes quite generally, and has been somewhat reckless with the money.

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER      PRESCOTT, ARIZONA
December 21, 1877
Local Intelligenc
e

The Deputy Sheriff, George, who has been squandering tax money, etc., in the Little Colorado Country, is likely to be arrested, as he was seen at Round Valley a few days since, and Mr. Dodson who went after him is, by this time at that place.

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER, FRIDAY EVENING,     December 21, 1877
THE LITTLE COLORADO
AMERICAN RANCH, Dec. 14, 1877.

EDITOR MIMER-Pursuant to promise, I will now attempt to give to the readers of the Miner an account of our trip to the Little Colorado: 

The following day I went up the river 28 miles, to Randalville, to get some supplies.  There, I met Senor Barrardo Freyes, who keeps a store at that place.  He is, I think, a gentleman, and, I would cordially recommend him to all who have occasion to go to that part of the country, to give him a call. I learned from him that one of Sheriff Bowers, Tax Collectors has been engaged in a little game of draw, and that he held three Jacks against a Queen Full.

GREAT REGISTER OF YAVAPAI COUNTY -- 1876

GEORGE, Napoleon Bonaparte--Age 38--Born in Mo--Springerville, Aug. 21, 1876

WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER PRESCOTT ARIZONA
December 28, 1877
Local Intelligence

W.R. Milligan, of the firm of Milligan & Co., butchers, returned from an extended trip to the eastern portion of our county.  Mr. Milligan informs us that the man, George, Deputy Sheriff, had left for New Mexico, and that he had squandered considerable money belonging to the county, for which Sheriff Bowers is responsible.

From Jack Becker's Collection