Arizona silver belt., 1888-08-04
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go ear load of Salt river valley fruit, the first shipment from Arizona to tho East.
 4 company Is being organized to put up sampling works here, and we anticipate that by November 1st such an industry will De added to Phoenix business together with a ten-stamp mill which will be run in connection with the sampling business -phoRix Herald.
 It is reported, says tha Star, that D. D. Ford, an old Arizona prespeetor, has been robbed and murdered by Papagos near Quinlan's ranch, on the Quiiotoa read. Sheriff Shaw and posse left yesterday to investigate the report and will bring in all partles implicated
 The Wilcox stoeknan says that the rains of the past two weeks have filed all the water holes along the railf9ad and as cattle HOW water at these holes in large numbers, tlls trans are con stantly knocking out ths boyines. Mr. E. L. Tidmell had five head killed in two days this week, and a good many other stecEmea have suffered lasses by tha iron borse
 Sheriff Mulyenoa is engaged serving the papers in thosa great timber cut ting suits. Iae United States has big surplus with winch to carry on this litigation, but such legal persecu tions arc expensive to those who have to defend themselves. and no one, un- less it be & special agent ever dreams that tho government will win tho suits.-JourEal Miner
 Public sentiment changes with the progress of time. It was not many years ago that howl of indignation went up from the people of Arizona because ex-Governor Stafford, then Su- peFintendent ct Public Instruction, was allowed five hundred dollars per year for the expenses of that office. Now four or five times that sum is ap- propriated and no one o9jects.-Flor- snce Enterprise.
 The office of assessor III and for the County of haricopa, was to-day crea- ted by the board of supervisors, said assessor to De ex-ofRcio tax collector, to receive as assessor a salary of SI 200 per annum. and as tax collector, to receive a salary to be fixed by tue new board of supervisors. Tbo board has also taken steps to fund all the old bonds and willthus reduce taxes about 50 cents per SI09-Phanix Herald.
 Hr A. L. Eenshaw has made 8 dis coYery that may prove of impof anes to fruit growers. It is in regard to 8 disease to winch fruit especial Iy peaches-ars habIe, known as flew ing wax. The wax or gum diseharg. es sometimes in large quantities from the trees, and this eventually kills them. By boring an apgar hcle into the trunk of the afflicted tree, near the ground, putting in couple of speon- fals of sulphur and then plugging it up, he has never failed to cure every tree he has thus doetored.-Ph@nix Herald.
 On and after August 1st, the South ern Pacific will make the same rate from California terminal points to the east as is now charged from the Mis- souri river to California thus making 1t no more expensive to go east than it is now for the eastener to come west The present rate to the Missouri river is S6o, and under the now classifca- tion round trip tickets good to return by the same route will be offered for s80. The other transeontnsntal roads will follow, of course. Citizen.
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