Arizona silver belt., 1889-05-25
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Fourteen teachers are employed il

Tho Sentinel notes the shipment 0
 5000 head et Arizona cattle to Califor mia, during he week ending May 18th { Hon. Burt. Dunlap, of Graham County, has gone to Washington tt urge his appointment as U, S. Mar shal for Arlzona.
 l Twenty tons of ore from the Bonan. ga mine at Ilarqua Hala yielded Sl4s per ton at the Harrisburg mill The run has just been made.
 James Crossen. the young man in jured in the wreck at Houck's Tank Anz., on the Atlantic < Pacific rail. road May 18th, died at Gallup, N. M., two days later.
 The Star reports that Ben. Craw- ford, eS-sneriff ot Graham County, and John Hevey, of Clifton, recently con summated inning sale, in which each cleared $l0,000.
 The Congress gold mine, 40 miles west of Prescott, employs about 100 men, Most of the ere is in sulphu- rets, great masses of which are extract ed and shipped out of the Territory fer reduction.
 The school census of Tombstone shows that the total number of boys between and IS is 2l5; total numher of girls between the same ages, POP; total number between and Ii, 231; total numb under 6, 220.
 Judge Cumming has been taking tue school census this week and has so far enrolled over 250 children of school age. The total number will be 900 or oyer Frank Burke took the census two years ago and reported but ~Nogales Herald.
 There are 1925 children of school age in Phoenix: School District 1,- 533 boys and 452 glrls. The number of children under six years of age Is 3l2 In the election, on the 18th, the proposition to appropriate Sl2,o00 for the erection of two new school heuses carried.
 The mining outlook in Mohave County is very bright. The Kiugman Miner says: Mills are running and old mines, until recently idle. are be- ing put in shape for working, and the sale of number of large mines will shortly be closed; aud what is better, plenty of ore is being taken out
 The libel suit brought by 4. Bauer. a Tombstone butcher. against 5. C. Bagg, editor of the Prespector, for charging him. in print, with selling diseased pork, was decided in Mr B4gg's favor, andtsuhsequently Bauer was arrested on the charge as prefer red by the Prospeeter, the grand jury having indicted him.
 According to the St. Johns Herald, A, c, Powell and Chas B. Rudd. who stole two span of horses from Moimons in Apache County, and were pursued and oyertaken by the owners. were not Killed hy thein, as reported in Soeorro, \. NJ, dispatch. The rust lera ware armed with superior guns and stood off their puesuers and es- raped after a six hours fight. The horses, however, were recovered.
 A sand storm of unusual violence prevailed as Winslow on ihe 18th inst, from o'clock in the morning till s o'clock at night. The News says that business was entirely suspended. Sand was blown into the houses through every creyice, and next morning was swept out in heaps or shoveled into buckets Great banks of sand formed in inc streets. The storm occasioued great discomfort to citizens.
 Tie question of inc right 10 uso wa ter from the San Pedro river in Co., chise County is causing no end of many of the farmers along that stream having been enjoined from taking tho water Tor irrigation pur poses, and their crops have suffered greatly in eonse1uence, At the ses. sion of the court held in Tombstone last week. ". W. Woodman was ap. pointed to inspect tue water supply in the San Pedro river, and the court in. structed him 10 turn the water on in the ditches that had been closed by in- junction, and note tbe effect on other ranches below; to make a general in- spection of tho supply, and report to the court.
 The following clipping from the San Francisco Chronicle of May 18th, shows Frank Fitch, our late towns
  man, again under the criminal har- row: