Arizona silver belt., 1889-05-25
NEWS MOTHS.
Snow storms ia Dakota last week.

acres have been planted to water melons.
 Los Angeles orange growers have imported the Australian beetle to de- st''oy the scale.
 A contract has been let to build the public baths in San Francisco, pre- vided for by James Lick.
 The Fiftieth Congress created $50 new offices. the salaries of which ag- gregate $443. soc.
 At the auction ssl;4,f shs Haggln : lands, near BakersiisId, Cal, 24O0 acres wsro sold on the first day.
 In the race for the. Clark stakes, at Louisville, Ky, Spokane won. again beating the faverite Proctor Knot.
 It is estimated that 100000 orange trees have been planted this year in Los Angeles and San Barnardlno counties. Cal.
 Piemont, naval cruiser built by the Armstrongs Tn England, fol. the Italian government, has attained speed of twenty-one knots, with a forced draft.
 Wm. Kemmler, convicted of mur- daring his mistress, will De the first to suffer death by electricity in New York. His execution is set within the week ending June 24th.
 A cyclone swept over Montgomery county, Texas, on tho 17th, destroying much property and crops. At Forest City school house was wrecked, two children killed and many injured. During the week ending May 18th, the Treasury Department disbursed l $11, ,390990 CT account of pensions, thereby exhaustiug the appropriation for the current fiscal year, amounting to $S1, ,75O,OCO.
 Three exceptionally large cotton factorlas meved last week from New England to Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. Each is backed up by large capital. and expects to double It's capacity in its new home.
 4 cyclone at Fa1rss4Ts175-Hr Fa1rss4Ts17, wrecked large frame hotel building nearing completion, ia which were eleven warkmen. and six CT seven persons seeking shelter from the storm. SIX persons were killed and seven injured, several seriously.
 Ex- President Cleveland Is said to be a stockheder Tn a brewery trust, con- solidaiing the three largest concerns in Newark, N J., and New York City and an Albany brewery. Won der if he IS now in favor of removing the duty from beer?
 The new Buenos Ayres port and harbor, which are to cost S20,000000, are so nearly completed that vessels can now load and unload close to the business quarters of the city. Pre- viously all large ships had to anchor nearly twelve miles from the ArgeR- tine canital.
 The excitement in regard te the proposed opening Of the Sioux reser- vation is increasing and bids far to surpasS the Oklahoma boom. Unless the Government takes steps for the early opening of the reservation to occupation. it is not unlikely that set tiers will take forcible possession.
 A secret conference of the represen- tatives of the large American copper mines was held in New York on the 18th. One of the delegates answered the call of a reporter at noon with the statement that no action would be taken to-day in regard to the preposi- tion from the European copper stock holders, but that some decision might be reached to morrow.
 Atam meeting in New York, of the representatives of the American Meat Company and American Cattle Trust Company, deal between the concerns was finally consummated. The con- tract for term of years was signed by the controlling powers of the two organizations, by which the meat com pany will handle the entire product of the cattle trust.
 Official statements show that the Fiftieth Congress appropriated S2S6,- 646,46O. while the permanent, specific and indefinite appropriations were es- timated by the Secretary of the Treas ury at S1OS, ,691 ,056, maklng the total estimated expenditures of the Govern ment for 18S9-9O, S395, ,S37, ,516 The estimated revenues fer tko same tune are S439. .5O9,658.
 After a series of experiments ex- tending over a number of years, a