Arizona silver belt., 1889-05-25
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

The Sentinel notes the shipment of 5000 head of Arizona cattle te Califor- nia, during the week endlBg May 18th.
 Hon. Burt. Dunlap, Of Graham County. has gone to Washington to urge his appointment as o' D. Mar shal for Arizona.
 Twenty tons of ere from the Bonan- ga mlne at Harqua Hala yielded Sl42 per ton at the Harrisburg nl:h. The run has just been made.
 James Crossen, the young man in- iured in the wreck at Houck Tank, Arlz., on the Atlantic $ Pacific rail- road May 18th, died at Gallup, N. M., two days later.
 The Star reports that Ben. Craw- ford, ex-sneriff of Graham County, and John Hovey, of Clifton, recently con summated d inning sale, Tn which each cleared S10,000.
 The Congress gold mIne, 40 miles west of Prescott, employs about 100 men. Nest of the ere is in sulphu- rets, great massos of which are extract ed and shipped out of the Territory f0rsreductjon. -
 The school census of Tombstone shows that the total number of boys between 6 and IS is 215; total number of girls between the same ages, POP; total number between s and IA, 231; total number under 6, 220.
 Judge Cumming has been taking the school census this week and has so far enrolled over 250 children of school age. The total number will be 300 or over. Frank Burke took the census two years ago and reported but l46.-No NogaleS Herald.
 There are 1925 children of school age in Phoenix, School District l. 573 boys and 452 girls. The number of children under six years of age is 312. In the election, on the 18th, the proposition to appropriate S12,O0O for the erection of two new school houses carried
 The mining outlook in Mobave County is very bright. The Kingman Miner says: Mills arc running and cid mines, until recently idle. are be- ing put in shape for working, and the sale of number of large mines will shortly be closed; and what is better, plenty of ore is being taken out. The libel suit brought by 4. Bauer. Tombstone butcher, against $. C. Bagg, editor of the Prespector, for charging him. in print, with selling diseased pork, was decided in Mr. Bagg's favor, and subsequently, Bauer was arrested on the charge as prefer red by the Prospector, the grand jury having indicted hiug.
 According to the St. Johns Herald A. G. Powell and Chas. B. Rudd. who stole two span of horses from Mormons in Apache County, and were pursued and overtaken by the owners. were not killed ny them, as reported in a Socorro, N. NJ, dispatch. The rust lers were armed with superior guns and stood off their pursuers and es. caped after a six hours fight. The horses, however, were recovered.
 A sand storm of unusual violence prevailed a : Winslow on the 18th inst. from s o'clock in the morning till $ o'clock at night. The News says that business was entirely suspended. Sanc was blown into the houses through every creyice, and next morning was swept out in heaps or shoveled intc buckets. Great banks of sand formed in the streets. The storm occasioneC great discomfort to citizens.
 Tic question of the right to use wa ter from he San Pedro river in Co chise County is causing no end o trouble, many of the farmers along that stream having been enj joined iron taking the water for irrigation pur poses, and their crops have suffered greatly in consequence. At the ses sion of the court held in Tombstont last week, ". w. Woodman was ap pointed to inspect the water supply 1T the San Pedro river. and the court in structed him to turn the water on 1T the ditches that had been closed by in junction, and note the effect on ethe ! ranches below; to make : gesfT@Sal ip spection of the supply. and repofAt |, the court.
 The following clipping from tn. San Francisco Chronicle of May 18th shows Frank Fitch, our late towns