Arizona silver belt., 1889-08-17
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

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 The Tombstone Prospector says the constitutional convention wlll cost from Sl00, ,0o0 to $200,0o0.
 Pima county has fifteen school dis trlets. The total apportionment last year was S3o.l2602, ana the di,burse- ments S27, ,36934.
 Martin Wear has discovered all Arizona plant from which he-makes a very superior quality of indelible ink. He has applied for . patent.-Star.
 Freight on barley from Phenix to Tpcson is 37 cents per handred; on alfalfa 29a cts. At tkese rates largo shipments are reported from Tempe.
 pipal county's assessment roll foots up Sl,Si6.3S34l, considerable de- crease from last year, occasioned prin- cipally by the dee.ine of Silyer King.
 C. 5. Masten, brother of Col. Masten, of the Phoenix and Maricopa railroad, was lately overcome by heat on the G!la desert. He was taken 10 Tucson, and was reported to be ID fair way to recovery.
 Two Chinamen were brutally mur- dered rear Pheuix on the night of August 7ih. Their bodies were hor- ubly disGgured and their heads crashed by shovel, found near by. The perpetrators of the crime have not been discovered.
 The county supervisors of Yuma county have appropriated 5000 and citizens have subscribed like amount to present 10 the visiting Senate com mittee the advantages which Yuma county offers for comprehensive sys- tem of irrigation.
 The young bloods of Tempe en- gagged in grand spree one night last week, which ended Tn free fight, and during he melee Frank Babcock, one of the party. was struck cn !he head with a pistol and his skull fractured, The injury is serious one.
 Several persons have died at FhG- nix, Tucson, Casa Grande and else where from the effects of the intense heat this season. Guess we will have to chop on that siercotyped assertion that "a case of sunstroke was never known to occIr in Arizona"
 Owing to insuinciency of evidence, E. II. Williams, driver of the stage between De Noon and Silver King, was discharged from custody last Mon day. He claims to have been robbed of s425 entrusted to his care for de- livery at Silver King.--Eaterprisc. Manuel Verdago,. charged with tho murder of Louis Cokn, the Nogales merchant, has at last been landed on American soil by Deputy Sheriff Spec dy. of Pima county, who secured his prisoner al Paso del Nortc. Tie evil denee against Yerdugo, while entirely creumstantial, nevertheless is said 10 te strong.
 C. B. Stocking, js,!or at Florence, beat an unruly Mexican prisoner named Juan Avenenti, over the head | with ! pick handle, fraetuung his skull. TEe condition of the victim is precarious. The assault was commit ted inside the jail, and ic severely con demned by the Enterprise. Stocking was arrested and released on bail.
 At Prescott, on tho Eth, man named ScuYille was found lying on the sidewalk with an ugly GU, in tho throat as though made with pen knife, and from which the blood was flowing proluscly. Neither scovillc Tor his companion Donneliy, both of whom were drunk, had any recol!ee- ton of how the wound had been in- hlcted.
 D. D. Hall has exeavated wei. on .he bena of ,iio Santa GrcZ river, near Tn.son. 10 feet wi&e, @ fee: long and 50 feet deep, and has developed q water supply equal to 4o,e0o gallons, which he expects to increase 10 oO'ooo gallons, the capacity of Il centrifugal punp which be will employ 10 raise inc water to rriga.e 52o acres Of land. The pump will be operated with a l5-horse rover engine.
 The Ariyaipa correspondent cf tho Valley Bulletin says: During tho month just closed there has been sey- eral small drives of beef cattle from the Canyon 10 San Carlos; ,he first by Hon. ". c. Bridwell and J. Il. Maley, Esq; 103 head delivered on July 3d; the second hy Messrs. Jones, Ming, Penusyl and Brewer. 42 head deiiv' cred July 24th. The supply for the present week was furnished by the Eureka Springs Slock Co, the drive for the issue of next week will be made by Dunlap Bros, and fer the week