Arizona silver belt., 1890-09-27
TERRIroRIAL BREyITIEs.

be pledged to economy and not to ex- travagance. Star.
 They do say that Col c. C. Bean, late of Prescott, has fallen heir to mil lions of luere by the death of relative in Texas Courier.
 Clark Howard, who is connected with the night management of the h. sane Asylum, reports IS patients under treatment at present.
 Thirty-nine residents of this county of foreign birth took out their final cit izenship papers in the District Court at Tombstone on Tuesday.-Stockman.
 Under the Revised Statutes of tho Territory, first-class county must have over 1,500 registered voters, and a second class county is one having not less than 750.-Gazette,
 A final adjustment of the tax roll of Maricopa county gives the assessed property valuation of S5, BOA, The total tax levy amounts to S144,- i25. 90. This amount will be divided ss follows, County funds, $93, 959 0l; Territorial funds, si4, 623. 59; collect oy's fees, s5,5433o.
 It is reported, says the Citizen, that Fred w. Smith, late Receiver of the United States land office, is acting as ticket agent at Victoria, B. C., for Puget steamer hne. Mir. Smith said to gentleman he spoke with that he expected to come back to Tucson soon and square up old accounts.
 General Grierson, late commander of the Department of Arizona, in his an- nual report, recommends the abandon ment of Forts Grant and Lowell, this Territory, and Fort Bayard, New Mex leo. It is really too bad that Grierson was not retired before he perpetrated his last report. But We have no fears that his unwise suggestion will be car ried out.-Stockman.
 The four Chinameu captured near Nogales by mounted inspectors, and brought in by Deputy Marshal John Paul on August 26, named Hing. kee, Chung Pah and Sin, have been taken to San Francisco, under charge of Deputy 1 Marshal John Paul and c. T. Cornell. From there they will be remanded to Mexico, the country from which they came. Citizen
 The Neptune group of mines, in Ris- bee, were sold yesterday for sS0,001, the purchasers being ". E. Dodge and R. Willis James, which means the Cop per Queen Mining Company. This ends long and expensive suit, and &C., tive work will soon commence on these properties by the purchasers. They are presumed to be equal in value to the Copper Queen properties. -Epi- taph.
 Wm. o. O'Neill and George c. Wad- dell, respectively the Republican and Democralic candidates for Sheriff of Yavapai county, have both sent Tn their resignations to the Chairmen of the Central Committees. The reason for this move. which seems to have been mutually arranged, is not known. IL
 may be that each feared the others political strength, or the agitation over the division of the county may have given them the idea that the office would not be worth contesting for. The
 gentlemen who have resigned their pre- : tensions were, without doubt, the strongest candidates for the position who could have been selected, and the Central Co,nmittees will find it an un-
 satisfactory task to find worthy sue cessors. Phoenix Republican. At meeting of the county central committee last evening for the purpose | of taking formal action on the resigna. , ton of Mr. O'Neill motion was made refusing to accept his withdrawal, which was unanimously carried. Mir. O'Neil ) being present. howeyen insisted that
 his decision was final. .,ud asked that
 the action of the meeting be recois.d
 eyed. After considerable debate thi , was done. and a motion was then made
 to the effect that the resignation be ac :: cepted, which was carried. To fill tn, , vacancy on the ticket the name of Mur ray McInernny was presented to th'
 committee, and he was nominated with
 out dissenting vote, A committe' was appointed to wait on Mir. McIner nav and inform him of his nomintion n after which the committee adjourned I MT. McInernay has won honorable dis a tinction in the discharge of his respon r sibIe duties us chief deputy under Sher
 iff O'Neill. -~J ournal- Miner. ---->-e-- -.-----4--- + Parson Bluett-Brother Richard vii ,, please take up the collection.