Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-14

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 Hon. E. w. Wells was sworn in as Judge of the Fourth Judicial District by Judge Kibbey on the 5th.
 The Bulletin estimates the damage to the principal canals along the Gila in Graham county at from 5000 to $60e0.
 The university at Tucson now draws S15,00 per annum from the Territory and S28, ,000 from the General Govern ment.
 Tho President has directed the trans fer of the Fort Lowell military reser- vation to the Interior Department for disposition under the law.
 The drowning of Mexican woman and five children in the Gila river near Solomonyille, is reported. They at tempted to cross the river on raft
 The officers appointed for the new county of Coconino are: Ralph Cam eron, Sheriff; E. NJ. Doe, District At torney; F. R. Nellis J. F. Daggs, Su- peryisors.
 The Herald places the damage by flood to the Maricopa < Phoenix rail- road at .:175, GOO. It viii be several months before ii Is again in good run ming order.
 Messrs Halbert and Brown, of Tenn pc, have secured the mail and express contract from Phoenix, and have inaug urated a system of six-house coachesby way of Tempe to the Gils river.
 T. E. Parish yesterday introduced bill giving s200 for Apache scalps. If shis bill should become law, President Harrison would put us on reservation and declare us outlaws. Gazette.
 Four drunken Apache women were jailed in Tucson. They were in com pany of two soldiers, one of whom, Patrick McCran, was arrested and held to answer on the charge of furnishing whisky to Indians.
 The Journal Miner is informed that every ranch in Walnut Grove was al- most ruined by the flood, while in Kirkland and adjacent localities the land is covered with debris. Water in Kirkland stood 16 inches deep for 2S hours over the valley.
 4 correspondent of the Graham County Bulletin says the general inn pression prevails that through rail com munication between the Southern Pa cific and Clifton will not be re-estab- ished for two months. Meanwhile the copper mines and smelters at Clifton must remain idle.
 Speaking of the damage done to the Southern Pacific railroad by the flood, the Yuma Times says that in the Araby valley rails and ties were carried rods from their former location and set up on edge like picket fence, while some rails were wrenched from ties and +raag
 All the old poodle bills that were thought of in previous legislatures are now being rapidly resurrected. After making pretty clean score up to the present time, the real character of the thing beginning to show up equal to anything that has gone before, even tine live Thirteenth Herald.
 4 company has been organized and incorporated, at Tempe, to engage in general fruit canning and drying busi- ness. It will be known as the Tempe Evaporating and Canning Company. Capital stock of the company is S20, 900, in shares of S20 each. E. G. Franken- burg, J. s. Armstrong, c. G. Linning- ton, Neils Peterson and O. $. Masten are the incorporators.
 By order of the Supreme Court of Arizona apportioning new districts to the several members of the court, Chief Justice Gooding is allotted to the dis trict consisting of Maricopa and Yuma counties. Judge Kibbey will take charge of legal matters in the counties of Pinal, Gila and Graham. Judge Sloan will retain his present district of Pima and Cochise counties, and the new appointee, Judge Wells, will pre- side over the extensive district formed by the counties of Mohaye, Yayapai, Coconino and Apache.
 A small section of GeronimC's band of Apaches has been brought back from North Carolina to near their native heath, at Fort Wingate, New Mexico. After they have slipped away and taken to the White mountains and Sierra Madres on tour of deviltry and butch cry, perhaps the dear good people at Washington will awaken to the fact that while Apache residence in the Southern