Arizona silver belt., 1897-03-04
ARIZONA.
Snap Shots from All Over the
 Territory.

The council didn't do thing to the circuit court bills
 Notwithstanding the Arizona Press Association indorsed Board of Contro McCord for governor. the newspaper, of the territory keep right on cndors ing somebody else.-Graham County Bulletin.
 The libel bill introduced by Hull, oi Yavspsi, in regard to libelous articles in newspapers will become law. The sggrieved party shall demand retrac tion of the islander before commencing his suit in court. The libel suits in this territory hereafter will be very few and far between Bulletin.
 At Jerome rock of xbout 600 pounds weight. loosened by blasting on the hill above J. NJ. Williams home, rolled down and crashed through the house. The baby asleep in its carriage wus thrown to the floor and momentarily stunned but other wise uninjured. The bed on which the baby had lain only few minutes before was demolished.
 Three men were held mp in the par Tor of the Altman house at Williams on the evening of the l2th instant by a masked man and relieved of $755. In taking his departure the robber em- phasized his work by discharging his revolver, the ball passing through a partition and woupding Mrs. Altman in the leg, just above the ankle.- Argus.
 If our legislators wish to protec. game in this territory they should frame a law that will include Indians ss we'll as white men, and empower sheriffs to arrest any and all Indians caught of the reservations on their an nual hunts. They kill and destroy a hundred times more game each season than all the white men in the territory. -Winslow Mail.
 A bill will be introduced soon pro. viding for the county seats of the sev- eral counties to be placed on wheels SC they can be pulled and hauled to any place in the county without much Tn. convenience. The bill will be intro. duced by Skinner, of Graham, and it, purpose is to make it possible for the Saffordites to walk off with the court house at Solomonville. But its chances of success are very limited. Bulletin. The encouragement this session ol the legislature has given railroad builders will doubtless result in much good to the territory. Increased rail road mileage means among other things the opening up of much land to cultivation which is now lying idle, and the development of many mines which must now necessarily remain un- worked because of lack of transports. tion for their products.- Citizen.
 Chairman Colin Cameron, of the Livestock Sanitary Commission, re ceived . dispatch from Governor Thornton, of New Mexico, Feb. "A which says that the entire quarantine restrictions of New Mexico against all parts of Arizons have been raised. Mir. Cameron and the other livestock men agree that this favorable action was se- cured by the promptness with which the Arizona legislature enacted suitable local quarantine laws.--Republican.
 The Citizen says: There is certainly justification for the belief that the Press Association, by its action endors- ing Mir. McCord for governor, bslied the object of it's creation. This is es- pecially 80 in the light of the fact that Mr. McCord stands accused of griev- ous charges which, if substantiated, affect not alone his own honor, but tbat of the territory ss we'll. It would have been the part of good judgment to say the least. to have awaited the outcome of the pending investigation. If Mir. McCord had come out of the or deal unscathed, then the association could have endorsed him with less req son for ceDsure; but even then the Cit izen holds that such business is wholly outside the objects of the organization.