El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-14
Little Items From Live Papers.
ARIZONA.

AhlZONAs
The ladies of the Catholic church are
working earnestly and making prepa-
rations for fair to be given at Bah
bits opera house on the evening of
the Goth, 9th and 18th of this month.
Flagstaff Gem.
Fred Dysaut arrived from Phoenix
Monday morning and has opened an
abstrabt office here. He has much ex-
perience in the abstract business and
any work entrusted to him will receive
prompt and careful sttention.-Bulle-
tin, Solomonville.
Articles of Incorporation of the Bos-
ton & Arizona Consolidated Copper
Mining company were filed yesterday
with Recorder Shibell. The incorpo-
James Simmons. The Capital is 500,-
600 shares, par value s10.-Star.
Public school opened in this place
last Monday with los scholars in at
tendance. Judge B f. johnson, prin
diste and Miss Kavauaugh In tne pri-
mary department.. This is an excellent
corps of Observation-Disclosures Mail.
The funeral OF Mrs. a. T. Andrews
and Celia Nyreeu, the victims OF the
Thursday afternoon. Services were
held at the Methodist church. Bust
ness houses closed from to 4:3O
o'clock p. m. and court adjourned for
the afternoon on account of the
funeral Republican.
This has been a great industrial year
In Arizona. Railroads ere building,
canals on every hand are stretching
their silvery length across the desert
plains, homes are springing up as If by
magic, mills and mines are daily beg
inning operations in the rich mining
sections. You can see the country
grow.-YumR Sentinel.
The Arizona journal Miner states
that a man near Phoenix is about to
ship a carload of fine horses to Mis-
souri,. The fact that these animals can
be shipped 1000 miles and command q
market which makes their sale pro-
titable, is an evidence of the progress
which the breeding OF horses has gain
ed in the 5. X. torritory.--Tucson Citi-
zen.
The first of the ten wells to be sunk
by the Tucson water company was
completed yesterday and has a flow OF
2l0, 900 gallons every twenty four hours.
Work on the balance Of the wells will
OS III Qdys, 6OOuL tue
time the new pumping engine will ar
rive from Philadelphia. This engine
has capacity of 100000 gallons
daily and is of the latest improved pat
tern.--Tucson Star.
Negotiations which have been pend
ing for some time for the purchase of
the Little Jessie mine at Chsparral,
fourteen miles from Prescott, has been
closed whereby j. S. Jones, owner Of
the mine, transfers the property to an
English syndicate, the purchase price
being S650,000. The purchasers will
increase the force working in the mine
and will Immediately erect a two hun
dred ton cyanide plant.-Prospector.
j. 7. Brickwood has a unique silver
mounted pistol belt that belonged TO
Pete Gabriel and he is thinking of do
mating it to the Arizona pioneer socie-
ty. 1t is belt that was fashionable
among westerners thirty or forty years
ago and one that Pete had carried
through many a scrap with Indians and
|despersdos. 1t was left with Mr.
Brickwood several months ago by the
late eX-sheriff with some money, but
Mr.. Brickwood thinks its rightful
place is with the pioneer society. 1t is
a rare relic.-Vidette.
Inc SCHOOL OOdrQ appears TO De over
looking the fact that teachers are not
on the ground and preparing work for
the ensuing school year. At the best
that could be done now the school will
work at disadvantage of from six to
seven weeks. The change that has
been made in the course of study and
the new text books adopted, of which
there is not one on sale in the tow n
and which dealers will not order until
authorized by the principal or the
school board. The matter requires
both care and time. Williams News
One of the boys in Col, McCord's
regiment writes to his parents in
Phoenix: 1.-THE regiment is now in
camp near Lexington. Kentucky"
The young man was born in Arizona,
ss will be evidenced by two of bis
statements. He says "the Mississippi
is the biggest irrigating ditch L have
ever seen, Here In Kentucky, both
corn and blue grass grow Wild" Being
used to a land of irrigation, his impress
sions are that all vegetation on lands
not irrigated grows wild.-Tom bstone
ProsDector.