The Weekly orb., 1898-07-03
From Fridays Daily.

visit to Wilcox.
 Miss Ella Fike left last evening for q visit to Errickson's ranch in the Chiri. cahua mountains.
 The Bishee Transfer company yester- day received new transfer wagon with canvass top.
 Jas. Thatcher left on todav's train for Williams, where he goes to accept a lucrative position. ....
 W. W. Whitney, president of the Erie Cattle company, came in yesterday from Kansas and left this morning for their ranch in the valley.
 Ben Williams left this morning on \ short trip to the Mexican line on buRi- ness connected with the Copper Queen company
 The new revenue tax law went into effect today, and as consequence every check and all legal documents must bear United States revenue stamp.
 Frank Bourque has been arrested on a charge of grand larcy anG will be given a preliminary dxamination in Judge Williams court tomorrow.
 F. NJ. Likes, the we'll known San Pedro rancher, came up from Fairbank this morning. He reports heavy rain in that vicinity yesterday afternoon and evening.
 A telegram was received today from Tucson announcing that the right of appeal in the case of the United States vs. the Copper Queen company had been denied; Judge Davis rendering his decision in the matter at eleven o'clock this morning.
 The board of school trustees have ap- pointed the teachers for the coming term of the Tombstone public school and reinstalled the same teachers who served last term: F. c. Willard as prin- cipal, Miss Rose Hsttich, intermediate grades, and Miss Ida Pad6eld primary grade. n..
 A strange early-in-the morning sight yesterday was one man pursuing anoth- CT witt. larat, which he finally threw e.".ough to rope his man. The victim had bottle .. w whisky cor- cealed about his person and that va s the object ot the pursuit.
 lncc business men of Bisbee have ;aken a riise precaution against pos- ,ible connagratiSn by employing a night watchnan, thereby making it al- most impossible for fire bugs to ply heir nefario ls csllings. Bill Smith, han whom there is none better quail i jed or in whom confidence could be more worthily bestowed, Keeps a kecn vigil over the interests of the public, giving assurance that while you sleep your property will be free from the depreciation. of vandal or incendiary.
 Levi Scranton, the we'll known ranch .r, Who has a lease on the Green and Packard ranches on the San Pedro river, was in town yesterday. Mir. Scranton is supplying the town with baled alfalfa hay and doing quite business, is a ge- nial, wholesouled fellow and always re- members the printers. He paid THE ORB office pleasant cal during his stay in the city.
 Jas. Allison, Jas. Munch and William Davis left this evening for San Fran. cisco, where they will offer their services to Uncle San s navy. The boys carry with them the best wishes of their many friends in the camp, and should they be given place in the navy there need be no fears but that they will uphold the honor of Old Glory and Ari. zona.
 Mir. V. Almenar is indignant at the management of the Bisbee postoffice, and justly 70, too, for when he was notified to attend lodge meeting he received the letter six days after it had been mailed. This is vexatious, but Mir. Almenar can console himself with the fact that as misery likes company he has about 5000 people who are regis tering kicks every day, and still no cog. nizance is taken of their troubles. It would be hard matter to find & post. office managed so poorly as is this one at Bisbee.
 One hundred and fifty Mexican miners and laborers were brought up from below Nogales last night and were unloaded at Don Luis station, from which point they left today for Naco. sari, where they will be put to work building the Copper Queen company's narrow gauge road from the mines to the new smelter site, q distance of about six miles. The laws of Mexico require that a certain percentage of Mexican labor shall be employed in each depart msnt. A part of the laborsrs will later be put to work in the mine. A large supply of bread and provisions was taken to pou Luis las. night fer the