Arizona silver belt., 1899-09-14


 Jerome is to nave Cathohc church building which will cost STOOD,
 Darymen nea~ Phoenix have per. fected combination, which took effect September I.
 Judge Webster Street will open court in Yuma on Sept. 20 for a two weeks session.
 Ex-Governor Tritle. ot Prescott, has been recommended as supervisor of the census for Arizona.
 The Arizona Sunday school aSso- oiatiun will hold its sixth annual con Sention at Tucson October 2l and 22. The board of supervisors of Cochise couasy have apportioned 55 cents on the sl00 of assessed pr school purposes
 Frisco by Mexican last week, the re- suit of quarrel, and the later was struck in the knee cap.
 Sneak thieves infect Phoenix and make successful raids upon the popu- lace of the city without any apparent e interference by the police department. The Yuma fire losses have been ad- usted. John Gandolfo recovers Sll,- [ 900 on the building. and E. F. San guinetti S64, 75o on the stock of goods destroyed.
 Geo. Brown, an old man who is known in the Gila valley and who has been stopping at the Dunlap ranch in the canyon, was bitten by arattlesnake last night and died from the effects of the bite Friday.
 President Mckinley has pardoned out of the territorial penitentiary at Yuma Santiago Emerson, an Indian youth sentenced on Jan. II, 1899, by the United States court of the first court district, to one year in the insti- tution for purjury.
 A writ of mandate has been served on the board of supervisors of Iavapai county compelling them to show cause why tax levy should not be made to provide for the payment of interest on the Iayapai county railroad and redemption bonds.
 A dispatch from Johannesburg to Reuters agency in London definitely announces that tine reply of the Trans vaal government to the British commu- Lications, withdraws the franchise pro- posed and agrees in pTinc!ple to the conference at Cape Town.
 Lumber dealers in Mohave county are holding lumber at p per cent above tLe market rate of two years ago. At Chloride S35 per thousand is asked for second common native pine and in K;ugInan the same class sells for S2G. Two years ago the figure was about SIS. Mohaye Miner.
 Collector of Customs Harry K Chen oveth of Nogalcs, is said to be inter ested with Jesse Grant, son of |. $. Grant, and Alfred Hampton, son of Wade Hampton, Tn a gold property in Mexico, which is reported to be fabu- lously rich The owners have just re- fused S250, GOO for the mine. Tucson Citizen.
 A correspondent of the Jerome Hustler writing from Camp Verde says: Captain Boyd, who was shot through the leg al the time Rogers and Wingiield were killed. is in camp, apparently as well as ever. He puts in his time riding over the country on d little. ancient pony he has ridden for fourteen years.
 A. Yer Mehr this week filed with tho recorder of the county plat oi th' townsite of new Chloride The towI embraces about 300 lots and is situated ou the west side of Silver Hill ant about ore mile southwest of the ol( town. Eots on the main street, we un derstand are held at Sl00 and S200. F
 
 Mohave County Miner.
 Cattlemen of Maricopa county have decided to cease payment of taxes oI cattle, and have employed all attorney to act in thier behalf, says the Satfor( Arizonian The contention is that tho NiHeteentb legislature passed law that cattle shall be assessed and taxei collected on them as on real estate The deputy sherfis will have consider ble trouble posting notices on the wil( steers unless that recently invented de vice the flying branding iron, is used A stereotyped legal notice will be pu on the iron and the iron is then throwi with a lariat. Jack Gibson, once [ cowboy, but now liveryman of Phoe
 4