Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-21

Slue ol lucSon are being sought after IS building sites.
 Settlers are arriving daily in the Colorado valley and an era of unpre- cedented progress is now at hand
 Wm. Barnes, it is said will shortly retire from the chairmanship of the i've stock sanitary board at Phoenix. Not sufficient names have as yet been placed upon the petition asking the board of. supervisors to incorporate SatTord.
 The United Verde Copper company expects to open its l50-room hotel at Jerome for guests about the first of February.
 While at work in the Congress mine | Ond day last week, d lot of rock fell on Alfred Jackson, crushing the life | out of him.
 A new court of the Independent | Order of Foresters was instituted in Winslow last week. A large charter list was obtained.
 A postotlice has been established at the Ray mine, on Mineral creek, to be known as Ray, with Chas. Claberg as postmaster.
 The Graham county papers report that mountain lions are destroying young calves in the Graham mountains at an alarming rate.
 Jimmie Stevens is said to have abandoned his trip to the Paris expo sition. The ApacheS will go in charge of auother person.
 Governor Murphy has commuted the sentence of Eugenio Mata, who is awaiting death in the jail at St. Johns, Apache county, to life imprisonment. The citizens of Bisbee will present loving cups to Ben and Lewis Williams, who have retired from official positions with the Copper Queen company at BiSbee.
 A man named Royce is mysteriously missing from Phoenix. He is about thirty-hye years of age and came to Phoenix from Chicago two years ago. He was d member of c company of Col. McCord's regiment.
 The entire press of the territory is uup in arms against the national lease law, claiming that if enacted such would deal death blow to the small cattle and sheep raisers.
 The Southern Pacific railroad sent out from Fl Paso recently train load uOf cattle containing forty cars. This is said to have been the largest train Oad of cattle ever hauled over any Railroad in the world.
 Both Tucson and NogaleS want a smelter, and each place is trying to in iuce J. H. Cohen, of San Francisco, Representing the Oil Fuel Saving com pany of that city to build one.
 Governor Murphy has by executive order postponed the date of hanging of George Smiley of Navajo county, who vas to be hanged at Holbrook on Fri day. The respite is for 30 days.
 From the mountains south of town the entire northern country Is seen gistening white with snow that fell aSt Tuesday night, says the Prescott Prospect. The white belt does not each so far south as the san Fran cisco peaks, though they themselves are covered with a snowy robe; but It probably reaches some twenty miles Outhward of the Grand canyon.
 A number of forged cheeks pur- DOrting to have been issued by the United Verde Copper company nave been discovered in Prescott. The iOrgeries were neatly executed ana nght have passed even the bank or icials but for the discrepancy be- tween the numbers on them and the numbers of the company's checks. The perpetrators have not been ap- prchended.
 Mrs. Brfscoe and Mrs. Downs, two ades of Winslow, Arizona, certaihiy have warm hearts and their disposi- u0u to do good when the opporouhioS pTcSents itself They recently gave ablll for the purpose of raising money D lay of mortgage on poor oio lad $ home. The mortgage was TOT sl9.5O. They made sl29.5o of the amount at their dance. They propose Oon to give another ball and expect o raise enough money to pay oH the aknce of the mortgage. The olo ad $ name is Mrs. Gle.
 C vernon Murphy has commuteo he 5entence of death of Eugenio Mata To life imprisonment. Mata shot aho Filled a girl named Wall in Apache County. The act seemed to be oe
 ib rate one with murderous intent Ma "a claims the shooting was acci
 enral, as he says de did not know th' gau was loaded. The hanging oi
 ew rOols of this kind, where the resui
 the taking of human life. woui'
 'ot be amiss, as it might be warn
 hg to others but of course in law tnt