Arizona silver belt., 1899-11-30

 Goldwater have been working dilll- gently to raise S4000, the amount nec- t essary to secure the additional SlOO0 donation from Andrew Carnegie for E public library building in Prescott. They have succeeded in raising nearly s3O0O the donations ranging from S5 to S250 each. Prescott Courier
 The Sentinel says: "Mr Cohn, of san Francisco, has been here this week ! in the interest of a scheme to start a shelter in Yuma. Mir. COhn and com [ pany have a patent whereby crude i petroleum is used in the smelling of ore. The process is an improvement over the old way and a number of citi- zens are interesting themselves in the scheme.
 Prescott's two justices of the peace, an undertaken and a minister of the gospel were seen hobnobbing today in q quiet place. \ natural inference | from such d proceeding would be that
 
 left of d deceased person after such d combination had gotten through with i it. The only element lacking tu make the scene sublime, was a doctor | Journal Miner.
 At Springeryile, Arizona, the other ! day Pablo Corrills, who was pretty i well full of native wine, got into | drunken row with another native, and made a rush at him with a knife. The hand with the knife was knocked back 1 and the keen edged blade of the knife penetrated the neck of CorrillS and his | death resulted a few minutes later. | The authorities are puzzled on what charge they can hold the man who hit ! the hand that carried the knife that killed Corrills. Albuquerque Citizen. For several months past NJ. h. Roch-
 ford has been figuring on shelter proposition for kingman and is of the opinion that a two-hundred ton plant
 could easily be maintained at profit.
 Mir. Rockford is one of the most thor
 ough mining men that ever came to
 Mohave county. and we hope he will
 remain here and give our people the
 benefit of his wide experience. We
 have mines and he has behind him the
 money and scientific experience. -
 Miner.
 The Carnival association has agreed
 upon the costumes to be worn by the
 maids of honor during the first day of
 the carnival. Four of the maids will
 be dressed in pale green organdie, four
 in pale yellow organdie and four in pale
 pink organdie. Each of the maids
 will wear white hats trimmed with
 flowers. For the grand ball the cos
 tunes will be white organdie. made
 according to the desire of the maid.
 Each maid will wear different colors
 the committee to designate these
 colors later.
 There is a tendency on the part oi Arizona stockmen to secure fenced ranges, and to do this they have to gC out of the territory, says the WillcoN } Range News. At first the object wa l to obtain maturing ranges for steers X but the most potent reason for thes'
 removals at present is the desire to eS i scapc the heavy loses suffered from th' Q rustlers who infest the open range
 We know of others who intend J' n close out or move next spring. The. o say there is no law to protect tn il stockmen in Arizona. The trouble not really with the law, but with tn
 jurymen who refuse to convict stOcI
 thieves.
 v The city council of Tucson, at n special meeting called to consider tn d muniticent offer of Andrew Carnegi T, to give s25,000 to the city of Tucso
 for the erection of a library building Is provided the city would cOntibut n s2OOO toward its maintenance. passe
 d resolution accepting the offer, desis ,- hating q part of the military plaza fo !; the library site, and in order to COT is form to the terms of the bequest, tha ,. the sum of 5000 be set aside out ( ,d the general fund to be used for th f maintenance of the library. TIL .h credit of securing this splendid dom ,h tion from Mr. Carnegie is due 10 G. " q Pittock. the well knows newspap, m correspondent.