El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27


heretofore found in AriZona.-Ex.
The copper mining company at Cliff
ton has completed its embankment
500 yards in length and ten feet WIDE
I-EX.
i, The school bond election will take
place soon at Nogales, and it is sal ,
| that the bonds will be voted by q vote
which will be practically unanimous.
Elk.
The school census report recently
taken in the Santa Cruz valley shows
that the number of American families
In that section are rapidly increasing.
Elk,
A petition ia being circulated in
Phoenix asking the Santa Fe Prescott
and Phoenix railway to extend its
line to Globe, and is numerously sign
ed.--Ex,
E. Hgdley. the Indian agent at Sa-
eaton, Gays the new school to be built
at Sacaton will accommodate S25 pu-
pills. The present school seats only
168.-Ex.
The public roads in the vicinity of
Phoenix are gradually becoming what
they should be by the careful manage
ment of the board of supervisors
Phoenix Herald.
The new city council of Phoenix has
been out inspecting the needs of the
city, and the probabilities are that
some public improvements will soon be
started .-Bisbee Orb.
A petition is in circulation to the
superintendent of the territorial peni-
tentiary, asking the appointment of
Charley Hood, formerly of Nogales, as
guard at the prison.-Ex.
In the trial of ]. Wilson, at Phoenix,
for the murder of q man named Daven-
port, the defendant was found guilty of
murder in the second degree. Self
defense was pleaded in extenuation of
the killing.-Bisbeo Orb.
Although there are no beaver dams
upon the ella river yet there are many
of the animals along the river, above
and below Cliff. One hunter sold over
the river in that Observation-Disclosures.
The sword carried by Buckley o.
Neill during the late war. is now in
the possession of J. w. Wilson, who
says that when he has had it for q
time. be will make presentation of it
to the Historical Society of Arizona
Arizona Citizen.
At an early hour Saturday morning
two masked men entered the saloon of
Harry Van Allen, at Ash Fork, and
one held q crowd of twenty ment at
bay with q revolver while the other
robbed the cash drawer, getting near
ly 5000. The robbers escsped.-Bisbee
Orb.
There is a lively demand for Salt
River Valley fruit this season. Every
pound the valley can spare is in de-
mand in the territory at fair prices.
Our fruit merchants are now shipping
apricots at lively rate and some straw
berries are yet going out.-Phoenix
Herald.
Las Vegas has its coat off and it's
shirt sleeves rolled up in the matter of
the Rough Rider reunion to open there
June 12sb. They promise their pros
pective visitors little the hottest
time ever conceived of in q quaint old
Mex1cau town OF that size.-Phoenix
Herald.
Capitol commissioners have decided
TO lay no corner stone for the new
building. II. B. Gage was the fret to
oppose, on the ground that it would
cost several hundred dollars for q GIN
gerbread proposition. So that part of
the plans of the building has been
Observation-Disclosures.
People who know how tn build
houses will probably be kept busy In
Jerome for some time to come, as this
camp will grow up again rapidly, no
matter how many fires it has. The
wealth Is there, and people will swarm
around 1t like flies around q molasses
barrel.-Tucson Citizen.
In much sickness and an increased
death rate Nogales is now suffering
from the effects of a dry winter. I'm
less the hills, streets and alleys are
washed clean by heavy rains in winter
the air is full of malaria in the spring
and summer. reducing physical vitali-
ty and rendering people more suscep-
tible to disease.-Oasis.
Tucson keeps up her progress in
prosperity and her improvements are
of the finest. The latest important adj
dition TO the pleasure and comfort of
the town is the Elks' building opposite
the court house. It is fine building
well fitted for the purpose of q club
house, which in fact it is, and the only
one in Arizona. The Tucson Elks NAV
well be proud OF their achievement in
the erection and furnishing of their
building.
Reports come from Kineman that
100 men and thirty teams are at work
on the new road which is being built
from Kingman to Chloride. The grad
ing party is now out about three miles
and it is proposed to have trains run
ming about Augusta. Although the new
road leaves thes Santa Fe track about
three miles from Kingman, 80 as to
secure grade, the railway requires
that Kingman shall be the terminal,
as it ia the pOlicv Of the Santa Ia not
to build up new towns to the detrimeut