The Weekly orb., 1899-03-05
From Fridays Daily.

Tom York is in town from the Hua. chucas. .,,
 The Rathbone Sisters are to give a dance soon.
 i An ther masquerade ball is to be eivei the latter part of next week.
 There is said to be ose case of scarlet fevr' in town and also one of measles.
 Horse thieves are reported to be depre. dating in the Sulphur Spring valley.
 Alyhur Gray is reported to be improv- inI i.om his recent attack of la grippe.
 Miss Winnie Miller is expected home soon rom six weeks visit to Wilcox.
 A pawn shop is said to be one of the new ventures that will be started in this city shortly.
 J. s. squires was slightly bruised yester' ay by having some boulders fall on hrm while working in the Holbrook.
 Mrs. Chas. Godfrey is reported as be,np seriously ill at her residence on Tomh' one avenue.
 Qulr anumDer of the Bisbee Masons will visit the City of Mexico with the propo d excursion.
 M,, Calla Durley has returned to her school t Miller's, on the Babacomari, after . ending several days on visit to he, parents.
 The ondition of Dr. Sweet does not imprrva as rapidly as desired. He has now l ten been confined to his bed for seven ,teks.
 HulI ay and Wright, accused of the murder of M. P. Allen in Graham coun- ty;- orot e.out of the county jail at Sol- omonville on Wednesday night and have thus far not been heard of.
 A lar4 load of mining supplies was take' C to the Copper Cross proper ties tnu y and two shifts will be put to work [ nee developing the property. B. +. Graham returned yesterday from P oenix, bringing with him carload thirteen horses, two of which were for J. S. Williams, to be used in his qua, team, and the others are for use in the o K stables. There are three fine te ms of buggy horses in the lot and three good saddle horses.
 The metary committee is soon to conn cree work on laying a pipe line from the culbert just below the slag dump to he cemetery and piping the waste va CT from the smslters to irri- gate tre.', etc, that will be planted in that lot. The move is good one and everyone should do their utmost to help the. movement along.
 The Sa vation army officers who re- gently lett Bisbee. are holding the fort at Benson with good results; the com muhity is awakening along religious lines.
 If Councilman Bunch's bill goes through, sheriff White will draw $5000 per anrum and half the fees in civil cases, der the provisions of the said measure. ....
 Rev. s. A. Thompson, D. D., is sched. uled' to arrive in Bisbee March 8th. He will tarry until the 18th and preach in the Meth, dist church as convenient. The Dr.. man of large experience, of genial disposition, and has the true in- terest oi | Q church at heart.
 It is said that when Colonel Brodie's Crown Pc mt mining camp gets in opera. ton tha; not less than 75 men will be empjoye [. r.-~.One of the best stamp mills in ArIzona is being put up. It has capacity oi 20 stamps, but onl ly 10 stamps will be put in as a starter.
 b.g !e., is on hand for ranch prop. er'y and also for cattle in Cochiiise county, Il ii it is completed large tract of Ia d ani many thousand head of cattle change ownership, likewise a big Dank account will be transferred. If tns deal is made the ORB will be the first tD give the news.
 J. II. .jastro, one ot the members of the Kerr County Cattle company, of Califo nl4, will be here on or about the 10th instant for the purpose of going oyer an inspecting the Boquillas land gant on the San Pedro river, which tEev have purchased from the Hearst estate. This grant takee in all that strip of country lying between St. David, on the north, to above old Charleston, on the s,u h, a distance of about twelve miles. The intention of the compay is to fence this tract in and use it for pas turing cattle. A very serious prop0sl. ton now conironts the people living on this pact of land, the title to which was recen,ly. 4Q c. 6rmed by the land court, sitting at Tucson, and they now have to maFe terms with the Kern County Co. or be .Ilspossessed of the homes which many of them have spent the best years their lives in budding up and improv- ing, and which will entail heavy loss to number of our best citizens.
 Mike Cunningham, clerk in the Hon,ar 0noap Stnra ,,L;lo Tho