El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-23
Neighbour
hood Notes.
Arizona.

Arizona.
Gilmore's famous band will be In
Phoenix late in January.-Stsr.
The Yuma Sup states hat work
will begin on a railroad from Yuma to
Adair bay neutrality-suspicious..
The Phoenix city council has de-
cided to tax the property of the S. f.
z. & P. railroad in city limits. Sour
nal Miner.
September 10Th, q fire broke out at
Congress, in q Chinese fruit store. The
Chinese store and several small houses
were destroyed.-Ex.
Governor r. G. Powers has returned
to Prescott from a surveying trip to
Mohave county and W in southern
| Nevada.-TucsOn Citizen.
Quite q number of real estate deals
involving transfer of Tombstone pro
perty is being made. Looks as ii
something was on the tapis,-Ex.
j.. a. Reed has written from Santa
Tucson by the bishop of the Colorado
conference. He Xpects to reach Tue
son neutrality-suspicious..
ISSVs SI6ocTlCh o0uuCtU VI tNS"
Mexico has accepted the pastorate OF
the Episcopal church in Prescott and
will hold his first service there on the
1st OF October.-Republican.
The whereabouts of Lopez, the man
who assaulted two Mexican women
with knife and revolver aoOut q week
ego, is still unknown. Both of the
women are on u fair way of recovery,
- Citizen.
The Ell Paso base ball team has writ.
ten the Tucson team that it would like
TO come up and once more try It's
luck withTucsOn on September 20, 81
and October /. The FL PasO team will
undoubtedly be accommodated.-Re
publican.
The section house at Montezuma was
robbed at moor yesterday by a short.
thick-set negro, who held up the Mex.
lean house-keeper and walked off with
a shotgun, a revolver, and severa
other articles of more or less Value
Prospeotor.
Horace King, late of the surveyor
generals office, writes that he has been
assigned to duty by the engineer in
chief of the Nicaraguan canal, says the
Tucson Star. He goes to the upper
San Juan. Mr.. King likes the country
IA coy LIZ 40 - 6SSN
There is some talk of q proposed
railroad from Congress Junction to
FOOLS Gulch, says q Prescott paper,
Weaver district, which mines, local
miners say, will sstonish the natives in
the near future, as bullion producers.
Republican.
City Marshal George Wilder this
week drove the Cocopah Indians from
the city lands In the western part of
the city. These Indians are
wards Of Mexico, but have been hiber-
mating around the quarmaster's build
ing for time immemorial. The mar
shall burned their shacks and obliterat-
ed their habitations.-SeDtinel.
Fred Webb, one OF Pima's most
prominent citizens, has accepted the
principalship of the Matthewsville
school for the ensuing year, commence
ing Monday. We congratulate any
school that secures Fred's services,
and the old saying that "He is the
right man in the right place" in this
instance is most assuredly true.-Pima
Record.
Governor Murphy has been request
ed to make a thorough investigation
of the line near Naco. International
WILL eAoh - oao ehS q
quest comes from the secretary of the
interior ia order to obtain facts upon
which the United States government
may stand in case a stand, diplomatic
oraotherwise may become necessary
Tucson Citizen.
The following government contracts
awarded: Corn, 100, 900 pounds. L. E.
Solomon, S~olomonville, Ariz.; oats,
300, 900 pounds, A. L. Lewis, Weather
ford, Texas; barley, 600 900 pounds,
Leo Goldman, Phoenix Ariz.; bran
10000 pounds. j. T. Owens, Stafford,
Arfz.; hay, !, 800, 900 pounds, Miles l..
Wood; Bonita, Ariz.; hay, 500. 600
pounds. Hugo Thaden, Bonita, Ariz.;
straw, 100000 pounds, Miles L.. Wood
Hugo ThadeD, Bonita, Ariz.-Safford
ArIzOnau.
William A. Turtle, chief of scouts,
and six Indian police have beer round
ing up the Indian men, women and
children and shipping them pack to
the reservation, says the Globe Times.
Tuesday $50 were sent OF on the tops
of the cars and there are some 400 more
will be gathered. Fifty tepees
were burned on Tuesday, much to the
disgust OF the occupants. These In
dians have beer q source of annoyance
to our people and are an injury to
themselves, for many of them have
heen trunk. There seems to be poor
management on the reservation or
rather no management at all.-Ex.
Mexico.
Heavy rains continue in the valley