El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-10
ship for the practice of law.-Silver
City Enterprise.


Sheriff Blackington and Deputy
Sheriff Cook came over from SOcor-o,
Sunday. with Oliver Lee and James
Gilliland, prisoners to be arraigned at
this term of court.-SiIver City Enter
prise.
Joseph B. Schroeder, Thos. B, Hart
and Alva L. Hobbs, residents of the
Territory of New Mexico, have or
gauized The Standard Graphite COM
pany and filed articles of incorporation.
TIL principal place of business is
located at Ration. Capital stock, 800, :
Roswell Record.
The recorders Office for March
shows the largest volume of business
that has been transacted there during
Recorder Johnson's incumbency of the
Office and it is doubtful If the records
will show as large business for
any other one month.-Journal
Miner.
It is reported by the Prescott papers
that the rebuilding of the Walnut
Grove dam is among the pOssibilitieslof
the near future, if the mining pros
perity of that region continues. It is
proposed to store the water principal
ly for mining purposes and the de-
velopment OF electric pow err for the
running of mining m achinery.-Phoe-
nix Herald.
County scrip previously issued from
numbers 963 to 1908 has been called in
by the clerk of the board of supervis-
ors and as fast as it is presented war
rants are being issued. It is believed
that by the end of the month the re-
manning scrip now outstanding will be
called in and settled up in FULL
Phoenix Herald.
A question has arisen among some of
the attorneys to the effect that Santa
Cruz is frst-class county. They claim
that as the legislature in creating the
grade of the county, the presumption is
that it is a frst-class county Tucson
Star.
White Oaks is on the eve of the
greatest mining activity and general
business prosperity known here since
the 8Os, when this canyon was full of
miners and prospectors from hand to
mouth, and when the scarcity of the
coin of the realm made "dust" lega
tender in exchange of the necessariel
of life.-Roswell Record.
A law is being formed in Phoenix
for presentation in congress this COM
ing winter regulating gambling and
saloons in Ariz INA. ) The charge is
made that the defeat of the woman
suffrage bill and other important legis-
lation was directly due to the influence
and money of Arizona saloons, and the
parties will try this method of curtail-
! ing their future efforts in this direc-
tion.-Phoenix Gazette.
A letter came in from T. V. Keams
to Fred Wetzler Friday stating that
there are three cases of smallpox
among the Navajos 10 miles east of the
Canon. The medicine man was killed
the other day fifty miles north of
Keams' Canon. His legs aud arms
were first broken, then he was shot
twelve times. He was killed presum-
ably because he could not stay the out
break of the disesse.-Holbrook Argus
The cellar of Alter Hills wholesale
! fruit house was flooded Saturday and
| the damage arising amounted to 800
| The cause was a gopher hole. DiagO-
nally across the street Is ditch aud
strange enough gopher tunne1led to
the cellar, over 100 feet distant. The
everything on the floor of the cellar
was at the mercy of the one gopher
| A thin sheet of water overspread the
apartment yesterday.-Arizona Repub
| lican.
The military clothing and equipment
| that has been accommodating FIR a long
time in the Fort Marcy storehOuse, is
being overhauled by board of survey
today preparatory to condemnation
aud sale. The board lis composed o
Lieutenant Colonel r. G. Rankie, o
Las Vegas; Captain Fritz Muller, o
this city, and Captain John Bora
daille. of Albuquerque. Adjutant Gen
| eral Whiteman is assisting the board
in their Iabors.-Santa Fee New Mex
lean.
The noted Las Vegas land case. in
volving part of q tract that embrace
496, 445 acres about Las Vegas, Ia figur
ing at Washington in an equity sui
brought by Pablo Maez and others O
Las Vegas against the secretary of tn