El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-06
Arizona.


! ton Post.
Mesa City is to have 2-story brick
| school hOuse.-Bisbee Orb.
Flagstaff proposes to have a three
days Fourth of July celebration
Yuma SUP.
| Mark Smith will deliver the Fourth
| of July GRAFTON at Pima this year.
Bisbee Orb.
The Salvation army proposes to es-
tablish permanent headquarters at
Globe.-Orb.
A telephone force is busily engaged
in extending the line from Pima to
Mattheweville.
Prescott is making preparations to
July.-Yuma Sun.
The business men of Thatcher are
put to a great Inconvenience for want
of a railroad depot.
Carpenters and laborers are all kept
| busy around Bisbee, and there are but
few idle men to be fouud.-Ex.
It is said that half of the graduates
Of the Normal school at Temple have
already secured positions.-Ex.
The Williams News says that the
| building of a railroad from Williams
to the Grand Canyon is an assured fact.
A large forest fire has been burning
| 10 the Huachucas, and q vast amount
of good wood and tim Der was DESTROY
ed.
The opening of q new saloon in Je-
rome was attended with & grand cake
walk and stag dance. Everybody at
| tended.
The enforcing of curfew law by the
local officers will meet with the appro-
val of the taxpayers and citizens of
Bisbee.
A party of students from Yale col
lege proposes to look for buried cities
In southern Arizona. mbstone
ProspectOr.
Jerome junction has no postofce
A petition has been forwarded 10
Washington to have one re-establish-
ed at that point.
Prescott's city council has passed an
ordinance prohibiting females from
lettering in or frequenting saloons.
Tom bstone Prospector.
The public schools of Yuma closed
last Friday with appriate exercises.
Prof. Spenser has been reelected with
the entire force of Observation-Disclosures
Orb.
Geo. A. Mintz has disposed of his in
terest in the Globe Times to his former
partner, r. G. Brown. Mr.. Mintz has
returned to Phoenix and proposes to
remain.-Ex.
Since the city has commenced work
ing city prisoners on the streets the |
hobo elem nt is not so esger to be fed |
at the expense of the common wealth.
jerome News.
The school board of the Nogales dis !
trict has received from Phoenix the |
plans for the proposed new school |
house bonds for which will be voted
next Nonday.-Ex.
Sunday, at Madelena. Demetrio Mar
tinez, orderly for Colonel Kosterlitz,
committed suicide, blowing out his |
brains by shooting himself through |
the mOuth.-Oasas.
The Sisters of Loretta will open a |
Catholic school in Flagstaff about the |
first OF next September. A specially |
of the school will be the culture of |
music.-Yuma Sun.
w. T. Berry who was chief clerk of |
the lower house in the last legislature,
has left Prescott and gone to Hong |
Kong to take position with a steam
ship compsny.-Ex.
The Graham county board of equali-
cation appears to have won part of a |
victory from one of the big cattle COM
panies, realizing an increase of cattle
tax in the sum of 81, 775.-Ex.
Tucson has recently been fitted I'D
with an excellent and conveniently ar
rap a. off nd = &,
agents of Wells-Fargo feel about as
proud in Tucson as nice Office can
m axe them.-Bisbee Orb.
The banks have agreed to cos. Eat
noon on Saturdays, during the summer
months-thet is, the bank of Arizona
and the Prescott National bank. This
does not refer to games which go IN
der the general classification of banks.
Courier.
1t is reported that there are destruce
tive fires raging in the Sierattas and
Santa Rita mountains, resulting in tn.
destruction of large areas of tim ber-
less, and are the cause of these fres.-
Bisbee Orb.
A lodge of the Independent Order of
Foresters will be instituted in Phoenix
on Thursday night. Grand Organizer
w. r. Urber will preside at the insti-
tuition. The lodge starts out with a
bright future, as the charter list con-
tains about seventy names.-Ex.
The Utah & Arizona railroad is being
rapidly pushed from Kingman to
a prosperous mining camp in
the northern part Of Mohave county.
1t is the intention of the contractors to
have the first train run into Chloride
on the Fourth of July, and the event