El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-14


apd the few records that we're in the
sheriff's and district clerks offices
were destroyed. Duplicates of most of
the sheriff's records are in the vault,
but all papers of suits now pending in
the district court were burned and will
have to be su bstituted.-Dallas News.
Arizona
1t ia understood q company of doctors
propose establishing sanltar1um In
the Huachuca Mts. and the plans are
meeting with fsvOr.-Tombstone Pros
pector.
The fire Tuesday night resulted in
demonstrating that the chemical en-
CINE is something of an elephant with
out driver, or any one who knows how
to run it when the emergency arises
Tucson Star.
Small pox comes high but OCCASION
| ally in 1icts itself on q community
This county has just been called on to
foot bills aggregating over $4OO for the
| care of smallpox patients and there
| were not very many patients, either
Prescott Journal Miner.
A cowboy was brought in from the
| Dragons, having sustained broken
collar bone by a fall from his horse.
The horse had stumbled and rolled
over onto the rider, the horn of the
saddle catching the unfortunate man
on his collar bone.-Tom bstone Pro-
pector.
James King was arrested and charg-
ed with forgery. He wrote check
for $22 and presented 1t to Joe Soldini
who gave him portion OF the amount
the check called for. King was ex-
amined before Judge Culver this morn
ing and was found guilty.-Tucson
Citizen.
In the case of Lillian Lewis, the &C.
tress, who was very sick woman
while q guest of the New Orndorff up
to q recent date, Christian science has
accomplished wonders. So it may be
assumed when it is stated that the
lady Is now recognized as sprlnter-
a rider of the wheel, as it were.-Tuc-
son Star.
The railroad company is putting in q
fine pair OF railroad scales in the north
end of the yards. The excavation is
forty feet long and six feet deep, the
width of the track. An idea of the
size of it can .be formed from the fact
that it took Is 900 brick to wall it up.
The scales are said to be of the very
latest design and the finest made
Prescott Journal Miner.
Quite q number of capitalists from
both east and west, have been coming
into Bisbee the past few days, several
parties of them getting teams and
driving toward the line. Those part
les are here ready to invest in our cop
per mines, both at Bisbee and below
the line. Those owning copper proper
ties around Bisbee do not seem to care
to part with them.-Tombs tOne Pro-
spector.
John Mccarthy, one of the active
fish and game commissioners of the
territory has returned to Phoenix
from q two months hun ting trip to
the southern country in Ind about
Arivaca. He reports bringing in the
skins of twenty mountain lions be-
sides deer and other game Mr.. Nc
earthly spends most of the winters in
the Salt River valley and the summer
up about Coconino county. He Is one
} of the most successful hunters and
trappers in Arizona Tucson Citi-
zen.
AT 8 O'Clock Wednesday afternoon
8 the board Of supervisors unanimously
agreed to incorporate Jerome. This
. action was taken after listening the
greater part of the day to citizens in
tere sted In the movement. Messrs
= William Munds, M. Hagen, w. G.
= Miller, David Connor and A. +. Lyons
urged upon the board the necessity OF
incorporating the town as the only
!. means within the reach of our citizens
q to secure permanent prosperity .-Jer-
r ONE Reporter:
8 On Wednesday the children and
grandchildren of the late President
/, Layton had their annual reunion, tina,
date being the anniversary of the ex.
/, president. There are ten families liv-
:, ing in this valley, of sons aad daugh-
d tiers of President G, Lsyto They are
those Of Dick, Fred Charles, Heber,
Alfred, Joe, and Oscar Layton. E.
Phillips, J. 6. Alfred and Rube Fuller
J, The reunion occurred at Robinson
"a hall and q pleasant time was had.
- SOlOmonville Bulletin.
a We undo rstsnd that 8. j. Ho,singer
of Tucson, special agent of the land of
fee, who was here during the past
week, is disposed to hold the Old Do
: minion Copper Mining and Smelling
= company responsible for cutting the
mesquite wood shipped to them from
Graham county. The old Dominion
;. company must have had a very long
handled axe to have cut wood in the
q ella valley. The fact is the copper
company simply contracted with par.
ties in Graham county sfor fuel wood
: and it Is an extreme construction of
the law to allege that the Old Domin-
. ion company is in any way responsible.
. Globe Silver Belt.
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