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 The capital grounds at Phoenix will be shaded by 5000 ash trees to be plant ed this fall.
 The product of almonds in the Salt River valley this year far exceeds any previous crop.
 The normal school of Arizona at Tempe opened last Monday, with an attendance of eighty.
 The United Verde Copper company of Jerome pays taxes at Prescott to the amount of sls,OoO per annum.
 The Tucson board oftrade has estab- lished stage line between that city and the Ray mine by means of sub scription among the merchants.
 Articles of incorporation of the Ex- posed Reef Mining company have been filed with the territorial secretary. The company is operating in Cochise.
 The sixth annual convention of the Arizona Sunday school association will be held in Tucson October 2l and s2. An invitation is extended to all Sunday school workers to be present.
 Threatened hostilities of the Apaches against the Zunis for the murder of a family of Apaches near Jerome is at an end. The former have been forced lool, tn tha;r paoaryatinn
 At 300 feet the drill in the Santa Fe's we'll at Yucca, Mohave county, en- countered seam of cannel-coal. For a number of feet the bailer has been bringing up fragments of coal.
 There is some talk of Q proposed railroad from Congress Junction to Fools gulch and the various groups of mines in Weaver district, which mines, local miners say, will astonish the natives in the near future, as bull lion ducers.-Prescott Courier.
 Col. Wm. N. Fife, one of the Arizona pioneers identified with the early his tory of Coch'se co1nty, is arranging to have deep we'll sunk at his ranch in the Chiricabuas with a view of strlk- ing artesian water. Should flowing water be developed in his section it will mean much for the agricultural possibilities in that end of the county. -Prospector.
 Governor Murphy has been request ed to make a thorough investigation of the trouble on the line near Naco. International complications are feared and the request comes from the secre- tary of the interior in order to obtain facts upon which the United States government may take stand in case a stand, diplomatic or otherwise, may become necessary.
 Major John Reese and T. C. Buck man have written a letter from Thomp- son valley to the board of supervisors advising them that the Apache -Mohave Indians in that section are arranging for a sun dance. In order to propiti- ate the God of Thunder and secure ''heap rain" next season, it is their avowed intention to sacrifice squaw of their tribe Prescott Journal-Miner.
 The Lake Superior and Western De veiopment company have filed articles of incorporation with the territorial secretary. This company was incor- porated under the laws of West Vir- ginia by James Hoatson and nine oth- CTS all of Calumet, Michigan. The first articles gave the capital stock at S50,. 600 but this has been increased until it stand at S2OO. 0O0 Gazette.
 Articles of incorporation have been filed in the secretary's office of the Ar izona and Eastern Montana Smelling Ore Purchasing and Development company, incorporated under the laws of West Virginia. The capital stock is fixed at S, 5,OO0,Oo0. The incorpora tors are Henry B. Clifford, Warren Hussey, NJ. II. Roble, Edward J. Jor dan and Clayton W. Holt, all of New York city.-Gazette.
 The dormitories of the university will be crowded from the opening day something which has never occurred before and it behooves all intending students to apply at once if they wisf to secure dormitory accommodations Two new advanced students, Mir. Per ry of New York and W. II. Taugye O Bisbee, have already arrived. Prof Dolbs of Arkansas has been engaged to conduct the classes in arithmetic algebra, geometry, bookkeeping ant commercial law Tucson Star.
 The mayor of Yuma, says the SaI Francisco Chronicle, is authority fo the statement that his part of Arizon' is experiencing good times from the de velopment of farms, orchards ant stock ranges, and that the industria population is all the while increasing It is certain, moreover, that the whol, territory is far more popular witl homeseekers than it was before tn, wild notions of an existing state o border ruffianism were swept away and that the present year has seen def