Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-28

coihes now that the rejection of the Hearst grant claim by the land court at Tucson was not the Boquillas grant aC fairbanks, as the settlers there had thought, and in consequence of which celc0r ttlOn was neld. 1t now de- velops that the Hearst claim which was rejected was an alleged grant on the upper san Pedro river, which had been previously sold to the Reloj Cattle Co. The Boquillas grant had already been confirmed Prospector
 Doc Goodwin, backed by numerous friends in the vicinity, has issued another challenge to Ed Horrell, win iier of the late contests at Phoenix, to rope and tie five steers or cows at Wiz COX on Saturday, January 20, 1900, fer $500 a side. Docs friends stlll have confidence in his skill and believe that out m the open with any kind of avel- | age range conditions he can de feat his late rival. A great deal of interest Will center in the proposed cOntest.- Range News.
 The senate committee on territories | will visit New Mexico and Arizona during the holidays with q view or n.- vestlgatlng the actual conditions of the two territories applying for state hood. The party consists of Senator Shoup, the chairman Of the committee on territories, Senator Clark, of Wy omlng; Caarmln'Hull, of the house military committees; Commissioner Hermann, of the land office; Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn; Gov. Murphy, of Arizona, and Gov. Otero, of New Mexico.
 | Peter White, the lion hunter, on a hunting trip in Ydyapai county, says he returned with fifteen scalps and the supervisors of that county were afraid he would bankrupt the county and they reduced the bounty. This made him go to Mohaye county. The Mine ral Wealth salS he has been telling the tenderleet allSummer that he had a lot of lions staked out in the moun- tains waiting for the hair on their peltS to get in good shape before he killed them.
 Last Sunday evening at about II o'clock Frank PicOni, an Italian em- ployed at the shelter, had his face horribly crushed between the rail of the crane track and a heavily loaded crane. The poor fellow had his head lying on the rail at the time of the accident and was probably asleep. He was taken to the hospital and DTS. Wood, Hart and kaull bandaged his lacerated head and face. It was found that his tongue and one eye had been torn comple tely out, and three fingers on each hand had to be amputated. His recovery, however, is within the bounds of poSsibility.-Jerome Hust- Ter.
 They are at it again in Phoenix. The Gazette says: Every editor makes eE- emies. A little squib, aimed at no one in particular will hit some hollow headed individual and he at once de. clares himself agin the paper. The paper may have given him complImen' tary notice, but the imaginary thrust put him on his dignity and he at once establishes himself critic, but he hasn't nerve enough to go tC the editor with his supposed griey ance. Just notice and you will set that the men who are agin their home paper are, as rule, men who would not be missed if they would leave th' community forever
 A party of engineers belonging t'
 the United States Geological surye. arrived in Florence last week iron Texas. and will take up the worl
 where Professor Thompsons part. dropped in last spring. A complet
 Geographical survey will be made o the Casa Grande valley, as well a north of the river, and it will take q
 least six months to complete the work , which will be known as the Florenc , sheet. This is the first survey or th' kind to be made in Arizona, and l directly in line with the proposed Sal
 Carlos reservoir. tor which 1t will ful nish important data. The party IS Il charge of Prof. F.. M. Douglas. -Flol , encc Tribune.
 I Adyices were received at the gov l ernor's office yesterday that the claim 7 of the territory on the account oi th
 recruiting for the war with spain WI
 shortly be paid. These claims amour
 to a little more than s3,000 and grey :, ont of the expense of the RougI !, Riders and Col. McCord's regiment tc : pether. They have been hanging nr !. for more than a year. A couple months ago it was decided that th
 territory would have to pay the ci''ih t ants and be subsequently, reimburse d by the general government. The 'e Q ritorv had no fund out of when pa.