El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-08

lettering in or frequenting Saloons
Tucson Citizen.
The Graham county papers are ad.
vocatine the holding of an agricultural
and mechanical fair in that county,
Tom bstone Prospector.
The first mortgage, covering $780,.
600 worth of bonds of the Arizona and
Utah railroad company, las been filed
for record.-Kingman Miner.
There is much complaint in the
valley because of the scarcity of water,
but the supply of whiskey and beer
seems to be abundant Solomonville
Bulletin.
the Graham mountains all the week
and we are informed that large
amount of timber has been destroyed.
| -Arizonian.
| Ayoung man named Charles Burton
was stabbed in the thigh and cuton the
| forehead on the streets OF Prescott on
Tuesday by Jesus Utes. Utes made his
escape.-Ex.
tits reported, tina Los Angeles parties
are figuring on starting q bank in Bis
| bee: Such an institution is badly need
ed and would no doubt be paying pro-
position. Star.
The Phoenix base ball team Is back
from their tour of southern California.
They lost two games out of seven and
returned home with the big end of the
gate receipts.-Tucson Citizen.
| AT a meeting of the Live Oak Copper
Mining & Smelling company, held in
New York, it was decided to erect
teaching works at their mines, seven
miles west of Globe.-SilverBelt.
The Colorado river at Yuma is re-
ported higher than it has been for
| number of years. If the weather
should turn suddenly warm, the entire
low lands bordering the stream will
surely be inundated.-Tucson Star.
| At the election last Monday to vote
for SIG, 900 bonds for the purpose of
| building q school house in Nogales
| school district No 1. the proposition
| was carried almost unanimously, there
being only one vote against voting the
bonds.--Tucson Citizen.
Probably no city in the west is as
fortuna ate in respect to good bicycle
roads as is Tucson. One can ride for
miles around the city and up land down
| the beautiful valley. 1t is matter of
surprise that there are no more bicy-
clfsts in the city.-Tucson Star.
IL Is TuuOTcO tu0b q UIR mining CON-
pany is being formed in New York to
drive tunnel slap bang through the
Graham mount ains so as to tap any
loose leads, lodes, veins or other mine
| rel deposits concealed therein. This
Information comes close upon the heels
of the report that the Spenazuma COM
pany has shut down.-Arizonian.
| Work was commenced Tuesday
morning, says the flagstaff Gem. at the
Santa Fe & Grand Canyon railroad by
| the contractor, Mr.. Richards. A force
of eight teams and number of men
| were put to work breaking dirt at a
Mr.. Richards has the contract for the
| building of the long needed road from
their town to the Grand Canyon
Elk.
The outlook for PRESCOTT and Yava-
pal county is encouraging. There is
more activity in mining circles than
ever before in the history of the coun-
ignore investments being made,
more being talked of and more actual
work being done. The prospect of a
rainy spell is also very encouraging.
Recent generous showers have greatly
helped the ranchinR and cattle inter-
ests. There is encouraging news
about the rebuilding of Whipple. The
Prescott sewerage system is about to
be put in.-Courier.
If congress will cede to tie territory
of Arizona / 900 900 acres of arid land,
the territory will have but little diff
Guilty in securing the capital for its re-
clamation. 1t matters not what the ex-
perience of those states has been to
which were ceded large areas OF arid
lands for reclamation, Arizona can and
will accomplish the reclamation of the
lands, if provision is Incorporated in
the grant allowing the lands to be To-
Gated favorably to natural reservoir
sites. Give Arizona the lands, she will
reclaim them all right, and within q
reasonably short period of time.-Tucson
Star.
A strange accident happened Thurs
day between Gila Bend and Sentinel.
On Wednesday train load of cattle,
consisting of twenty five cars, was
loaded at PantanO, near Tucson. Be
tween the two first places mentioned it
was discovered that q car In the middle
of the train had burned and the twenty
five head of cattle therein had perish
ed. 1t was not discovered that the car
was on fire until after it had burned
anc all the cattle had been roasted
alive. No one knew how the fire Or
iRinated, it is thought that a spark |
from the engine caused the horrible |
accident. The cattle belong to r. w. |
Patterson.-Ex.