El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-14
Arizona

The Santa Fe is putting in two i'm
mense pumps at Peach Springs.
It is 80 hot in Phoenix that busine 90
has come to q stan dstill Citizen.
At Prescott seventy-five telephones
were disabled by flash of lightning
Elk.
A railroad from Tucson to Helvetia,
new copper camp, is q strong proba-
bility.-Star.
Pasqual Rieta, miner in the Ry-
nerson mine at Morenct, was killed by
falling rock.
The Odd Fellows have just about
completed their new lodge hall at
Williams.-Citizen.
Work has commenced at Jerome on
the building of the new Catholic
church.
The total valuation of property in
Jerome, as assessed for taxation by the
town authorities, is $3.50, 00O.-Ex.
The Latter Day Saints academy at
Thatcher commenced it's fret semester
of this year last Monday.-Repub-
| llcan.
The contractors have discovered that
| the saws will not cut tufa, the stone
|
nix-tough, ali!
| The Arizona Graphic, the illustrated
paper to be published at Phoenix, Is
scheduled to appear about Septemb Der
15.-Phoenix Gazette.
| The normal school at Tempe opened
Sept, 4; the northern normal at Flag
staff opens on the 11th, and the univer-
sity at Tucson on the Goth inst.--Ex.
Tucson has at present $50 telephones
and it Is expected that before the end
of the month the number will reach
more than 600. Phoenix has less than
300.
A prospectOr in Phoenix the other
day introduced the novel method OF
selling entered claims by Offering them
Star.
Through the efforts of School Trus-
tee II. J. Allen the Jerome school dis
600 on what. was first eppOrtloned.-
Republican
Mayor Munds of Jerome writes from
San Francisco that the operation per-
formed ON his eye as very successful
and that he will be home this week.
Jerome News.
| There is a rush of people to Chloride,
| the booming mining camp OF Mohave
county. which three weeks ago cele-
brated the completion of q branch rail-
road from Kingman on the Santa Fe
Pacifc.-Ex.
President Mckinley has pardoned
out of the territorial penitentisry, San
tiago Emerson, an Indian youth, SEN
| fenced on January IA, 1899, by the
United States court of the First is
trict, to one year in that institution for
perjury.-Citizen.
The district attorney of Pinal county
has been instructed by the board of
supervisors to demand of the bonds
men of P. r. Brady Jr., the defsul ting
county treasurer, the amount due the
county and territory, and to enforce an
immediate settlement.-Ex.
| The new telephone line owned by
the Prescott Electric company was
completed to Crowned King last even
ing. A Courier employe talked over
the new wire, and could hear the per-
tinotly as though the voice were only
O block away.-Prescott Courier.
G. B. Bragg, the man who was bit
ten by q hydrophobia skunk in the
Verde valley several weeks ago, and
who was sent to the Pasteur institute
at Chicago by means of a subscription
raised in jerome for the purpose, has
finished his treatment in Chicago and
| is now at his home in BrOwnwOOd,
| Tex.-Ex.
| The American Institute of Mining
Engineers meet in San Francisco on
Septem Der 25. Arizona is included in
the itinery of the party. The Copper
Queen mines at Bisbee will be visited
on October 18th, Phoenix on the 18th,
and on the 10th Flagstaff, from which
point some of the party will visit the
| Grand Canyon.
Word has been received from Fort
Worth that Johnny Bunch, who
enlisted from Globe in the Thirty
fourth Infantry, has been discharged
fire from the.service for failure to stand
from the blank cartridges in q sham
battle, says the Silver Belt. Johnny
| once posed as a "bad man from Bitter
Creek. ''-Republioan.