El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-11

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ear the street fund will be increas-
ed and the city fathers expect to spend
so, 500 in the betterment of the streets.
Dallas News.
Arizona.
A gun club is contemplated by q
number of Tombstone sharpshOoters.
The court of private land claims will
meet in Tucson early in November
Elk.
Two Mexican %convicts made their
escape from the territorial prison Mon
day, but were ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The Indian school band returned to
Phoenix from Omaha, where it had
been employed by the exposition
Prospector.
The contract for setting out 3, 900 ash
trees in capitol grounds has been let.
They will be put along the sidewalks.
Proprietor.
Gold will be played In Prescott this
winter. It is stated that a great deal
of interest is being taken in the game.
Tucson Star.
The mine owners of Mohave county
Arizona, are trying to have a smelter
st Kingman. The town offers q site
and free WATERFORD.
The commencement of the building
of the extention from Naco of the rail-
road to Nacosari is believed to be not
far distant.-Tucson News.
Building in the upper Tombstone
Canyon keeps up its lick Some of
the neatest cottages are to be found in
this quarter of our town.-Bisbee
Orb.
| The public schools of Yuma opened
last Monday under very favorable cir
cumstances, but with q very small en-
rollment, only 119 of q possible
3OO.-Ex.
The Phoenix board of trade could
not possibly employ itself better than
in an effort to get the city and its ad.
ditions married before the next census
is taken.-Gazette.
Phoenix papers say that the frequen-
cy of burglaries in that city is so great
in number and of such frequent occur
renee. as to not be q matter of news
any more.-Tucson Star.
Report comes from Aqua Fria Falls
that the Val Verde Copper company is
pushing the work of erecting its smelt-
er at that point In dead arnest There
is 200, 900 feet of lumber on the ground
Nv ~ Sok POhOOA6 OIL oU W.T. hs"SO
er.
The work ia being done preparatory
to mounting two large arc lights in
front of Hauser's saloon and the other
near Norton & Co.'S warehouse. These
lights will be q great convenience to
the public.-Range News.
w. S. Burns, secretary of the Arizo-
ma Agricultural association, has called
q meeting of the executive committee
for September 9th, at the Office of the
U. s. weather bureau, Phoenix, The
committee will from q program and
make arrangements for the annual
meetinR.-Tucson Citizen.
The Benson roundup will start work
September Goth, commencing at the
Bend of the Ditch and work down the
river to Bohn's; thence to Celsey Can
on, Allen Flstt, Fieges and around the
Dragons to Tombstone, thence across
the river to the MILESTONE MIS-, and
finish at Coronado's ranch.-The Orb.
Fletcher Fairchild, sheriff of Coco
nipo county. has been com itted to the
insane asylum. He has q brother In
the same institution. James A. John
sheriff in place OF Fairchild. The lat
ter has been incapaciated from filing
the Office ever since his election
Elk.
The Santa Fe Pacific company is
replacing all their wooden bridges
with steel structures. AS soon as a
wooden bridge gets out of repair it is
taken out and stone abutment built and
a steel bridge put in. By this mean
the entire road will be fitted with steel
bridges within a year or two.-Ex-
change.
Flagstaff Is nothing If not progress
sive. The completion of the water
works demanded q sewerage system,
and q number of enterprising citizens
have taken the matter in hand by Or
ganizing the Flagstaff Drainage and
Improvement company. THE COM
pany propose putting in . Sc
werage system through the business
portion of the town.-Sun.
After q great deal of experimental
ton which for q long time seemed
hopeless, and many futile starts, the
mill for saving tufa at the capital
grounds was put in successful opera
ton. First, is was discovered that the
foundation for the saving machine was
medied, the saws wouldn't saw straight.
After the last re-adjustment they are
running true.-Republican.
Postmaster Akers yesterday receiv-
ed information from Washington that
the letter boxes and posts on which
they are to be placed, and carriers
bags for Prescott's free delivery and
collection system, had been shipped
from there. Some opposition to free
delivery, it is said, has been manifested
in certain quarters on account Of the
extra postage which will be required
on drop letters. for city delivery
! Journal Miner.