El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-03
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| Arizona.
A hundred and sixty Indian boys and
girls are in attendance at the Indian
school in Tucson.-Citizen.
The October term of the district
heaviest in the history OF Graham
| county.
Phoenix people are urging expansion
for their city, and want to take in .
few miles Of outlying ranch territory.
Tucson Star.
Jerome physicians have their hands
full of fever patients now. Happily no
deathsa have occurred this week.
Jerome Reporter.
Phoenix IL after the next national
delegates are working hard to land the
meeting.
Alterations are being made to the
chemical engine so that horses oan be
hitched to it easily and quickly in case
of tre.-Tucson Star.
The telephone system IL proving .
1t year before the present company
was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Ignacio Alfalfa, who made the muir.
Jerome recently, has made his escape
from the Jerome jsil.-Republican
Before q white man can marry one
of the Chickasaw Indian msidens he
must pay q thousand dollars for a
license. The Indians appreciate their
girls.
A large force of men is pushing
ahead the work on the new university
ready for occupancy on or about No
vember 15.-Tuoson Star.
| There never has been a time in the
history of Tucson when there were 80
few idle men and so great demand
for miners and other Glasses OF work
| ing men. This BODIES we'll for Tucson
and the present season of prosperity
Star.
The aggregate of taxes assessed In
Graham county this year is $97, 318. 10.
Next to the big copper Companies, J..
81. Hampson and the Chiricahua Cat
tie Go. are the heaviest taxpayers,
contributing about S., GOO each.-Bul-
letip.
John Duncan, ranchman near
Hooker's Hot. Springs wac shot and
killed near his ranch last Tuesday,
George Morgan and J. w. Mitchell
are under "a, COO bail each as Access
series, and q warrant is out for the ar
rest of Wiley Morgan, who Is charged
with the shooting .-Ex.
Deputy Sheriff Graham started out
today with q list of over ono hundred
school children who are not in attend
ance 1t school and whose parents will
This 10 q step in the right direction
and We hope that the law will be rigid
ly enforced.-Bisbee Orb.
An appeal has been made to Andrew
Carnegie for q contr. button toward the
erection of . building for the Tucson
public library. From some correspon-
dence which has been made public it
appears that Mr.. Carnegie's interest
has been sufficiently aroused IS to
cause him to ask for detailed inforlns-
ton upon the subject.-Bisbee Orb.
The frame work for the Val Verde
company's big smelter has been erect
ed and large force of carpenters are
at work roofing and enclosing the
mammoth structure. Three car loads
of machinery have already arrived and
the work of placing it in the building
will be commenced in few days.
Prospector.
Business of all kinds is reported to
be improving in Bisbee during the
past few weeks. There are any num-
Der of strangers on our streets, and
every incoming train brings the fam
lilies of men who are working here,
while the amount of money bat passes
nightly over the green cloth Is a sure
sign of rosperitv.-Bisbee Orb.
Major John Reese and T. @. Buck
man have written letter from Thomp
son valley to the board of supervisors
advising them that the Apache-Moha-
We Indians in that section are arrang-
pitiate the gold of thunder and secure
cheap rain" next season, is is their
avowed, intention to sacrifice q squaw
of their tribe.-Journal Miner.
Natural Bridge on Pine Creek, in
the northern part Of ella county, is
one of the grandest natural curiosities
in the United States, equaling, If not
surprising, the Natural Bridge of Vir-
ginia. 1t spans the creek at height
of about 200 feet and the walls of the
canyon rise above it on either side 700
or 800 feet, and on one side form a
perpendicular precipice.-Bisbee Orb.
Arizona Indians are gradually learn
ing the ways of his white brother.
There 10 barely room In the schools for
accommodation of all who have applied
for admission this year. There are
nearly 500 Indian boys and girls at
tending tho government school in
Phoenix, while 1t the Presbyterian
mission school in Tucson there are $50
acquiring the practical knowledge nee