El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-13

| the Trans mississippi congress-. which
recently convened at Wichita
Kan.
John Foley, while Intoxicated, fell
into one of the engine pits at the Will
liams round house, dislocating hi,
| neck.
The assessment roll of Graham coun.
ty will show an increase this year Of
$500, 900 over that returned last year
Guardian.
The majority Of the houses in Clifton
are of an infamable character and
that town needs q we'll organized fire
department.
| 81. K. Mcdonald, of Williams, had
the misfortune lately of losing the
sight of both eyes by premature ex-
plosion of a boiler.
The Guardian states tn at the govern
| ment will be asked to establish q for
est reserve for the protection of timber
on Mount Graham.
The repeal of the singing erdi-
nance st.Tucson.was bitterly fought be-
fore the city council and defeated by q
vote of four to two.
The Graham county papers are adj
vocating the holding of an agricultural
and mechanical fair in that county
Tombstone Prospector.
kind to visit it occasionally. It is q
little jealous because Tucson has an S.
p. pay car once a month.
E. L. Crane is picking and deliver
ing in Yuma one Thousand pounds OF
apricots per day from his orchard in
the Colorado river valley.
Miss Flora COIN has been appointed
IS teacher in the public schools of
Cohn taught in Bisbee last year.
Only four bids were received at Fort
Grant for furnishing the post with
beef: Michael Obi. &c; E. Cutter, S.45;
Charles Douglass, 9: E. Babcock, 1924.
The Winslow mail reports that Ivy
tyson was recently found dead on the
banks of the Little Colorado. "Suicide
by morphine" was the verdict of the
eoroner's jury.
The Phoenix Republican announces
that John K. Holmes has decided to
engage in the culture of rhubarb aud
horse radish near Prescott to supply
the Phoenix market.
Chloride people are preparing to
celebrate the advent of the railroad
into the big camp. A barbecue has
been arranged for and general good
time Is ted.-Kingman Min
err.
A party from Ash Fork has identi-
fed the two men in jail at Prescott, on
a charge of holding up Van Aliens
saloon, as the same parties who held
him up on the railroad track near Ash
Fork.
The Colorado river at Yuma is re-
ported higher than it has been for q
mum Der of years. II the weather should
turn suddenly rainy, the entire low
lands bordering the stream will surely
be inundated.
The Guardian reports that a 5O-ton
smelter is to be erected at Pima with
Id q year. Eighty acres OF land have
been transferred for the purpose to
New York parties, who are represented
by Ex-Governor Mcconnell, of Idaho.
The female stage robber Who held up
the Florence and Globe stage, snd |
captured at Benson, is said to be Pearl |
Hart, woman well known throughout !
Arizona and recently q resident of |
'hoenix. She is native of Canada |
Ind confirmed cigarette 6end.
G. A. r. Department Commander
3roughton of Prescott is bestirrinp
himself to get names of AriZOna's de.
eased Union soldiers who did not be-
ong to the G. A. A. organization SO
hat he can forward the names to the
var department and get tom bssoues,
VI Oh the department provides for all
Union soldiers.
A correspondent writing from Chlor-
ie, Mohave county. says: The work
building new houses is going on
ally and almost nightly, and lumber ,
nd building material can hardly be |
ad for this purpose. The lumb Der ward
J behind with orders and man. loads
lum Der are being rushed in through
he n ght as well as day to meet the
emand. II
The criminal business of the present t
,rm of court will cost Yavapai county c
,veral thousand dollars An attorney I
in speaking of it estimated +
lat 1t will take from a month to six 8
eeks to dispose of the criminal cases.
even-handed justice is melted and :
lie guilty are punished as their crimes
'serve, it will go very far towards re-
lcing expenses in the future.
Another instance IL recorded of h
lobe woman Who prefers to.wear mems h
tire. Just after Pearl Hart came in d
publicity for wearing mems clothes N
I'd holding up the Florence-Globe I'll
age, saloon singer in Globe, who m
rmerly sang in the Palace saloon b.
re, and whose picture now adorns tt
e wall of that place, put on a mans .r
RIB and acted as dealer at a crap =
me. 1t WIS some time before her !
entity was overed.-Phoenix n
spublican.
Contracts were all signed yesterday
,rniug between the city of Prescott
d Contractor Sturtevsnt on the 4
ter and sewer works. The reservoir
water works are to be comnlated