El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-01

ties of more than s20,O 600, and is also
without assets.-Pecos Times.
Arizona.
The grade for the Val erde smelter
railroad has been inished.-Ex.
At Phoenix work has been started
on the new dormitory of the Indian
school. Phoenix Herald.
The Phoenix Short Line has reestab |
lished Pullman service between Phoe- |
nix and Acknowledgements.
The foundations for the new dormi- |
tory at the University are being put In |
preparatory to CONNIE ncing work on
the building.-Ex.
Jerome has experienced come very
severe thunder storms during the past
week. accompanied by heavy downfall
of ain.--Jerome News.
| All the damage done by the floods
at Clifton was from the local rain and
not from the river water. s., 900 was
| the loss sustained.
The annual Old Folks gathering for
Navajo county, will be held at Snow
fake, on August and 9. All persons
of IS and upward, are especially invit-
ed.--Ex.
WORK on G00 IOuQudUlOu lOr Iu6 u0W
opera house has been commenced, and
the work is to be pushed. Winslow has
long needed first-clsss opera house.
Bisbee Orb.
Will the wonders of Arizona never
! cease? A Mr.. Jones claims to have
discovered the evidence of buried
city, near the Colorado, In Yuma coun-
ty.-Bisbee Orb.
The hardest rain of the season fell at
Wilcox on Friday. In less than an
hour 81 of an inch of water fell. A lit
tie over three inches of rain has fall
,, en- since July LEX.
The railway compsny's large ice
house at Winslow is receiving its fn-
ishing touches. Lumber for the new
freight depot is being placed on the
ground.-Bisbee Orb.
DR.. A. Alderdice, formerly of Pres
colt, was found dead in bed at his room
at the home of Chas. Burton, No. 32S
West Monroe street, Chicago on Sun
day night.-JournalM Miner.
Several contractors of Tucson are
making estimates on the building OF
the new school house at Nogales. 1t
is very likely that the work may 60 to
local firm.-Tucson Star.
Another industry will be added
shortly to Tucson's list OF wealth pro-
l ducinR and employment giving 1nst1tu-
l lions. Arrangements have been COM
/ pleted for planning mill to be operat-
| ed in the city.-Ex.
Flagstaff's telephone company has
| Just installed an electric fire alarm for
the use of the town. 1t Is given in ex-
change for license charged the COM
pany for it's telephone business, costing
the city nothing.-Ex.
The capitol commission has awarded
the contract for plumbing, wiring and
heating the new capitol building. The
lucky bidder was Mr.. Tom Lowell, who
l will do the entire work, including the
| sewer piping, for $9. 45O.-Phoenix
Herald.
Good progress is being made in con-
structing the big irrigation ditch on
I the south side OF the ella silver below
Geronimo, for which congress appro-
/ priated $4,000. One hundred San Car
los Indians are employed on the work
II Star.
The San Carlos agency Indians have
! raised twice as much grain this year as
\ they did last. They have sold rs, OO(
I pounds of barley to the government al
lS1.15 per hundred. A new threshina
machine is at work on the San Carlos
i river farms.-PrOsscOtt.
Five of Elan Cheney's children were
J poisoned on the 10Th inst, at Chouchc
by eating toad stools which they sup
posed were mushrooms Those present
succeeded in saving their lives by TIT
prompt administering of salts, oil etc.
as antidotes.-St. Joseph Herald.
i The valuation of property in PIN,
county last year was SO, 21O, 900 and thi
g year the raises made by the board o
Ieoualtzation after making allowance
= for all lowering of valuation, will prob
=. ably make the value of taxable proper
ty in Pima county about So, 400 900. -
Il Elk.
1t The changes in the Tucson telephon,
n system are being made as fast as pos
sible. The necessity of doing this
= work without Interruptions to the pres
a ent service, naturally delays in m akinf
Il changes. However, Manager Dickey
- Is making good Roadway and ere Ions
n we will have an up to date SYSTEM
Star.
h Ever since the murder of James r
Lassater, at his home near Stafford las
% month it has been known that suspi
~ cion has rested on VIM. Ensor as the
, slayer of Lassater. There has beer
!: much talk which connected Ensor will
the crime, and this talk eliminated
!: last Tuesday evening in his arrest
Tucson Citizen.
A we'll known Phoenix butcher say
,e cattle are getting scarcer all over thu
, country than Is reported. Prices have
- been raising in eastern markets TO
q ers are being shipped into the vale!
d and in the last four days about twenty
= five cars have been shipped to variou
Il points.-Tucson Citizen.