Arizona silver belt., 1899-09-14


 neutal Oil company, branch of the Standard Oil company, for the reason that it conflicted with the interstate commerce laws.
 Cattle in Kansas are dying of warts an unusual occurrence. They become literally covered with these unsightly excresceuces and fall away in flesh and finally succumb, Others have their eyes destroyed or obstructed, become blind and die Some think the pecu- liar affection contagious and samples for examination have been sent to the department at Washington.
 Down on the street yesterday the thermometers registered ll0 and ll2, but the weather bureau instrument recorded los only. II we could go trotting around in the comparatively cool current where the government thermometer luXurates it would be all right, but to the people on the streets. whose business compelled them to get hustle on, it seemed more like LIS than los. Phoenix Ga zette.
 David Foley, while working in a winze at the McCabe mine, was taken sick and started to climb the ladder After climbing about 30 feet he called, saying he could hold on no longer. Hanging his candle to the timber he fell to the bottom. He was taken to the McCabe mine hospital and is being cared for by Dr. R. N. Looney. His back and one ankle are badly hurt, also severe gash in the face. He had been unwell for two days but did not want to give up work. -C Courier.
 One of the most direful results of the present warm spell is a coolness in many Phoenix families, which may end in the breaking of of marital relations, says the Republican. About two weeks ago the weather got pleasant and many husbands whose wives were on sea coast and mountain wrote to them that the vertebrae of the summer of 1899 had been permanently dislocated. Soon after that the tide of wives turned towards Phoenix and washed up against hot spell, the like of which the oldest timer had never seen in the valley at this season of the year.
 Charles Bcrrie. who left Prescott with the rough riders, as packer, re- turned from Cuba about ten days ago. He has been in the employ of the gov ernment up to q few days before he started for home. While in Cuba he was accidentally shot in the hip, but has fully recovered from his wound, with no apparent bad effect. He says good many Americans are going into business in Cuba and Porto Rico, but that it is no place for man to go to work for q salary. He came to Prescott on account of the sickness of his mother. and expects to return to the West Indies. Prescott Courier.
 No town of size or importance can ever expect or hope to prosper and pro- ] gress unless it has gooi live newspa- per to keep the advantages and chances of the town before the public of other communities And surely no man can publish such paper. for any length oi time, unless he hus the hearty coopera ration and support of every business and professional man in the town. Nc man ever yet lost cent by advertising in and supporting his home paper. Bu many one has lost dollars by not aid | ing the paper of their town in every way the could. --Arizonian.
 Mr. C. NJ. Sturgis tells the Phoeni, | Herald that the most interesting fea turc of visit ta the Grand canyon is q trip down to the Supai villages il the depths of the great chaSm. Tn, tribe presents a study of peacefulness settled there away from the civiliza tiun of the world, and visited by bu very few white people. The record kept by the government agent of th' Supai reservation shows that no mort than 300 white people have visited that agency during the time recopfl' have been kept. The Whqle tnibe, said NIT. Stuggis "a . Herald repote this moFning, consists of but r. persons, men, women and TdppooseS ! The tribe has been absorbed by othe and stronger nations in the nofa until but few are left at the presen time. They cultivate several hun drcd acres of land.
 A Narrow Escape.