El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Arizona.

Early in November the grant near
Yuma will be thrown open for settle
ment and 1000 acres of good land will
come under cultivation. Most of this
land has been squatted on already.
Pearce Evans has invented q water
wheel that he thinks will revolutionize
irrigation in that locslity.-E Enterprise.
The Arizona Central bank has it's
branch bank established and In run
ming order, says the Williams News.
The bank is a first class institution and
conducted by first class people, and
such business institution has already
while everybody in Williams considers
the matter with pride and as q luxury,
the fall, Superintendent MCGOWAN of
the Indian school offers to furnish q
base ball team that will wipe up the
earth with the Tucson nine, q foot ball
team that will play all corners and .
band of music second to none in the
west. He will also furnish plenty of
real Indians for the parades and other
wise assist in making the event attrac-
tive. Mr.. MCGOWAN has ever been
liberal in donating talent whenever de-
sired.-Enterprise.
Prescott wants to hold q national
mountain city has miners who are
anxious to compete in drilling holes
with Colorado miners. Such an at
traction would draw people from all
parts of Arizona to Prescott, and all
the mining states would send miners to
witness the event. Prescott citizens
should not let the matter drop. All of
Arizona 10 interested in seeing the
gain in momentum until the
are all back of you!-Rerald.
Now it is tclaimed the stumbling
clock in the way of enforcing the school
law in this city to conform with the
statutes is not Prof. Creager nor the
corps of teachers, as all the instructors
prefer to have school begin at 9
o'clock and close at 4 o'clock, with one
hour noon from IL o'clock until 1
O'Clock, according to law. It falls
back to the school board, to B. A.
Fickas and Thos. Armstrong, jr., of
live some distance out, and it is to &C.
comodate their own children. Self
has, with these men, been placed above
public duty.-Enterprfse.
Jose Betran, a short term convict,
escaped from the territorial prison last
Tuesday evening and is still at large.
The Yuma Sun says he was working
with force of convicts on the outside
of the walls making adobes, and as the
guard in charge was leaving the stand
from which he overlooked the work,
with the intention of bringing the pris-
Oner In, Jose slid down steep EN- bank
ment and was soon under cover of the
brush in the ella river bottom. Trail
ers we're started out immediately, but
so far have been unable to find any
trace of the fugitive. His ultimate es-
cape, however, is almost an impossible
lily as every outlet is being closely
guarded. Betran was sent from Co
chise county.-Tucson Star.
Voters in Nogales school district No.
at the election last Monday declared
in favor of a bond issue to the amount
of SIG, 900 for the construction and
equipment of school building, saws
the Vidette. The vote was 81 to ia
small one. Nearly every one believed
the vote would have been carried un-
animously: that to cast a vote was q
mere formality. It should have been
carried without dissenting voice. The
citizen who Is not in accord with eco
nomic public improvements, with the
advance of public school principles and
facilities, is un-American in sentiment,
a detriment to and weight
upon the community which he encumb-
ers.The contract for the construction of
the proposed building had been let
prior to the day of the election. This
may account for some of the mega
tive votes: INSTRUMENTATION or misun-
derstanding may account for the re-
mainder. In any event those thirteen
votes stand IS opponents to public i'm
provement to education and advance
ment. blican.