Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-28

Saturday night about 9o'clock some
 bold thief entered the home of Neil Munro in South Chiffon. dnr ng his absence. The thief effected an en- ! trance by raising Window a;ree T. | When discovered by Mrs. Munro he was ransacking the bureau drawers in
 the room where she was in bed. The
 noise caused by opening one of the drawers awoke Mrs, Munro and sDe, | SuppoSing the man to be Judge Munro, called to him and asked what he was doing and how he entered the house, as she had locked all the doors. The
 thief very c1olly walked out of the room into the kitchen, unlatched the screen door and made good bis escape.
 Mrs. Munro called some of the neigh bOrS who searched for the thiet but were unsuccessful: as he was too swift for them. The thief evidently Was looking for money as he took nothing from the house and failed to liud any money. Clifton Era.
 The forest fire in the Huachuaca is still burning and threatens to destroy i the most beautiful and scenic portion of the lluachuca range. The lire 1 started on Sunday last on the south side uf tue HuachucaS. A day later
 the fire was at the top of the range
 over Hays and Tanner canyons and l has since spread distance of over ! six to eight miles in the most heavily ] timOered section on the range. The ! fire is all within the confines of the military reservation uf Fort Huachu-
 ca, the largest in the territory. It
 will be exceedingly difficult lu stop progress of tue lire and will doubtless
 only cnd when it will have Tea, he'd
 the bed of the canyons on either side.
 The glare oi the fire can be seen from Tombstone and the fire is evidently
 burning as iiercely as ever. It IS
 thought the military department at
 Fort Huachuca will make an effort to
 stop progress of the damaging ire be-
 fore it encroacheS to near the reserya-
 tiun headquarters. -Pruspector.,
 A special meeting of the Tucson council was held last week to consider
 the offer of \. w. Harris X Co. Of Chicago respecting the sale Of bonds
 in the sum of 5000, these bonds being issued to cover the mortgage now
 standing on the Watts company plant
 Harris & Co. are to pay S9O9O for these bonds which are to draw percent in-
 tereSJ per annum. The premium paid is one percent and accrued inter- est since the last deal was closed with Harris X Co.,, that carried the issuance of bonds in the sum of slO0,- 900. This deal was conSummated last
 year and the entire issuance will re- turn Sl10.09O to the city when the bonds are delivered in Chicago, inter-
 est is made payable semi-annually. When the bonds were sold last year it
 was found by the purchasers that the city could not legally issue water
 works bonds under the existing law
 With the aid of Delegate Wilson a
 special law was passed empowering the city to issue the bonds, the same
 being approved June 6, 1900, Star.
 A Washington dispatch of June P,
 says the commissioner of Indian af. fairs said today that no application
 had been made to him to permit the Pima and PapagO Indians on the Gild reservation in Arizona, to leave the
 reservation for the purpose of work ing in vineyards in California. He
 said these Indians are in a pitiable
 condition, as their crops had failed
 and would prove unprotitable, owing
 to their water supply being cut off by
 white settlers. While permission
 would be granted if such an applica' tion was received. the commissioner
 said there was no law to prevent the
 Indians from leaving the reservation There was. however, some danger thai
 they would forfeit their right tC 1000 appropriated by congress fol their relief. which will be come avail able on July l. The commissioner i' of the opinion that the Indians woulc be benefited to a greater extent by receiving this money than by working in the vineyards.
 A Good Cough Remedy.