Arizona silver belt., 1900-08-23
ARIZON A.
News and Comments Pertaining to
 the Territory at Large.

Eugene lflppel HdS Coinplcleu tue packing of his almonds at Mesa. The yield this year was up to the average.
 Peaches from the Verde valley find ready sale at Phoenix. Shipments are also made to California. The crop is not large but the quality is excellent.
 Rev. F. w. Downs and family left Stafford last week for san Diego, Cal, It has not yet been decided whether or not Rev. Downs will return to Saf- ford as pastor of the NJ. E. church.
 Nogales is building wagon road to Washington camp at an expense of 5000. The distance is 10 miles. It Is a good investment and is an example which Globe could follow with profit.
 1t is estimated that the water works which Prescott proposes to build will cost over Sl50,t00 and will supply a maximum flow of 100000 gallons daily. The water will be brought twenty miles.
 L. P. Nash, who few years ago lived at Strawberry, this county, brutally beat man with a club, at Jerome recently.The trouble grew out of political discussion. Nash was not arrested.
 The Star says: Word has been re- ceived from Judge Wright, who is a member of the code commission which is in session in Los Angeles, that the commission is nearing the end of the work and that in about two weeks they will have practically finished their laborS.
 Santiago Ortiz, the Mexican who robbed and killed w. S. MofIatt, the storekeeper at Harrisburg, was cap tured at Cullen Wells. When charged with the crime he confessed and pro duced the spells, amounting to $500 cash and two checks. Moifatt'S head was smashed to jelly with drill.
 Albert Rohatto, of Bisbee. has re- ceived $500, amount of judgment against the Southern Pacific. Rohat- to was travelling to BiSbee on a mile age ticket; a conductor tore off too much of the ticket, leaving him not euOugh to reach his destination, and he was put off the train. He brought suit and won.
 It is said there were nearly 100 ap- pljcatiGnS at Fort Grant, by men who wanted to enlist as packers for the U. $. army in China. Eleven were ac- cepted; their names are, Chief Packer Vim. Duklin; packers, Wm. Young, James Lowry. James Gibbons, J. H. WiSenor, o. Ii. Hayes, Davis Philips, Gabe Smith, Wm. Andrews, Henry FrieSe and Edward Lynch.
 Chas Kie, an Indian 2 years old, educated at Carlisle, Pa. who has had charge of the santa Fe Pacific coaling station at Laguna, N. M., for the past six years, has been appointed foreman of cOaling stations between Albuquer- que and Seligman, Ariz, His district extends over 100 miles and the salary is S150 a month. He supplies all coal stations with laborerS from the Pueb- To Indians of Laguna. Era.
 Water for irrigation is the para mount issue in the west. The coop erative idea advanced by Dave Gold berg, Col. Wm. Christy and pr. I. M. Ford, is good and by all pulling to- gether, positive action might be had. The plan to hold a protracted meet ing to discuss the matter and to se- lect working committee, ought to meet with favor. When the people of the Salt river valley, themselves, decide to construct a reservoir, it will be dOne.-Enterprise.
 A correspondent of the Bulletin says: Work is still going on at the coal camps on the San Carlos strip with l3 men at work. They are now down with shaft l65 feet, it being nearly vertical and has cut five strata of coal, the thickeSt being 6 feet, A diamond drill is also being worked, but the results of it are not known. pr. Phillips, the superintendent of the coal development work, is now east consulting with his company.
 Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma is in Los Angeles interceding with Gov. Murphy for the Halderman brothers. It is understood that he is endeayor- ing to secure a full pardon for Thomas Halderman and communication Of sentence tO life imprisonment for William Halderman. There is proba- bly, no case on record in Arizona where so much influence has been brought to bear for executive elem ency in behalf of condemned men as with the llaldermanS.-S
 Candidates for office are wondering about the registration question. There are about POO voters registered now, says the Tucson Star, while at this time last year there were 994. Politicians are wondering what is go- ing to happen, and how they can get the derelictS out to register. There certainly will be a large number to register yet, but there is a well found ed reason to believe that the registra- tiOn will fall very much below last years. Which political party will be the most affected by it is matter of conjecture.
 As an exchange aptly observes, AriZona's corporation laws have pro- noted more fake stock companies than all the other states and terrlto- ries of the Union. California oil pro motors have taken advantage Of the lax laws and have organized all sorts of oil companies and are putting the stock on the market at any figure that it. will sell for. They offer all sorts of inducements to the public to invest in their shares, the latest being money back scheme. Their adyer- tiSements promise that if the stock does not reach a certain figure in six