Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-19

phOenlN raistu Si-UV TUT tue ieccP- ton to Bryan.
 Frank NJ. Murphy, president of he s,nta Fe, Prescott and Phoenix rail road. has gone to Europe.
 Orders have been placed hy the ~,nthern Pacific company tor 32 mo ,,Il engines, j0V stock cars anl lO0O 'IN cars.
 In making cut for the new San 7.,s, canal d few miles above Solomon vile, workmeu encountered the walls ufa prehistoric huildiDg.
 l.. c. Hughes of the rucsou Star, has ordered Merganthaler linotype, which he expects to have set np in the lice by the first of June,
 Capt ] H. Tevis, of Bowie, has .osde a bet of Sl. .00o with Walter l. Tail, that Vim j. Brvan will be the -4yt president ot the United States.
 Work has heen resumed on the Ari llna X Utah railroad north of Chlo. ride. Mohave county, and the Miner thinks it is to be pushed on to the Colorado river.
 Solomonville Is now an incorporated city. The first councll composes the following we'll known citizens, Geo. Il. Kelly. T. D. Morris, Abraham Diaz. Fred Dysart and Pedro Michel eDa.
 An annex to St. Mary's hospital at Tucson. is to he erected at a cost of Sl5. 900. 1t will contain twelve rooms on the second floor, and consumptive patients will as heretofore be placed in private rooms.
 Mir. Akers. secretary of the territory, ,svs that in view of expressions made nv other local otficeholders in the ter fitory. he has determined not to he candidate for delegate to the repnbi- can national convention The board of supervisors of Graham county at its session last week, entered an order on its minutes directing the district attorney to bring shit against all parties whose property has been sold to the territory and oust them from pos session.
 The government will erect ig boarding school for the Walipais In iians at Hack berry. Mohave county The bnilding will cost SG0. 900. and .he maintenance of the school will re juire an expenditure of s25,0OO an lually.
 The Graham county grand jury in hcted l. L. Qualey for altering and mutlating the cooks of the Arizona X Boston Mining company. Qualcy was ieposed recently from the presidency of the company, and its affairs seem to be badly involved.
 The News reports tue discovery of ln underground river near Williams. A tunnel is heinz driven in to tap the water channel and pipe line will he laid to the town. The tunnel site is 300 feet above the town which will give big pressure on the pipes.
 The pipe line from the Anderson well 70 the reservoir was finished Thursday. fays the Flagstaff Sun. and water was pumped at the rate of 22,O0O gallons per day yesterday The water will be delivered through the town water sys- tenn to the Arizona Lumber and Tim Der company.
 The storm this week will be of great yalue to this section of Arizona The fall of snow is estimated at fourteen inches, while in the Snn Frapcisco peaks it is three feet deep. The mois- iure will start the grass. but there will still be shortage of water on the ranges as the water holes are dry. - Flagstaff Sun.
 Wednesday night while Depot Agent Brown was in Solomonviile someone effected an entrance into the depot and carried away the safe, a small iron box, which was uscd to hold the cash and tickets belonging to the q. V. G. N Ky company. Agent Brown informs ms that the loss was trivial as there wss only Sl 50 in cash in the safe besides some papers and the tickets. .-Bulletin.
 The Tucson Star says: There IS more than probability that before the close of the present year there will he
 two foot gauge railroad trayersing the Santa Catalina mountains This VIII nean lumber from home saw mills It FIil mean summer resorts of easy ac- feSs, as well as a large mining industry the Santa Catalinas.
 The council of Chloride has organ Eed by electing $. c. Schoonmaker,
 layor, and C. Ridgeway, clerk. The hsnal quota of ordinances have been red and are understood to be m
 fleet tomorrow. Under the new
 eGlme saloons will pay q city license nA ofSl5 per quarter and 1t IS nnder- btood that other business houses will
 nve to bear the burdens of the city government The council made an ex-
 client choice for mayor. -Mohave Miner
 The gambling and sporting fratern- " Ot Jerome have serious grievance
 galnst the bank recently established
 D that camp. The bank keeps open