Arizona silver belt., 1900-01-04

saHord. Whether any of these will succeed remains to be seen, but Wins TOW has an undoubted advantage over aii others, as the seat of government VI Na'a)o county should be right at that prosperous railroad town. - Gazette.
 MrS. Jane Symms, an American iauy' 4' years of age, No. references, auVertises in Tucson paper that she Will correspond with single gen 'ieman in good circumstances, the oolect being matrimony. She does not care how old the 'lobster', may De II he only has the scads.
 Mesa Is not in the least behind the other progressive towns of the Salt rlver valley. Last week there was d meeting of the leading citizens of that place, at which it was decided to donate the land for a S3O.OO0 sanitar- lum, which is to be established at that place by Dr. O, D. Weeks, of Cali fornia.
 One of the largest pumpkins ever seen In any country is on exhibition in the show window of D. Levy & Co. Iilis pumpkin is called the baby of Verde valley, and was grown on the ranch of Il. K. Behn, by Charles God ddrd. The pumpkin Is of the large variety, is as round as free silver dollar, and weighs 132 pounds. Pres colt Courier.
 J. K. Day yesterday handed in to the clerk of the supervisors for the scalp reward, the scalpS ot five lions which he killed in the Verde valley section. The bounty on lion scalpS is s20 each, and every one of these ami mals can be depended upon to get away with more than S20 worth of live stock every time it gets hungry Prescott Courier.
 Delegate Wilson has introduced in congress bills for the admission of ! Arizona; for the construction of a res ervoir near San Carlos: for the relief Of stOckmen and woolgrowers in the | northern counties of Arizona; to pro vide for an additional associate justice; | to grant a right of way for pipe line | for conveying water to Flagstaff, and 10 subject the Santa Fe Pacific rall- road tO taxation.
 The visit of Messrs. C. G. Paddock, | Isaac Siggius and F. M. Donovan, Les Angeles capitalists, will be productive of large mining investments in this vicinity. They are owners of valua- be copper properties abju ten miles east of town, which they will thor oughly develop, aud when the show ! ing warrants it will erect reduction works. These gentlemen left for Los l Angeles "Wednesday and will return after the holiday Florence Tribune. 1 John Tinker, recorder of the A. O. | U. w., is in receipt of some core spOndence which throws some light en the killing of James Brownlee, of Prescott, by Amazon river savages The correspondence states in eifec, 1 that Bruwnlee and party were being guided by friendly native on theil | tourney, when the SuaiS Indians, by an appearance of friendship, induced two of the whites to come up to theiI village, where they treacherously kill ed them and fell upon the others, whc were in their boats, and killed them Prescott Courier.
 w. J. Dent alias W. J. St. Claire who attempted to defraud the Tucsor banks by means of forged checks, hal been taken to Texas to answer to ; charge of defrauding bank in Fit
 Worth of S450. lie is a noted criml nal having served time in the peniten
 tiaries of Missouri, Colorado an' Texas. He secured the release iron
 the Texas state prison of a train rob
 Der named Isaacs in 1889 through
 forged pardon. l.. P. Seiker, captail
 of the Texas Rangers, took Dent t
 Texas Saturday, Acting Secretar
 Akers having honored a requisitio
 from Governor Savers of Texas.
 North and east of Blair's rancf
 west of Prescott, there is a mountai
 known locally as Lookout mountain
 from the fact that from its summit
 most sweeping and commanding yie' of very large scope of country can b had. On the summit of this mountai
 is a stone wall fertilization 70 fee long, built in circle. The stones the wall are well laid; the wall bein six feet in width and from six to seye
 feet high. There is at one point wha , has the appearance of a porthole, c . lookout window in the wall. The wa
 is supposed to have been built by tn
 prehistoric residents of this part ( the world. Prescott Courier. The meeting of the Live Stock san f tary board, which has been in sesslo