Arizona silver belt., 1900-07-19
ARIZONA.
News and Comments Pertaining to
 the Territory at Large.

the Territory at Large.
 Governor Murphy has gone to New York on vacation trip.
 It IS said an automobile will be run between Red Rock and the Ray mine.
 Jerome is now connected by tele- phone with Phoenix and other towns on the Sunset circuit.
 Ground was broken on the 11th in- stant, for the construction Of the Bis bee and Nacosari railroad.
 The Cochise county assessment roll has passed the S3,0O0,000 mark, which raises the county to the first class.
 The prohibitionists of Maricopa county will put a ticket In the field, and will try to effect d territorial or ganization.
 Joe Boyett, who shot and killed Warren Earp, at Wilcox, on the 9th inst, had hearing before Justice W. F. Nichols and was discharged.
 Florence , has been incorporated. The council is composed of, George A. Brown, J. G. Heating, D. c. Stevens, Ramon NB. ArballO, and Thomas. F. Weedin, Mayor.
 The COchise Review says it will re- quire generous rainfall at Bisbee to prevent, not only water famine, but the closing down of part of the Cop per Queen works.
 There are seven arteslan wells sunk on the table land between Stafford and the Graham mountains, four of which spout finch stream, each capable of irrigating 320 acres of land.
 Jim Wills. convicted of stealing cat tie on the San Carlos reservation, and whose case was appealed to the su: preme court, has been admitted to bail in the sum of s300, says the Flor ence Blade.
 Mrs. l. E. Solomon and her daugh- ter, Miss Lilly, of SOlOmOnyille, took their departure last week for an eX- tended visit in Europe. After viewing the Paris exposition, they will visit relatives in Germany.
 Jerome people expect to carve d new county out of COconino and Ya- yapai next winter, says the MOhaye County Miner, which they will name Clark. Jerome has the property and population tO support new county.
 The metallic statue of the goddess of liberty which will grace the dome of the territorial capitol, has been re- Ceiyed at Phoenix. lt is Is feet high. Contractor Lowell expects to have the capitol building completed by the 2Oth Instant.
 Governor Murphy has selected Her bert Brown, superintendent of the territorial prison, and J. II. Collins, of Prescott, as delegates to the annual congress of the national prison asSo- citation to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, Sept P to 2d.
 The St. Johns Herald reports the discovery of a big cave filled with pre- historic skeletons and pottery. near san Jose de TuceS, on the Colorado river There is d surface of 20 square feet covered with hiCrOglphics. among them representations of men, animals and reptiles.
 The board of supervisors are COhsid- ering the proposition of giving d ten percent reduction In taxes to the farmers of Maricopa county. Owing to the partial failure of crops due to the severe drOuth. their losses are heavy. The supervisors are in a quandary. If they reduce taxes on farms aud inn provements they will have to raise valuations on other classes of prop erty. which would cause vigorous kick.
 Wm. Stiles. the self confessed train rObber. has now been moved to Yuma to be placed in Jail there for safe keeping. Stiles was recently taken tO the Tucson jail and now that the others on the charge of train robbery, and against whom Stiles is the princi- pal witness, have also been moved to the Tucson jail from Tombstone, it was deemed advisable to move Stiles to other quarters to avoid possibility of communicating with his fellow prisoners.
 The scafTold which Is expected to be used to execute the death sentence upon the Halderman brothers at Tombstone, is being put into shape ready for work. The date set for the i hanging of the condemned men is Au- gust 10. The prisoners are hopeful ! that executive clemency will yet save 1 their neckS, says the Prospector The death watch has been placed over the prisoners and every precaution is be- 1 ing taken that no attempt other than l legal barriers will stay the execution ! sam F. Webb, who accompanied { the agents of the interior department on their trip through the Black Mess | forest reserve, has made report tC the Salt river water supply protective 1 association, in which he declares tha' the southern watershed on this re serve has been seriously impaired by the grazing of stock, principally sheel and that unless prompt action is ia I ken to prevent stock from overgraz ing the reserve, its service in Storin! waters for the Salt and Gila river val 1 leys will be irretrievably damaged Two hundred and thirty thousand sheep have been permitted by tn, government to graZe on the reServ, this season, and Mir. Colin Campbell informed MT. Webb that thatnumbe | did not include the wethers or thi years lambs. The sheepmen clain their increase from this years lamb | ing amounted to so per cent: there