Arizona silver belt., 1900-07-05

bcti tcIuiildlcu DS Juupe DOdU, tue [ judgment gives the Monre2uma canal 1000 inches of water, during low wa ter, and 20O0 inches during high wa ter. By agreement of the attorneyS on both sides of the controversy En- gineer Cotton was appointed by the court to make the measurements and fix the gauges, ,- Arl2ona Blade,
 The Baltimore Sun of June Is con tains full account of the cunsecra- tion of Dr. Henry Granjon, the new Bishop of Tucson. which took place at the Baltimore cathedral the previous day. The ceremonies were most elab- crate, lasted three hours and were conducted by Cardinal Gibbons. Bishop GranjOn will reach Tucson to day, when he will take charge of his see. His diocese consists of all of the territory of Arizona and Doua Ana, Grant, Eddy and q part of Seirra ! counties, New Mexico.
 The Troy steam laundry at Jerome took fire, last Thursday, from a gaSo- line stove, and was entirely consumed. By the use of a chemical engine and the eyertionS of citizens the flames, which threatened d . coutlagration. were prevented from spreading. Dave Booth, shirt ironer, was painfully { burned by exploding gasoline, and Horace Merrill was overcome by heat, but was dragged out of the burning building by companion and revived.
 The amount of arid lands which lie in Arizona. New Mexico, Oklahoma. Texas and Colorado is estimated to be at least 300, ,O00, 900 acres. This is rendered useless by the need of water, I and the reclamation of this land would add billions of dollars to the wealth of the country. In many sec tionS of Colorado and other states in which is used the best farming lands in the country are those which were formerly considered worthless and are now arttticially watered.
 A clever Arizona woman who cleared over sIO0 the past season on the olives which sine herself prepared for market, has invented special treatment which bids fair to open a new industry in olives. Beside those prepared in the usual manner, she put up large number, using the same formula ais for mustard pickles. These found a ready market, the de- mand being far ahead of the supply. With the gathering of the crop of October, she is preparing tO make a speciality of this new departure in olives. Republican.
 Summer styles on the Papago Teser- vation will undergo a unique and rather startling change. Yesterday the squaws and children were busy cleaning out the Bee Hive all the stuff [sayed from the firel that was not con sidered worth carrying away by those | all sorts of garments in all states and conditions heaped in piles or tied up in bulky bundles, and the soft sounds of the Papago tongue arose often in a clamor over a new find or some dis. puted property. There will be many swell" Indians in town shortly Citizen.
 The Cochise county grand jury zen. demn Sheriff Scott White for neglect of his duties and for abSenting him self from the county without leave oi absence. they recommend that the sheriff resign his office, and in case he
 fails to resign that the board of super
 visors remove him from office. Dis
 trict Attorney Land is censured fol allowing William Stiles to interview Bert Alvord in the jail, the result O which interview was the escape O Alvord and Bravo John, and thu !. wounding of Deputy George Bravin
 The territory is paying interest or the money raised to establish the pres
 ent territorial prison and the princi pal is yet to be paid. The presen site is the best in the territory ac
 cording to the legislature that SC
 lected the spot. There are buildings machinery of all kinds, hospital, read ing room and an irrigation systen that cost the taxpayers of the terri tory large amount of money. Thi will all be lost if the prison is move, as the terms by which the land wa dedeed to the territory require tn buildings to be left in case of remova l of prison. Our Mineral Wealth. The Rough Riders flag, whicl
 though the property of the Woman . Relief Corps, is in the custody of tn governor, was sent by the governor | permission to Oklahoma City, wher : the reunion of the Rough Riders vii begin on July l, says the Phoenix Re l publican. When the flag was re s turned from the reunion at Las Vega last year it had suffered so much iron 2 the trip that it was decided to neve 5 let 1t go out again. So when reques
 WIS first made for it to be sent L