Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-28

 pacitc to Helvetia this year.
 Joe T. Mckinney is out for the remocratic nomination of shcri1 in ,iraham county. Joe is the right stuff .Or an officer,
 The quarantine at Tempe on ac- count of scarlet fever, has been raised and there is said to be no contagious diseases in the town.
 Katie Krater, of Jerome, ll'year pd girl, who was recovering from measles. took a drink of ice water aud died few hours later ot lockjaw.
 Raymon Owens and George Wohl- schlegel were arrested last Thursday for the robbery of Sid Harris faro game at Bisbee Wohschegel K a rough rider.
 The Journal Miner says: 4 private letter from Florence states that C. D.. Reppy has just come into an inherit ance of about sl5,00o from his father < estate in St. Louis.
 Shortage of water at present is in- terfering seriously with mining in some localities. The Congress mining company is hauling water from Wick enburg to enable work to proceed.
 William and Thomas Halderman, the cowboy brothers who in resisting arrest, shot and killed Officers Aims worth and Moore on April 6, 1899, and were convicted of murder in the first degree. were sentenced by Judge Davis to be hanged Friday, Aug. 10.
 A telegram from Butte, Montana, says that W. A. Clark will head the delegation from that state to the Kansas City convention. This being the case Nil. Clark will scarcely de- liver the Fourth of July celebration at Jerome.
 The Williams News says that travel to the Grand canyon continues to in crease. There are tourists coming from every portion of America to view this wonderful scenery, and all return enthusiastic. It is expected the rail road to the canyon will be finished by July 1.
 The Blade says: About one-third oi the population of Florence had their wells sunk deeper this week. Every year we have to go deeper for water. Ten years ago the wells in town had plenty of water at depth of 9 feet, but. today, most of the wells are over 50 feet deep.
 Thos. J. Nolan. bright and eXem- plary young man, a native of Prescott who is interested in mining hereabout with his father. is candidate for appointment from Arizona to an An napolis cadetship. Such appointment could fall on no more worthy shoul, ders.
 Assessor NJ. M Hickey completed the assessment roll of Pinal county for 1900, Thursday. The total valua- ton is sl,715, 900, a gain of about s15,' 900 over last year, notwithstanding the fact that Assessor Hickey did not list Improvements on possessory rights. Blade.
 The county assessor of Graham county has added $50, ,000 to the sun returned this year by the Detroit Cop per Company as the assessible value of the property of the company 1T Graham county. He also added $50, 600 to the valuation returned by tn, Arizona Copper company and thu shannon mine valuation raised sl6. 600.
 Hon. Colin Cameron, of LOchiel, |! building a handsome and modern resi- dence at his San Rafeal ranch to re place the one recently destroyed bl fire. Contractor McGinty has charge of the work. When completed Mr Cameron's $ residence will be second t' none in Santa Cruz cOunty.- Nidette Mesa's electric system is about t go back on the city. There IS no & enough water in the canal to run th' machinery all the time, and as re rult the fans in Mesa are running bu One-half of the time. If the river con tinues to lower, the power house VII be closed up and Mesa and Tempe VII have to go back to oil lamps.
 The total assessed valuation of thl county for this year is over s1,750,0oO The board of equalization will, n doubt. make some additions, whlcl will very likely run the asseasmen Toll up to g., GOO, 900, and if this is don CycOnino will be third class count under the class fication act of counties Flagstaff Gem.
 The Mineral Wealth says: "Arizon lStO have a sanitarium near Nogales MOhave county is sanitarium wit the sky for a roof. Get into the opel air, you people with weak lungs, am It would be better if you are stron enough to walk in the wake Of