Arizona silver belt., 1900-02-01

been unsuccessful and has met with t number of reverses, and these are thought to have affected his mind Tucson Citizen.
 Judge NJ. l.. Wood of Bonita pre- diets wet summer. He has resided in Arizona over 30 years, and say $ that we. winter in California is al ways followed by a rainy summer !n the territory Range News.
 At the conclusion of the inquest { Coroner s. K. Williams ordered the discharge of sanders, out at once 5. K. Williams, as justice of the peac, |, ordered the recOmmltment of Sanders pending further investigation or the case, and as we write snow" is stili under arrest. Bisbee Orb.
 Last week the Packard Cattle com pany closed deal for the San Rafael del Nalle grant, near Bisbee, on the San Pedro. The grant contains l7,O00 acres of good land, 1000 acres being capable of irrigation and cultivation. The price paid by the Packard com pany was sl.75 an acre.
 Immediately after the departure of the train from Congress Junction, one night last week, burglars entered the depot building and "cracked' the sa @ used jointly by the railroad company and Wells, Fargo X Co.,, securing five or six hundred dollars. An ls.year- old lad who slept in the building was an enforced witness to the marauding exploits.
 During the past year the Southern Pacific company has made frequent purchases of unimproved real estate in the vicinity of the depot and rail- road yards and the statement is now semi-authoritatively made that the company will soon begin the erection of several new railroad buildings and that the railroad yards will be en- larged. Tucson Citizen.
 Troop M, of the Ninth cavalry, un- der command of Captain Cornish, ar rived here Saturday morning from Texas, where part of the regiment has been stationed during the absence of the Tenth cavalry in Cuba. Several troops of the Tenth have returned from the island. Captain Cornish and his command rode to Fort Grant Sun day Range News.
 From the time of the settlement of Arizona up to March 1, 1871. Indians had killed over 300 citizens of Ari- zona and wounded about 250 and de- stroyed a great deal of property. In the Arizona Miner of March i, 1871, The late John H. Marion, editor and proprietor of that paper, published q list of the people killed by Indians. Many of these killings took place in this county. Courier.
 .erry Barton, who Is one ofthe mos extensively known men in Arizona. has opened saloon at the Weaver mines, Yavayai county Jerry at one time kept a saloon at Fairbanks. and while intoxicated one day, in Tomb stone, about twelve or fourteen years l ago, struck au old man on the head with his fist, dealing instantaneous death, which he was sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years. He was afterwards pardoned by Gov. Hughes
 A. T. Cornish, Charley Canall and !. T. McWilliams started out last week from Flagstaff, ostensibly to hunt, but in reality to look over line for rail road from Jerome to Flagstaff. Just as well spare your time, gentlemen. The time has gone by, and the ele- ments have warped the old thing around so far west toward Williams that no known law of machine or ap- plication of ability can ever get it to go past again. Williams News.
 Francisco Garcia will be hanged in Navajo county tomorrow, unless eX- ecutive clemency interyenes. Garcia killed q countryman last fall at the Monte Cristo mine, using d knife, and
 left the place after committing the deed, only to be captured later. Al jury trial the evidence was clear thai
 the crime was cold-blooded one, anC on the l1th of December he was sen fenced to be executed on February ? 1900.
 . Lieutenant CandOs-Pole, tbe young [ Englishman now fighting the Boers 7 who last week was reported anon. [ the missing, spent several years il Arizona as q San Simon cowboy. Th' $ young man was very much liked b! l the Arizona cattlemen. He was 1; , dashing, handsome fellow. ready fo l everything but a prayer meeting, ant r now he is prisoner in the hands o Dom Paul. The people of Arizon; , wish him good luck in his far ava, , African prison. Phoenix Gazette. . rIIIon. William L. Wilson, author o
 the Wilson tariff bill, and postmaste
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