Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-07

rhiSe county government during the list three months ending April list,
 A soda fountain tank exploded in q u. X P. railroad car at Phoenix one aay last week, completely wrecking he car
 E. w. Williams is now in charge of he Arizona Copper compaays store 1t Clifton, succeeding l.. Fraissenet, geSigned.
 The water supply of BSbee is grow ing low A request to avoid wasteful use of water has been made to all patrons Of the water company.
 The apricot shiptment this season from Phoenix sold for SlSo,0o0, This IS a neat little sum from one industry md the crop is not all harvested yet, >lyS the Gazette.
 A Phoenix commission firm for warded. last Saturday, via New York. to Liverpool, England, car of apri- cots from the Glendale orchard This k the tirst Slipment abroad of Ari- zOna apricots.
 Reports come from Oak creek, says the Jerome News, that there has been lately great deal of trout fishing being done in that stream out of sea son. If this be so the territorial fish commissioner has certainly not been doing his duty.
 James Colquhoun. general manager of the Arizona Copper company, has gone to Scotland, to meet his family who haXe been in Scotland for nearly a year. They will visit the Paris ex- position, and expect t) return to Cliff ton. Arizona, in october.
 The Guardian says: Some months ago Judge McCollum entered suit for an Indian depreciation claim for A. II Bennett of san Jose. Word was re- ceived from Washington this week that judgment had been rendered in favor uf MT. Bennett.
 President Mckinley has sent in the names of Chief Justice J. R. Reed and associates of the court of private claims, among the recent nominations made by him. All the judges are known here. The nominations appar- ently mean continuance for two years. They were originally appointed by President Cleveland.
 In the suit of the Santa Fe, Pres colt and Phoenix railroad to restrain the city of Phoenix from taxing it's property in the municipality, Judge Street in the district court ruled that oDly the territorial board of equaliLa- tiou could assess railroad property. This road was built under taxation emptiOn act.
 Dr. Parker informed the Stafford Guardian that, while Robt. Weaver, whose death was reported in last week, Guardian, was bitten by a skunk-death was not caused by hy- drophobia, but from a severe attack of billiousness and exposure on the cattle range, which caused heart fall ure. The doctor says the skunk bite had nothing to do with his death.
 There is rumOr in this city says the Phoenix Gazette. that the canal companies are getting ready to pro mote plan whereby the water IS to be divided to the land, and when the land and water are once joined they cannot be segregated. This, if car ried out, will work greatly to the ad- vantage of the people of this valley and will forever put stop to the sys- tem of floating water rights.
 The Santa Fe Pacific railway com pany has made new departure that will be of considerable interest ana profit to Arizona: more especially to the territory. A mining engineer mas been added to the information bureau and competent man has been chosen whose duty it is to visit the various sections of Arizona, locate ana reporo mineral. and thus assist in attracting capital as well as to intelligently di- rect railroad building. Enterprise. It is the opinion of those who are familiar with the conditions in thls section, says the Flagstaff Gem, that the Santa Fe Pacific railroad company will put in pipe line from odR creek to this place to supply their iocomo. tiyeS and trains with good quality or water. If they put the line in 1t Will not only be of great benefit to the company but it will also help flae- staff.
 Many people have considered as a ike our statement that there were few flies and no mosquitoeSin Prescoe1 before the taxless was built, says the Courier, but it is cold fact. me fl cs all leave the Salt River valley Ill the summer now and come to Prescott. A the hot weather approaches, liie flies cOngregate on the north slde oi