Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-11

Word has been received here that another accident occurred in the United Verde mine at Jerome in which two men were killed and four others seriously wounded. A number of holes had been loaded ready for shooting, and the work of lighting the fuse was in progress. The fuse used was too short, and before all of them were lighted the first ones com menced to explode, causing the acci- dent. t.-Journal- Miner.
 An Arizona paper says that steer tying contests are becoming so num- erous in that territory that when q COW sees man coming with rope she lays down on her back and sticks her feet in the air, ready to be tied. She has learned by experience that there is no use running. The refusal of tine cows to enter into the spirit of the sport has taken away the interest and the contests will probably be abandoned as tame and uninterest- ing. g.-Denver Stockman.
 There are so few bad boys in Ari- Zona that it looks like a waste of money to build d reform school. It is not improbable that the reform school will prove the entering wedge towards the removal of the penitentiary from Yuma. When the school is built and uninhabited, and there is another. at tempt made to move the penitentiary from Yuma, it will not be such hard work to move it up to Benson. The Southern Pacific would not fight this removal very hard.-Ex.
 The heaviest hail storm ever seen in this section visited portions of the south side Sunday afternoon. At John T. Moore's place, at the head of the Hayden ditch, the storm con tinued with great violence for over an hour, covering the ground to a depth of four inches with hail. About two inches are reported from Mesa, aud the storm was equally heavy to the south of Tempe. At Moore'S place the ground was still white this morning Tempe News.
 The stockholders in the Grand, Marlcopa and Salt River Valley canals received last Thursday divi- dendS amounting 70 more than s2O 900. The money was distributed among one hundred and fifty persons. rang ing from few dollars each to several thousand. This is new and peculiar experience for the old stockholders, who nave heretofore been paying irish dividends, says the Repubii- Gan. There have been paid in assess ments on the stock of the Maricopa canal over seven hundred dollars per share in years past, and almost aS much in the Salt.
 IL is not often that the proceedings of a grand jury are interrupted as they were at Tucson last week Mar. tin Costello was member of the jury. He was the owner of eleven copper claims near the Copper Queen mines at Bisbee, and couple of men wanted to buy them. The grand jury took d short recess so Costello could go up to the bank, sign the deeds tO the mines and receive half million dollars in cash. As soon as he had counted the money he returned to the court house and the jury proceeded with the in- VeStigatiOnOf criminal aifairs.-LOrdS- burg Liberal.
 The BOnitO correspondent of the Bulletin says: A report was made to the commanding officer at Grant on Friday last that the order of the war department was being violated in that the post canteen was still selling beer. Lieutenant HOrnbrOOk, the commando ing officer, investigated the matter and found that regular business had been done in the evenings after the officers were not in the habit of com ing around; about forty barrels of beer had been sold in the last three weeks under the name of soda water. Lieutenant HornbrOok reported the matter to the United States district attorney for his action.
 Mark Lulley of Arizona, who brought two bears from the western moun- tains to participate in the inaugural parade, has returned from his trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia and other eastern cities and is again at the Hotel Lawrence. Mir. Luiiey will start April ?, for his home in A rizona, where he will take charge as superintendent of some large mining properties, which he sold some time ago to eastern capi- talistS. The bears are now at the Geological Gardens, contented and happy. Yesterday MT. Lulley called at The Post ed torial rooms and pre- sented to the office the big Mexican s0mbrero which he wore on his trip east. It is costly and highly orna- mented piece of headWear, such as the better class of Mexicans waar Wash