Arizona silver belt., 1901-08-29

was it learned what particular brand of whiskey the gentleman had been drinking.
 K. R. Coleman has been given the contract for making the changes in the United Verde and Pacific railroad. The work is quite important and very expensive, the contract running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. MT. Coleman is an experienced rail road man, being familiar with every detail of the work from making the grade to the operation of the road, and when the work on the above road i is completed it will be well done.-- Journal Miner.
 The old bunco period of Tucson is threatened with reyiy tication, says the Citizen. Information comes from a we'll known mining man who was | inveighled upstairs into an improvised roof garden. The "ropers' and "c0p- pers'' played unsparingly; they prod ded the tiger deeply but he did not groan. Those who attempted to work the aflable old gentleman did, no doubt, groan, for he has travelled in the west for d number of years and tcould not be worked on the check racket.
 Bids were opened by the military authorities at Fort Grant last Thurs day, for barley, corn and hay. Sever al bids were submitted. The lowest bid on hay was submitted by M l.. Woods, who named d price of 5Sl cents per hundred on 9jO,OOO pounds for either loose native or alfalfa Mr. Woods also bid 4Sl cents per hundred on l25, ,000 pounds of straw, which was the lowest. I. E. Solomon was the lowest bidder on barley at Sl23 for 100000 and Sl.27 for like amount of corn. Bulletin.
 Mrs. l., Colt, who set fire to her home in Signal d few weeks ago. died at the home of Mrs. N. F. Brooks. at that place last week. Deceased was supposed to have been ll5 years old at the time of her death. She had re- ! sided in Signal the past 30 years and nothing of her life prior to that time is known to the people of the town. Although being possessed of her facul- ties until the past few months she was in feeble bodily health and had to be cared for by the county. She was buried at Signal Mohaye County Miner.
 An order will be placed today with the Copper Queen company for a two tank chemical fire engine. The ma chine will be purchased in New York and is expected to arrive here in the course of the next month. The engine when charged will weigh in the neigh b0rhood of l200 pounds and will be quite load to pull up our steep hill sides, but there are always many will ing hands to help in a case of this kind, and it will be found to be val uable acquisition to the tire depart meut.-Reyiew,
 J. T. Hildreth was in town Monday last and informed us that some scuun- drel had filled up one of bis artcsian wells with rocks. Last spring this well was running good flow, when suddenly it almost ceased to run. Mr. Hildreth thought the well had ceased. A few days ago he prepared tU case the well, but when he commenced work discovered that 1t had been filled within three feet of the top with rocks. The well was over POO feet deep. Anyone who would do such an act as this should go Co the peniteni- tentiary. Guardian.
 A Star correspondent says, Nogales has had another Tobber scare and is, in fact, still in tidgety frame of ner- vOusnesS. Strange visitors caused the rumor tO be circulated that the ad- vance guard of party of Texas rob berS had struck the town and SD posi- tive was the general feeling in finan- cial circles that yesterday noon, Aug. 22 was the time set for general raid. Asa consequence aroused guards have been quietly patrolling in the vicinity of the banks, the big stores, gambling halls, newspaper offices and other places where fiat wadsr of dough- are supposed to be horded.
 $. J, Freudenthal, of the big mer- cantile house of II. Lesinsky Co.,, El Paso, spent few days in Clifton last week in the interest of his firm If was his first trip to Clifton for some time and he was amazed at the many changes here. Sam was in the em- ploy of the Lesinskys here in early days. when they opened up the mines. He was superintendent of the smelt- ing department, which first consisted of an adobe smelter with a hand bel lows for blast. He was shown the