Arizona silver belt., 1901-12-26
What Has Happened in the Terri, tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business entetprises..G Year tor the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of live Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to eJrn

says the PnOenlN GdLeute, Willcn Statcu that there were over 100 cases of small poX in Yuma, and that there was quite scare among the residents of that town.
 J. A. Thacker, a detective in the employ of the Wells Fargo Express company, has recently investigated the report of killing of Burt Alvord and found that there was nothing in it.-Citizen.
 sam Hill, who has resided at Pres colt since the sixties, and was d prom, inent hardware meSchant, died in PaSo Robles, Cal, on Monday of last week. The remains were returned tO Pres cott for burial,
 Dudley CIaig came down yesterday from his Pinal ranch and will spend several days here looking after his in- terests. Mir Craig is one of the largest stockholders in the Tempe Mesa Pro duce company. Tempe Cor. Gazette.
 Costs incidental tO the justice courts at Bisbee for the first and sec ond quarter of the current year amounted to g. ,9G9. At the same rate for the year says the Review the jus tice courts of BiSbee would cost near ly >l6,O00.
 It is likely that Geronimo, the fa- nous Apache warrior, and his follow CTS, who have for years been prisoners of war at the Fort Sill military reser- yation, in Oklahoma. will soon be re- moved from the surveillance of the war department Bulletin.
 The territorial board of health has established quarantine at Yuma, where there are upwards of loo eases of small pON. The disease is said to be Of mild form, and came from the Indian villages below Yuma, on the California side of the river.
 The live stock census of last summer gives Arizona 742, ,GI5 head of cattle, s,lO3 head of hogs, ,s24 063 horses The result of the census shows wonder ful increase over the figures given out by the department of agriculture eS- inmates, which are published an nually. Ex.
 Dr. Day, special weather bureau oG- server at Prescott, said: Ut has been colder here during this last freeze than it has been during any December with in the last ten years. The instru- ment shows the lowest temperature reached this year was 1 above zero. Journal Miner.
 Suit was filed in the district court f0I Maricopa county, December r., by Attorney Frank Cox, of Phoenix, against W. c. Greene and the Greene Consolidated Copper company, the plaintiff asking for judgment of S4 800 which he claims is due for sery- ices rendered.
 Work on the Arizona refurmatOry at Benson will begin on New Years day, says Mir. J. $. Fiheld, of the contract ing firm of Fifield & Gallagher. The refOrmatory is to cost s2j, coo and will he partstOne. The work will be pushed to completion as fast as the material arrives. Gazette.
 The brick manufacturing establish tod Et tho A ri f y Mon. ufacturing company at Benson, has been started for the purpose of giving the machinery, which is all new, a trial. This plant for the manufacture of brick is of the most modern and substantial build, and has capacity Of from 2j, 900 to 5000 brick per day.
 The scramble for the Nogales post office seems to be fairly on. The can dates so far are w. R. Sprecher, pro prietor of "The Arizona" and manager of the Western Union telegraph office in this city, and k. K Freeman, late special deputy under former United States Collector of Customs Hoey. Freeman halls from Muncie, Indiana.
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 The jury in the case of T. C. Hill ys. the City of Prescott awarded $500 damages by sealed verdict. May 9th, Hill fell into an excavation in the side walk which the contractor bad made for q coal chute tO the Bashtord build ing. then under construction, and broke one of his arms and fractured some of his ribs. He was in the hos pital about three months. At q for mer trial the jury disagreed. Journal Miner.
 Almost without realizing it. Clifton has become the headquarters not only for the st0ckmen of Graham county, but also for large number of those from Grant and Socorro counties, New