Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-04
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THE TREASURELAND OF AMERICA.
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killed the fruit in sections of northerl
 and central Arizona.
 It is reported that Tucson is to hay,
 another democratic newspaper to b'
 named the Arizona Statesman.
 One of the biggest snow storms O
 the winter visited Flagstaff ThursdaN last, and it is said the storm extended nearly to Prescott.
 Ex-Delegate to Congress J. F. Will son has secured residence in Phoe' nix and will locate there immediately and go into the practice of law.
 A Tucson preacher took for his text Be Ye Therefore Steadfast, and the Star got it mixed so as to read, be ye there for breakfast A big improve, ment we think.-Gazette.
 With the Harrison act as safety valve to our finances and the eyperi- ence of recent legislatures, in the profiigate appropriation of funds, what might we expect of state legis- lature with no restrictions on it?- Journal-Min
 A Tucson attorney had his clothes attached in Phoenix last week while he was taking bath. Constable Me Donald agreed to give the lawyer his clothes if he paid the bill. It is need less to say that the account was set tied promptly.-Gazette.
 R. Allyn Lewis is the man that is being most talked about for the re- publican candidate for mayor. MT. Lewis was the best and ablest coun- cilman Phoenix ever had, and he will make model mayor for the capital city of Arizona
 The general appropriation bill of the defunct Twenty-tirst foOts up 7,55S, easily twenty thousand more than any previous appropriation bill And this outside Of the numerous relief bills the appropriations for maintenance of territorial institutions and other pur poSes.-Gazette.
 Arrangements are being made to transfer from the land office to the agricultural department of nearly all matters concerning forest reserves The patrol of the forests will remain in charge of the interior department. The change will be sweeping and radical one.-Coconino Sun.
 Thomas Dwyer, a well to do mine owner of Jerome, died last Monday at the Equator mine of pneumonia. He owned some fine mining properties in that section and had sl 900 in the bank, and is also said to nave been possessed of property in Denver and Chicago -Journal-Miner
 Senator Ives has been appointed assistant prosecuting attorney in Yuma by Chief Justice Street. Now if the senator wi pro ,ecute conslitu- entS as SldIously as he did Guyer- nor Murphy, the chances are that the Yuma county jail will not hold all of his victims. Gazette.
 A little girl at Tempe drank a pint of coal oil. The doctors thought she would die, until one of them hit on happy eXpedient They slipped yard of candlewit k down into the OIl, lit the upper end, and during the even- ing she lighted the roum nicely and then went to bed all right This is a legislators story.-Gazette.
 The Grand Lodge of Arizona Odd Fellows will meet in convention in Phoenix on April l6, and il is expected that members of the order will be present from all parts of the territory. In anticipation of the event the santa Fe has made a 0ne-fare rate for the round trip from all points in the terri tory to Phoenix for that date. En- terprise.
 The new code dispenses with the election of assessor and makes that office an appointive one, instead of elective as now. While this plan has many advantages its wisdom is ques- tioned by some. Freed from any en- tangling political influence the new procedure would doubtless be pro- ductive of good results, but growing sentiment prevails with the voters that all officers should be made elect i've. However, Arizona will have to try it and pass judgment afterward. - PrOspector.
 Mir. Percival Lowell of Boston, and owner of the Lowell observatory of this place, arrived Thursday night and will remain here during the next two months. He returned last week from trip to Europe. During his stay here MT. Lowell will occupy the Greenlaw residence on Leroux street. Mars is in favorable position for ob. and MT. Lowell and his | assistants will devote their time tn the study of that planet-Coconinn (Flae,tatl) Sun.