Arizona silver belt., 1901-02-28

tile ScdTClby Ol Wduer lS uue to Une Qe- nuding of the watershed by the cattle and sheep in northern Arizona. O. cOninO Sun.
 Owing to failing health Mir. Robert
 Williams has disposed of the Monte znma hotel at Nogales to Mir. Louis !.
 F. Jaeger of Yuma, and Tuesday even-
 ing the transfer was made, Mir. Jaeger
 taking possession at midnight of that
 day. Mir. Jaeger has leased of Mir. Williams the property for period of five years, with an option to purchase
 for S35, 900, gold, at the end of one
 year, and bought outright the furni-
 ture, fixtures and all appurtenances.
 MT, Williams will go to California, joining Mrs. Williams, who departed
 for the golden state Thursday morn ing. Nogales Oasis.
 Messrs. Ives, Warner and Claypool constitute the council committee to probe into the mysterious methods by which the territorial auditor and his newspaper se, cured the printing of of-
 iicial reports in the absence of any law allowing such procedure or making appropriations for the same. Chances are the attorney general will look like fifteen cents when his dual opinions are dissected The governor is by no means blameiess in the matter as his signature appears on the warrants drawn by the auditor. "Verily, the way of the transgressor is hard. ''- Phoenix Enterprise
 After woman becomes citizen of the United States she may be allowed some of the good things that come with a successful election. Judge Sloan has decided that the constitu- tlon does not follow the flag into Ari- zona in the case of women, and the judge has thereby saved the legisa- ture hard fight to keep ts scalp on as Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Nation had their eyes on Arizona with enormous inten- tlons of making themselves citizens. Judge Sloan will now have to bear the burden of wrathful and discerning womanho0d.-PhOeniX correspondence of Our Mineral Wealth.
 The railroad camps have been moved across the line.' said B. Jones. who has charge of the commlssary for Robinson X Toohey, the railroad con tractors. MT. Jones was in BiSbee to get his time checks printed in Span ish as required by the Mexican gov ernment, which is very particular in this respect. We are working more men than ever" said MT. Jones, and we expect to be in NacoSari before the end of the year" The Bisbee Review says that Robinson X TCohey could not have selected better man than E. Jones. He has had long years of railroad building in Arizona and was with Wm. Garland during the con struction days of the Gila Valley Globe X Northern. Citizen.
 The aggregate acreage that will be planted to canteiopes by mem mbers of the Salt River Valley Melon associa. tion Is in the nelghborhood of l50 and It Is expected the yield will be be tween 90 and 75 carloads. The Ari Zona khaki Is the variety that has proved the greatest success Tn previous years and it will be most largely plant. ed this year. There will also be large acreage planted to watermelons, but that is considered rather a sec. ondary crop for the reason that water. melons are not so good shippers. There will however, be several carloads sent ont during the course of the season. The secretary is already in cores pondence with dealers throughout the east. in fact all the way between here and New York city and the outlook for all the melons tbat can be produced is very favorable Republican.
 The Fl Paso Herald has the follow ing railroad news: The Phelps Dodge company is fast completing its ar to build the Bisbee road to Fl Paso and the announcement comes from the east that the Fl Paso portion of the road will be built flom this city west instead of coming here from the west as was at first supposed. The company has already placed an order for 10000 tons of steel at an eastern mill, for delivery at Fl Paso. The presumption is that as the steel | $ to be delivered in Fl Paso the road | will be built from there west. At any | ate this settles the question as to l where the eastern terminus of the | 'Oad will be and fultills the prediction | If the Herald made long ago that Fl oaso would be the terminus and head quarters of the road.
 From story told by John Merwin If Grown Point, the other night, it would seem that an Indian down at Walnut Grove must have been reading ome of Teddy" RooseveltS hunting in the Rockies, as dished up Ib libitum by Hearst,s papers the last