The copper era., 1901-05-16
ARIZONA WEEK BY WEEK.


 has been committed in Pinal county.
 The railroad to Nacosari will doubt
 less be completed and trains runnin
 regularly between Bisbee and Fronte ras within thirty days.
 Some wag who had oil to burn poure'
 10 gallons on Tempe vacant lot an' then led an innocent party around t show him his "oil discovery" Tn man sold his "greased" claim for s3OO
 Jim Sam, the best known Chinamal in the territory, dropped dead at Gas; Grande last week. He had a frying pan in his hand with meat in it ant waa just in the act of placing it on tho ire when death caught him. Jim wa:
 a@yinR Sii,f aS9 fnPinal county and was married to a Mexican woman by whom he had several children, who are now men and women.--Blade.
 A most brutal tragedy occurred or the 9th inst. at the ranch of Chaplain Scott. about ten miles northeast oi Phoenix, when John Rubenstein shot and killed almost instantly and without provocation, Amos Nigh and an Indian named Peter Johnson, both of whom were employed by Chaplain Scott. Rubenstein, who is well known in Phoenix as Popcorn John," is undoubt- edly crazy.
 The Range News tells of the brand ing of c. r. Cummings of Wilcox. He received the brand peculiar man. ner He went Or- 'anch and while there assisted in branding some COWS. The horse he rode began to pitch and threw him into the fire where the branding irons were heating. He sat down on red hot iron and was branded on the left hip. He was also consider ably bruised.
 Last week two little girls, aged eight and ten years respectively, the daught- CTS of Mr. and Mrs. 4. II. Vein of Russelville, were out picking wild flowers. In childish playfulness they were sucking the honey from the cen ter of the blossoms on some wild hon. eysuckles and other varieties of flow CTS at this time of the year scattered in profusion oyer the foothills of the sur rounding mountains. The same eve ming they were taken severely ill and d physician was immediately summoned from Benson, who pronounced it case of poisoning. The lives of the little ones have trembled in the scales for several days, but they are now reported better and out of fdanger.-Range News.
 Tho Review says: Superintendent Walter Douglas returned Tuesday night from Fl PasO, where he had been on business connected with the South Western Railroad of Arizona, which will make Fl Paso it's terminus, pro vided the proper arrangements can be made for right-of-way and terminal grounds. Fl Paso has suddenly grown cold on the railroad question and are unwilling to grant the right of way asked for by the South Western rail road. Superintendent Douglas says the South Western railroad will enter Fl Paso along tho same route the Southern Pacific enters the city and that the company do not intend to change their plans. It is up to Fl Paso now.
 Miss Emma B. Peyton, step-daughter of the editor of the Blade has been ap- int Af i.h i,, no crnment school at Manila, Philippine Islands, and on receipt of an order for transportation from the secretary of war, she will leave for that far-away country by way of San Francisco and Honolulu. When she is ready to re- turn home she will be furnished trans portation by way of Suez canal, Europe and New York if she desires to come that way. Miss Emma is graduate of the Arizona normal, class of 1898. As the appointment came unsolicited 1t is quite a compliment to both her and the Arizona normal. She will re- ceive salary of S900 per annum and traveiing eXpenses.-Florence Blade.
 Governor Murphy has appointed the following Arizona delegates to the fourth annual session of the interna- tional mining congress, to be held at Boise City, Idaho, July 23, 25 of this year: w. F. Staunton, Congress; I. l.. Circus, Jerome; Prof. James Doug- las, Bisbee; $. A. Parnal, Globe; Jas. Colquhoun, Clifton; D. NJ. Riordan, J. NJ. Ford, r. P. Parker, Phoenix; Jas. A. Fleming. Globe; George P. Blair. Mammoth; John Brockman, Pearce; c. NJ. Shannon, Clifton F.. A. Haggott, G. w. Middleton. Prescott; Thomas Parish, Phoenix; c. l.. Houston, Globe; c. w. Harrington, Crowned King; A. l.. Grow, Tombstone; Jesse Grant, No gales; w. A. Hendrix, Prescott; Prof. Wm. F. Blake, Charles R. Drake, Tue son; Thomas Ewing, Kingman; A. G. Hubbard. Harrisburg; H. w. Blaisdell, Yuma; NJ. G. Burns, Chloride; James Seager, Helyetia; P. C. Bicknell. Will jams.
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