Arizona republican., 1901-03-13

ton has been taken and there is no danger of the disease getting beyond its
 present limis The hobo's case has
 passed the infectious stage he is im>
 proving rapidly anl will soon he we'll.
 There is nSIt case of smallpox in the
 city nor Is there any cause for alarm.-
 Arizona Sentinel.
 l.. w. Blnn. president of the Sar
 Pedro Lumber company, $ in Bisbee op
 a short visit. It is understood that MT.
 Blinn Is here to look into the matter of
 starting a large lumber yard in Blsber and have branches at Naco and Doug.
 las. The lumber business has grown tn
 such proportions in Bisbee of late that the local dealers have been unable to
 supply the demand made upon them
 for building material of all kinds.- Prospector.
 J. H. Jastro, representing the Hearst granc, recently confirmed. was ir Tombstone yesterday afternoon, on a brief visit on legal business. He left the following morning on visit of in- spection of the grant in this county and doubtless to close arrangements. MT. Jastro expects to return here with. In week or ten days. when he will be prepared ito follow a definite plan with reference to the settlers. The owners of the grant are inclined to close on reasonable terms with the settlers, and many are willing to avail themselves of the opportunity offered -~Prosrertor
 The Chicago Record in describing the sportsmen's exhibition notices the following Arizona features: The Col iseum presents the appearance of n vast miniature forest filled with fish and game Of every description and brought from every corner of the globe The Grand canyon of tho Colorado is reproduced in miniature by means of huge painting and a rough mountain trail leading up to considerable height Beside it Is the Hogan" of the Navajo Indians who busy themselves weaving the native blankets.
 A monster mass meeting was held al Camp Verde few days since to enter a formal protest against the Ivy irriga- tion bill. The settlers there are consid- erably worked up over the injustice to them of the passage of this bill. as it Is aimed to put the control of tho wa ter of the Verde river under owners of the Salt River valley ditches. com mittee consisting of John Woods, G. w. Hance. w. I. Johnson, Fred Ste phens and l.. B. Bell was appointed to go to Phoenix and file the protest with the legislature and work in opposition to it.-Journal Miner.
 Eighteen years ago the editor of the Blade found a highly polished tur- 1uoise about one and one-quarter inch es in diameter. lyins at tho base of the i west wall of the old Casa Grande. It was about three -sixteenths of an inch | thick in the center and tapcrel to an almost shap edge. A small hole had | been drilled in the center If 1t. It had | been dug up by a ground s1uirrel.- Florence Blade.
 The Mohave County Mine. says at noon a west-bound freight | train with forty loads switched onto i the track on the north side of the de- | pot and smashed into two cars stand ing at the Taggart comapny's ware house. The cars were dri"en down the | track and crashed against several load ed coal cars, damaging the cars consid- erably. The pilot of the heal engine was broken off and the wrecked portion | forced under the engine. The train | crew soon had the wreck cleared away. No one was injured.