The copper era., 1901-10-03
ARIZONA WEEK BY WEEK.


 has l26 pupils.
 Cochise county has 26 school district
 and employs II teachers.
 In few days Dayton will commenc
 the erection Of new church to cos
 not less than S4OOO.
 The appropriation by the fedora
 government for the maintenance Of tn
 Arizona militia is 3j,6S3.G0.
 Gov. Murphy has completed and for
 warded 10 the secretary of the interior
 at Washington his annual report.
 Miss Tillie Hawkins, aged 40, wen' insane at Phoenix the other day on ac count Of the assassination of Mckinley
 The Williams & Grand Canyon rail- road has been completed and trains are now running to the brink of the can yon
 The Phoenix board of trade has de- cided to take an active part in the movement to secure statehood for Ari- zona.
 Phoenix will probably have a s1 ,O00,- 900 beet sugar plant in less than year to be constructed by the Eastern Sugar Co. of New York and Chicago.
 Under the new law the sheriffs of the various counties collect as license per cent. of the gross receipts of each circus exhibiting in the county.
 \ car load of honey from the Karr S kcstcr bee ranch in Yuma valley was shipped Co New York city last week, the third shipment of the season.
 A water storage reservoir Of ca pacity Of 40,O00,000 gallons is under consideration by the town of Flagstaff and the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad com pany. It will be built.
 Hugh Price has received his com mission as surveyor general of Arizona. | It was signed by President Roosevelt, | which was one of the first documents | signed by the new president.
 The first suicide to occur among the Pima Cribe of Indians occurred near Phoenix last week, in which d Pima buck put three bullets into his body on account of unrequieted love.
 The city council of Phoenix has is- sued an edict instructing the city off cers to notify al. prostitutes or women occupying houses of prostitution to leave the city within five days. Officers Russell and Porter. Q, PhQez- hYQ4fe,5- nix. have been held to answer to the grand jury there on the charge ot using violence while making an ; arrest under the color of authority. A report has been in circulation Tor several years to the effect that black ranges on the plains southeast of Wiuslow. Several cowboys assert that they have seen it at different 
 An Il-year-old boy named Albert Aepli living in Phoenix was burned to death last Friday. The explosion oi kerosene can, containing oil, set his clothes on fire, and he was so badly burned before the fire could be subdued that he died that night.
 The killing of antelope and mountain sheep is prohibited for six years from the passage of the law. The killing Of doves is allowed at all times. Ducks from the 18th of October until the lst of April Deer and Turkey from the 10th of December. period of thirty days.
 Since it. has become assured that Florence is to have a railroad, there has been q perceptible stitfening in prices of real estate and some little in- ouirv. Our town is midway between Phoenix and Tucson, surrounded by a rich mineral and agricultural region and is destined to become greater city than either of them.-Tribune.
 w. E. Addy, of Portland, Oregon, ha, been appointed Chinese inspector to succeed the late B. F .Iossey. Mir. Addv spent several months of the win ! ter of 1900 in Tucson on account of ill health. He will divide his time bel tween Tucson and Nogales. The ap- poin:ment is made for 50 days or until he can take the civil service eXamina- ton. Citizen. ~ The postmaster general of the Uni l ted States advertises that proposals will be received at the office of the second assistant postmaster general, postofiice department until p. m. oi December 2, '0l, for carrying the mails of the United States from July l, 1902, to June 30. 1908, upon the star, steam boats. and covered wagon routes in the United States, and also in Arizona. All particulars upon application to the postmaster general.
 A dispatch from Phoenix states that a project is on foot for the reclamation of 10000 acres of government land in Yuma county near the California line. The project is being financed by Ari- zona and California capitalists. In ad- ditiou to the government land filed up on. the company is negotiating for the purchase of 50,0O0 acres from what Is known as the Blythe estate. The cost of the canal system, including dam across the Colorado river, will not be less than $l, 900, 900. and it is said that the amount involved in the purchase of the Blythe estate approximates s25o,-