The copper era., 1901-06-06

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 The Copper Bell Mining company Of COchise county is sinking q threC compartment shaft which will be sunk to depth of five hundred feet.
 An enthusiast has offered to bet that Tombstone will be on the line Of q rail- road within ten months. It begins to look that way, also Gleeson and Pearce.
 . aha has sent forward the first apricots of the season, and still retains the championship for the production Of the earliest fruit in the United States.
 A bold robbery occurred in Prescott May 2l. Two masked men entered a railroad saloon and at the point Of a revolver commanded the proprietor to deliver up his cash.
 The Greene consolidated mining company has purchased 25O car loads of hay in Phoenix at $7 q ton. The company believes in laying in good supply while hay is cheap.
 A delegation of five families arrived at Yuma from Texas, bringing their household goods, and at once moved onto farms which they had previously purchased in the beautiful and fertile Colorado valley.
 The A. x $. E. railroad company has purchased two second hand engines in Chicago for use on the road, the roll ing stock not being able to handle the business and as it was impossible to obtain new locomotives for nearly a year this step was necessary. The engines are ten wheclers.
 Johr 1T Berger, one of the best known men in Phoenix, was killed yesterday at his mine in the Humburg mining district. Mir. Berger was en- gagged in starting up gasoline engine and the machine was not working properly. Mir. Berger took hold of the fly wheel to give it a turn, when the engine started quickly, throwing him headforemost into the wheel, and in a few seconds his head was mashed into q pulp.-Phoenix Gazette.
 The court of claims at Washington has settled that the Indian depreda- tion claims growing out of the rava- res committed by Geronimo at the
 \ ,.sl not be allowed. The courts hold that the Apaches were then at war with the United states, and that the gen eral ooversmcnt cannot be held re- sponsibls for their depredations. The onls remedy is an act of congress. The supreme court has affirmed this decision.
 Martin Petit, an old and well known prospcctor, choked to death at Con- gross last week. He had just come in from a prospecting tour in the noun tains and was drinking heavily. He went to section house for his dinner and while in the act of partaking of it he suddenly rose from his chair and started for the door, coughing. As he reached the door he pitched forward to the ground and died in few min utes. A doctor who was summonsed found large chunk of unmasticated food in his throad.
 It is all over. No more will the sa- loon warbler be heard in her old haunts. Last night the parting wall washoard, and the female singers voice is hushed so far as the saloon is con- cerned. In the Palace Saloon the last song was the Holy City," at the An hcuser, "I Am old and Only in the Way" and the Capitol, II Don't Care il l Never Come Back" Somo of the women will go to Prescott and others to Clifton. It is said that male singers arc wanted to take the place of the departed songbirds. Phoenix Gazette.
 While every branch of industry in Yuma county is moving along with re- markable activity, new transportation schemes, by river and rail, are daily SIi .AfS lhAO SAlSbGhCO. I uC ldlcSl railroad project is proposed branch line from Congress Junction on the Santa Fe to Harqua Hala. It is under- stood that arrangements are now be- and other preliminary work. The present western terminus of the road is to be located in an extremely rich mining section, and the route is to be best camps along the way.-Yuma Sun.
 On Monday evening the town was startled by five pistol shots, and upon investigation it was found that D. c. McDill had been shot by his wife. It appears that McDill and sam Rhea were coming up the Avenue, when Mrs. McDill met them and charged Rhea with getting her husband drunk. Rhea abused the woman, and she went into the house, got n revolver and opened fire on Rhea. She fired five shots at him, but he escaped in- jury. The last shot struck her hus- band, who got in the way, the ball entering under the fifth rib and rang ing downward, inflicting serious and probably fatal wound. He is in pre- carious condition, but will probably recover. Mrs. McDill is under arrest. She was in mysteries at the time, hay