Arizona silver belt., 1901-11-07
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
Rew Business snterprises--Good Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live k..Eyerybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn.

are believed to have been of incendi' ary origin.
 The new company which recently purchased the plant of the Tucson Electric Light and Gas company will install new electric light plant and discontinue the gas works.
 The Solomon Commercial company and |. F.. solomon were notified last week that they had been awarded by the war department contracts for a large amount of hay and barley to be delivered at Fort Grant,
 Messrs. Heyman and Doris, the well.known furniture men of Phoenix, have formed trust by consolidating their business interests, A company will be organized to carry on the busi' ness with capitalization of sl0O,0OO.
 Bisbee was visited last week by the storm which had been travelling through the southwest The rain turned into show and sleet, and the mercury dropped to within few de- grees of the freezing point. The high CT hills west of town were covered with coating of snow.
 A prize sweet potato, said to be the largest ever raised in Arizona or the United States, is on exhibition at the rooms of the board of trade, Phoenix. It was grown by Dr. w. H. Ward on the asylum grounds, and measures twenty-Seyen inches in circumference and weighs fourteen pounds.
 On Tuesday of last week Prescott had the heaviest snowfall ever eXperi enced there in October. The Journal Miner probably made mistake in stating that the thermometer regis tered four degrees below zero on the following morning. It probably in- tended to say, -four degrees below the freezing point.
 c. c. McNeil, former superintend- ent of the Maricopa X Phoenix rail- road, and later with the Gila Valley, Globe X Northern railroad, arrived yesterday from La Cananea and will probably accept position with the A. X s. k. company here Mir McNeil is a railroad man in all it's branches. He can hold throttle on an engine with the best of them.-Bisbee Review.
 Chas. c. ROuzer, who will have charge if the Copper Queen hotel upon its completion, is in the city superin- tending the finishing touches about the building. The furniture for the hotel is expected within the next ten days. The exact date of the opening has not yet been definitely decided upon, but the event will be in keeping with the magnificence of the building.
 Col. $. NJ. McCowan, former surerin- tendent of the Indian school at Phoe- nix, also formerly editor of the AriZO- ma Republican, is to leave Arizona for the purpose of accepting the superin- tendency of the government Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma. The government purposes making that school the principal one in the United States for teaching agriculture, and it is contemplated at an early day to bring about l0,0O0 acres under cultiva- tion by the students of the school, of which there are, or at least will be then about 2,O0O.
 The powder magazine of the Santa Fe Pacific railroad, at Williams, Ariz., exploded Oct. 20, and the shock was terrific, breaking windows, glassware and tearing of doors of houses in almost all parts of the town. The magasine is supposed to have caught fire from spark from an engine which was switching near by. The escape of the engineer and switching crew was miraculous, as the cars which they were switching were torn into kindling wood and the engine had the appearance of having undergone a severe bombardment, yet not one of the men was injured in the least. The magazine was entirely too close to town, and the fortunate part of the occurrence was that though usually several tons of powder were stored in the magazine, yet in this instance the supply had been reduced to few hundred pounds.
 John Rubenstein was found guilty of the murder at ScOttsdale on May of this year of Amos Nye and Pedro Johnson, an Indian, and his punish ment wal fixed at life imprisonment. The murder was without any prOyoca- tion whatever. Just before shooting and killing Nye, Rubenstein addressed him in friendly manner and then