The copper era., 1901-12-05
ARIZONA WEEK BY WEEK.

Bird, killed himself Dy e1pIodluB
 strick of giant powder beneath his cot,
 with shielded intent.
 Major Jas. II. McClintOck denies
 that he is to have editorial charge of
 the new republican paper talked of for
 Bis5ec. The major is slated for Ter
 ritorial Secretary when Brodie comes
 marching in.
 Frank Lee, miner, who was on his
 way from tho King Of Arizona to
 Fortuna, last Tuesday night, fell from
 the top Of high freight wagon, on
 which he was riding, and was instant Iy killed. Yuma Sun.
 Seven new steel bridges are being
 put in between Kingman and Mellen, and -everal hunGred men are engaged
 in the work Of building abutments and
 grading out for the stone work. When these bridges are completed the Santa Fe will have q smooth piece of track to run ovcr.-Kingman Miner.
 Sheriff Murphy, of Pima county, was badly injured last week by jump ing from a train which was travelling at a rapid rate. The Sheriff saw Mexican along side the track whom he wanted, and he did not wait for the train to stop. The sheriff will be laid up for some weeks. Tho Mexican got away.
 \ dispatch from Kingman Arizona says, civilian II. Lake was found dead in his room at Hotel Beale yes terday morning about 9 o'clock. He was a pioneer in this country, and served in the legislature in this Terri tory some years ago with ability. A brother left here only two days ago for his home in Memphis, Tenn.
 Last Sunday the steamer COChan loaded the locomotive for the Search light and Quartette railroad and after other machinery was taken on board, departed for the big mining camp up tho river. The river has been so low that the steamer has made her trips with the greatest difficulty. The riv- CT is the lowest in twenty years.-King man Miner.
 Talk about prolific country, Ari zona can't be beaten. Wm. Weaver, of Arizona, has fve-ycar-old COW which is the mother Of six calves, all alive and fat. At the age of two and three she gave birth to one each year. The fourth and fifth years she had twins making six in all. This is q fact and can bo fully substantiated. Flor | ence Tribune.
 Word comes from Nogales to the | effect that Burt Alvord, the famous | outlaw, who assisted in the Cochisc and Fairbank robbery on the S. T. was killed last week while trying to hold | mp the messenger Of the Sonora lining | Co. at Tubutana. The report says shat at the timo the messenger was carry ing tho money to pay of the men. The | messenger, whose name was Van Da- veer. was held up by Alvord and a Mexican. He recognized Alvord and | shot him, receiving two bullets him self in the fierce fight. He was not seriously wounded and escaped with the money.
 In talking with one of the old orig inal pioneers. who came to Prescott with the California column, the inter- estinG history of the first flag raising in the history of Prescott was learucd, gays the Prospect. Mir. !. D. Monihon, in his capacity of provost marshal of his company, superintcnded the cut ting down and trimming of the pine plaza, doing duty as the city flag pole. The polo was first erected at the orig inal government: post in Chino Valley in December, 1863. But in the spring ot 1861, when Fort Whipple was re- moved to it's present site, the pole was taken down and re-crected on the plaza. Then and there tho Stare and Stripes were first unturlcd in the city ot Prescott.
 \ floating paragraph gives the Ari- Zona treatment of a snake bite It is to make a number of incisions in tho UeSn aS soon aS possible alter the wound is received and to rub therein common baking powder. This is on the theory that the venom of the snake is an acid and an alkali is necessary to neutralIze it's influences. It is said that after tho application very little trouble follows the man or beast from the wound, fl it is administered promptly.
 The most rcmarkablc series of irri- gation projects over wrought out in the United States are rapidly taking form on the Colorado river the great est stream in the southwest, which carries sufficient water to irrigate eight million acres or land. In speak ing of this gigantic enterprise the New York Tribune says:
 The greatest Of these projects is that of the Imperial canal company, which has entered apon the task Of ir- rigatinG 500,000 acres of land in San Diego county, California, and about 300, GOO acres in Mexico, and which de- livered its first water in June of the present year. The water now deliver able to the Imperial lands is sufficient for the irrigation of moro than one hundred thousand acres, and to this area additions will be made rapidly. Before water was placed on any Of the land under this system over eighty l. thousand acres were filed on by settlers under the desert land and homestead laws"
 Mothers everywhere praise One Min ute Cough Cure for the sufferiurs it