Arizona silver belt., 1901-05-09

ligion of Democracy, left on Monday for Los Angeles where he will remain for some time. He will enter debate upon the problem of socialism with II. Gaylord Wiltshire, the Arizona philoso- pher, taking the negative position. Ml. Ferguson will lecture in Southern California during the summer Citizen.
 The Range News tells of the brand ing of C. F. Cummings of Wilcox. He received the brand in peculiar man. ner, He went out to ranch and while there assisted in branding some COWS. The horse he rode began to pitch and threw him into the fire where the branding irons were heat ing. He sat down on red hot iron and was branded on the left hip. He was also considerably bruised.
 J. F. Taylor, who has for some months past been in charge of the re- duction works of the Copper Queen com oany here, having obtained a somewhat eXtenned leave of absence, his place has been filled by F, A. Provet, who comes here from Jerome, where he has been in the employ of the United Verde company for four years. Mir. Provot is a pleasant and courteous gentleman to meet and has an established repu tation in his pro fession. -Bisbee correspondence Pros pector.
 A correspondent of the Tombstone PrOSpector writing from St. Davids, about the artesian belt on the San Pedro, says: MT. Carr across the river from MT. NorcrosS's ranch, recently struck fine flow of water. Mir. Gould h Is bored two more wells on his ranch. MT. Gould now has all together nine fine flowing wells on his ranch. Other good flows of artesian water have been struck since my last letter. II. w. Etz, the well known Benson butcher, struck a fine flow of water on his ranch noth of that town, so you see Benson is also in the artesian belt.
 A large number of people have just discovered that they have been swim died by man named Porter, alias Bradford, who travelled through this section of the territory a short time ago. He represer ted that he was the agent of the several news companies, and no matter what paper or magazine person wanted this man was ready with receipt. He took subscriptions at Helvetia and Casa Grande for maga- zines, fashion papers and other peri odicals. The man is described as hay ing sandy complexion and wearing shabby clothes. Tempe News.
 Arizona is wonderful region for the honey bee, especially so during years when the plains are rich with dnwers as is the present. The alfalfa IS. however, the most prolific source pf honey as is shown by the large pro ducution of the Salt river and the Gila valleys, where single hive of | bees will make from one hundred to tSO hundred pounds of honey dnuu- ally. Pima county iS not 50 fortunate iu her number of alfalfa fields, but we have large plains which produce flow er', the blocm of winch is d rich honey producer, and the cat claw shrub is found everywhere, this also produces ! honey in large QuantiLieS.-Star.
 Last week two little girls, aged elgnt and ten years respectively, the daughters of Mir. aud Mrs. A. II. Vein of kusselyille, were out picking wild flowers. In childish play lulness they were sucking the honey from the cen ter of the blossoms on some wild noneysuckleS and other varieties of flowers at this time Oi the year scat tered in prUfusion over the foothills of the surrounding mountains. The same evening they were taken severely Ill and physician was immediately summoned from Benson, who pro- nOunced 1t case of poisoning. The lives of the little ones have trembled in the scales for several days, but they are now reported better and out of danger. Range News
 The contract for carrying the mail from here to Silver King, was let to an eastern bidder who undertook the job for $500, with the expectation of sub-letting the contract at a profit. Thl, he was unable to do, and he has asked for and received permission to withdraw the bid. There are lot of cormorantS who lie around Washing ton and underbid legitimate stage men on mail contracts, then Sub-let these contracts at starvation prices. The department should rule these rascals out, and require all bidders to furnish evidence that they are bona fide mail carriers, or that they are bidding with the intention of becom-