Arizona silver belt., 1902-05-29

There are said to be twenty-five cases of modified smallpox at Solo knoxville.
 There are six cases of smallpox in Thatcher, and all public gatherings have been dispensed with.
 The machinery for the beet sugar factory which is to be located in the Salt river valley has been ordered.
 Pearl Hart, the woman bandit, will go on the stage when her term expires in 1904. A play entitled Arizona Bandit' has been written for her by her sister.
 The contract for the erection of a grand stand for the Fourth of July celebration at Bisbee has been let at Sl, ,279. The plans call for seating ca pacity of 1000 persons
 Several conSumptiveS in Phoenix have undergone the Fralick treatment for consumption. The germ destroy ing fluid is injected into the veins. Good results are reported.
 The Prescott Electric company is about to install new and powerful ma. chinery, which, the Journal Miner says. will give them the most perfect light and power plant in Arizona.
 Joe Terrell aud his crew of cowboys 1 loaded two trainloadS of Double Circle cattle at the Solomonville station Sat urday and Sunday for the Kansas City market About 200 head were ship ped. The boys enjoyed the opportunity of two days vacation in town.-Bul- letin.
 Frank Shields was badly injured on the 12th, at Bonita, by his horse fal- ing on him. His collar bone was bro ken and he was otherwise badly bruised up. Sam Nesbitt caught the horse and got on him when he fell again and NeSbitt was also laid up for repairs - Bulletin.
 The BlaiSdell Fruit company has been shipping ripe apricotS and cucum- berS to the California marke for the past ten days, and getting top prices $l per dozen for cucumbers and equally fancy prices for the apricotS. Red beans are good enough for us for awhile yet-Yuma Sentinel
 Politics is warming up in Graham county. Arturo Nj. Elias, of Solomon vile; II. H. Taliaferro, of MOrenci, and Mitt Sims, of Clifton, are candi- dates for the democratic nomination | for the office of recorder James V. | Parks wishes to succeed himself as sheriff, while John J. Birdno, of Saf- ford, wants to repreSe t Graham in | the legislative council.
 A part of the $25, GOO appropriated by the last legislature for enlarging and | improving the territorial prison be- came available some tlme ago, and is now being utilized by Superintendent Brown, much to the betterment of conditions at the territory's penal in- stitutiOn Probably the most import. ant of these improvements is the hos pital, which has been complete Yuma Sentinel.
 W. L. May, the Clifton inventor of a new acetylene light for Illuminating passenger trains and engines, has placed headlights on four of the engines of the Fl PasO & Southwestern rail road. The Copper Era says that MT. May has the best and safest light yet invented for train service, and 1t is bound to come into general use when understood by railroad managers
 A quiet wedding took place at the Stafford house last Saturday evening at 9 o'clock, Judge w. c. Mcfarland, of SOlomOnville, and Mrs. Louisa NJ. Riggs, of Stafford, being the principals to the contract, Rev. I. G. Sigler off ciating. The wedding has been kept very quiet but we have ample proof that it took place in piece of wedding cake that mysteriOuSly found its way to this office Guardian.
 Ths Copper Era says "A few years ago Col. Wm. Wilson, of the Gila, i'm ported new cereal from Germany, which he calls splitz, for short. He has given 1t a thorough test, ,and thinks it by far superior to barley, or any oth- CT grain grown. He says it will stand the dry weather, and will average from D to 100 bushels per acre, and further that stock will leave the best alfalfa hay to feed on it's straw. Besides, that it makes the finest kind of winter pasture"
 The Saturday Review has been eStab- lished at Phoenix with J. J. Thompson as editor. In his salutatory the edi tor says "The primary object of the edi tor in establishing the Review is to