Arizona silver belt., 1902-05-01

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 A correspondent Of the Copper Era says: A cowboy from Slaughter's ranch near Clifton, a short time ago being in the vicinity of Fort Apache, went into the post feeling somewhat i'll. He was taken into the military hospital there, but great was the con sternation when day later, he broke out with the smallpox. He was put in building to himself and at last accounts was doing well. The disease was contracted in Clifton.
 At the last meeting of the city council, O. NJ. Anderson, the member from the second ward, introduced q resolution providing for sweeping change in the schedule of city licenses. It was placed with the license commit tee, and is now being considered by them. The new schedule requires a number of trades to take out a license which are not now in the list. Other licenses are increased DO per cent while some are more than doubled Citizen.
 The review says water at BiSbee is going up and may go higher before the limit is reached Yesterday af- ternOOn the MeXicanS who deliver water on burrOS were asking fifty cents per load The price up to this time has been twenty-five cents, and the raise is due to the fact that the source of supply is getting smaller. The present conditions of affairs will not last long. The Copper Qneen company will have their pipe line completed in eight weeks, and the BiSDee West people are ready to oper- ate as soon as they get franchise.
 The Arizona PreSbytery held it's annual session at Tucson last week, the most successful in the history of the organization. The membership of the Presbyterian church in Arizona was shown tO be 1 ,S62 members, an in crease of 252 over last year. The Sab bath school membership iS 2,2lO, and the total amount of money expended during the year was $32 ,6s6. Alto gether, the Presby tcrian church was shown to be the largest aud most aggressive of all the forces for Prot !eStaut Christianity now engaged in the territory.
 By the first of July Blsbee will be connected by telephone line with Ben. son, Tombstone, Tucson and Fair bank said George B. Ellison, mana ger of the Bisbee Improvement com pany, yesterday. There is now in con temptation a, line between Douglas, Demiug aud Fl PaSo. This is certain to be completed inside of four months. The contract for the new telephone lines to Nacu and Douglas has been let to C. F. Wren Of El PaSo and will be completed inside of sixty days. The new system will include four lines to NacO and six lines to Douglas, which will be a decided improve ment. n-BiSbee Review.
 Word comes from Ash Fork that the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad COmpa. ny is preparing to put in big water storage dam in Johnson canyon, four miles from Ash Fork. The conStruc- ton material has commenced to ar rive and about 300 men vii be em- ployed in the work. A spur of the railroad track will extend to the dam. The water will be piped into Ash Fork. ItiS estimated that the water supply will afford the steady flow of a threc-inCh stream at Ash Fork. Three hundred men on payroll will help things all along the line, and water supply will give a decided impetus to the growth and stability of the city of the forks. Republican.