Arizona silver belt., 1902-07-17

or clEnUy 1OrSc power CdpdClUy on HIS ranch for the purpose of pumping water from i've big wells which he has bored.
 Phoenix has female dentist in the person of Miss Bertha Smith. She re- gently passed the examination before the territorial dental board, and is the only lady denti in Arizona.
 District Attorney w. F. Cooper, of Pima county, will remove to Los An geleS after the close of his term next January, to take position with the electric railway lines in Los Angeles, of which Col. EpeS Randolph is man. ager.
 During the past school year the sum of $58 220 was paid in salaries to the teachers in the public schools of Mari copa county. The county has school system of which she may we'll be proud and the school buildings are of such a character as would do credit to any state.
 The sanitary conditions of Clifton are most ShOCkingly bad. Talk about the OdOrS of Venice, why it would be like gentle zephyrS from the garden of Eden, compared with some sections of of Clifton. The wonder isn't that we have typhoid fever, but that the peo- pie don't all die with it.-Copper Era
 The new school house at Five Points Phoenix, was destroyed by fire last Thursday. It was practically com pleted and would have been turned over to the trustees within few days The building cost $S,O00 and was in- sured for $5, ,0OO. The loss falls upon the contractors. The origin of the fire is not known.
 The Detroit Copper company ob- jects to the plating of the MOrenci townsite, and has filed a protest with the register and receiver of the land office at Tucson. The company claims most of the land within the proposed townSite, under mineral locations made at various times from 1892 to 1898.
 The Bulletin says: Ut is announced that many improvements are to be made at Fort Grant. Four troops of cavalry are now there, under the com mand of Colonel Lebo. The post is to be thoroughly Overhauled. Two-stOry buildings will be erected for soldiers quarters and several additional officers quarters will be erected. The water system is also to be improved"
 Word comes from Tucson that an. other arteSian gusher has been opened up near that city, in the Santa Cruz valley, says the BiSbee Review. This is the fifth flow developed there during the present year by Gen. L. H. Man ming. The five wells are flowing l,50O GOO gallons daily. Three more eight-inch wells will be sunk in line with the new gusher, from which a flow of over million gallons is ex. pected.
 Tuesday night last officers and mem- berS of Clifton lodge, Knights of Py- thiaS, aud officers and members Of Montezuma lodge, of Solomonyille, initiated twenty-five candidates for MOrcnci $ new lodge. The work was done by Deputies Grand Chancellor Green, of Montczuma lodge, and Cox, of Clifton lodge, assisted by officers and members af their respective lodges. The new lodge will start with mem- berShlp of about fOTty.-COpper Era.
 Two marble tablets are being putup at the south entrance to the rOtunda on the second floor of the capitol build ing. One of them contains the names Ot the governor and the members of the capitol site commission. The oth- CT, on which the great seal of the ter ritOry has been engraved, contains a brief account of the acquisition and organization of the territory and the legislation which made the building of the capitol possible.
 A rumOr is current, with some de. gree of certainty that it will within a very few months develop into real ity, that the Southern Pacific company contemplate the building of branch line from COchiSe station through the Sulphur Spring valley to Bisbee and Naco, at which latter place connection will be made with the Cananea road, and from thence on the Southern Pa cific will extend its line to TopOlO- bampo bay, Sonora, Mexico Pros. pector.
 What becomes of the millions Of pennies coined each year by the gov ernment is an unSOlyed problem. To supply the demand, the mint at Phila- delphia must keep on running out new pennies at an average rate of O0O 0O0 nor month