Arizona silver belt., 1902-06-05

Work is now in progress on the long distance telephone between Douglas and BtSbee, work having been started from the BiSbee end.
 The freight receipts at NacO for the month of March were $225, 900, For the same period at Douglas the receipts were oyer $59,00O.
 BiSbee has the largest lodge of the A. O. U. w. in either Arizona or New Mexico, and one of the largest in the west. Queen lodge No. 6 has 422 members.
 Engine CTS have begun the final sur | vcy for the great dam to be built on Bill Williams Fork. The dam site is at the head of Striped canyon, five miles below the junction of the Sandy and the Santa Maria creeks.
 The Cobre Grande case brought a few millonaires into Prescott. Some Of the gentlemen engaged in friend- ly little poker game at the Burke hO- tel and $2, 900 changed owners on d single hand very acknowledgements
 Alta special meeting of the Com mercial Club held last Wednesday night, committee of three was ap- pointed to canvass the town and as certain how much money can be raised for the building of new court house in SafTord.-Guardian.
 Work is progressing rapidly on the new buildings now being erected at Indian Hot Springs, says Bulletin correspondent. The new dining room is so far completed as to go into the painters hands, and the management hope to be able to serve dinner in it hy Sunday, the lSt of June. By the way, these Sunday dinners at the springs are becoming famous. Have you tried them!
 The Bulletins Pima correspondent says This part of the valley was visited by a miniature cyclone last Sunday night, which did some damage in the way of blowing down of trees and unroofiug buildings. Phil. C. Merrill was probably the greatest suf- ferer as he had d frame building blown down on some new carriages and wagons, some of which were consider ably damaged.
 A. J. DOran came in from Prescott Wednesday and left for the Night. hawk mine. He says the railroad from Congress down by Hillside, through the Bill Williams Fork copper belt, down the Chimehuevas valley to Fran Conia, on the Santa Fe, is sure go, and that the end of the big talk is in sight when actual work will begin. This railroad will open up a great min eral country. - Kingman Mineral Wealth.
 Gov. Murphy and family are now in the east, and not likely to return until about July l, at which date Col. Onel BrOdie s commission as governor goes into effect. By organic act of the territory, the secretary of Arizona be- comes acting governor, clothed with all the authority of chief executive. Arizona is fortunate in having at It's head, though temporarily, so cOmpe- tent and honest an official as Gov. Isaac T. Stoddard. Prescott Courier.
 Lula Gulf, who has been an inmate of a lunatiC asylum for some time past, returned home about two weeks ago, presumably entirely over her afiiiction, and nothing unusual was noticed in her actions until last Fri day when she disappeared from home, nothing being heard from her until Saturday afternoon when the north bound passenger train picked her up a short distance this side of Bowie and brought her back to Pima.
 A new railroad freight rate has been put into effect between all points in the Gila valley and Clifton. The rate has heretofore been $7.00 per ton. The new rate is S5.50 per ton. This will not likely result in any particular benefit to the farmers so far as in- creased price for his hay is concerned, but it will lessen the number of wagon freighters, who have hauled the hay to Clifton. While the rate WAS $7.0O wagon freighters could make some money hauling across the country Bulletin.
 According to statistics compiled by the Insurance Press, newspaper for the insurer and the insured, life in- surance claims to the amount of S265,- 55S were paid in Arizona in the year 1901. Of this amount $70,173 were