Arizona silver belt., 1902-08-21

President Andrew Kimball has de- clined to be candidate for the terri torial council, but expresses his will lingneSS to stand for the assembly on the democratic ticket.
 The Clifton ball team will start on an extended trip about September l, play ing at Fl Paso, Bisbee and other places. game will be played with the Bisbee team at Clifton in two weeks. Clifton has strong team.
 President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation creating the Mt. Graham forest reserve, setting apart nearly the whole of the mountain not already appropriated by the Fort Grant mili- | tary reservation. It is an immense | tract.
 It is reported that Mr. J. O. Dunbar | has taken a turn for the worse, and now serious fears for his recovery are entertained. His son, Will Dunbar, left to attend his fathers bedside. Mir Dunbar is now in Los Angeles. - Enterprise.
 Judge Wilcox received letter from President Roosevelt few weeks ago stating that Mir. Morrison of Santa Fe, | New Mexico, had been appointed in- | ternal revenue collector and there was no vacancy to be filled in that office. | BiSbec Review.
 In accordance with proclamation issued by President Roosevelt on July 90, new forest reserve was created in Cochise county. Itembraces five town ships in the Chiracahua mountains, and will be known as the Chiricahua forest reserve. There is some valuable timber land in these hills.
 Delegate Smith has appointed Jo- seph s. Fish, of Navajo county, cadet to West Point Military academy, to take the place of Cadet Alexander Pendleton, who was recently ev1elled from the academy upon being found guilty of hazing by military court Enterprise.
 Some of the cattlemen around Will cox are talking of buying automobiles to run cattle with. Those Wilcox fellows are imitatOrS. Our own Wake field and Vail started the fad of uS- ing these handy conveyances after cat | l., ol1 tho hnNl uant thnm Tucson Post
 Mrs. Ed LyelI, wife of Ed Lyell, died quite suddenly last Friday evening Mir. and Mrs. Lyell have conducted res tauraE tS in various portions of the ter ritory, and the deceased had wide ac quaintance in Arizona. Mr. Lyell is SC riouSly ill and doubts are entertained as to his recovery. Douglas lnterna , tional.
 The handsome two story brick resi- , dence of Mir. A. A. Zimmerman, 1T } Brill's addition, Phoenix, was destroy ed by fire last Thursday night. The { fire company succeeded in saving ; fine piano and most of the furniture } The explosion of an oil lamp caused the fire. Loss, SS,OOO; insurance or \ house, $2,5O0 furniture, S500 William c. Davis, vice president 0 the Consolidated National bank, 0 Tucson, died at the residence of hi daughter, Mrs. Williams, at San Jose California, August II. Mir. Davis wa over 60 years old. He was native o western Pennsylvania, and has resided in Tucson since 1869. He left Penn Sylyania in 1867 and came across tn
 plains, arriving in Arizona in '69. H.
 left valuable estate.
 The Santa Fe railroad IS preparing
 to spend million on improving tn
 roadbed in Arizona and southern Cali
 fornia. The track will also be oile, |, from Ash Fork east to Albuquerque ) the track already having been 0ile
 west of Ash Fork. A large force c men will soon be set to work placin
 the track in the best of shape, an
 when completed fast trains will b V placed in service.
 w. D. Fulwler, of the finance com mittee of the right-ofway committe of the Phoenix & Eastern railway, wa out interviewing the people in regar
 to subscribing money towards pun chasing the right-of-way for the rail road to Mesa. Phoenix and vicinit has subscribed liberallY but the sout side has taken no active steps as ye
 towards raising any money, though a soon as the chairman of the south sid
 committee returns Tempe and Mes
 will probably subscribe. -. Republican
 Last Wednesday H, Torvea an | Charles Dixon were out hunting in tn
 Buckeye country, They were stand