Arizona silver belt., 1902-09-11

The Miner says there are ulteen cases of smallpox in Bisbee.
 Gila valley newspapers report the deaths of Henry Moody and Alfred Leathhead, both of Thatcher, from typhoid fever.
 Walter Gregory has been appointed secretary and storekeeper, and U. G Wilder assistant superintendent Of the territorial prison.
 Judge and Mrs. w. c. Mcfarland re- turned to Solomonville from CalifOr- nia last Saturday, where they had been for two months.
 Recorder Hare, of Cochise county, states that there are now over l,sOO names on the great register and eX- poets the number to reach 1000 when the registration closes in October. Two years ago the register con tained l, 793 names.
 On Thursday tine following appoint ments were made by Governor Brodie: J. J. Riggs, of Dos CabezaS, Cochise county, was appointed a member Of the live stock sanitary board, vice l.. B. Cannon, of Yavapai county, re- signed; and John Foster, of Bsbee, was appointed sergeant of the Arizona rangers.
 President James Colquhoun and his family arrived in New York from Scotland last Saturday. He is eX- pected to arrive here next week. MT. COluuhoun intends to make his future home in Los Angeles, and will make frequent trips to Clifton, where he will keep in touch with the affairs of the Arizona Copper company y.-Lordsburg Liberal.
 Construction of the Phoenix & East ern railway between Benson and PhOe- nix is now assured and it is predicted that work will shortly begin at both ends. It is believed that the force now constructing the road between Demiug and Fl PaSO will be brought to Benson and put to work as soon as the present contract is completed very shortly
 Luther Green and his son Noah re turned from CalifOrn last Thursday MT. Green is an enthusiastic member of the Knights of PythiaS lodge, anC went to San Francisco to attend thu ] great Pythian gathering there on th' occasion of the meeting of the supreme lodge. After leaving San FranciSc, he visited Los Angeles and RedlandS < where he has some relatives living Bulletin.
 A correspondent of the Willco! Range News states that the SOuther Pacific company is delivering materia } at Cochse station for the cOnstructio 2 Of the branch railroad to Pearce, an 1. which will be continued south int ] Mexico. A project is under consider atiOn to build a custom shelter at Go 2 chiSe to handle the ores of the ric [ territory through which the road wi } pass.
 / The Enterprise reports the retur . of A. S. Mills to Phoenix. He hf ] spent most of the summer in SOldie Kan, with his mother, and buSie
 himself settling up his fathers eStat
 In conversation with an Enterpris
 reporter he stated that he intended
 make Phoenix his future home. prt
 vided he found a business opening. A
 he is prominent newspaper man, an
 has been for years identified with u
 newspapers of Phoenix, he is lOokir
 for an opening in this direction.
 George McFall, who recently T.
 turned from d trip to the Tonto Basil = located while he was there three mil ~ ing claims known as the Copper Clii
 Samples he brought with him assa
 S5.2 copper, and also run high in silvt
 aud contains few dollars in gold. H
 found a great deal of native coppe and he discovered one piece or nlt
 pounds which was almost solid coppe
 He was unable to break it with a pic
 and succeeded only in jarring u
 quartz in it loose. e.-Republican.
 A great many wild pigeons are
 the Chirlcahua mountains this yea
 They are of the real old blue roc J kind. The pigeon in former years we
 numerous in the northeastern state
 but some fifteen years ago diSappear'
 entirely, completely abandoning the
 old nesting places. NaturaIists ha'
 hunted the country over for them, b
 not finding any, came to the concl 't sion that they were extinct. With
 the past few years they have been