Arizona silver belt., 1902-12-25
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises --Good Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Nave Money to Burn.

It cost $l65, GOO to run the city gov ernment of Tucson for the past two years,
 Prescott has another daily paper, the Herald, published by Riblet & Me Donald.
 Flagstaff reported a temperature of ten degrees below zero on Monday of last week.
 Governor and Mrs. Brodie celebra- ted the tenth anniversary of their marriage December s.
 Contrary to the reports published in the Fl Paso papers, Walter Douglas will remain in BiSbee as Superintend- ent of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company.
 Editor Rogers, of the Prescott Cou- rier has gone to the coast for few weeks rest and recreation. It is his first trip out of the territory since he arrived m Prescott, october 22, 1879.
 There are now twelve or fifteen cases of smallpox in Clifton, only one of which is confined to the pest house, which is in very poor condition. The Era says another epidemic of small pov is now almost certainty.
 The forest rangers Of the Grand Canyon, San Francisco Mountains and the Black Mesa forest reserves will all be uniformed after January l, with a regulation uniform. Stripes on the sleeves will denote the rank of each ranger.
 The JOurnal-Miner says that the United Verde company started up with only tiYe-dayS' supply of coal and are experiencing some difficulty in getting 1t as needed It requires so carloads, or 3,2OO tons, per week to keep this plant in operation.
 The bond Of Burt AlyOrd, charged with robbing the United States mail, was fixed at $2, 800 in each Of two cases His bondsmen are r. D. Fulghan, T. D. Turner. Henry Austin. NJ. Doyle, Len Kelly aud P. B. WarneKros. The same boudsmen are on both bonds.
 From the fact that the Copper Queen company has allowed its city taxes to become delinquent, the Bis bee Miner concludes that they are not in favor of incorporation the Miner adds 'uor do they approve the rate of taxation, and will probably resist the payment of the same.
 Southern Arizona is being oyerrun with a lot of snide jewelry peddlarS who are palming off rings and other l icwelry on an unsuspectiug public for solid gold The rings are highly pol l lShed, aS is their tale of woe, and un. | less you are lon to yOursef,' they will land one on you. Profpector.
 In California, at San Rafael, recent | ly Judge Morgan, d well known Tomb stone lawyer, was shot and killed by a man named Schltph They had a quar- rel, and the slayer shot twice, once in ] the arm and the other in the right breast oyer the nipple. Morgan was well known in this vicinity. BiSbee | Review.
 A. l.. Cowles shot and killed John Kirwaggen, and then killed himself, at the ranch of Kirwaggen & Haskell, a few miles from Jerome, on December l6. Kirwaggen was an old and well-to do citizen of Yavapai and had served a term in the territorial legislature CowleS was employed by him. The cause of the quarrel is not known.
 A meeting has been called by the people of Morenci for TueSGay, the 30tf inst, to take steps for the division oi Graham county, and the creation of { new county out of the eastern half o tue present county. Clifton people dlC NDihldAlg ibF ibuNi bO hbbChu bb' meeting The people of Clifton arc heartily in sympathy with the move nt.-Copper Era.
 The coming year will find Cochist county at the head of the copper bul lion producing counties of the territo ry. With the Calumet & Hecla out put at Douglas added to the Coppe Queen company, the Middle Marcl and Black Diamond thrown in, tn amount will considerably pass that 0 l Yayapai county, which has heretOfor held the record. -PrOSpector Y There should be some plan devised by the next legislature whereby al IUroperty could be assessed at a uni
 form value. The facts are that tn present tax rate in Arizona is drivini millions of dollars into Mexico ever year which would be invested in Ari zona but for this outrageous tax rate ] One of the first inquiries made by mel