Arizona silver belt., 1902-01-30

| icy Dallk, dt SoioiipilNllic, loi uNo years, will have charge of the bank at Clifton, and also general supervision of the banks at Solomonvile and Mo- renci. -Bsbee Review.
 Nose Drachman, of Phoenix, is or ganizing an automobile company for Tucson. The plan is to put in line to run out tO the university and anoth- or line to run out Stone avenue and down to Union park. These first two lines would be run as experiments, and if they paid others would be estab- lshed It will take between S5 coo and 0,0C0 to establish the first two lines as the vehicles to be used will cost from S2, 500 to S3000 at the least, steam carriages tO carry twenty pas sengerS will be put on at first by the company.
 The first sheriff in Arizona, appoint ed by Gov. John N. Goodwin, was Van C.. Smith, of Yayapai county. The other evening a stranger, having the outward appearance of coming from manyana land, stepped into Ben | Whites fruit store and asked for Il copy of q late newspaper. Recogniz- ing the voice, the writer called out, Hello Van, is that you 7" And so it was. We had not met for nearly | h. is pecting down in Mexico and believes he has some rich prospects, He left for Mexico the following day, but eX- poets to return here in about two weeks. The "old-timerS" are not all dead yet, albeit they may be getting little shaky on their pins. The few left still maintain StilT upper lip and will see the thing through even if it takes tbe century to do Douglas correspondence Bsbee Review.
 During the past week several new eases of smallpox developed at Morcnci and were taken to the pest house in | the canyon below town. Two or three | cases were from "Ncw Town and one case was taken from the lodging house in Murenci Several cases are also re- ported in Solumonville, among them | Mrs. Anna C0nnOr, aunt of Mrs. Ben R. Clark, and W. A. GilliSpie An the eases are said to be of q very mild type, but the disease is contagious from mild case the same as from a bad one and ther is considerable un- eaSinesS. Those who are afflicted and those who come in contact with it should be very careful about their movements. The policy of the officers in the valley has been to take no ac- tion nquarantlning, hence 1t devolyeS the more on the individual to prevent a spread of the disease The officers would enforce the quarantine law, but the board of supervisors refuse to allow the expense. Bulletin.
 At the last term of the district court Harry McPhaul secured iudg- ment against Yuma county in the sum of 500, in q suit brought tU recover | that amount for the capture Of Hart, who murdered Matt DeVane. The board of supervisors offered SjOO re- ward for llarps capture, and at the | time this action was taken Hart was | in custody, though this fact was un- |
 known tO the board and really Hart had not been identified. The board resisted payment, claiming that the offer of reward had not been promul- gated. The court held that the ac- tion of the board in offering the re- ward constituted promulgation, and ordered the clerk to enter judgment for the full amount. District Attor- ney TimmonS appealed the case to the supreme court and it would have been heard at the present term, but com promise was agreed upon last week, tine county paying onc-haf the claim, $50, and canceling the judgment McPhaul's attorney was Peter T. Robertson Yuma Sentinel.
 Charles Meadows, better known as Arizona Charley, a long-haired gun lighter, has started for Tiburon or Shark island, in the gulf of California, tO see what can be done towards tam ing or exterminating the Seri Indians, who have resisted all attempts to civilize them. Charley goes alone. armed with an improved MauSer rifle, and thinks he can stand off the entire tribe if things come to show down. If he can't ciyilze the Indians he will kill the whole tribe and return with their scalps dangling at his belt. Charley claims to have a concession from the Mexican government for the island, and proposes to take posses sion of his property at once, where he will establish a Monte Carlo, or some sort Of crap game. The inhabitants are sayaecS, and so far have dehed all ! efforts to tame them or bring them | to account for their many crimes against civilization Ten years ago | they defeated an expedition of Amer | icanS sent against them. who. all but