Arizona silver belt., 1902-06-26

J. o. Dunbar, editor of the Demo- crat, is still seriously i'll at his home In Phoenix.
 Judge Sloan has decided that the law passed by the last legislature provid ing that the Santa Fe railroad lands in northern Arizona be assessed at 75 cents an acre is unconstitutional.
 Col. A. O. Brodie has written to Judge Kent, stating that he would like to take the oath of office as gov ernir before him on the first of July. The oath will be administered at the capitol building on that date.
 Parties coming from down near the Mexican line report that scores of Ya- quis are crossing the border to escape from the Mexicans Whole families are seen on the roads, carrying with them all their earthly possessions. A number have been seen near Tucson. Star.
 The Citizen says Robert E. MOr- riSon will be the next republican can didate for delegate to congress. NO Murphy has so decreed, and he is the master. Murphy has promised Morri- son to nominate him, aud has passed the word to the faithful. It will be done at the proper time"
 The contract to build the normal dormitory at Tempe has been let toe. c. Campbell of Phoenix for $lO,JO0. The building is to be completed in lO5 days from the letting of the contract. The building will be erected on the normal campus on plans drawn by Willard, the Phoenix architect
 Thomas Williams, convicted in the district court at Tombstone, of bur glary, was sen ntenced to serve ten years. Williams was one of the men engaged in the Crawford jewelry rob bery in Bisbee last December. Dever- aux, who was arrested at the same time with Williams, will not be tried until next term.
 NIT. Scudder has been selected to fill the vacancy in the Tempe Normal fac ulty caused by the resignation of Miss Jessie M. Smith. The courses taught by the teachers will be re.arranged, and MT. Scudder will have charge of the mathematics department. He is d graduate of the University of Indiana and also of the Indiana State Normal. Enterprise.
 According to the statistics of the To- cal weather bureau, this month is much warmer than the corresponding month for last year. June of this year IS 50 degrees hotter than the corre- spending number of days for the same month last year. The hottest day this year was on June 9, registering los de- grees, against 99 degrees for June 8 of last year.-Gazette.
 The government seems to be satis lied with the experiments in date cul- ture which have been in progress at this place for several years, and will continue the investigations on a still more extensive scale, says the Tempe News. Numbers of new plants are be. ing received daily. The plants are choice Asiatic varieties. They come through the mail in sacks. The indi- cations are that some day the raising Of dates for the market will be a lead ing industry in the Salt river valley.
 The work of installing the local and long distance telephone system at Tombstone began Wednesday, the first poles being erected at the corner of Third and Fremont streets. The sys- tenn is being put in under the manage ment of E. T. Hams, of the Gila Valley Telephone company. The local lines will be completed first, and the central office located in the old custom house adobe on Allen street, near Third The lines to Bisbee, Gleason, Black Dia. mond and Pearce will be commenced at once. The line to the Huachucas, which has been under the control of the water company, will pass into the hands of the new company.
 W. M. Stewart died at Wilcox on | Tuesday of last week, of paralysis. His | remains were shipped to Los Angeles | for interment. MT Stewart was pio- neer of Arizona, coming to the terri | tory thirty years ago, when young | man. During the early days. about | the time the Southern Pacific railroad | was building through Arizona, he was interested with John H. Norton in the | post-tradership at Fort Grant, the firm name being Norton & Stewart. Mir. Stewart while living at Fort Grant, met the accomplished daughter of Col. H. c. Hooker, of Sierra Bonita ranch, and she became his wife. NJ. w.