Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-11-26
ARIZONA MATTERS!
THE CYST OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE NORTH AND
 SOUTH.

The Hassayampa club has been formally opened and it promises to be one of the most popular social or ganization in the city. The formal opening was attended last night by a large number of the business men of the city besides the regular member ship.
 The HasSayampa club now has a
 membership of about eighty, with a number of applications on file. The officers of the club are: President, George Purdy Bullard; secretary, Claude Berryman; treasurer, E. Gang. These officers with the following compose the board of directors: Frank Luke, W. A. Milton and P. A. Tharaldson. The future of Hassay- ampa club is assured.-Gazette.
 The evening paper intimates that the reason the Star is fighting to have the Omnibus bill amended is because it don't want Mark Smith for United States Senator. When it comes time to elect senators. Mark Smith will have about as much show for a senatcrship as the editor of the Citizen has to be elected constable at Tanque Verde.-Tucson Star (Dem)
 Superintendent of Public Instruc- ton Judge N. G. Layton was here yesterday. He said that he was called upon by the senatorial commit tee to give information on school matters in Arizona. He furnished advance sheets of his biennial report, which showed that there are 25,000 children of school age, and that the sum of S530000 was set aside last year for maintaining the public schools of Arizona. The committees looked wise and then surprised when they learned of these facts" said the Judge. There are lots of good things to learn about Arizona" ad- ded the visitor, who returned to Phenix last night.-Star.
 There is no longer any doubt abou the execution of Augustin Chacon in SolomOnville next Friday. Sheriff Parks is making all necessary ar to carry out the death now resting on this noted and outlaw. Guards are doubled at the jail to prevent any possibility of escape by the con demned man, who broke jail in Solo monville on June g, 1897, just ten days before he was to have been hung under the original sentence.- Graham Bulletin.
 Wool grown in Coconino county is mostly marketed in Phoenix. The from the county amount to 1,50O,0O0 pounds year and bring 
 Of late few carloads of slag were pulled away from the old Copper Queen dump and used for ballast. Mature investigation, along with careful assays, developed the sur prising fact that the whole dump, embracing thousands of tons, ran over 10 per cent in copper. Go along the foot of the dump and you can sort out tons of matter that will run over 40 per cent in copper. The com pany has finally awakened to the fact that it has scattered thousands of tons of valuable material along the grade between Bisbee and Don Luis.
 A dispatch fIom Tombstone says: This is date to be remembered ia Tombstone. At o'clock tonight the big pumps of the Consolidated Mines company were placed in operation and the unwatering of the famous old mines was begun. The company is employing a large force of men, and from now on there will be more extensive operations underground. The big six-compartment shaft, the largest in Arizona, will be sunk as rapidly as possible, and new levels will be opened in virgin ground. Work on the railroad is progressing and it is expected that the iron horse will neigh in Tombstone in the early days of December.
 The work upon the Phoenix and Eastern road bed is progressing rapidly and five or more miles of rails are already in place. A new camp has been es ablished near the Tempe bridge. The bridge work will soon be in course of construction. For the first year temporary pile bridge will have to be used. as steel for the per manent structure, though ordered some time ago, can not be delivered until the latter part of 1903. MT. Randall, who has been in the south, returned yesterday and reports hay ing been successful in his work in that section. Phoenix Democrat.