Arizona silver belt., 1903-05-28
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises Year for the Man With the Hoe and the Owner of Live Stcck-EveybOdy Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn.

E. A. Jones, retired cattleman,
 but who retains interests in stock in
 the Aravaipa section, has been visit
 ing WillcOv the past few days. Mir.
 Jones makes his home in Cottonwood
 Falls, Kansas, where his family re- side Range News.
 In the district court at Tucson, on
 application of Orfila and Ide, attor-
 neys for Teodoro Elias, convicted of
 the murder of Wm Katzenstein, sem
 tenCe was postponed until May 2S, in order to give the defendants attor.
 neyS time to prepare a motion on ap-
 peal for new trial, said attorneys al- leging material upon which to base
 their appeal.
 Thousands of homcSeekers are com ing to Arizona from the older states
 this fall The fertility of soil, the magnificent eXpanSe of territory, the diversity of resources, the mildueSS of climate and the grandeur of itS seen cry, all appeal to those homeseekerS in other and older and less favored states. No combination of circumstances can retard the development of this terri ry,-DemoCrat.
 The preliminary survey for the pro- posed railroad from Congress Junction to connect with the santa Fe railroad n California, has been completed as far as Ambov, Cal, and the party of surveyors who have been running the survey for the past four monthS, have returned to Prescott and are now working on the estimates of the cost of building the road Prescott Jour nal-Miner
 Word has been received ot a rich strike in the Senate mine, near Con- greSS. The ore was found on the 5OO- foot level in a Cross-cut 25O feet to the north. Some of the ore assays as high as $500 a ton. Development work has been in progress on the Senate for year, and at the 25O.foot level the ore body was lost, but the workers were not diSmayed. The mine is owned by Chas H. AkcrS and New York parties. Prescott Herald.
 Judge James E. Robertson died at his residence on the evening of May 21, after lingering Illness, covering nearly two years. The judge was pioneer resident of Tombstone and has been identified with the old city of his choice for many years. He had served the city and county in various official capacities and was always re- garded as an able jurist and an ear nest and capable citizen. He lived the allotted span of life, having at- tained the ripe old age of 70 years Tombstone PrOspector.
 c. R. Olberg, engineer in charge of the hydrographical survey work in Tonto basin, has been in the city this week on business. His crew has been ordered to keep at work all summer in anticipation Of the commencement Of construction work on the dam in the fall MT. Olberg has been investigat- ing the matter of wagon road from TOnto to Phoenix, and believes the plan feasible, though the country ia very rough portion of the way The matter will be further investigated, and if found to be feasible it will be built Phoenix Enterprise.
 The BiSbee papers announce the of fering of unusually large rewards for the capture of the man who murdered Deputy Constable Thomas Vaughn at Douglas. The murderer is still at large and there seems to be no clue to bis whereabouts. The rewards offered to- tai $500. Of the amount Paul Warne- kros, father-in-law of the murdered man, offers $5OO0 for his arrest and conviction. Sheriff Del Lewis offers $25O on the same terms and various citizens offer in the aggregate $65O for the man, dead or alive.
 There are now seventy date trees in blossom on the United States eXperi- mental farm near Tempe. The blos SOms commenced to come out about April 1, and have continued up to the present time. Among the number are trees of several varieties which have never before in this country borne blossoms. Last year there were but i sixteen trees which bore blossoms, bnt | there were few that produced mature fruit of a good quality. Prof Forbes says that within a year or two dates will be produced in marketable quan- titles on the Tempe farm,
 Senator W. A. Clark, president of | the United Verde mine, when asked | by the Jerome news regarding the re- ported labor troubles, said that the