Arizona silver belt., 1903-02-19

Graham county expended S69 ,27O.35 last year.
 Several cases of smallpox are re- ported at Wilcox.
 A motor tournament will be held in Phoenix on the 23d inst Six automo- piles from Tucson will participate.
 Among the postmasters confirmed February 12 were Kasper Hauser, Wilcox, Ariz., and Benj Goldman, Naco.
 The Knights of Pythias of Bisbee are to build a castle, for which plans have been prepared It is to cost $lOO,O0O.
 The Standard says, cockighterS of Morenci are importing new birds, and there will be hot times in the ring shortly.
 The leading creditors of c. $. Fran kel, proprietor of the New York store. Satford, have filed a petition in the United States court at Florence to have him declared bankrupt.
 This entire section, as far east as Gallup, N. M., was visited early this week by good snOwStorm. The wealth CT has been quite severe, the thermUm. eter on several mornings registering below zero. Williams News.
 The temporary bridge of the Phoe- nix S Eastern, crossing Salt river, has been completed, and steel is being laid beyond. The permanent piers and abutments for the steel bridge have been completed. The grading camp is now near Mesa.
 The Phoenix Enterprise states that there are now 2O9 inmates of the in. sane asylum, and proper accommoda- tionS for only 100. The legislature will be called upon to provide for the en. largement of the institution.
 The convention of supervisors now in session at Phoenix, representing eight counties in the territory, is quoted as being unanimously in favor of the repeal of the wild animal scalp bounty law, which has laid heavy tax on the mountain counties, north and south Prescott Courier.
 It is feared that ". T. Mead who is interested in the cattle business and mining in Sonora. a short distance from Douglas, and who is well known in this section and southern California perished in the late railroad wreck near Tucson. No trace can be found of him since that terrible accident Douglas Independent.
 Van H. Brooks, the ming man, has just returned from trip to the TontC basin section. He says he could not have passed through more indictment weather hld he waited for years to get it. He reports snow thirty inches deep in the Mogollone and says stock men and ranchers feel much encour aged. Prescott Courier.
 The Cowboys Home saloon, ir which Lon Bass was killed by Webb and several other dives, at Douglas were burned on the morning of the 18th inst. The fire was caused by prostitute throwing a lighted lamp a' a man, which crashed against tho frame wall of the room and set fir, to it.
 Gen. Fred Funston. commander o the department of the Colorado, ac , companied by few members of hI staff, arrived in Arizona last week ol a visit of inspection, and went to For S Grant. This was the last official yisi of General Funston before asSumin! command of the department of tn Columbia.
 Almost the entire Verde valley Ina been located as oil land, and a move ment is now on foot among the citizen to purchase an oil drill and test tn t land Experts from the California O fields pronounce the indications her equal to anything found in that seC tion. A recent analysis of the roc shows the oil to be of the highes grade.-EX.
 - Ralph Cameron, of CocOnino county was recently granted the exclusiv privilege to establish a toll road o the Bright Angel trail at the Gran Canyon, and lost no time in putin it into effect. The Santa Fe compan objected to Mir. Camerons monopol and applied 10 the court for an ii junction, which Judge Sloan refuse :. to grant.
 The people of Florence and adjacer country, which will be benefited b the project, are now enthusiastic 1 ' pushing the work forward for the COT struction of the proposed San CarlC