Arizona silver belt., 1903-05-14
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 Everybody Except the Editor Expects 10 Have Money 10 Burn.

pital building, l00Xl00 feet, for tn, Copper Queen company, at Bisbee.
 George Meek, of the International says: "The celebration ou the Fourtl of July, Douglas expects to have wo men bull fighters, prize fighters anc booze fighters.
 Last Thursday a man named WeSt fell fifty feet down the shaft of the Black Diamond mine, near Pearcc and died two hours later from the ef fleets of the injuries received.
 The Phoenix X Eastern grade is now within ten miles of Florence, and a stretch of six miles has been completed out of Florence. The track work is rapidly nearing completion into Mesa.
 On account of the inability Of ob, taining proper transportation facili. ties, the BisbeeiteS who were to pre-. sent Roosevelt with black bear, were compelled to leave his bearShip at Phoenix, and present the chief execu- tive with a photograph of bruln.
 The Stockman says "The wolf-dog, which animal seems to be halr wolf and half dog, has been giving the cat tlemen of Williamson valley Yaya- pal county, considerable trouble. Re- gently Clarence Ferguson caught one of these animals iG trap"
 Secretary of the Territory l. T. Stoddard has completed the collection of the years taxes from insurance companies doing business in the terri tory, amounting to nearly $l7,OOO. This is an increase of nearly $3,OOO, last years receipts being $l4, coo. Judge and Mrs. T T. Hunter left Monday for an extended visit to his old home in South Carolina and the scenes of his early days, and during their trip will visit Louisiana, going from there to Mrs Hunters old home in New York Guardian.
 A raise of one dollar per ton on the freight rate on hay from the Glla val ley to Bishee Douglas and other points on the Fl PaS0 X Southwestern. will restrict the market for hay from the valley, and will bc to the advantage of the Salt river valley producers. Frank Johnson, from Clifton, at. tempted to commit suicide in a saloon at Solomonyille. He slashed his throat and made a wound in the right tenn pie with a knife borrowed from the barkeeper, which was too dull for good execution. When he sObered up in iail, Johnson concluded he did not want to die. He said, You know a fellow will do a lot of fool things when he's drunk"
 The Bulletin says "The hay har- vest has begun in earnest in the great Gila valley and from now onuntil late in the fall the merry farmer will be making hay while the sun shines. The area planted to hay IS much larger than ever before, but the yield per acre will hardly equal that of last year. which was one of the very best in the history of the valley. But enough will be cut to supply all demands"
 The Iyanho group of claims were sold yesterday for something like $l4O,OOO. The first payment of Sl4OO0 was made through the Miners & Mer- chants bank Lewis Brown, J. Wal lace, Frank Armstrong and other Bis bee people were the sellers Michigan people were the buyers. This group of claims is about two and half miles from Bisbee. Bisbee Miner.
 The work of the geological survey in the hotter portions of Arizona will be discontinued for several months dur ing the heated term. The largest camps that will be affected are in this valley, and the force under Engineer Perkins, which is now engaged in making a typographical survey of the region along the Colorado river from the Needles down to Yuma. While no definite orders have been received from Washington, it is understood that the work will be discontinued about June l and resumed about Oc- tober l.-GaZette.
 Capt A. C, Read, of the United States army, is inspecting the national guard of Arizona, under orders from Washington. These inspections are made with a view to equipping the na- tional guard with Krag-Jorgensen ri- 6es in place of the SprinRlields they now have, and furnishing them with all other accoutermentS to bring them, in pointof equipment, up to the stand ard of the regular army. When all the companies in the territory have been inspected report will be made