Arizona silver belt., 1903-12-10

eSJale Nalueu ub NE4u,uUO UO an llleRlIl- mate daughter. The mother of the child says she wrote the will and she and Jackson Swore Hill signed it.
 The International. American claims
 that the published statement purpOrt- ing to give the receipts of presidential postonices in the territory is incorrect and does Douglas an injustice, Dur ing the period indicated by the figures in the table the receipts should have been SC, 645.0 the correct amount of receipts for the year ending June 30, 1903. This would have placed Douglas where she belongs, fifth on the hst'
 The Bisbee council has decided to remove the licenses from several kinds of business, and to offset some of the sweeping reductions the licenses will be greatly increased on saloons and wholesale liquor dealers. Just how much has not been definitely decided. | The purpose of the committee is to make the saloons bear the brunt of the license tax and to relieve the small dealers in other lines of business of as much of the burden as possible
 The new Copper Queen hospital, at BiSbee, said to be the best appointed hospital in Arizona, has been opened There are four wards with sixteen beds each, besides about thirty rooms for private patients. There are two large operating rooms, one of them being for emergency surgical cases. Every room in the building is fitted with all modern conyeniences. This Copper Queen hospital will be for the care and treatment of all employees of the com pany between BiSbee and Fl PaSo, as well as private patients.
 Ranger w. K. Foster and Cattle In. spector Pruett recently rounded up bunch of seventy-two cattle ,u the Chiricahua mountains that carried burned brands One man has been arrested and is now in the county iai in Tombstone. His trial is set for the 7th of this month and will take place in the justice court of Bowie. Every one oG the cattle rounded up by .he ranger and the inspector had altered brands on them, which is proof posi- tive that they are stolen cattle Inter national
 According to A. A. Whitney, who is representing D. NJ. Osborne X Co.,, the farm implement manufacturing company, Arizona is we'll known among such concerns as his as buying large quantities of high grade farming machinery, and as farming commuu- itleS whose debts are few. As conse- quence the trade is eagerly competed for by all the SaleSmen of the large houses putting out different lines of farming machinery. Mir. Whitney said that Arizona throughout bought a better grade of machinery than any other section Of the country.
 The Era is informed that the people of the Gla valley, below solomonrille, !. are now strongly in favor Of county ! division, and will instruct their repre- l sentative t1 the next legislature to !. favor 1t. A majority of the people of l this section are also in favor of diyis- |. ion, or removal, though but little |. interest has been taken in the matter for the past year or more. Division | will come in time, and the sooner the | better for the tax payers. Copper Era. 1
 The Sentinel records the death of . Abe Frank, pioneer of Yuma couu. l. ty, on November % He went to Yuma county in 1867 and settled at . Ia Paz, then the county seat, where ! he was engaged in merchandising, af . forwards moving to Ehrenburg, and thence, in 1885 to Yuma. He was prominent in politics as well as in the life of Yuma county for many years, and was typical frontiersman, big hearted and open handed. His remains were sent tU Los Angeles, to be inferred in the Jewish cemetery there.
 In regard to the question of supply ng cement for the Salt river dam, Hitchcock has decided to lbide by the decision of Director Newell and has turned the representa- ives of the trust over to him. Newell 5 now making efforts to get the emeut men to reduce their objections o writing and to make a formal pro- osal to the government, stating the mount for which they will guarantee o lay down the cement on the site of he dam. If private manufacturers can how they can make the cement as heaply as the government, they will e permitted to do so otherwise they ( 'ill have to let the government follow $ IS own plans.