Arizona silver belt., 1903-07-23
What Has Happened in the Terri. tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises.-Good Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock.-sveybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn.

The expenses of the Bisbee munich pal government for quarter ending June 30, amounted to $5,5S5.79.
 The Douglas Dispatch says the kill ing of Smith by Constable Graham in that town was cold-blOOded mur- der.
 The Standard states that about thir- ty miners had been enrolled in the new cavalry company at Morenci, which was to have been mustered in last Thursday night.
 The BiSbee Review announces that L. P. Nash, who shot a man named Anderson at Sierra de Cobre, not far from Cananea, a few days ago, has been fully eXonerated in the affair. I. E. Solomon was a successful bid der for furnishing Fort Grant with barley last Tuesday. The government called for 200, 900 pounds and MI. Solo mon succeeded in getting one quarter of the amount.
 Mrs. Robt. DeLarge and daughter, of Agua Fria, were welcome callers at this office yesterday. Col. RObt. De Large is preparing to go to Tucson, where he will put up a new quartz mill for the University of Arizona Prescott Courier.
 In his evidence before the coroner'S jury, Constable Graham said he did not intend to arrest mith but to kill him. On his own testimony the con stable is guilty of murder, whether or not Smith was the man who killed Vaughn. u.-Lordsburg Liberal.
 F. E. Olmstead, of the bureau of az Iiculture, Washington, D. C., is in CocOnino county for the purpose of completing work started two years ago. 1t is the purpose of the govern ment to make plans for the cutting of the matuTed timber as it is needed, and for the purpose of reforeSting in the San Francisco forest reSerye.- Sun.
 Engineer A. T. Cotton, of Florence, who has lately been appointed water commissioner of this district by Judge Doan, arrived in Solomonville last Tuesday evening and has taken up his work. Mir. Cotton has been in the val ley before and is well known here abOutS. The appointment will no doubt meet the approval Of all the water users in the yalley.-Bulletin.
 Judge J. II. Kibbey, of Phoenix, is in SolOmOnville looking up infOrma- tion in the great water suit that is to be tried at the coming court term. The judge has been retained as coun- sel by the San Jose Canal company and will look after the interests of that organization at the coming trial. At one time Judge Kibbey was the pre- siding official at the district court in SJlomonyille and has innumerable friends in this locality Bulletin.
 The business of Surveyor General Price's office is said to be steadily in- creaSing. Last year was big year, but there is gain this year over last year of upwards of 90 per napt Tha innraaGa m pprraSpnp5apra has grown 53 per cent and 40 per cent more of money has been deposited for the surveying of mineral claims. Thirty per cent more orders have been issued for mineral surveys, including Il per cent in area. All this increases tue wealth of the territory as all pat ented claims are taxable.
 Four years ago this county had not a bank within it's borders, now We have six solid banking institutions, with deposits aggregating over mil lion and half dollars, and the paid up capital stock amounts to $235, ,000. Benson is promised bank before the end of the year, which will swell the number This is showing Of growth that no other county in the territory can show, and there has only been a beginning. g.-Tombstone Prospector.
 A couple of strangers, said to be prospecting for lost mine, entered the Palace hotel bar and gambling hall last Monday evening, and devoted their undivided attention to the crap game and roulette wheel. Their clean up is given at $l6,000 The crap game is said to have been the heaviest loser. The Courier reporter interviewed the Palace bankers and they admitted that the two strangers had won oyer $l6000, and had been paid the money, but also said that the loss in no way affected the financial strength of the banks.-Prescott Courier.
 MT. Baker, collector of customs for the district of Arizona, told a reporter
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