Arizona silver belt., 1903-12-31

DS6n Wdslcu Ol liS illCll "ho SoNo from the Tombstone jail.
 Owing to tbe objection of the stock holders of the Maricopa X Phoenix, that road will not form part of the Southern Pacific system, and Supt M O. Bicknell and other employees will retain their places.
 In one day last week County Treas urer Geo. Gamble received thrOugl the mail S75, ,OOO. The treasurer ha been employed at the court house ear ly and late keeping up with the ruSl that usually occurs at this season O the year.
 The government is preparing { construct a diversion dam and cana at Apache to bring the waters of Cib cue creek across country so that abou POO acres of farming land on the Aps che reservation can be brought unde cultivation.
 At Cottonwood Springs, Yayapf county, in quarrel, growing out ,
 tribal hatred Frog, Mohave-Apact medicine man, was shot and killed b TOuto Charley, a medicine of u TontO Apaches. The latter was rested and taken to Prescott.
 J. G. Campbell, a pioneer of Pre- cOtt, having resided there thirty-si years, died on the 22d inst, at the az of seventy.six years and six monthi Deceased served one term as delegat to cOngraSS from Arizona, being Sut ceeded in 1883 by Grant Ouray.
 Col. Clark V. Stocking, one of tho old, Old-timerS in Arizona, was il Douglas last week looking the tow over. He is at present engaged i wrting a number of sketches for the papers. These articles deal with the events and men of the early days of the territory, and are very interest ing
 Wm. J. COndOn, freight engineer on the Santa Fe, lost his life on the 18th inst, at a point about ninety eight miles west of WinslOw. In climbing to the cab of his engine, which stood on a high treStle, his hand slipped off the handle bar and he fell backward to the foot of the tres tie, one hundred feet.
 The case of Date Graham, former constable at Bisbee and later of Doug las, who is charged with killing a man named Smith at Douglas and was in. diCted by the grand jury at Tom oStOne was continued for the term. Bond in the sum of 5000, with l.. c. Shattuck and Paul WarnekrOs, suretieS, was furnished by Graham.
 In a short tune two solid vestibule trains will be runDing on the Fl Paso & Southwestern, says the PrOSpector. This road is doing such & passenger business that the present equipment is not considered sufficient to handle the traffic. These trains will be equal In comfort and appointments to any on the big roads of the country. They will run between Fl PaSo and Benson.
 The annual banquet of the Arizona Bar association will be held in Phoe. nix, January II. The responses are announced to be as follows "The Territory" Governor BrOdie; "The Bench" Chief Justice Edward Kent "The Bar," John c. Herndon; State hoOd," Judge W. II. Barnes; "The Lawyer Politician" Mayor Walter Bennett, of Phoenix; Pioneers of Arizona" Judge Webster Street.
 The JOurnal.Miner says that A. A. Pratt has had another inning with the machinery of the law. On this occasion he was in Court Commissioner John c. Forests court on a charge of $515, 9 from the poStoflice at Wickenburg while he was clerking In the office. Commissioner Forest held him under S1jOO bonds to answer to the United States grand jury at Phoenix.
 An Old-tlme miner has returned to Jerome with the improbable story that John Mccarthy, the game war den who was supposed to have been killed by bear in the mountains north )f Pine several years ago and the re. mains inferred at Phoenix, is alive and living in the east that he saw him and spoke to him many times. The contest over McCarthy'S life in. 'urance. amounting to $27, ,OOO, was 
 The Fl PasO Herald reports the cap ture in that city of Mexican by the name of Moreno, wanted at Clifton, Ariz., for burglary, Ten days ago two