Arizona silver belt., 1903-11-26

good condition for the operation of
 passenger trains without further bal | lasting.
 The orange season at Mesa, in the
 Salt river valley, has now begun and
 the crop is very large and the quality
 of the fruit good. James Nelson, who
 now owns the Pritchard ranch near
 Mesa, has already picked about 100
 boxes, which were shipped sometime | ago with a consignment from Mesa. The entire crop, which conSists mainly
 of navels, will reach something over ! 800 boxes of marketable. There will,
 of course, be more that, though good,
 are hardly up to the shipping grade | Republican.
 William Sparks, better known as
 "Timberline Bill" left this morning
 for Morenci and Globe MT. Sparks is
 one of the best officers on the ranger force, and is well known all over Ari-
 zona. He was a candidate for sheriff
 iu Gila county last year. Yesterday
 Sparks met Alex Grant in Douglas;
 these men were old time friends and
 had not seen each other for nearly
 twenty years. In the early days they
 fought the ApacheS toge ther and their associations in the pioneer days of Arizona made them fast friends. - IEternational- American.
 Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, of Metcalf,
 passed through Solomonville Tuesday last en route for hOm'. They were re. turning from the TontO country winery
 Mr. Mitchell was looking for au open that they are not doing much work on
 the dam at present but in a couple of months a large force will be at work
 NIT. Mitchell says the road from Globe is in fair condition, and constantly being improved. Nearly all the sup
 plies are to come via Globe, which will be good thing for that town He also says that Globe is picking up and is on the eve of great prosperity. The building of the Tonto dam wilt make Globe one of the best towns in the
 territory. Bulletin
 "Spud' Murphy is conducting the grading work and the dragging away of the big Spray dump. He. is an old railrOader His family consists of dog with a pretzel tall and a color which is compromise between crushed polkOerries and brick dust. | The dog is named ''Spud Junior" A few months ago Spud Junior got tan gled up in transaction in Canauea which was favored of the disreputa- 1 ble. Dogs are not always accountable, but this dog was, especially as his 1 master was known to be q ready pro ducer. The dog was arrested and ta. | ken to jail, and It just cost Mir. Mur- | phy $l5 tJ get him out So much for | our bDasted republic on the south Bisbee Review.
 The capitol grounds are the most frequeEted section Of the valley now. They were never before so beautiful | Persons from the east finger among the flowers and wonder how they can boom 30 in the middle of November. They are, however, not yet at their best. There is, perhaps, nowhere in the United States such a display of chrySanthemums. It is estimated that there are not fewer than 10000 of these beautiful flowers along the many walks. Each day sees more than the preceding day. The volume of them will increase perhaps for the next two weeks and after that it will slowly de- crease until the holidays when few of them will remain. There will though ] be flowers of obe kind or another there all wlnter.-Phoenix Republican.
 Suit has been filed in the dis ret court for Pima county, by L Zeeken- dOrt X Co., against Ex-Surveyor Gen eral Price and ChiefClerk Murphy for damages in the sum of S250 The facts on which the suit is based were brought to light in the recent criminal prose. ;ution of Price and Murphy at Phoe- nix, wherein it was distinctly shown that Ieckendorf & Go. were actually held up by the surveyor generals of- ( ice for s2OO to expedite" certain work which had already been com C oleted. It also developed that Mur- I 1hy had the check made payable to Il. II. Price. How the money was di- 'ided between them does not trans. t 1ire. lt is said that other suits on the anne lines will follow. (
 Rev. J, G. sIgler, of the NJ. E 'Aurch, was seriously injured this | morning. The parsonage was being I moved on slids, and Mir. Sigler went ' ID on the roof to steady he brick aue. C The ilue tOppled over and thray Mir r