Arizona silver belt., 1903-12-03
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
Rev Business Entsrprises"Gcod Year for the Man With the Noe, and the Owner of live Stock. Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn.

The Pr0SpectOr states that there are forty eight prisoners in the county
 jail at Tombstone, the largest number confined there at any time since the
 jail was built.
 A call has been made for meeting of the stockmen of the territory to be held in Phoenix on January 4, for the purpose of organizing a territorial stockmen's association.
 The petition to the board of super visorS of Cochise county for the incor- poration of the city of Bisbee, failed for want of the necessary signatures upon which to base an action by the board.
 The Florence Blade says Prom the dome of the court house one can see the smoke from the engine of the Phoenix X Eastern construction train. We will soon be able to hear the whistle"
 The people of Naco are said to be feeling good over the adviceS received that $6O, 900 was ready for expenditure in customs building to be erected in Naco, Sonora. Bids for construction are being called for.
 A fire destroyed the Congregational church building in Jerome Saturday The church had just been didicated on the previous Sunday, Governor Brodie having assisted in the dedica- tion. It has not been learned what the loss is.
 Jim Parks is the owner of probably the finest gold watch in this part of the country. IL was presented to him by the Arizona, Detroit, and Shannon Copper companies in token of their appreciation of his services during the strike,-Guardian.
 A contract has been let by the First National Bank of Clifton to w. A. Pitt for the erection of a new home for the bank. The building will adj join the Gila Valley bank, and will be a handsome and rOomy structure. It will be com pleted by February Era.
 Superintendent Simmons has offered reward of five hundred dollars for evidence that will lead to the arrest, indictment and conviction of the mis. creant who dynamited the Fl PasO X Southwestern $ Steels water tank at ROdeO on the thirteenth of this | month.
 J. W. Black, whose ranch Is a mile | south of the asylum, brought to the of flee of the Phoenix Republican bunch | of ripe strawberries. MT. Black says | that he has had berries every month | since last March, though not always in marketable quantities. He will have some for the market as late as Christmas.
 The Santa Fe company will build Moki Indian village at the Grand can yOn for the purpose of entertaining it's many passengers at the end of the Irand canyon branch, says the Fl PasO Times. A number of Indians will be employed to stay there in na- jiveattireand sell their beadwork, etc.
 J. R. MeskimOnS, general Superin- ,endent of irrigation of the Indian ervice, with headquarters atPhoenix, laS gone to White river, to consult with Agent Grouse in regard to con- tructing reservoirs for use of the h. liars on the Apache reservation.
 At the last meeting of the city coun- il, a resolution was passed giving c. 4. Ellinwood & Go. the privilege, un- { CT certain conditions, of placing the 100000 bond issue recently voted by $ he city of Prescott for water works improvements, the sale of the bonds , be made within ninety days from i December 90 neXt.-PreScoUt Courier. f A train of nineteen cars brought a yer 300 head of cattle from the south c Tempe last week. These cattle be- | )ng to the Greene Cattle com pany, nd were shipped to the valley for fat n 9ning, as per previous announcement |. these columns, This shipment will [ followed by others until perhaps |, )OO head have been brought to the [ alleY.-Southwestern Stockman. r Ten cars, containing the bridge h uilding equipment for the erection f, | the Phoenix & Easternls new steel D ridge, arrived at Tempe and con. C ,ruction work was begun on Monday. I he News says that it is expected that C om eight to ten weeks will be re- S, ulred to remove the present structure e nd erect the steel bridge. t A cowboy, craz3d from wbiskey, t muSsd hlmsalfby shooting repeatedly I'o a crowd of passengers paradlng T,