Arizona silver belt., 1903-10-22
What Has Happened in the Terri. tory Since Our Last
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ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
Asv Bssinsss Enterprises.-Good Year for the 0sn With the Hoe, and the Owner of live stosk--svsrybody EIesptthe Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn,

A miners union was organized at Iron King, October 10. It starts otl with membership of eighty.
 The landowners about Yuma have perfected an organization patterned after the Water Users association of Salt river valley.
 There is rumoI in general circula- ton that Clifton is soon to have an other newspaper which will be dem Ocratic in politics.
 Bids were received at the quarter. masters department of Fort Grant on October 10, for 15O,OOO pounds of hay. The contract was awarded to Ph. Freudenthal of the Solomon Conner cial company at $i2.9O per ton.
 Fourteen Italians who participated in the Morenci riots have been indict- ed by the grand jury of Graham county. Friends of the indicted men brought great pressure to bear to prevent the the indictments.
 Ex-Senator RF PettIgrew, of South Dakota, was in Yuma last week to at tend the annual meetings of the Cali fornia King and Rio del Monte mining companies, in both of which he is heavily interested.
 The Douglas Dispatch recently took a census of the Shelter city, and found it had population Of 4,56l. The Dispatch certifieS that the census is correct. It estimates the population of the Mexican town across the line at 300.
 P. G. Wood of Bonita, returned from Los Angeles on October 10. Mir. Wood is just recovering from very severe case of blood poisoning, caused from the hook of COW. The wound healed but blood poisoning set in and Mr. Wood has suffered intensely.-Bulle- tin.
 The recent order for the retirement of train agents and other men in the Southern Pacific service will mean reduction of the forces on the system of over l500 persons. The company is retrenching by reducing the number on the payroll. Conductors collect fares as before.
 The southwest is leading in trade ac tivity as we'll as in railway cOnstruc- tiOn and relative increasing of pOpula. tion. Arizona is sharing liberally in these distinctions, and in no other section is the progressive spirit more noticeable than in COchise county Prospector.
 Up to last Thursday $l25,OO worth of lots at Don Luis had been sold by the Henry P. Barbour company. Two other tOwnsites have been laid out at Don Luis. Mir. Barbour informed a Review representative that prelimi nary work on the electric line to con nect Bisbee and Don Luis will be commenced at once.
 Thursday afternoon the jury empan- elled to try the case of Joe Roberts charged with the crime of grand lar ceny, brought into court verdict Of guilty. Roberts appropriated calf from the range of Tom Stockton on the Blue and now must suffer the pen. alty for his mSdeeds.-
 The board of supervisors adjourned Friday, says the Courier. At it's Fri day session, Sheriff Roberts bill for the second quarter of S6, ,643.25, was al- lowed for s5, 80. 20. The sheriff refused to accept the county warrant for the bill as allowed, and will contend for the full amount of the bill as put in. Appraisers of the estate of John Y. T. Smith filed their report in the pro. bate court of Maricopa county, which | showed the value of the same to be | $30,000. It consisted mainly of mort | gages on valley lands and property of | the city of Phoenix. It also includes large block of stock of the National | Bank of Arizona.
 The Bonita correspondent of the | Bulletin says: MT. Whalen, foreman of the Sierra Bonita ranch, was severe ly burned by the explosion of acety- lene. It seems he had the gas vat | open examining 1t and his son ap- preached him with a candle which | ignited the gas. MT. Whalens face and hands were badly burned but 10 serious result is anticipated.
 There was meeting of the terri tortal loan commission last Saturday, mainly for purpose of taking up the only one of the Yavapai bonds in ex. istence. After a considerable search 1t was found in the possession of man in Bristol, England. The matter offunding the Tucson city bonds to