Arizona silver belt., 1903-04-09
What HasnHappened in theiI eHi- tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF IMPORTATION.
Hev Buslness Enterprises..Good Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock --Eserybody Except the Editor Expects to Have. Money to Burn.

The Bulletin notes the return of Chas. F. Solomon from an extended eastern trip.
 The Bisbee Daily Miner has made an assignment for the benefit of its cred. itors. Liabilities, $5O7O.49 resources, $395326.
 The Herald is the name of new paper published at Clifton by P. J. Bennett, formerly proprietor of the Dsming Herald.
 A Jnew dormitory, to accommodate seventy girls, is to be built at the Tempe normal and completed before the next school term begins.
 The qualified taxpayers of Phoenix will vote, April l5, on the proposition to issue $500, 900 bonds to provide mu nicipal waterworks. Opinion seems to be greatly divided on the question.
 Two inches of ram fell in twenty four hours at Prescott last week. The storm was heavy throughout northern Arizona. h the higher attitudes the precipitation was in the form of snow.
 Two shots of black powder were fired in the mines at Metcalf recently which furnished ore for two weeks. l { is estimated that l2,O00 tons of ore were knocked down by the two shots
 Hope that the murderers of Charles E. Goddard and Frank Cooke will at last be punished has been revived. Two men have been arrested at Naco who are believed to be the men wanted.
 The last legislature created twelve new places in the territorial ranger force, and Capt. Thos. H. Rynning has so far received fully POO applica tions for the, dozen places. Eight of the twelve men will be privates, and four sergeants.
 Governor Brodie has reappointed Thomas H. Rynning captain 1Of the Arizona rangers, and appointed John Foster as lieutenant. Under the new law the captain is to receive a salary of $l75 per month and the first lieu tenant $50.
 Counting receipts for the fiscal year the postoffices of the southwest range as follows Phoenix, first in size with total receipts of s29, AIbuquer- que second, receipts s2l GOO; Tucson third, receipts $lS,000, nearly 50 per cent less than Phoenix; Prescott fourth. receipts $l4,000; Santa Fe fifth, re- ceipts $11.00O.
 The Fl PasO & Southwestern Rail road company has encountered obSta- cles tn the building of the proposed cut, fl extension from Forest station tO NacO. Two injunction suits have been filed against the company, one by the Cananea, Yaqui River X Pacific lin which plaintiff also claims dama- ges or Sl50,O0OD and the other by the Aztec Land & Cattle company.
 The new law which increases the ranger force to twenty men does not contemplate that the change shall be made immediately. New members may be recruited from time to time, as may be needed, at the discretion of the governor, until the maximum number allowed by law has been ached.-Southwestern Stockman.
 Owing to the order requiring all fences to be removed from the public domain, many stockmen in this county are making homestead entries and a great deal of land is thus being taken up. There is also large demand for school sectisns 16 and 36, and applioa- tions fOr-leases are being forwarded to Tucson almost daily. - Tombstone PrOspector.
 Two sticks of giant powder were discovered on the track of the Pres colt & Eastern railroad yesterday a short distance from Huron. They were probably placed by some April fool joker. Neither stick had cap at tached and the train might possibly have passed over them without acci- dent. Engineer LandOn saw them in time to stop the train without making the experiment.. Prescott Journal Miner.
 MT. Sponseller, one of the northern Arizona sheep men who has been win tering his flocks in this valley, on Tuesday shipped to George Collins, a big Chicago dealer, seventeen carloads