Arizona silver belt., 1903-06-11

Several cases of typhoid fever arc reported in Clifton. Two deaths have occurred from that disease so far this season.
 Company B, of Phoenix, will attend the annual encampment of the nation al guard, to be held next August ir
 Wyoming.
 TeOdOro Elias, the murderer of Wm
 kat2enstein, was sentenced to be hanged upon Friday, the 24th day of | July, 1903, between the hours of lC and 0 clock.
 Passenger service has been eStab. liShed on the Phoenix X Eastern. There is but one train daily, which leaves Phoenix at 9:l5 m. and re- turning leaves Mesa at l1;50 am.
 w. c. Truman, of Florence, left last week for Alaska. He was accom- panied as far as San Francisco by Mrs. Truman, who will remain in that city until her husbands return from the north. He goes to look after mining interests.
 The Ford hotel at Phoenix has been purchased from pr. J. NJ. Ford by MeSSrs. Al Williams and Theodore Hatfner. The consideration was S40,- 900. The purchasers are known as the Coffee Al company, and now operate the Coffee Al restaurant.
 The amount of money that will go into the territor treasury from the collection of the years taxes from the insurance companies that are doing business in Arizona will amount to about Sl7,000. Last years receipts were only Sl4,000.
 As shown by the school census, Bis bee has 1925 children of school age 55S boys aud 467 girls. There are 425 children of American percentage and $50 whose parents were both born in foreign land, and l07 of the children are foreign born.
 The household furniture of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. King, which was lately shipped from Tucson, was destroyed in the fire at the Maricopa & Phoenix depot. Besides the furniture of the household, other articles of value ware also destroyed. Democrat.
 The Era has information direct from Auditor Nichols that the receipts to the territory under the COwan bill, from March IS, the date of the approy- al of the act, to May 2S, 1903, amount to $69S3. This is at the rate of $l00 per day since the passage of the act. This income will soon reduce the ter ritOrial tax rate.-Clifton Era.
 "Under a recent act of the Arizona legislature the office of deputy cOnsta- ble has been abolished. This fact was not discovered by the public until it was made known by District Attorney Baker, notifying the conStables that they could not legally appoint depu- ties" says tine Phoenix Enterprise.
 Walter Mcdaniel was arrested at Fort Thomas this week and brought before Justice w. w. Crockett, of Pima, upon charge of refusing to show the hide of an animal said to have been killed by him, to the in- spector. A jury was demanded, and the case has been set for next Friday at 10 o'clock.
 The BiSbee Women'S club owns property assessed at $500. Such ex- traOrdinary wealth has brought trouble on the club, for it hasn't enough ready money to pay it's taxes and is now inaugurating movement to have the assessment lowered. When it comes to death and taxes the women have just as hard time of it as the men do. Republican,.
 The Star says that Delegate Wilson proposes to introduce bill at the opening of congress providing an ap- propriation of $l,000,000 to build the San Carlos dam for the use of the h. dianS. He believes the national irri- gatiOn law cannot be so construed as to use any part of this fund to supply Indians on reservations with water, hence the necessity of a special appro- priation.
 Fire destroyed the Maricopa & Phoe- nix freight depot, at Phoenix, last Thursday morning, the blaze being caused by spontaneous combustion. oil, ammonia and gasoline were stored in the room, and in few minutes af- ter the fire started terrific explosions occurred, ShatteriDg the walls of the building and rendering it dangerous to be near the conflagration. Two cars on the track alongside the depot, one ntaining local freight for Mesa, and