Arizona silver belt., 1904-09-01

Mexico would be obnoxious tO the | people of Arizona, and the citizens of Nogales win use all possible influence to defeat the measure when it comes to vote in the United States senate at the coming session of congress-.
 Theo. Shirley, of Metcaif, has pur- chased half interest in c. F. Pascoes livery and transfer business. Mir. Shirley will make his home in Clifton, and will prove a valuable acquisition to our business circles. The business will be transacted under the firm name of Pascoe X Shirley Copper Era.
 While in Yuma, sheriff Lewis re- gently saw Burt AlYord and the inn prisoned desperado presented the big sheriff with belt woven from horse hair and trimmed with silver buckles made from Mexican dollars. Alvord claims to have made the belt, which must have taken hours of tedious la Dor to make.-Tucson Post. Senator" Freeze, formerly mem- Der of the Arizona legislature and one of the best known gamblers of the ter ritOry, was held up and robbed at Douglas one night last week of s2l00. He was forced to hand over the money at the point of revolver. Officers are endeavoring to capture the thieves, but as yet they have not been taken into custody.
 A correspondent of the Bisbee Re- view says; "The incorporation peti tions are being signed in a way that shows that the Douglas people want to have city government. The com mitteman who is circulating the peti. tion is working hard to get the requ. site number. of signers, and from the progress already made 1t is expected that the required number will be had before the end of next week.
 The Cochise county democratic com mittee convened in Bisbee, August 9, and appointed thirty delegates to the democratic territorial convention to be held at Phoenix on September 15. The delegates were instructed to vote as unit for the nomination of Marcus A. Smith. The county convention for the nomination of county officers will meet at Douglas on September 24.
 Prospects are good for an unusually large attendance at the university the coming year. Although the school will net open until September Is, al. ready large number of students have applied for admittance and some have sent in their matriculation fee. The greater part of last years students practically all of the abler ones-have signified their intention of returning. Apparently the capacity Of the build ing will be taxed to the utmost to ac. commodate all who apply.-Tucson Star.
 Charles Brakebill, one of the pio- neer residents of the southwest. passed to his long rest at his home in Met. calf Friday last, at the ripe old age of 6s years. Deceased came to this sec tion with the California column in 1863, and after being mustered out continued to reside in the country. At different times he was engaged in mining, ranching and general mer. cantile pursuits. He was a pioneer in many of the mining camps of New Mexico and Arizona. Copper Era.
 The Arizona Eastern has a survey OTIS camp at Summit, twenty miles northeast from here, They are en. deayoring to find way to cross the Stein's Peak range of mountains, the range that appears on the map as rhe | Pelonclllos,, without such q steep grade as that at Stein $ Pass. It is re- ported that they have found very good grade. This, undoubtedly, means the building of a road from Lordsburg to connect with the Gila Valley road near Solomonville. - Lords burg Lib, eral.
 The Tempe correspondent of the . Republican says : "The solar motor, which for some time past has been in operation a mile south of town, under
 
 the direction of Mr. Bruns, has been sold and during the past few days has been taken down and loaded on car. The work was completed Wednesday evening and that same night it was shipped to Wilcox, where 1t will again f be placed in operation, pumping wa. ter for cattle. The value of the motor has been fully demonstrated here and 1t Is believed by those interested in the machine that it will be only a question Of short time until they will be m general use In the west.n
 Ex-Shertf Behan of Tombstone, who