Arizona silver belt., 1904-07-14

J. B. Breathitt formerly national committeeman w. B. Kelly, of the Bisbee Review, and A. 0. Bernard, of Tucson and Cananea Tucson Post.
 Fred Bonner, an employe of the Tombstone Consolidated, who was working at the big shaft had occasion to look after some detail under the boiler, and while in that situation, a valve blew out and before he could extricate himself he was fearfully scalded from head to foot, and his chances of recovery are very slight.
 The Montezuma Flour Milling com pany, of Solomonville, has suspended indefinitely. The mill was built about five years ago at cost, including wa ter power, of $3J,000. The greatest draw back to the success of the enter prise has been the lack of sufflent wheat to operate the mill throughout the year.
 The Yuma Sun announces that land owners are steadily signing the con- tracts for national irrigation. Almost all opposition to it has ceased and 1t is now thought to be matter of but short time when the Water Users association officers can announce to the secretary of the interior that 1t is ready to close the deal.
 About seventy-iive men were laid of in the shops in the first of the week. This is the direct result of or. ders issued from the main offices to all branches and divisions of the Southern Pacific. As a result of the cut, several machines are standing idle in the shops and work that is bad ly needed on the engines has been stopped. Tucson Post.
 An eye doctor by the name of J. H. Gerling has been passing bogus checks signed G, H Wilson, on the contiding merchants of Tucson. Duran Daily is victim to the tune of sT6 Ohas. F. HOff, s36, and Greek fruiterer, s15. Landlord Reid, of the Park View ho- tel, has Gerling's trunk for fourteen it, expecting to find gold brick" within.
 J. H. W. Jensen of the Co nucopia club is in the city today. He states that the water supply in his part of the county is not nearly so good as other liquids. At present he gets water but once in thirteen days and unless there is rain very soon Mir. Jensen states that he will lose nearly a thousand shade trees surrounding his country place on the Tempe road. Enterprise.
 F. A. Adams came down from Dud- leyyiIle Wednesday. He has been pros pecting in the vicinity of Saddle noun tain and reports that the Arizona Eastern grading crew are throwing rock in the Gilacauyon in great shape. He says that t sounds as if there was an artillery duel in progress in the Gila canyon. Beside open cuts, he says they are working on a long tun- nel.-Florence Blade.
 Typhoid fever continues at Clifton. Mrs. Wood died last week. There has been typhoid fever in that place for more than three years, and as yet the origin of the fever, the source of the poison, has not yet been discovered. The town has been cleaned up often, and after the cleanup the fever cases are less frequent. Often in such epi- denies of typhoid the source of the fever is hard to find.--L0rdsbnrg Lib eral.
 Perhaps many people in this county are not aware of the fact that, accord ing to the New York Health Bulletin. the purest article of beer and porter ever produced is made in Ramsey Canyon, in the Huachucas, by Andrea Jaerger. This old gentleman manu factures this commodity on small scale, and refuses to wholesale, though constantly solicited to do 80, and he has been offered all kinds Of money for his secret.-Tombstone Prospec tor.
 According to the assessment roll of Cochise county, the Boqulllas Land & Cattle company is the largest taxpayer of all the large cattle owners in that county. The assessment of this com. pany is $70,7l2 The San Simon com pany, San Rafael Land Grant co mpa ny, Greene Cattle company, Chirica. hua Cattle company, Hysham & Neal and w. H. McKittriok are among the larger owners, in the order named, ranging in assessed valuation from $62,oO0 down to $25,0OO. There are numerous other large owners of cattle in that county.