Arizona silver belt., 1904-04-14
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises - uood Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock
 Everybody VIII Have Money.

The annual session of the grand
 lodge |. O. O. F. will convene ir
 Tucson on April IS.
 The chamber of commerce of Doug las has started movem ant for the in. corporation of the town.
 The bid of Springer & Co.,, of Los Angeles for $l0O, ,000 issue of PhoeniN water bonds was accepted by the city council. The bid was Sll7,000,
 The Santa Fe railroad is said to have carried l2,707 visitors to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in 1903, gain of more than 5000 over the previous year.
 The so-called taxpayers ticket won in the NOgales municipal election, which is supposed to foreshadow a wide open town and women in the sa- looms.
 The Era says "Wm, Whalley is having handsome tive-room cottage erected on Chrystal avenue, South Clifton. J.C. Werner has the con- tract.'
 Cochise county has a new jail and it is claimed to be the best jail in the territory, and with all the modern apparatus in vogue there, jail breaks will be next to an impossibility.
 G. K. French has purchased the No. gales Daily Times and will publish that journal as republican newspa- per, materially enlarging the paper and supplying full Associated Press report.
 John Westfall, whose skull was fractured by the explosion of a gas machine about two weeks ago, in Florence, died on the 7th inst. De. ceased was a resident of PilaI county for more than twenty-three years.
 The board of regents of the Uni versity of Arizona have closed con tract with the Tucson Light and Power company to extend their lines to the university and furnish light and power for the buildings for a period of five years.
 W. F. Kilt, merchant and highly esteemed citizen of Tucson died in New York of pneumonia April 6. The funeral took place in New York on Monday under Masonic auspices. He was also member of Tucson lodge A. O. U. W. The remains were ere mated, in compliance with NIT, Kitt's expressed wish.
 The artesian we'll recently sunk at the Reform school at Benson has given an impetus to farming and gardening at that institution. The flow is close to 60 900 gallons daily, which gives an abundance of irrigation water. Some 300 trees have been planted and are doing well. The school now has sev- enteen inmates.-Prospector.
 The Tucson Post says that Prof. Wm. P. Blake of the University of Arizona has not rendered his resigna. ton as has been reported but will be connected with the university during the coming year. Professor Blake will install the museum in its new home in the library building when that structure is completed.
 George Gruewell, of Pleasant valley, Gila county, reports that sheep are in a dying condition in the northeastern part of the county. Snow has fallen quite heavily, he says, and grazing is l scarce. Little lambs, Mir. Gruewell says, can be found lying along the roads, bleating for food. Phoenix Gs. zette.
 The wild rumors about free -for-all light between the opposing railroad graders, above Kelvin, are without foundation except in the imagination of the correspondents who telegraph ed the rumors broadcast. There was a little fist fight between the engineers but there has been no trouble between the grading forces. Florence Blade.
 The Phoenix Enterprise states that there is a strong possibility that J, 0. Dunbar and Frank NJ. King will buy the Cananea Herald. Both are now in Mexico looking into the proposition. Both have had considerable experi. ence In the newspaper business. Whether they will give up their job printing plant in this city in case the new deal goes through has not been learned.
 TheFlowing Wells company, corpo- ration of which the chief stockholders Ire l.. II. Manning, Eugene $. Ives, Brewster and Colin Cameron have purchased the Allison ranches and iitches in the Santa Cruz valley for FSO,OOO. The transaction means much