Arizona silver belt., 1904-02-18

Taylor ana SnOWllake, ln Apdcne county, have recently been connected by telephone.
 The people of Douglas will make an effort to have an army post located near that place.
 The expense of feeding the prison CTS of Graham county during the year 1903 foots up $4l64.s5.
 Prescott is now soon to have stree t railway, regardless of the croakings of disgruntled individuals.
 E. A. Mcfarland, of the Yaqui River X Cananea railroad, was married on the 9th inst, at Tombstone, to young lady of Cananea, Sonora.
 The Douglas Dispatch reports the discovery, near Donglas, of bed of clay, which it says is of sufficient puri- ty to be used in making cement.
 The mining class of the territorial university is out on a tour of inspection. They have visited Tombstone and Bis bee, and will make a trip to Cananea.
 The Arizona Southern will construct a railroad from Red Rock on the Southern Pacific, to the Imperial mines, construction to commence early in May.
 John Kickum, a miner, was caved'in on at Bisbee on the 9th inst, and when rescued was dead, having been i'm prisoned beneath tons of debris for fourteen hours.
 A stage line has been started, run ming between Duncan and the new gold strike. The stage leaves Duncan three times week and arrives at the new camp at 3:30 pm. of the same day.
 Douglas is a very dusty city, and the people are devising ways and means by which the border city may become more congenial. The streets will be sprinkled with crude petro- leum.
 Last Saturday the voters of St. Johns | decided that they wanted local option | no more. The vote was T to 43 in | favor of the saloons. Local option | was put on little over two years ago. St. Johns Herald.
 Benson has established a reading room which is being sustained by con- tributiOns of the railroad companies which center there. This is good for both the railroads and the patrons Of the reading.room.
 A corps of surveyors is again at ! work on the proposed dam on the Col. Orado rive: near Parker, and it is now thought that this great work will be commenced within short time, being the first of series of dams to be constructed on the Colorado river.
 A man went to a Solomonville phy- sician to get a prescription to cure himself and wife of chills. The doctor prescribed equal parts of whisky and quinine. The man took the whisky and gave his wife the quinine and says the results were satisfactory. Florence Blade.
 Frank Proctor who wants to devote his time to the management of the San Rafael ranch, is figuring on closing out his liquor concessions at Cananea. valued at $2OO, 900, according to report. Juarez parties contemplate buying.
 Large shipments of wool are begin hing to go out over both roads. Several carloads have been sent out this week to various points in the east. Shear. ing has begun in real earnest and the many thousand sheep in this valley will soon be shorn of their fleece Phoenix Enterprise. At Black Diamond mine on the 9th inst, Deputy Sheriff Arthur Wright , arrested Mexican who was creating = a disturbance. The latter's friends tore down the jail and liberated him. . The officer was shot, from the effect . of which he died The three Mexicaus ' who made the assault are in the : Tombstone jail and threats of lynch ing are indulged in. Attention is again directed to the !, fact, says the Phoenix Gazette. that : February 2l, 22 aud 23 are to be nota. Ole days for those who love the wild i, sports of the co SboyS and their dan , gerouS work with the riata and the hackamore. Beside steer-tying there |, will be bronco riding and flag picking : and all sorts of range sports. The company of the Twelfth infant ry, which has been stationed at Whip. f pie for several months, will leave for Q San Francisco on the 2Oth of this i month, from which place they will [