Arizona silver belt., 1904-06-16

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 The corners tone of the Arizona Cop per company $ new office building was laid Monday last with appropriate services. President Colquhoun wield- ed the trowel and laid the stone. Cop ieS of the Era, Herald and Guardian were placed in the corner, also short history of the company. The build ing, when completed, will be a hand some struc ure, and will reflect credit upon it's architect, Superintendent Schumann.-Era.
 Phoenix will shortly have another banking institution. The Guaranty Savings, Trust X Banking company has been incorporated and will begin operations not later than the first of September. The nc)rporators and directors of the company are w. F. Nichols, Secre tary of the territory i; Dr. J. M. Swetnam, F. l.. Blumer, G, II. N. Luhrs, A. J Edwards D. Nich- olson and NJ. W. Messenger The cap ital stock IS $l00,000.
 Joe Poorman, a popular citizen of Morenc, died last Friday, after an illness of several weeks. The cause of death was typhoid fever A few days before his death Mir. poorman rallied and hopes were entertained for his recovery. Mr. PJ0rmin has been at the head of the dry goods depart- ment of the Detroit Copper company for number of years and was highly respected.
 Prof. R. l.. McDonnold, principal of the Phoenix public schools, left that town under mysterious circumS tances the other day and was apprehended al san Diego ca warrant charging him with forging four salary warrants az gregating s532 He was to have deliv- cred the commencement address st Tempe Normal. Other irregulari ties have been discovered, McDonnold was brought back to face the charges.
 The Phoenix city council has ac- cepted Andrew Carnegie's offer Of $25, 900 for city library. Dwight B. Heard was the leading speaker, and he urged the council to take action on the offer of Andrew Carnegie to give s2j 1000 for a public library in Phoenix ou condition that the city would furn- ish a suitable site for ths building and would give $500 per year to mantain the library
 Theodore F. Marquand aud his son, Charles, have completed the installa- ton of their steam pumping plant at their ranch west of the Casa Grande ruins and are now successfully irri- gating, They are putting in an ex- tensive garden and will soon be ready to supply the town with fresh vegeta- bleS. The success of this plant will induce others to install irrigating pllHNc--I lblElCt
 Many persons in Globe remember Rev. George H. Adams, formerly Snperinte of the Arizona NJ. F. mission, who lost his sight, and who for a number of years has been a life insurance solicitor. Mir. Adams was the owner of very tine watch that would strike the time on a bell when spring was touched Recently while at Douglass this watch was stolen by pickp)cket. Ia rel iting the story the L1rdsburg Liberal takes occasion to roast Douglass, which it says contains inhabi tants mean enough to do almost anything.
 Governor Brodie is putting in part Of his vacation at Pennington, N. J., in the preparation of an article for the Cosmopolitan on "Reclaiming the Arid WeSt.n This work was under taken at the request of John Brisben Walker made about the time the gov ernor started east. The article will be copiously illustrated, most Of the Illustrations relating tO Salt river val ley, One of the principal features will be applications of the Hansbrough- Newlands law to the conditions in Salt river valley and on the Colorado river.
 Phoenix is to have an inde pendent telephone company. It will reduce rates about 30 per cent. from the start, the cost of business phones with desk attachment being S3 month. The new company which is headed by II. NJ. Joy of Los Angeles will invest S50,O00 in competition with the Sunset company. The new company proposes to connect at Tucson with the Solomon lines which will build into Tucson from Benson as soon as they get the local franchise for which they have applied.