Arizona silver belt., 1904-08-04

ufCnUO VIII toot T1D more, making the cost of the land $65 per acre and upwards.
 As result of the sensational arrest of H. J. Bignell. nephew of Governor Brodie, for issuing alleged bad checks in Bisbee, Sheriff A. V. Lewis will probably have to answer in the district court at Tomb tone in a damage suit for $l0,000. Bignell has retained attor- neys Bennett X Williams to look after his interests in the case, and they are now preparing papers that will shortly be filed in the office of the district court clerk. The aggrieved party was arrested by mistake in Douglas on July 22. Deputy Sheriff Coffee placed Bignell under arrest, when he should have served the papers on H. B. Seeley a friend aud acquaintance of Bignell. --Bisbee Miner.
 The Era is informed on what It con siders fairly good authority that the socialists of Graham county number something over POO voters, divided as follows; Clifton S4, Stafford 52, Solo, knoxville 8, Central 6, Pima 10 and Seyer- al at Thatcher. It is further informed that the socialists will not put out a county ticket, but will throw their support to such candidates as may be agreed upon later. As nearly all of the socialists are from the democratic par | ty it is only reasonable to suppose, that with no ticket of their own in the field, they will naturally vote the tick ct of the party with which they for merly affiliated. But this would be of no benefit to them in the future, and many affirm that they will cut and slash at lively rate. They are an unknown quantity. Era.
 The Republicans correspondent at Roosevelt writes as follows of the storm week ago Tuesday "It began about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and lasted for three hours. Pinto creek rose three feet, and as there was heavy rise in the Salt river. Mr. Richins, the gau- ger tor the Uuited States geological survey at Roosevelt, reported that the river at that point rose Sl feet on | Tuesday night. Foreman Harpham, of the Phoenix road between the dam site and Fish creek hill, reported on Wednesday morning that the rise had struck his camp, washing away part of the commissary, tools, etc., and about 10 feet of the newly constructed road, and at the time of making his report the water was running 9 feet deep. No other damage was reported to the road from any other point.
 The International.Am mericau says ; "During the heaviest electrical, rain aud wind storm ever witnessed in | Douglass, two houses were struck by lightning, young man being severely injured and miraculously escaping death at one of them, several houses were lloated from their foundations, others blown over, window glass blown out, streets filled with swiftly running torrents, a few houses flooded, and | business paralyzed for the evening All this was brought about in the course of an hour, during which over two inches of rain fell. The young man injured was Barclay HOckett, sev- enteen years old, son of o. c. Hockett. The lightning struck the house and | demolished screen door behind which young Hockett was standing. He was hurled to the floor and remained un- | conscious for three hours.
 The little two-year.old girl of Mir. and Mrs. B. W. Sendry, of Douglas, had very narrow escape from death | by drinking cyanide of potassium. Dr. | Armstrong was summoned in time to save the little one after very hard | struggle. There were several little children playing in the park near the band stand, and becoming thirsty the little girl took drink from a pail, which was on the ground near by, con- taining cyaride of potassium. It was used by Gardner Hatcher for the pur- pose of killing ants and other insects, and was unfortunately left where the children could get hold of it. The lit tie child was taken to the home of J | NJ. Sparks, where her mother was spending the afternoon. She was in 1 an unconscious state and could not say what was the matter, but they found that she was poisoned and immed- ately took her to the doctor, who ap- piled stomach pump, in time to save the child's life.
 The Republican says there is going to be some extensive fence cutting in the southern part of the territory in a day or two. Last April com plaint was made in the United States court at Tucson that cattlemen living in that district had fenced great areas of the public domain. The complaint was heard and the fences pere ordarad ra