Arizona silver belt., 1904-03-24

it's tents and took itself and abou
 5000 of Yuma's good money out c
 town last Sunday morning. The gen
 eral opinion seems to be that as fak
 itwas the worst.-Yuma Sentinel.
 The Stafford Guardian reports tha
 the 3.year-old son of Mir. and Mrs
 Charles Nelson, of Safford, having en
 tered an outhOuse and fastened thu
 door, set fire to some waste paper, ant
 before he could bs rescued the child
 was fatally burned.
 H. S. Collins was in from the ar
 tesian belt a few days ago, and re-
 ports that in sinking for water he
 struck at at 23O feet flow of fully
 one hundred gallons per minute. This
 adds greatly to the fine body of land comprising his homestead.-Saff0rd Guardian.
 The case of John Dessart, the presi- dent of the defunt International bank at Nogales, who was up for examina- ton for insanity yesterday, was post poned on a technicality and a new time for the examination has been set for next Thursday. This is the word received by telephone from that place Tucson Star.
 YumaS wild hemp, which grows in such abundance on either side of the Colorado river, covering an area of not less than 50,0OO acres, is engaging the attention of many of the capitalists of New York. The experiments made with the fibre have been more than satisfactory and such as to warrant the investment of large capital at DO very distant day.-Yuma Sentinel.
 F. w. Volz has loaned the Arizona board of managers of the worlds fair 5000 pounds of Canyon Diablo meteor, for exhibition at St. Louis. The ex. bibit will be an addition to the Ari- zona exhibit that will attract consd- erable scientific interest. All the pieces of meteoric iron are large and the size increases the value and also the interest to scientists s.-Flagstaff Sun.
 Itappears that the Don Luis Town site company which made such splurge few months ago, claiming to have sold over sl0O,OO0 worth of lots at their auction sale, are in flnau- cial difficulty and trying to unload their holdings upon party of Bisbee men who would, in the event of the deal going through, reorganize the company.
 The Benson Press says there is no truth in the published report that the foundation of the reform school was The Press says: If the in- dustrial school has settled since its construction, 1t would take a very delicate instrument to demonstrate | the fact. There is no visible evidence | that the big building has settled the fraction of an inch, and it's walls are | not in danger of tumbling down.
 The investigation of the extension of the Indian reservation was rather costly, it would seem, fir om an item in she supervisors report of claims al- owed against the county. Nine hun. fred and eighty.one dollars and sev. 'nty cents would buy up a consid. ,rable patch. of the land in question, md for one evenings meeting to hear of parties interested, one would think at first blush that some witness certainly overdrew his mile. 'ge slightly. Good old Coconino county, how easy you milk. .-Flagst taff sun.
 A surveying party was organized ,hs week, with Water Commissioner Jolton in charge, to survey the canal I've miles this side of Thomas, which vas formerly owned by L. Voeickel, 'ut is now in the hands of L. Zscken- iorf & Co.,, of Tucson, whose busi. 'ess has this week gone into the hands If receiver. l. E. Solomon is repre-. enting ZeckendOrf & Go. in this ounty. He left Thursday for Tue. on to confer with them on m alters of , business. He was accompanied by lis daughter, Miss Lillian, who goes ( O visit friends in the old pueblo. = Irizona Bulletin. In 1898, when party of Tucsonians, ncluding Judge Lowell, were passen- z CTS on the "Gila Monster" then a eading from Solomonvllle to Bowie, ne sou thern terminus of the Gila val ! y line, train ''bucked at several ' faces in the run of 35 miles. Each i me stop was made, Conductor Nc. c alum was called upon to explain the | 'use of delay. His answer would be. U O Oh, the engineer Is trying to get up p