Arizona silver belt., 1904-09-01
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
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ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises - uOOd Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock Everybody WiiI Have Money

The Yuma county democrats have instructed for Mark Smith for dele gate to congress.
 We have it on good authority that Wiley Emmett Jones will shortly leave for California, where among the orange groves he will try to forget all. Clifton Herald
 The Range News says: "We are in formed that the Riggs outfit have purchased the ranches and cattle Of Whitehead A. Hancock, who operated in the San simon valley"
 Governor Brodie is quoted by the Tucson Star to the effect that Arizo na is now on cash basis and had paid of something over s9O,00O of its debt and reduced the territorial tax levy.
 The Journal Miner says While at Esopus assisting to notify Parker of his nomination, John Lawler squared himself with the nominee for being a Hearst man at the St. Louis conven- tion."
 Charles H. HofI, secretary and gen eral manager of the Tucson street railway company, announces that his people will give the city of Tucson an electric car service in the immediate future.
 A flock of curlews was seen north east of town on Monday. As their home is on salt water it is not known how they chanced to stray into this mountainous country Prescott Jour nal-Miner.
 Out of total appropriation of s320, 900 for the survey of public lands for the year ending June 30, 1905, Ari- zona has been awarded BPS, 900 or three times the amount allotted for any pre-. vious year.
 MT. Sharpneck, of Kirkland valley, says that twenty-three floods have come down that stream this year. It washed out his dam and when he re- built 1.-two or three times-it met with the same fate.-Journal Miner.
 Six or seven persons have been killed by lightning in southwestern Arizona within the past two weeks The latest victim reported was Mex. ican hauling coke to Black Diamond A horse and two mules in his team were also killed.
 P. P. Greer, cashier of the First Ma tiOnal bank of Clifton, left Monday last to attend the convention of bank CTS, which will be held at Buffalo. He also will take in" the world k fair before returning home. Copper Era.
 The Bisbee Review hears the name of Mayor $. Taylor often mentioned in connection with the office of cOun- cilman from Cochise county. He is be- ing urged to accept the nomination on the democratic ticket by a number of his friends.
 George H. Smalley, private secretary to the governor, has gone on visit to his former home in St. Paul. He is accompanied by Mrs. Smalley and their little daughter. This is the first visit of Mir. Smalley to his relatives in the north in seven years.
 Indications in Bisbee at the pres ent time point to the unanimous sup port of Stewart Hunt for the office of sheriff. MT. Hunt was solicited to run for the office by many democrats in Bisbee and they are now quite en thusiastic in his upport.-Interna. tiOnal. American.
 The general land office recently held that all school land sections within | the limits of forest reserves which | were unsurveyed at the date of the proclamations establishing the re- serves become part of such reserves | and that the territory must select lieu lands in other portions of the ter. | ritory.
 Mrs. 8. N. Kemp, wife of the editor of the Range News, died at the family | residence in Wilcox on the night of | August 20. Funeral services were con. ducted by Rev. E. E. Dowd, at 3 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon and the re- mains shipped to Los Angeles for in- terment in Evergreen cemetery. She leaves husband and two little girls to mourn her.
 mass meeting of the citizens of Nogales was held on Wednesday even- ing of last week for the purpose of discussing the question of joint state hood and getting the sense of the com munity on the subject. The NogaIes Oasis, edited by Col. Allen T. Bird, has been favoring joint statehood, while the Daily News has been oppos,