Arizona silver belt., 1904-07-21

ernment that the matter will be held open short time longer to enable all to get on the inside.-Sentinel.
 Tullos, a Mexican who is employed at the smelters, met with very serious accident about2 o clock yester- day morning by being in the way of a converter. The matte flew out over him and he was all afire in a second. He was so situated that 1t was im- possible to get out of the way of the molten mass and the matte flew over his body. Several ran to his rescue aud threw water over him to extin- guish the fire. His cries were pitiful. Everything was done to relieve the man. He was taken to the Copper | Queen hospital at Bisbee last evensng. Douglas Dispatch.
 The Prescott Jourual. Miner says: A trolley line will shortly be built to connect the Lynx creek end of the Poland tunnel with a number of min ing properties on the west side of the Poland range of Mountains. A branch will be built to some of the more prominent mines in Walker district and the line will then run to the Cash mine and down iuto Crook canyon as far possibly as Palace station with spurs to many of the mines along the route. It will be operated in connec- tion with the Poland tunnel as feed CT to the Poland and Prescott X Eastern railroads.
 The Graham County State Bank of Thatcher has recently changed hands to a great extent, many of the old stockholders having sold their hold dings and retired from the concern. The full list of stockholders at the present time, consists of Dr, w. E. Plat [, president; Judge w. A. Moody, wee president; J. D, Lee, cashier, and J. R. Welker, Wm. Ellsworth, Frank Tyler, Dr. l.. E. Wightman, of Globe, J. T. Brown, of Kentucky, A. J. Will son, and Myron Alfred. These gen tle- men in their private affairs represent fully sl00,000, assuring the stability aud reliability of the bank.-Guar- dian.
 The action of the supervisors in an- n0unclng the purpose to enforce the no fence law in Douglas has raised good deal of question as to what the law means. Briefly stated, It requires that owners of I've stock, keeping the same within the town must not allow it to run loose. Provision must be made for keeping 1t on the premises of the owner. If found loose on the streets it becomes the duty of the poundmaSter to take it in charge, and such expenses as are incurred in doing so and in providing care and feed are assessed upon the owner before he can recover his property lnterna. tional- merican.
 John Tyrrell, keeper of the Tucson railroad stock yards, says that every time a stock train comes in for unloading to feed, number of Mexlcans flock to the yards with the expectation of securing the hides and choicest meat from carcasSes Of cattle taken out of cars and cast aside The care asses are cut up on the spot, hides that bring two UT three dollars each being saved, SO that the results to the Scavengers are worth the trouble. If the dead animals are butohered at the pens then the anna teur butchers are required to clean up the refuse, which they invariably do I don't eat tamales any more," said Tyrrell, ll,-Southwestern Stockman.
 A terrible accident occurred about noon Friday at the West Yankie shaft of the Detroit Copper company. The cage was being hoisted with five men aboard, when in passing the third level, Cruz Salais was struck on the head by timber and fell to the bottom of the shaft. Julian Lopez in attempting to catch his comrade, was pinned between the upper timberS of the level and the cage and crushed to death. No blame was attached to any one connected with the mine for the disaster. The funeral of the two unfortunate men was held on Satur- day afternoon and was largely at- tended.-Copper Era.
 Speaking Of statehood, Governor Brodie says; "The people of Arizona need not worry over statehood, for they will not get any at the next ses. sion of congress. No possibility for joint statehood with New Mexico ex- iStS, for that bill will never pass through congress. Even in New Mex ico there is considerable opposition to joint statehood Then, within a few years perhaps, we will gain single statehood. Probably, Oklahoma and Indian Territory will De admitted as one state into the union for the citi- zens of both territories are agreed upon the subject, but Arizona and New Mexico will remain territories for while longer"
 Yesterday Bisbee was visited by sev- eral Stockman fro m different parts of