Arizona silver belt., 1904-02-11

bank of the stream. m.-Florence Blade
 Tucson people are justly proud of
 the Santa Rita hotel, opened las
 week by Boniface lager. The Sants
 Rita contains 200 rooms, is modern IT
 all of it's appointments, and in fact
 the finest hotel between Kansas City
 and Los Angeles.
 The Review states that a division o
 the Ancient Order of Hibernians wal
 organized and instituted in Bisbet
 February l, which is to be known as
 Division No. 1 of Arizona. The lodge
 was instituted by National Organize
 Edward l. Sheehan, who attends to
 these duties for the national organi
 zation west of the Mississippi valley.
 It is understood that Vice President
 R. Allyn Lewis of the insolvent Inter.
 national bank of Nogales is on route
 from New York to Nogales. Mir.
 Rhuart, who succeeded Lewis as gen eral manager of the New York Life,
 is held as Lewis representative. Mir.
 Rhuart is well spoken of and has no connection with deals Lewis may have
 made in the east. Judge Barnes, of
 Tucson, is representing Mir. Lewis in the bank difficulty.
 From this time on the local sheriff $ office will take photos of every sus- piciOuS character that is placed under arrest. For some time past they have made a practice of photographing the chief criminals brought to the county jail, but will increase this practice from now on. For a time it was in- tended to install the Bertilion sys- tenn of measuring criminals, but the board of supervisors could not bring ! itself to buy the apparatus necessary. The cost would be about $65. .-Phoe- nix Gazette.
 A railroad engineering crew arrived at Dudleyyille this week and is recon noitering in the vicinity of the Gila and the Disappointment valley. They are reticent as to their purpose or as to what company they represent, but we are informed that they represent the Yaqui River Railroad company, which is Southern Pacific enterprise. There will be something doing here in the railroad line soon.-Fl Florence Blade.
 What might have proved a very dis astrouS tire was discovered just in the nick of time on the night of Febru- ary 1, at Tombstone, in the residence of Sheriff Dsl Lewis. An incipient fire had started in the bathroom. Mrs. Lewis was in her bedchamber at the time and asleep, 80 that on the discov- cry of the tire she had to be awakened. The fire department was called out, and speedily responded aud extiu- guished the fire before any material damage was done.
 Delegate J. F. Wilson. from Arizona, Vu "ahuaiJ -|fihbiOuuCtu III Liit UOub6 of representatives bill providing for the relief of Pima county. It appro- priates S3S0, 1000 for the purpose of talk ing up the narrow gauge bonds. and provides that the treasurer of the United States, immediately after ts passage and approval, shall pay to the | treasurer of Pima county this sum for the purpose of redeeming the bonds. | This bill was referred to the commit | tee on claims and ordered printed.- Tucson Post.
 A surveying party, said to be one of | the best equipped ever sent into the field, is engaged in surveying a line | for the Santa Fe railroad from Dud. | leyville, in Pinal county, via Ara vaipa Canyon, to Wilcox, aud will | from that point parallel the Southern Pacific to Deming, connecting there with the Santa Fe main line. The party is now at Railroad Pass, near Benson, says the Bisbee Review, and is the same party which recently sur veyed a line down the Gila valley, the idea being to ascertain the compar- ative cost via either route.
 The Arizona, New Mexico aud Colo rado railroad, which is supposed to be headed for Benson, has corps of en. egineers in the field surveying toward that point. It passes through the counties of C0chSs and Graham, in this territory; the counties of Grant, Socorro, Valencia, Bernalillo, Sln Juan and Rio Ariba, in New Mexico. and the counties of Conejos and La Plata, in the state of Colorado, total distance of $50 miles, Durango, Colo. will be the terminus at the other end and Benson will be the Cochise county terminal. The capital stock of the company is $5, 900, 900, fully subscribed.
 It is stated by the Morenci Stand ard that J. A. Barnett, a chicken raiser livinU near tho Eriuor ,,n,,,n l