Arizona silver belt., 1904-08-04


 Toney was called in to dress CoX's face. Phoenix Enterprise.
 It is not unlikely that a movement will be inaugurated at an early day to stock Arizona with that rare game bird that is now plentifully found in the Puget Sound country and known as the Chinese pheasant. The birds are of good size, being fully as large as prairie chicken, of good game flavor, and game bird m every sense, running swiftly and flying like an arrow.-Arizona Republican.
 Jas. McGee, who has been down in the Casa Grande district posting mo- tices of tax sales, returned home Tues day, says the Florence Blade. He says the country for forty miles around Casa Grande is covered with water. The rain fall there was almost a cloud burst. The Indians in that locality are planting corn on the desert and will raise good crop if they can get one more good rain during August.
 The Tucson Star of Sunday, says: "All day yesterday the Santa Cruz river was running bank full, carrying the largest flood since the summer of 1901, and it is feared that the heavy shower of last evening will make it dangerously high. Under the steel bridge which has replaced the wooden structure swept away three years ago, there was stream yesterday at moderate estimate 70 feet wide, feet deep and with velocity of 10 feet per second"
 A cloudburst occurred in the rising camp of Paradise one day last week. According to report, says the Pros pector, the water came down the wash in fifteen-foot breast. Mart Moore's transfer outfit got the worst of it. A stage and several wagons were carried away. He also lost several mules and his family came very near being caught Paradise is getting right to the front, with one killing, i've wed dings, two d.vorces and cloudburst
 ". H. Luke, one of the -foremen in the Arizona Copper company 5 Hum, boldt mine, met painful death on Saturday last at the noon hour. As the motor was coming out of the mine with trainload of ore it ran into an open switch. Mir. Luke was sitting on the top of the motor and when it start ed riding the cross ties he was thrown between the motor and the tunnel tim bers and life was almost instantly crushed out of him, his back being broken besides being hurt internally. Era.
 When cantaloupe car No. B arrived in Chicago and was sold, the market was right, as it sold for $925. The crates in the car averaged nearly B apiece. When word got back to this country that car g went for the large sum 1t was amusing to notice the mel on growers hunt their receipts to find out whether they got part oft. Those who were successful could boast of what fine melons they produced. - Tempe correspondence Phoenix Re- publican.
 The southern Pacific company has set aside s47, ,0OO for the erection of a new 20-stall round house with 4OxS0 annex machine shop, at Yuma The machine shop will be equipped with all the latest improved machinery: this will naturally double the force now required to operate it at the pres ent time, as all repair work will be done on engines running between here and Gila Bend and Indio, which was formerly done at the Tucson shops and at the Los Angeles shops.
 Several Nogales merchants and pro- fessional men regret the departure from town Of c. c. Morrison. an ad- vertising specialist, who spent two weeks in Nogales getting up bill of fare cover for the hotels and restaur- ants. He left town rather hurriedly, neglecting in his haste, so it is stated, to settle b rather large hotel bill of himself and wise, and some of the ones who paid him sums ranging from 8 to $30 for advertisements on the covers state that he did not live up to his agreement with them. It appears that he had invented roulette sys. tenn which failed to materialize to his benefit.-Oasis.
 Herbert D. Seeley, nephew of the late P. T. Barnum, who has been go. ing the pace in Bisbee and got into jail by issuing worthless checks, is at last out of the tolls of the law, his rel atives having wired the desired amount of "the needful" to him. The Miner says, he made the necessary do- nation to Manager John Fredericks. of the Turf saloon, in whose place the checks had been cashed, and that gen. tleman, in turn, went before Judge