Arizona silver belt., 1904-09-15

uaUlon to Q HillS on dii clJy property, and this will be the city tax rate for the ensuing year. The property own CTS of Bisbee will not object to the in- creased mills, which is comparative ly small, provided the city council will show them some returns. The pres ent council took their seats in April, pledged to give the city better fire protection, and to push the matter of townsite patent. Up to date neither have been accomplished, but the coun. cil seems to have come out of trance at the last meeting and gone about the matter of securing townSite patent ln business-like manner. The ques- tion of better fire protection can be solved likewise. .-Bisbee Review. Prisoners in the territorial peniten- tiary at Yuma cost the territory an average of 38 1-5 cents a day each. This is shown in the rep ,rt presented by Superintendent Griiliths of the penitentiary, which was considered at meeting of the board of control. A comparison of the figures with those from other penitentiaries in the Unit- ed States, shows that the cost per capita at Yuma is less than at any other prison in the country having an equal number of inmates. The figures 3S 1-5 cents include the entire cost of the keeping of the prisoners, not only the food, but the cost of guards and prison officials as we'll. There are now 306 prisoners in the Yuma peniten- tiary. The total cost of conducting the prison last month was $3.6l9. 5O.- Gazette.
 Route Agent w. H. Colby, of the
 Wells-Fargo Express company, has arrived in Bisbee from his headquar- ters in Tucson and will be busy from now until the end of the month with the work of arranging for the auction sale there of some 700 uncalled for ex- press packages that have been left at
 the various express offices of the com
 pauy throughout the territory. This
 big auction sale will afford au oppor- tunity for the speculative inclined to do some bidding and find out what sort of luck they will have in the "grab
 bag" game. "There will be no pack ages offered for sale that have no
 value," said Mir. Colby, this morning,
 ''as the whole lot of 700 will be over hauled and any that are not worth
 buying will be destroyed. None of the goods to be offered are perishable and every bidder will receive his or her
 moneys worth. "-Bisbee Miner.
 Shortly after dark last Saturday eve- ming, Yuma and vicinity was visited by one of the most sudden and violent rain aud windstorms experienced here for long period. The wind played some pranks quite unusual for this normally quite and peaceful land. The back, covered porch of the new Molina building at the second story was torn loose and blown clear over the building, landing in ihe middle of Main street, pile of debris. The electric light and telephone wires ex- schoo' were put out of business, and number of glasss fronts on Main stree were more or less damaged by the smashing of glass. A section of the smokestack of the Yuma ice plant was blown of, large window frame and sash in the Gandol o hotel succum bed to the pressure, and, in fact, nearly everything loose about town was more or less displaced and hustled about. The lightning and thunder was more than usually intense, and there was considerable rainfall.-Sentinel.
 Isaac T. Stoddard and his Stoddard | Incorporation company are defend ants in a s25 900 libel suit instituted | by A. J. and R. k. Daggs, of the Ari- zona Corporation & Guaranty compa- ny, in Phoenix. The complaint against Stoddard alleges that the latter sent out to clients of the plaintiff and oth- CTS, letters of defamatory character, calculated to injure the business of the plaintiff. One of these letters, which is made part of the complaint and which was written to the officers of a company incorporated by the Daggs Bros, called attention to the fact that the appointment of a resi- dent agent had not been filed, as the law of the territory requires, and that therefore the corporation is liable to on the motion of the at torney general or of any resident of the territory. It is pointed out in the letter that the fee of s for the filing of this appointment has probably been retained by the plaintiff, which neglected to perform all the legal serv- ices it had been paid to perform Iournal L. Mipar