Arizona silver belt., 1904-04-14


 demand fot that speed is requested for shipments of ten carloads or more of cattle. A regular freight train, however, consists Of forty cars, so live stock moved at that rate would require special trains at greatly in creased cost of transportation.- Pros
 pector.
 The United States court of private
 land claims is holding it's last session
 in Arizona at Phoenix this week. The
 session Is for the purpose of closing
 up the Sonorita land grant. The sur
 veys have all been made and presented
 to the court for its approval. This Is
 the only business to come before the
 court at this session, and will wind up
 the business in Arizona. The court expires by limitation on June 30. The
 date for its expiration as set when the court was first created is now some
 time past but on it's being found that
 the business could not all be attended
 to in the time fixed, an extension was given.
 General Baldwin, general inspector of the department of the Colorado, who has been out to Fort Grant in- spectlng the accommodations of that post, left for fhe east Sunday. It is given cut that while the general was in town after his return from the post, told leading citisen Fort Grant would not be abandoned for some time to come, and that soon four Of the Eleventh infantry, due to arrive in San Francisco ou the llth of April, would be quartered at Fort Grant General Baldwin found at Fort Grant ample, and workmen are now repairing and painting the quarters to be occupied by the four companies above men tioned. Range News.
 The arrest of Martin O'Hare for erecting stone wall in Tombstone canyon, on what is alleged to be pub lie highway, will probably result in considerable important litigation says the Biabee Miner. J II. Jack is ap. bearing as the plaintiff m this iItiga- tion, and intends to stop 0 Hare from building the stone wall on property that has been considered public for the past twenty five years Jack and o'Hare own adjoining property in Tombstone canyon that faces the road. OHare is trying Co build q wall, where it will turn the flood waters and do considerable damage Jack alleges that tue past twenty five years the ground has been used as a public thor oughfare, and cannot now be closed. The case will probably settle several other similar disputes that might arise in the future.
 Sanitary conditions in Clifton are a perfect fright, and without a well or. ganized effort for betterment, an un- usually slckly season will result. Were lt not for the fact that Clifton has the best climate on earth, a pesulence might be expected. Many families are already preparing to spend the sum mer elsewhere, and SO it is, and so it will continue to be, until the town complies with the laws of sanitation. People cannot be expected to build homes and become permanent citizens n place where no attention is paid Jo the general health Of the commu- lity 1t is the duty 0f the head of d amiiy to look to tie welfare of his title flock. He cannot afford to take l chances un a matter of such grave im- )orHnce. Unless radical measures are oon adopted large part of Clift0n'S 1 population will depart with the com ng of hot weather. Copper Era.
 There are 204 patients in the Ari. ona insane asylum. During the last iscal year 93 patients were admitted. )f the 93 patients admitted on com nitmen.s during the year the causes ssignec are as follows: Childbirth, l; pilepsy, ?; general debility,l; heredi- y, 4; itliocy, 2; injury, i; intemper- nee, p masturbation, 1 mental 1; mental worry, 6; mar otism, I; overstudy, ?; paralysis, |; aresis, l; privation, 9; senllity, 1; pinal disease, l; syphilis, ?; unknown, 5; yenery, l, making a total of 93. he cause of mot known is assigned 23 patients admitted on commit. lents, While alcoholism follows, p in umber. Governor Brodie in his an- lal report on the institution says i The reBl cause of many of the 'un- nowns, in my opinion, may be aced t( alcoholism, making intemper- ice the greatest primal cause of sanity in these cases. :"