Arizona silver belt., 1904-08-11

it has acquired the greater part of the block bounded by the imaginary Har- rison street on the north Center street on the east, First avenue on the west and Buchanan street on the south. This block lies immediately south of the block owned by the Southern Pa cific and which contains its passenger depot and freight house. It is sup. posed that the Southern Pacific wants this property for the purpose of get ting g. western outlet from the city.
 w. Il. Metcalf, a mine owner, was struck by lightning, August l, near Pearce, and instantly killed, his body being frightfully burned. James Walk CTS, who was with Metcalf, seated be- side him in a wagon, escaped without injury, as did the two horses. After recovering from the shock the horses ran two miles. Metcalf was inter- ested in mines near the famous Black Diamond mine, and was about to make sale for $75,000 At the time Met calf was driving to the nearest rail road station to take train for Los Angeles, where he was to negotiate a mining deal.
 The present summer has shown the sugar beet to be of even more import ance to this valley than was formerly supposed, and there are many who now believe its culture should become general, even if sugar factory should never be built. The sugar beet has been pronounced by the best author ities as being the finest sort of feed for cattle and it has been demon strated during the present summer that the beets can be grown here with much less water than was supposed. In fact it Is believed that on land well adapted to their culture a profitable feed crop can be raised without any irrigatio Republican.
 c. G. Williams, who has charge of the river gauging stations of the geo logical survey in Arizona, received word yesterday from the geuger at Charleston, on the San Pedro river, that during the flood of few days ago that took away the railroad bridge at Fairbank and did much other dam age, no especial respect was paid by the elements to government property and that his gauging apparatus went with the rest The same sort of a story came from Roosevelt, respecting the government gauge in Tonto creek. These gauges will be replaced as soon as possible. le.-Republican,
 Last Saturday a vicious dog attacked Bernard Schillings on the street near the Florence hotel. Bernard fought the brute of, then rushed into the hotel, procured a shot gun and filled the blood. thirsty canine with two charges of shot. C. D. Reppy was standing on the street corner, some distance out of line with the gun. A shot struck rock. glanced, and land ed square in the center of Mir. Reppy 8 forehead. It did not penetrate the skull, but lodged under the skin. Dr. Broadway removed the shot and dressed the wound and MT. Reppy went about his business just as though he had not been target in front of pot shot. Florence Blade.
 Jos. NJ. Muheim has won the suit brought against him in the district court by Martin Costello for the posses. sion of the Hidden Treasure claim, near Turquoise, which Is valued at $l0,000 Muhein acquired the prop erty two years ago from A. H. Eman- uel, who bought the property for taxes at sheriff 8 sale. Muheim paid Ethan uel $500 for 1t. He began dev loping the property, showing considerable mineral. When he applied for title at the Tucson land office his claim was contested by Costello, who had bought the interest of the original holders, and the latter brought suit for posses sion on the ground that tax title was not sufficient. Judge Doan held to the contrary, and his decision establishes a precedent.-Bisbee Review.
 The Tombstone Prospector says "This term of district court has been failure for lawyers. The court ap- pointed eight-tenths of those who de- fended criminal cases. In such in stances the client might give his attor- ney sack of spuds, or calf, or an armload of ros' hears, Or a sixshooter but the lawyer fought all day for an indigent client, then went to bed hun gry. In the wellto do criminal cases it was invariably a contingent or a manyana proposition. Ia the civil cases, involving wealthy litigants, IL. II. L