Arizona silver belt., 1905-06-29

OF douglas mas In Slgnt WIN winch U
run the city and pay the expenses o
the necessary improvements for the
next year over $50, 900 from her licens,
tax alone. Only few saloons were
closed on account of the high licens,
and preparations are being made tC
open several more.
From the Tombstone Prospector
Nearly 200 negroes from the vicinity
of San Antonio, Texas, are laboriug in
the sand pits near Benson and are vain
ly signing for the land they left behind.
They claim to have been led to desert
their happy homes by the misrepresent-
alton of a colored preacher of Tucson,
which soft impeachment the aforesaid
strenuously denies.
At the next meeting of the city
council an application for a gas fran
chise in the city will be made by the
manager, A. H. Gardner, of the Hua-
chuca Water Co.. who proposes to fur
nish new light Of the acetelyne order
for local consumers. Mr.. Gardner,
when seen by a Prospector reporter,
confirmed the report, stated he and as
sociates had decided to ask for fran
chise and propose to erect a gas plant
here.
Fromthe Douglas Dispatch
Four loungers around the S. p. depot
at Benson We're arrested Friday and sent
to Jail for stealing cantaloupes from
crates that were left on the platform
for shipment. Two of the men were
given thirty days each and two of
them sixty days each.
After being out just eight minutes
the jury in the case of Dayton Graham
for the killing of Eph Smith in Douglas
two years ago, returned a verdict of
not guilty. Among the witnesses for
the defense were several of the most
prominent citizens of Douglas, including
Mayor c. A. Overlook.
1t is planned to issue the first number
of New Spanish paper in Douglas on
Sunday next. The name of the new
paper will be FL Democratic and it is to
be six-column, four-page paper. The
plant has already been received and the
first number of the paper is now being
set up by the printers. FL Democratic
will be under the management of L.
Puente, an experienced newspaper man
recently from the State of San Luis
Potosi, in the Republic of Mexico
Col. w. c. Greene was visitor in
Bisbee Monday, arriving there Sunday
morning from the east and going from
there to Cananea with party of east
ern friends. He stated that the reason
for the stoppage of construction work
on the Sierra Madre road was the fact
that it had not been definitely decided
as TO the route to be followed by the
extension. At Bisbee Colonel Greene
made that city present of an iron
fence for the cemetery, which he will
have constructed as soon as the dimen-
sions are furnished him by the city.
There has been a great scarcity of
Mexican labor at the Copper Queen and
Calumet & Arizona smelters since last
payday Tom Osgood, boss of the Stag
gang at the Copper Queen, has been
short forty men, and the briquetting
gang, the coke gang and the ore gang
have also been short. Quite number
of Mexicans have gone to Roosevelt to
work on the Tonic dam, where they get
81 80 per day for ten hour s. work. An
other considerable bunch has gone into
the Chiricahuas TO work in the develop
ment of the Cochise Consolidated mines
and others have been taken out of town
to work at various points. The short
age has been occasioned by outside
people drawing on the Douglas labor
Sunrlly