The copper era., 1905-07-06
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Two hundred Navajo Indians, em- ployed as track workers and graders by the Santa Fe in western New Mexico, have gone on a strike and demand an increase of ten cents a day in their pay.
 When that $25, ,OOO, 900 raises in Co chise county's assessment reaches that county we opine there will be more sulphur than that which goes up from the Bisbee smelters.-Enter- prise.
 The announcement is made of the appointment of Floyd Gibbons, an ex-Rough Rider, to be deputy internal headquarters at Phoenix. Gibbons has been assayer at the Cash mine in Yavapai county.
 The Albuquerque Citizen reports that the joint statehood league has nece{ved big order from Kingman tor joint statehood badges, and in fers from this that the opposition to joint statehood in Mohave county is fading away. This is not so. There are not three joint statehood advo- cates in Mohave county.-Mohsve County Miner.
 The Bisbee Review made an esti- mate of the cost of the typhoid fever to Bisbee during the year 1904 and totals the cost at S65, ,735. This is heavy drainage on a community of less than ten thousand inhabitants. Tucson rarely has a typhoid patient. When we hear of them, they have al- ways brought the malady from else where.
 There is no longer any doubt about the erection of a custom shelter at Naco. The plans are now completed, the order given for the structural material, and, within ninety days more, work will be commenced on the plant which means so much for the good people of Naco, who have waited with a patience commendable for ''the turn of the tide. .''-Bisbee Miner.
 William Thomas, superintendent of the Yavapai county hospital, will serve six months in the territorial penitentiary at Yuma if the supreme court does not reserve the decision , made last week by Judge Sloan. Thomas must serve six months in the Nen- af1eged defrauding of the VI )unty out of about S31 by false en- tries in his accounts to the board of supervisor s.-Prescott Herald.
 Arizona will receive ere long visit from a committee of Los An geles business men who will make a tour of the entire territory. The object of the tour will be to better the trade relations between Arizona and Los Angeles. It will be given by the Los Angeles Jobber's Associa- tion. All the cities in the territory of any size will be visited by the California business men.
 The police of Seattle, Washington, have sent out requests to the police of Arizona for information regard ing one, William Johnstone, who left that city several years ago and who two years ago resided in Williams, Arizona. Johnston, if living, would be 58 years old, and the search for him is being made that he may re- ceive his share of an estate which is pending settlement in the courts of Seattle.
 Last week Guaymas was visit ed by L ! l. +la as the most severe ever known. At midnight of Thursday-Friday last the thermometer registered 1l5. Thurs day afternoon and evening the heat was accompanied by a high wind that was almost blistering in its effect, and at night there was electrical dis turbances manifested by the presence of St. Elmo balls that appeared on ~the masts and spars at the dry dock, across the bay from the city. The workmen over there, who had never seen or%aeard of such phenomena, were greatly alarmed.-Oasis. The starting up of the Treasure Hill mine is the forerunner of mining activity in the Stockton Hill section. The Godshall people will soon be working the Star Spangled Banner group and the Jack Johnson group is in fair way to be outputting its wealth. Several of the largest pro- ducers of wealth in the county are situated on Stockton Hill. The Prince George is a cinch for a big piece of money to the man with sand enough to sink that shaft down to the next swell of ore. Eighty thousand dollars was taken out of the Prince George in eighty days.-Mineral Wealth.