Arizona silver belt., 1905-05-04
THE NEWS OF TUCSON
 AND OF PIMA COUNTY
From the Tucson Post.

From the Tucson Post.
 Mrs. E. J. Trippoll leaves for Cobra do Springs on May 6, where she will act as delegate for Golden Link lodge, No. 2, Degree of Honor, at the biennial ses- sion of the grand lodge. After the ses- sion adjourns Mrs. Trippel will visit friends in Denver, returning to Tucson about the middle of next month.
 A new thirty horsepower motor has just been installed at the mill for ope- rating the machinery in that building. A Willby concentrating table is expect ed soon. It is hoped to run the mill continually next fall and complete outfit of the necessary machinery will be installed by that time. The Univer- sity of Arizona will give one of, if not the most thorough course in mining en- gineering, treatment of ores, etc, to be had in the country next year, and there will be no use for any Arizona boys to go east to learn mining.
 The sub committee on the Tucson bond issue has it's made report recom- mending the issuance of $l65, 000 of bonds divided and appropriated as fol- lows: $70, 900 for the improvement and renovation of the water distribution service; S60, ,000 for the construction of a reservoir in the mountains to provide abundant pressure at times of break down at the pumping station and also to obviate the the pupming at night in the winter time; 5000 for the installa- tion of sprinkling towers in place of the presentsystem of wagon sprinkling $l5, 600 for the improvement of the fire department service and the erection of new fire house near the Southern Pa cifc depot and lastly, $l5,000 for the improvement and oiling of the streets of the city.
 From the Tucson Star
 Judge and Mrs. George R. Davis left Monday for weeks s stay in Los An geles. The judge will not remove his family to the coast city until about the first of June, after the close of the schools.
 Judge J. H. Campbell, of the district court, heard the evidence in the case oi Mrs. Josie B. Martin vs. John II. Mar tin. The action was brought to dis solve the bonds of matrimony, tn, grounds alleged being incompatibility but the proof elicited was that of ex treme cruelty. Judge Campbell con sidered the evidence but few minutes and then gave judgment as prayed fo by the plaintiff The judgment also re cites that Mrs. Martin shall receive ali mony of $20O per month as long as sh, remains unmarried. She also receives one-half of all the real and persona properly of the defendant in Arizona including his interest in mines, mining stocks, Tucson real estate, etc. Mrs Martin has an income of about $500 pc month, as well as having over Sl00,00 in her own name, bestowed upon her b, her father, the late Judge w. II Barnes, shortly before his death, S, that she is in most comfortable circum stances.
 The territorial grand jury made thei final report and were discharged Sat urday afternoon. The case exciting tn most interest was that against Ezra D Bartlett, in which Albert Steinfel charged Bartlett, with J. F. Harcourt with conspiracy to defraud complainant out of SIP, 300, in what is widely know as the diamond swindle." In the pro liminary examination recently Harcour was allowed to depart on his own recog nizance and Bartlett was held in tn sum of $6000 to appear before the gran jury to answer to the charge. Thecas being examined very fully resulted i the case against Bartlett being ignore and Bartlett was discharged and hi bondsmen were released. This close the famous and expensive proceeding against Bartlett and Harcourt, who i still at large, and will probably be al lowed to remain at large outside tn territory to continue his diamond swin ding business.
 l Ernrn ,be Tucson Citizen
 This afternoon the county board o supervisors of Pima and Santa Cru counties were in session at the cour house, with the consideration of tn narrow guage bonds as the principa matter before the boards, with refer ence to the recent mandamus proceed ings against the counties in matter O a tax levy, the final determintion be ing reached to the effect that the sup ervisors retain the firm of Kingnan 6 Wright to represent the two countie at Phoenix when the matter comes ul there on May 25.
 From the statement of a young mai who has recently been in the employ of the Twin Buttes railroad, it is evi Al .o