Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1905-07-06
C0CHlSE COUNTY BUDGET
CULLED FROM EXCHANGES

From the International-Ameri lean,
This morning G avenue from Twelfth
street to the Klein block, was literally
covered with grasshoppers of the Kan
sas variety. While many of them were
dead the great majority of them were
very much alive and looking for good
graft of some kind. 1t did not take
the hoppers long to move on TO green
fields and pastures new and by 10
O'Clock the marching hosts had disap-
peared.
The work of repairing the Douglas
Jail is being pushed rapidly. The entire
interior of the Jail is being lined with
one quarter inch sheet steel About a
dozen men are employed hosting the
steel in position. The Jail is full of
prisoners under guard, but the work
goes on as rapidly as possible In its
present condition it is almost impossible
TO keep anyone in the bastile, but when
the repairs are completed breaking Jail
in Douglas viii be at an end.
At the Eagle Cafe Friday afternoon
at 6 o'clock, an ugly shooting scrape
took place which may result in the death
Of an innocent bystander. The difficulty
which resulted in the shooting took
place in the hallway Immediately back
of the saloon and dining room and was
between King Horn, one of the bar
tenders, and Alex Dorsey, a negro who
was employed in the kitchen as a dish
washer and man of all work. The man
who was shot is Frank Wensel, a waiter
at the Eagle Cafe, and he had nothing
in the world TO do with the trouble,
but was caught with a dinner order be-
tween the two belligerents and stopped
bullet which was intended for another
From the BIsbee Miner
The Bisbee city council has adver-
tised for bids in the Los Angeles papers
for paving main street with concrete
base and asphaltum surface. A sani-
tary officer, with police powers has
been appointed. The question of pro-
hibiting the use of gasoline stoves with
in the city limits is being discussed.
Contractor Towsend, of FL Paso, with
his lieutenants is in town, and today
went over the right of way for the cut
off which is to be built from French to
Lowell, as was mentioned in this paper
recently. The work will begin in a
few days, as Mr.. Townsend leaves for
FL Paso tomorrow, and on his return
will bring force of men, teams and
machinery and will at once go to work.
There is considerable blasting to be
done and people living along the right
of way have been notified to move out
of their homes because of the danger
from the continues blasting.
FROM the Benson Press
The Citizens Bank received its new
furniture last week and it is now in
place. The fixtures are of the quarter
sawed golden oak and Florentine plate
glass. The grill work is oxidzed cop
per. The Citizens Bank now presents
as neat an appearance as any in the
southwest. The plate glass windows
have artistic signs painted on them.
There was a shooting scrape Saturday
night. at II O'Clock in Benson in front
of the Fashion saloon. Tom Hudspetn
was the man behind the gun and Chas.
Newman was the target. Newman is
not considered dangerously injured, but
last night he was reported worse The
ball, As, struck rib, following it
a few inches and came out on his side
NEW HORN ORDERED "A new bass
horn has been ordered by the Globe
Concert Band to replace the one ruined
in the recent fire. The boys didn't de-
lay many hours in taking steps to com