Arizona silver belt., 1906-06-21
What Has Happened in the Ter ritory Since Our Last
 Issue
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION
Of Clippings From Newsy Contempo sries--Gossip of the Busy Week. Activity in the Southern Counties Is Pronounced


 w. Brickwood consul at Nogales, Mexico.
 Col. W. c. Greene has offered 5000 as the first prize in the double-handed drilling contest to come off at Douglas on the Fourth of July.
 A meeting of the county and terri torial boards of equalization will be held in Phoenix on June g. It was called by Territorial Auditor Page at the suggestion of Governor Kibbey.
 Governor Kibbey has received invita- tions to deliver the Independence Day addresses at Florence, Douglas and Flagstaff. As Florence was the first to extend an invitation that has been accepted.
 The partial destruction by fire of the Shannon incline necessitated the clos ing down of the shelter for four or five days. Repairs have been made and the shelter is again in operation.
 Pouring coal oil on fire to hurry it along resulted in an explosion in the kitchen of the residence of E. c. Pierce at Tucson, and Cathern O'Neill, the domestic, was fatally burned and Dr. w. V. Whitmore in rescuing the gir from the flames was also badly burned on the hands and arms.
 The Mesa cantaloupe growers are getting tine crates in shape for the shipping season, as the melons are beginning to ripen. There will be a big crop of melons this season, but shipments will not begin as early as they did last year.
 The board of the Territorial Normal school at Tempe elected Mrs. C. Brown as matron of the girls dormitory in the place of Mrs. T. C. Jobs. resigned. Mrs. Jobs has occupied that position for the last two years. For some months Mrs. Brown has been matron at the territorial hospital for the in sane.
 William Barnes was shot in the back, in his own yard at Douglas on Tuesday night of last week, by Mrs. Mark Lamb, neighbor. Barnes died the following evening. The shooting ap- pears to have been entirely without justification. Mrs. Lamb was given a preliminary trial before Justice Me Donald and was held without bail, to the grand jury. The woman appeared unmoved by the terrible crime which she has committed.
 The Bisbee Review says: Local gambling houses, in an endeavor to keep from paying more city license than heretofore, are throwing out many of the games that formerly were in their establishments. Where two or three wheels were in use, but one will be found in the future. Faro games in many of the larger houses are confined to one layout, where for merly two were required to handle the play. This is the direct result of the enforcement of the new city license ordinance passed at the last meeting of the city council.
 Governor J. H. Kibbey, last week granted a full pardon to Otis H.. Moore, who was released from the ter ritorial penitentiary some time ago on parole, and issued parole to Sidney B. Page of Wilcox. Moore was con victed in Santa Cruz county in 1901, of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to twenty years in the peni- tentiary. His crime was the killing of man named Harrison, on the range in Santa Cruz county. The parolling of Sidney B. Page was in accordance with the recommendation of the board of control. In December, 1899, Page killed a man named Robinson, near Wilcox.
 The coroner's jury that held the in quest over the body of Peter Deren- bacher who was shot and killed by Henry Ellenberg in Tucson last week exonorated Ellenberg. All of the tes- timony was in favor of Ellenberg. It was shown that the deceased had abus- ed the wife of defendant and applied epithets to her that no decent man could be expected to put up with. The testimony further showed that for the past two years Derenbacker had har- rassed Ellenberg and his family, con tinously threatening their lives and preventing them from carrying on their household duties. Even the testimony of the wife and the son of the deceased was in favor of the defendant.
 The proposition to issue bonds in the sum of $75.OOO for the purpose of in- stalling a municipal sewer system in