Arizona silver belt., 1906-08-23
What Has Happened in the Ter ritory Since Our Last
 Issue
A INTERESTING COLLECTION
Of Clippings From Newsy Contempor- sries-Gossip of the Busy Week. Activity in the Southern Counties is Pronounced

The Bisbee Daily Miner calls atten. tion to the fact that the salary of q district attorney is inadequate and that competent men who hold that office are underpaid.
 Examinations at the University for entrance will commence the thirteenth of September and registration day will be the seventeenth. The Tucson Post says: From the correspondence and indications, next year will see the largest attendance at the school which has ever been known.
 Attorney E. E. Ellinwood left Thurs day for the east. He goes direct to Detroit. Mich, where his family is spending the summer, and from there will go to his former home near Ashta- bula, Ohio., for a visit with relatives. On the return trip Mir. Ellinwood will go to St. Paul to attend the convention of the American Bar association.
 The Bulletin states that during the past ten days twenty carloads of hay and four carloads of grain have been shipped from Solomonville, and num- bar of cars are now loading. The Commercial Co.,. J. M. Foster, and the Valley Milling Co. are the principal shippers. Cananea, Bisbee, Clifton, Globe and Naco all furnish good mar kets for Gila valley grain and hay.
 The Stafford Journal says: The G. V. G. & N. have taken steps toward the purchase of large quan- tity of bridge construction machinery for use at San Carlos and at other points on their new line. It is expect ed that this machinery-consisti of engines, pumps, derricks, concrete mixers, etc.-will be on the ground within the next 60 days. The bridge construction work is in charge of Assistant Engineer Thomas.
 At the semi-annual meeting of the directors of the Gila Valley Bank & Trust Company, held at Clifton last week, dividend of per cent for the past six months business was declared, besides setting aside 5000 in the re- serve fund. The directors also arranged for plans and specifications for two.story bank building, which the company will erect at an early date on q lot adjoining the Arizona Copper company's office block, Arizona Bulle- tin.
 By fixing the territorial tax rate at 75 cents on each $l00, the territorial board of equalization practically com. pleted it's labors. That the tax rate is as high as 75 cents is due to existing laws, which provide that 50 cents must be levied to maintain territorial insti- tutions. The money raised for the prison, asylum, normal schools, reform school and other purposes will raise thai, amount greatly in excess of what is actually needed. Preparations are being made to get the law repealed during the next legislature.
 The Immigration department is con- tinuing the work of decreasing the number of dependent Mexicans in the territory who are here as inmates of a number of the charitable institutions of the territory. One Mexican adjudged insane at Florence and one at Globe have been taken in charge and deporta- tion orders will be made. The statis- tics show that about forty per cent of the inmates of insane asylums and prisons in Arizona and New Mexico are Mexican citizens, and there is no req son why this government should SUD- port these people, who properly belong to the neighboring republic.
 A Prescott dispatch says: Before Prescott gets the municipal electric lighting plant, for which provision was made at a recent. meeting, the people here look forward 10 one of the biggest fights in the history of any Arizona city. Frank L. Wright, who practi- cally owns the Prescott Electric com pany and the street car system, is said to be preparing to wage war on the saloons and gambling houses, which he holds chiefly responsible for the senti- ment that has been stirred up in favor of municipal lighting plant. Prescott is one of the few Arizona cities per hitting women in saloons, and Wright is reported to be laying his plans to get this prohibited, as well as to close up the gambling. It is possible that he will start another newspaper here to fight his battle, the two now being published both advocating the municipal plant. Wright's retaliatory move is said to have stirred the saloon and gambling house keepers.