Arizona silver belt., 1906-09-27
What Has Happened in the Ter
 ritOry Since Our Last
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION
Of Clippings From Newsy Contempor- aries Gossip of the Busy Week. Activity in the Southern Counties Is Pronounced

Tucson public schools are badly over crowded and from 200 to 300 children will be unable to gain admission. The school board is trying to devise meas ures for temporary relief of the con gestion.
 Tbe laying of the cornerstone of the Tonto dam took place Thursday after noon, and though the occurrence was not extensively heralded and there was no great ceremony, yet the affair was quite impressive, as the entire force of government employees laid aside their work for the time being and assembled at the dam site to witness the cere- monv.
 The friends of the delegate to con gress, Hon. Mark Smith, were shocked to hear of the death of brother of the delegate last week. A special courier was dispatched to take the news to Mir. Smith who was at St. Johns, Apache county, over 75 miles from a railroad. The dead brother is Dr. E. F. Smith, of Cynthiana, Ken lucky, and is a younger brother of the delegate to congress.
 Custer. the game little pacer owned by J. c. Adams of Phoenix. is winning a name for himself, money for his owner and making Arizona known as a country where not only pintos and mustangs thrive, but speedy, blooded horses as we'll Custer last week, at Rockford, H., circled the track in 2:05l in race. Photographic reports state that he could have gone the three heats in that time if he had been forced.
 Tucson is having a building boom. The Post says that contractors are nine months behind in their work anc still the work comes and cannot be turned away. It is said that for every home in construction there are three hundred applicants and all houses are leased long before finished. With the building of many large buildings the contractors find it hard work to take care of the smaller work in gooC shape.
 With the beginning of the building oi the Hotel Gadsden, Douglas will cer tainly be in the midst of the greatest building activity in it's history. Witt the adornment of four-story hote building on the upper-end of G. avenue at cost of Sl50.000, it will certainly be the finest business street in tht territory. There will be at least hall million dollars spent in Douglas wher the present contemplated work has been completed which surpasses any thing in Arizona.
 The great Armour company have de cided to put in an ice and cold storage plant at Yuma with daily capacity ol 100 tons. Plans have been prepared and land selected for the plant, whicf will be erected on the east side of tho railroad yards opposite the roundhouse The plant is especially designed fol the use of the Armour refrigerator cars in the handling of fruit and mea shipments. the management having de cided to make Yuma the icing station between Los Angeles and Fl Paso.
 A deal was consummated last weel whereby E. B. Gage of Tombstone, fo a consideration of $25, 900, becomes tn, owner of section 6, township l north range east, situated about twelv, miles east of Five Points and adjoining the property now occupied by thu Phoenix American ostrich farm. Mir Gage is one of the members of tn, party of capitalists that recent, bought the stock of the Phoenix os trich farm, and it is understood tha the farm will be located on this trac of land, which was owned by E. F Kellner, of Globe.
 The legality of the territorial boar of equalization in raising the assess ment on the mining property in Co chise county 400 per cent is to b fought out in the courts. The attor neys for the Copper Queen compan, with others are at the present tim getting together data to prepare thei cases, and the matter will be brough to the attention of the courts at once The action of the territorial board las year was declared by the suprem court to be illegal, and the court vii again have chance to say whether tn action this year was legal or not.
 M. J. Nugent suffered another para lytic strcke last Monday morning whil in bed in his room on Main street. Dr Alp John was called and applied tn proper remedies and soon had his pa tient out of immediate danger. H was later removed to the home of L w. Alexander, where he is still con fined to his bed, though apparently ou of danger and likely to recover entirel within few days. This is the secon attack since the first one, whic occurred two years ago while Col Nugent was attending the last sessio of the legislature as member of tn council. At that time he was rendere unconscious. The later attacks hay been much milder, though their dar gerous nature have naturally cause considerable alarm. Yuma Sentinel.