The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-05-16
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Charge OF MAINTAINING dn ODSIi u(liOl
on the sidewalk in front of their
stables on Twelfth street, having en-
tered plea of guilty to the charge.
The plea was entered upon instruc-
tions of Attorney Elllnwood, of Bis
bee, counsel for the Copper Queen.
The obstruction complained of will
be removed at once and a concrete
walk will be nstalled.-American.
After July 1st, the government
will pay no more rewards for desert
ers from the army. A new system of
Identification will be adopted which
will make it extremely difficult for a
deserter to re-enlist. hospital at
tache from Fort Logan arrived at
Fort Huachuachua last week, and will
examine all the present enlisted
men. The new system consists of
photographs and taking imprints of
their fingers, which will be kept on
file at Washington, D. c., for future
reference.
Despondent over his long illness
and despairing of recovering his
health, G. NJ. Rice, one of the oldest
and best known miners in this county
committed suicide at St. Mary's hos
pital last week by cutting the
arteries in both arms just below the
elbow. The weapon used was a razor
and the unfortunate man made his
work doubly sure by cutting both
arms. Death came within an hour
after the wounds had been inflicted
and was due to exhaustion from loss
of blood.-Citizen.
Perry Jones, a local youth, who
was arrested by officers on the charge
of burglarizing Il railroad caboose,
made an attempt to escape from the
city Jail, and all but succeeded. The
Yale lock which secures the cell in
which he was confined was broken
and the escape of the boy was immi-
nent when his efforts were discovered.
Jones was arraigned before Justice
Rice, waived preliminary hearing and
was bound over to the grand jury.
officers familiar with Jones' record
say that he is an expert in making
skeleton keys and that it takes more
than an ordinary lock to hold him.
American.
Telephone lines have been placed
along the Colorado river at places
where there is possibility that the
levees might give way. For con-
siderable distance the telephones are
but 500 feet apart and men are kept
constantly on guard to give warming
in the event that there should be any
trouble. Tie Southern Pacific is not
desirous of having another break in
the levee which might possibly cause
the Colorado to flow into the Salton
Sea again and for this reason has
taken precautions. 1t is realized
that should another break occur it
would come through some weak spot
in the levee. This was the cause of
all of the former breaks. 1t is near
ing now the season of the year when
the Colorado river begins to rise.
Ordinarily the river reaches its high
est stage during the month of June,
but reports from Yuma state that it
is gradually rising at present. 1t is
not believed that there will be any
difficulty, but nevertheless it was
thought wise to take ample precau-
tions.
The Bisbee-Sonora Development
company have a force of men driving
their upper crosscut tunnel on the
Badger Hill property belonging to
the company in the Chiricahua noun
tains. This tunnel will tap the main
contact about 25O feet from the en-
try. 1t was not expected to en-
counter ore until at least 100 feet,
but at 26- feet the line shows mineral
in the form of iron-copper pyrites
Indicating that the contact at this
depth will be much larger than is
shown on the surface where it is 81
feet wide. AS soon as the arrange
ments can be completed to take care
of the men another additional cross
cut tunnel will be driven to the con-
tact $50 feet lower down the hill
which will be made the working tun-
mel and will be so situated that as
the ore comes from this tunnel it
will be dumped into the bins at the
top of the smelter without having to
use tramways. The blowout is cap
ped with lead and at depth of 10
feet it is turning to copper. Assays
made by the G. & A. from this point
show silver II 6-10 o., copper S.25 per
cent. and lead II 2-1O per cent.
Total value $55.1O per ton.-Review.
Mild excitement prevails in Tomb
stone because of the finding of rich
gold ore in a shaft situated about
two and one-half miles southwest of
town and about one-half mile south
of the Schefllin monument. Within
the past few dayS 4 number of men