The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-09-05
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

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night last week at Tucson, Denni
Doyle, Frank Russell and Fred Doyl'
are in the county Jail facing charg'
of robbery and probable term il
the Territorial prison.
The Gila Valley, Globe & Northern
road has issued d statement to the
effect that the tonnage of all cars in
tended for points on this line will b'
limited to 100000 pounds. This i:
made necessary because of the condi
tion of the roadbed, and it will'be il
force until the track can be ballastet
and improved.
Probably the most brutal killing
that has ever taken place in Can
anea, was the murder of twO.police'
men and the probable fatal injury OF
a third on Wednesday of last week
by a man who was discharged from
the force on that day for incompe-
tency. Up to the present time the
murderer, who made good his escape,
has not been apprehended, although
the rurales and the Arizona rangers
are making every effort to find him.
Governor Kibbey has named all but
one of the fifteen delegates he is
entitled to appoint to the national
irrigation congress which will assem-
Bile at Sacramento, Cal, on Septem-
Der , The list given out includes the
following: DIR. A. j. Chandler, Mesa;
H. B. Wilkinson, John P. Orme,
Elliott III. Evans, Charles Goldman
and 0. H. Christy, Phoenix; Jesse f.
Kelly, Mesa: Charles f. Solomon,
Graham county; A. l.. DeMund, A.
p. Kent, Yuma: c. Z. Hirst and F..
H. Miller, jerome.
A gentleman who returned last
week from Los Angeles to BIsbee said
he met Mark Smith in lbs Angeles.
Mr. S NTH has been in Michigan
for two or three months and is now
en- route to his home in Tucson.
After attending to business matters
in Tucson it is the intention of our
delegate to make an extended trip
over the territory for the purpose of
informing himself of the conditions
in the various sections, so that he
may be informed on all matters which
may come up during the next session
of congress affecting Arizona or the
west.
The Vekol mine, situated near
Casa Grande in Pinal county. one of
the historic mines of Arizona, has
been purchased from the estate of
John d. Walker by E. S. Garrett and
Il company OF Alablml capitalists.
y first payment of $4,000 was made
by the purchasers. 1t is understood
that the total purchase price will be
S2j1, 600. The Vekol mine IS a copper
and silver proposition which was
worked as d silver mine quarter of
d century ago. A large force of men
will Immediately be put to work de-
veloping the property.
a new company was recently
organized both in Mexico and Ari-
zona. 1t consists at the present time
of forty pertenencias in compact
form, POO meters south of the south
east corner of the big Pilares. John
Alexander, one of the original own
ers of what is now the NacoZari Con-
solidated Copper company's holdings,
formerly the Moody, denounced the
ground and takes the lead in the or
ganization. These people start out
without any flourish of trumpets and
show d disposition to AVOID notoriety.
They will shortly add to the holdings
of the company, and will proceed to
ship as soon as preliminary arrange
ments are made, as shipping ore is in
sight with little development. They
only haye few hundred feet to carry
their ore to the Pilares high line,
whence it is carried to the Copper
Queen sampler over the Nacozari
road, and in the event that they need
any advertising, they expect their
shipping receipts to furnish that ad-
vertising without comment.-Ameri
can.
No more liquor will be sold in Ari-
zona on passenger trains en- route
through the territory. This was de-
cided on by the Southern Pacific rail-
road company hot off of the bat when
the sheriff of Pima county held up
the buffet cars on the Southern Pa
cific railroad for d license of $500.
In view of the fact that this is a
county license, and, if paid, would be
collected by every other county in
the territory, the railroad will not
sell any more liquor on the cars.
The issue was accentuated by two
men who tried to buy two bottles of
beer on the passenger train and were
refused the beer on the grounds that
the company would have to take out
license in every county. There are
six trains daily over the Southern
Pacific railroad-three each way
and it would cost each train $500 in
each county through which the train
passes, or $500 for all OF the trains
The general conceusus of opinion
here is that the railroads will fight
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