Tombstone epitaph., 1908-05-17
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

! Ore shipments have been resumed at the Twin Buttes near Tucson, the first shipment of ll0 tons being sent to the Fl Paso smelter lapt Saturday.
 There is every probability that with in very few months work will he be- gun upon the erection of 5OO-ton smelter on the property of the Kel- vin-Cslumet property a few miles north of Kelvin Snd adjoining the Ray mines.
 lsvapai county has discontinued the bounty of S20 each on lobn scalps to save the scalp of the county treas ury. They were coming in 50 thick ard fast that unless halt was called the county was threatened with bank ruptcy. The supervisors are now up against suit for S2SO as a premium on fourteen io5o= which they declined to pay.
 Tine first bar of gold bullion from Gold Flat was taken into Kingman last Thursday and weighed pineteen ounces. The ere comes from the Holy Moses mine and runs about $40 per ton.
 A new warehouse Sith 37,OO0 square feet of floor space is to be erected in Phoenix by the Bartlett Heard Cattle company.
 R. H. He;herington, proprietor of the Prescott Sampling Works, is shy little finger, taken of in a rock crrsher at his plsnt.
 A young Mexican pulled big gun on Conductor Patterson of the Imper- i-i Valley branch because the lstterin- sisted that he pay his fare He was unarmed and allowed to hit the trail.
 Placer gold has been found in paying quantities in Coconino county, near Indian Gardens No assay have been made, but a pan showed about half teaspoon of free gold.
 An automobile service is promised between Phoenix, Mesa and Tempe. A company has been organized and cars already ordered.
 Work has been resumed on the big we'll at the Benson reform school, after an interruption incident to de- lay in getting casing.
 Henry Schnader, pioneer residing near Pboepix, is dead.
 The Phoenix school board on the occasion of its reappointment of Prof. J. F. Stilsell to the position of super intendent of the city schools few days ago, took advantage of his sb- sence and raised his salary s3OO, msk- ing it now s2,4O0 per year.
 Eugene II T. Hsusen has secured the appointment of superintendent of the Capitol grounds at Phoenix, suc- ceeding George Hough Smith.
 A comprehensive map of the Salt river valley has been issued in Phoe. nix by Dwight B. Heard Tor the pur- pose oi boosting that section.
 Insurance and real estate men and brokers of Bisbee are taking the Sat- urday hali holiday.
 C. H. McLane has been elected manager oi the Prescott baseball as- sociation. and Reinhardt, who pitched part of last season ir Globe, will probably be ia the box for the Pres colt team.
 The Santa Fe railroad is making a strong bid for the patronage oi dele gates to both the republican and democratic national conventions this fall, having issued attractive sdvertis- ing matter which is being distributed lavishly all over the territory of Ari zona.
 E.F. Van Kirk and Mrs. Ida M Swigert, prominent residents of Salt river valley, were quietly married in | Phoenix.
 AY MIG. A city league of baseball clubs is being organized at Douglas.
 The capital stock Of the First N"- tional Bank of Douglas is to be in creased from $50, 900 to slO0,00D. 1 Joel W TYndall, an Indian ot edu cation and enterprise. who is an ex' ceedingly fine looking young man, ha
 arrived from Omaha, Neb., to be fsrme
 at the Fort Indian school, a position
 he has had on two or three former co
 casions.-Yuma Sun.
 The formal opening of the Arizon