Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-03-07

temptations, but that it would be a
 good idea, in carrying out the divine
 injunction, to remove the man from the
 temptations.
 Prescott Courier thinks the Demo
 crats of Yavapai county should stand
 together and prevent Republicans from
 breaking into the courthouse above the
 basment line. The presumption is that
 the county jail occupies the basement floor.
 Freight shipments have wonderfully increased on the Espee and the shop force at Tucson is overtaxed. A large increase of machinists is soon to be made.
 Tucson is planning for threeday carnival to be held during the month of May, Baseball tournament, horse races, ball, parade, fiesta and theatricals will be among the chief features of entertainment.
 Jose Lopez, one of the most expert miners of Pima county, was instantly. killed by a fa.l down the shaft of the old Pueblo mine Wednesday. His neck and back were broken by col .ision with stull and he expired in stantly.
 Yuma onion growers have discover ,d that solution of tobacco puts onion lice to the bad, and they are eonse- quently rejoicing, as the little insect has been playing havoc with the onion crop for a number of years in that section.
 Many Bisbeeites are planning to go to the coast to see the fleet of warships.
 Truant school boys of Bisbee are be- ing arrested and locked in jail
 T. F. Murphy has been arrested at Bisbee charged with passing a forged cheek on a resident of the redlight dis trict in that place.
 Holbrook denies that smallpox is prevalent there.
 One hundred of the new Springfield rifles, with which the national guard is to be re armed, have been received in Phoenix and will be distributed as soon as the ammunition is received, which will be in a short time. Small eonsign ments are being sent out to all the com panies that the men who are competing for places on the different teams to be sent to the national shoot may begin | with the new gun at once and become familiar with it.
 The Tombstone Prospcetor is little timid about alluding to sewing so- siety as an '' aggregation of old hens, 1" but bravely speaks of hens as "ladies l 1f the barnyard.
 By catching his foot between the cage and the wall of the shaft, J. w. | Bledsoe, who is employed at the June lion mine at Lowell, faced death for a fraction of a second. As it was, his leg was severely bruised, his injury was not considered to be serious enough to require his beng sent to the hospital 1 When the cage came to the surface it | lacked a few inches of being plumb with the turn sheet, and while it was being lowered Bledsoe s leg was caught l in the manner described. Fortunately the cage moved only few inches, other wise he would have been ground to death.
 Plans for detention hospital to be erected at Douglas have been approved by the board of county supervisors of Cochise
 The city council of Douglas has ar. ranged details for the coming city cleo i ton in that city Registration from March 25 to May ,; primaries April IS; May 2; election May 25. Election officers have also been named
 The bricklayers union of Douglas and Bisbee has agreed upon wage scale of $6 per day instead of $7 during the present period of building inactivity
 Napoleon Sepulveda, who was recent ly sentenced at Douglas to serve 100