Tombstone epitaph., 1908-12-06
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

Though only month old Syivanite
 is supporting second paper, The Syi-
 vsnite Miner. This is the second
 weekly to carry the name of the new
 mining camp: the first being the Syl- vanite Sun. Sylvanite is surely well supplied with newspapers,
 Murder in the second degree, pun ishable by from ten years to life m the penitentiary. was the verdict of the jury in the case of Jesse R Pearce. tried in Phoenix last week for the murder of Oscar Button. Gu account of the sensational features surround. ing the killing, the trial has attracted great interest all over the territory.
 The aged mother of Ferdinand RJ- jss, 6 W ell known Mexican of Cananea, was fatally stabbed in holdup We'd nesdsy night Roias, his mother and son, were held up and robbed on their way from Cananea 10 Ymuris, and in the struggle the mother was killed
 The sale Of $25O. 900 worth of bonds voted by the citizens of Bisbee at special election a, Jew weeks ago, did not msterislize as was expected last week. but has been postponed until December I2.
 A meeting of the Yuma Valley Pro- duce Growers association will be held in Yuma tomorrow evening. The association will meet railroad and re- nen to discuss the ques- rion of the transportation of their products.
 Baroness de Cartier. wife of E. de Csvtier de Marchienne, counselor of the Belgian legation at Washington, died in Phoenix Wednesday night at 10 o'clock at the home of the late udge Webster Street, where she had been living during the past month. She had been living in Phoenix in the hopes of finding better health there,
 Paul D .Fsrquhar, the hero of many battles, died Tuesday morning at his Lome in Phoenix at the age S6 He was 6 major general in the civil war.
 A syndicate of Buckeye farmers has purchased s c. Foote's English Shire stallion, which he imported to Phoe- nix from Nebraska several months ago. This is one of the finest stsl- Hone ever brought to Arizona and is rs ted as 5000 horse. The syndi- cate paid s2.6OO for him.
 Andy Graves of Douglas was fined sl and costs in justice court for not his son to school. The costs to SIS. This is & case growing out of the proposition to colored from white children in the Douglas schools. In rendering his decisiGn the local justice did not take into consideration the race ques- lion, but simply fined the defendant for not complying with the law re- quiring school children of certain age to be sent to school.
 The city council of Stafford is having prepared an ordinance providing for the Sunday closing of all business houses except places Of necessity. such as hotels. restaurants, drug stores, etc. from Saturday night to Monday The saloons are already closed on Sundays by agreement of the liquor dealers and the new ordin. snce will undoubtedly pass the council.
 Nc Hill, who has for twenty-one years been the agent of the Msriccpa & Phoenix railroad st Tempe. last Thursday turned over his position to J A Arnold and retired from active service, the oldest employee of the company.
 Arizona authorities have been asked to look out for two boys, Harry Slsn- cell and James Archer, both If years of age, who ran away from their homes io Fl Paso last week and are thought to be headed for the western coast.
 JE Graves of Shreveport, La., will be the new agent of the LEI Paso and Southwestern railroad in Bisbee, to succeed WP McNair, who recently resigned to become secretary of tke Chamber of Commerce and Mines at
 Douglas.
 The Tempe public schools were re.
 opened yesterday after having been
 closed on account of the prevalence of diptheris in that city. The disease is