Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-05-12
ARIZONA NEWS
 AND COMMENT

i AND COMMENT ,I Nogales, too, is to have Fourth of
 July celebration.
 Application for charter has been made by new outfit consisting of Warren townsitc interests to build trolley line from Bisbee to Douglas. They have
 no connection with the Cochise Elec
 tric Railway company, organized for the same purpose. ', Ed Leathcrs of Lowell narrowly es-
 capped death by taking morphine, which he had mistaken for quinine. II Work has been started on new bsmelter at Mansfield, Ariz., to handle
 the ores of the Mansfield Mining Smelting company.
 The Consolidated Mines company, borganized in Douglas for the purpose 'of taking over important properties in ! Mexico.
 ! In Prescott barber shdp sign is displayed reading: "Your suit pressed and cleaned in the rear while you wait. "
 Walter B. Kibbey is rapidly recover. ling in Los Angeles from the effects of poison taken with suicidal intent some days ago.
 | The Tempe municipal waterworks last year cleared over $500, and now has surplus of nearly s6,0o0 out at in. forest.
 ] Colonel Frank J. Sibley of Tucson, Ia member of the Prohibition national icominittee, has called convention of Arizona prohib<tionists to meet in Phoe- nix May l4
 Yavapai county district court found Billy Waterman. Indian, who shot and killed Henry Smith, Indian, last Noyem- Der, guilty of murder in the second de- gree.
 Ethelbert J. Mackay, arrested on q charge of insanity and claiming to have millions in nvested around Prescott, and to own most of the big enterprises in Lavapai cosnty, was discharged. the ex. hmining physicians holding that his dementia was entiraly harmless.
 The body of the 3-ye4r-old son of Mir. and Mrs. Raphael Ortega was found in the Upper Verde river after an all nights search.
 An aged Mexican woman of Bisbee had an eye destroyed and was other wise badly disfgured in beating ad- ministered by s. Peralta, Mexican' brute, who was cought and arrested.
 Bisbea Country club has completed new te'inis court, which, it is claimed, is one of the finest in the southwest.
 Tho Los Angeles Herakl attributes the condition of Walter Kibbey, report ed to have attempted suicide, to delir ium tremens, saying he hasl been on a pretracted spree, as a result of disap pointment in a love affair.
 Fen s. Hildreth has bean formally reinstated ia his position as land of. flee receiver, having been entirely ex. onerated of the charges made against him.
 Claud Smith, bell boy in the Gadsden hotel at Douglas, monkeyed with the elevator cables and is minus a finger.
 Tempe's leading businesp building, known as the Richardson block, has been purchased by Clara R. Laird and James A.. Dine,i from May E. Richard. son.
 A new men s club to be knoun as the Aztec club has been organized in Phoe- nix to occupy the quarters recently va. cated by the Arizona club in the Ad- ams hotel.
 Phoenix high school will have it's com mencement May 28.
 After being out eighteen hours tho jury in the case of the government against Clarence Maddox, railroad con ductor on trial in Tucson charged with robbing box car on his own. train, returned verdict of not guilty.
 L. A. Scott, the young lad who stole $2,5o0 worth of diamonds from Mrs L. J. F. lager in Tucson, got two years in the penitentiary in the district court of Pima county.
 The first apricots of the season from the Salt River valley are in the Phoe- nix markets.
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