Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-01-25


 The "good fellow can sing the same song,
 Tempe telephone company has moved into new headquarters. but the same sweet voice tells patrons that the line is busy.
 | Misereants broke into the school house at Yuma and badly damaged a new piano by giving it an. external and internal bath with ink. Bsbce claims to lead all Arizona cities in the matter of growth. Bisbee should present the figures, accompanied by sworn statement. [ The controversy has been settled and Tucson school teachers are to receive pay for the vacation period between Christmas and New Years. Tempe will vote on the question of granting franchise to the railway company proposing to build an electric line from Phoenix to that city.
 A Phoenix young man has been held to the grand jury for beating his sweetheart with a coal shovel He should have used sugar scoop.
 The railroad work near Nogales is affording work for many laborers and the Mexicans around Cananea are talk ing advantage of the opportunity.
 Captain Burgess, arrested number of days ago charged with misappropri- ating funds belonging to the Ponto- toe Mining company, has been released on $500 bond
 President Babcock of the University of Arizona, who has been quite sick in Chicago, is reported much improved and will be able to return to the ter ritory within few days.
 To encourage good school teachers to remain, the board of education in the. Warren district has increased all sal aries, and wages in the future will be paid on basis of merit.
 The Antlers bar, one of the finest drinking resorts in Douglas, has been closed by attachment. The place was owned by c. G. Henkle and was at. taehed by the Moore Liquor company.
 w. A. Reynolds, a prominent con. tractor of Ouray, Colo, has located in Phoenix, and has already erected mum Der of buildings that have created un- usual comment for their beauty and finish.
 Charles T. Brant. who recently fleeced the merchants of Prescott with bum lot of bogus cheeks, has been arrested at Silver City, N. M., and will be brought back to Yavapai county to stand trial
 The lower house of congress will act favorably on the bill validating the waterworks bond issue proposed by Tucson, says a Washington dispatch. The senate will probably turn the prop osition down.
 Several Tombstone men report mak ing big money on the recent advance in stocks. They bought when stocks struck bottom, and have been taking off from $200 to $500 a day ever since the movement has been upward.
 Lew Morris, one of the proprietors of the Dime theater at Douglas, has been arrested on a charge of brutally assaulting an employe of the play house. This is the second time Lew has been arrested during the past week.
 Owing to the fact that gambling has been abolished, Winslow foi the first time in years has been compelled to make tax levy. Heretofore the li- censes collected from gamblers has paid the operating expenses of'the town gov. ernment.
 George Miller, pioneer citizen of Prescott, has been mysteriously miss ing for number of weeks and his friends are growing apprehensive. Ho is veteran of the civil war and spent considerable of his time in the noun tains of the Hassayampa district.
 Benson officials are looking for man named Van Lean, who is wanted in Cochise county on a charge of bur glary. Van Lean first escaped from jail, was later captured at Dragoon, and while en route to Benson in the custody of constable, made his escape from the train.
 The judgment recently secured by Paine, Weber & Co. against the Cop per Belle Mining Co. for $272, ,229.04, in Pima county, has been filed in the district court of Cochise, and steps will at once be taken to have the property sold to satisfy the judgment. Other suits are pending against the company.
 Mrs. Estelle Corwell, nee Goodman, a former Yuma girl, is now on trial for the murder of George T. Bennett in Los Angeles. Mrs. Corwell was the mistress of the man she is accused of murdering, and it is said that she shot him because he tried to jilt her. Ben nett was killed at the door of another woman with whom he is said to have been infatuated.
 The sequel to the story of Jack Glib. sons 'possum farm, Phoenix, was writ ten yesterday, when dozen or more of the best fellows in town assembled around the festal board and enjoyed a genuine 'pOssum banquet Jack se- cured pair of 'possums number of weeks ago with the intention of start ing 'possum ranch. They disappear ed the first evening after their arrival from Texas,
 | A man named Phelps has been mak- ing himself obnoxious of late contest | ting claims in Yuma county. A few nights ago he was taken from his house with a towel over his head by enraged citizens and hurried in the direction of river, where it was intended to give him a ducking His cries attracted the attention of an officer, who rescued him from his prosecutors. It is like | ly, however, that there will be fewer contests in Yuma county than hereto fore.
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