Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-02-15

that the discovery of the loss was early made no trace of the jewels could be found along tho road. The matter is now in the hands of the officers
 Returning unexpected to his home in Phoenix, Ike Shavers, railroader, found his wife entertaining Clint Green, a friend of the family, at the wee sma hour of 3, and now Mrs. Shavers will be compelled to answer criminal charge. She asserts that Green came to the house in an intoxicated condition and was simply sleeping off a jag in Shaver's bed.
 Bids for the construction of the pro- posed new Y. M. c. A. building at Phoenix are to be advertised for, to be received not later than April ?. Phoenix will undertake to make bond issue of $l50.O00 for the redemp. tion of the former floating indebtedness of the city.
 Mesa lodge of Knights of Pythias will celebrate the forty-fourth anniversary of the lodge by giving monster ban quet, dance and social Miss Katherine Keough, an enterpris- ing young lady of Mesa, has secured a good.sized tract of land and will en. gage in the chicken and strawberry growing business.
 A lodge of Rebekahs has been insti. tuted at Mesa.
 Mesa is experiencing something of house famine, a complaint quite com mon among the cities of the territory.
 A straw vote shows that a majority of the property owners of Mesa are in favor of bonding the city for system of waterworks.
 Joe Gray, colored, has been arrested at Prescott by fedora authorities charged with purchasing and receiving as a pledge soldier wearing apparel. This is the first time an arrest of this char acter has been made in the territory. United States officers claim that the practice is getting quite common and that more arrests will be made. Prescott authorities are enforcing an ordinance requiring residents to keep their sidewalks free from snow. And let us see--Prescott ism t in the banana belt, is iti
 Two of the prisoners who escaped from the Lowell jail have been captured and return to the prison. They en- joyed liberty only twelve hours.
 E. II. Gilbert, a pioneer Arizona bar Der, and we'll known throughout the en. tire territory, has been adjudged in- sane at Yuma and committed to the territorial asylum.
 Yuma reports a general revival of | TdllNdN dblt.pu huNH of the present freight prosperity to the eastward movement of California oranges.
 Yuma housewives arc now cooking with gas and the torrid months of the good old summer time hold no terror for them. The new gas plant is com pleted and hubby snoozes until he hears the iingling Of the breakfast bell.
 Governo. Kibbey has left for Wash ington, where he will spend about three weeks hobnobbing with Teddy and the Taft contingent.
 A Catholic fair, one of the grandest ever undertaken in the territory, is now on at Bisbee.
 Vaccination has been made compul- sory by the board of health of B:sbee.
 While at work in the Superior & Pittsburg mine at Bisbee, A. c. Carter had the fingers of his right hand crush ed off, as the result of tram car leav' ing the rails.
 The Iris theater management at Bis bee has decided to eliminate vaudeville stunts and give a straight picture show as formerly.
 Mrs. Anna M. Young of Zanesville, Ohio, supreme chief of the Pythian Sis ters in the United States, is being enter tained by Yuma friends.
 Charles Johnson, arrested recently at