The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1908-09-24
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The people of Tucson voted dowr
the proposed new charter.
Douglas opened the school yeal
with an enrolment of 1,22S pupils.
Douglas has hopes of becoming the
center of d great dry farming dis
tfict.
BY vote of twelve to eight Yuma
will issue school bonds to the amount
of 100000.
Since the resumption of work al
Cananea Douglas merchants report a
great increase in their business.
The Central Arizona Electric COM
pany has been organized to furnish
light and power to Octave and Wick
enburg.
Phoenix high school opened with an
enrolment of 300 pupils, Prof. A.
K. Stabler, formerly of Globe, is the
new principal.
Thomas P. Keough, of Phoenix,
has been appointed assistant to Con
O'Keefe, collector of customs at the
port of Nogales.
The Tempe Normal school has an
enrolment of 226 members. This is
the largest first week record in the
history of the school.
The Santa Fe has reduced the
freight rate on hay between Phoenix
and Flagstaff from So to 81 and the
grain rate from 50 cents to 46 cents.
The Salt River Valley Water Users
association has approved the pur-
chase of the canal of the Consoli-
dated company. The price is $751;
600.
Mesa young ladies of the Mormon
faith have organized a "Young
Ladies' Society,"" and will give a
series of socials and other entertain
ments.
The International Typographical
union will assist Phoenix printers in
caring for members of the craft suf-
fering from the effects of consump-
tion, who locate in the Capitol city.
A strike that promises important
developments has been made on the
property of the Arizona-COlOradO
Copper Belt Mining company says
the Globe Belt.
Phoenix negroes have employed a
detective to run to earth a man, be-
lieyed to be a negro, who has been
attacking women and girls on the
streets of that city. The negroes as
sert that they will be able to prove
that it is white man.
Lyman Wakefield, resigned regis
ter of the Phoenix land Office, denies
that his action was prompted by a
shortage of clerks. He says that he
has laid certain matters before
United States Attorney Alexander
and intimates that a sensation is
soon to be sprung.
Some person seems to have ques
toned the vitality of the Prescott
Courier, and here is the way Editor
Rogers comes back: "The Courier
man is good for at least twenty years
more of active life and perhaps forty
years more. The Courier will be rum
ming when Angel Gabriel tOots his
horn and will get out the first extra
about the toot."
The Phoenix Gazette says that e.
Thomas, formerly of Reading, Penn
sylvania, has leased the old Willis
croft iron foundry on South Seventh
avenue and turned the esta blishment
into a mandatory for brass and
iron electric fixtures and house orna-
ments. This is an industry that is
bound to grow to immense proper
tions, for the need of a factory to
turn out good fixtures at reasonable
prices has long been felt.
The September issue of the Recla-
nation Service Bulletin, issued for
employees of the service only has been
received. The Bulletin states that
at the end of August the Roosevelt
dam was y per cent. completed, as
against IL per cent. at the end of
July. During July 1900 cubic feet
of masonry was laid, and 1000 in
August. From the 18th to the 23rd
of August, delay in construction
work was caused by high water.
The south side canal was 35 per cent.
completed August 81, and but little
work remained to be done on the
Granite Reef diversion dam.