Tombstone epitaph., 1908-12-20
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF IN. TEREST CONDENSED.

At @ gathering of the business men of Tucson Tuesday evening Business Mems Protective association was formed. It is the purpose of the or ganization to have a credit rating of every purchaser in the city to the end that the merchants will lose less in the future on account of dead .eats. The corner room in the new Chan dler building at Mesa has been leased to LW Stillwell and c H Nan Ant werp, formerly of Kansas City, and as soon as the room can be finished the two gentlemen and several local stock holders will open a bank. The gentle. men are of the opinion shat Mesa car support two banks.
 During the part year experimets have been under way at the Copper Queen smelter in Douglas looking to the installation of a entering plant to prepare concentrates of the fiue dust and other fine particles for the blast furnace. The experiments have thus far been highly successful and the machinery for the new plant is now on the ground.
 A Mexican named William Marti- neg was badly hurt Tuesday at the ! Iav ,a sv,t ha pital recovering from his injuries His clothing became entsngled in come belting and he was whirled around with great force and painfully hurt before the machinery could be etopped.
 Reports from Bisbee state that the mines of the Copper Queen are in fine shape and that at the present time more than 1900 men are employed in their works. This is & larger force than has been employed since before the slump last fall and i. another in. dicstion of the general resumption of prosperity.
 Professor ". Skinner, for several years a member of the faculty of the university; connected with the depart. ment of chemistry, has recently come into the limelight of publicity in Washington, D. c. through his chem icsl determination of the gases known as carbon monoxide, which caused the deaths of two women and baby.
 Following an extended inquiry into the Tucson freight rate matter, the special experts who were engaged by the chamber of commerce to do this work have recommended that tine local merchants apply to the interstate com- merce commission for Q resdjustment ol the rates.
 Judge John H Campbell, of the district court at Tucson, has been called to Danville, H., by the serious illness of his father. and for that req son an order has been issued adjourn : ing court until December 20.
 News from Prescott is to the effect that the new owners of the Humboldt smelter. who recently purchased it at receivers sale are making arrange ments to resume the reduction of ore in the near future The new owners are said to have set aside fund of $l ,OO0, 900 for the purchase of ores. Horace Middleton, 6 young man aged 26 years, who was born and l epent nearly all of his life in GIobel died Tuesday evening in Mesa from n complication of lung troubles. Rela- tiyes from Globe were ct his bedside at the time of his death. The funeral was held from the Baptist church. 1 At meeting of the members Of the Tucson fire department Thursday evening, s. Y. Barkley was elected chief of the department to succeed George P Scholefeld, who served in this capacity during the year jus, passed.
 That her husband hurled lighted lamp at her is one of the sensational allegations made in tha district court of Tucson in a petition for divorce
 filed by Mrs. Maggie Culverson, wht
 is seeking legal separation from Will
 jam s Culverson.
 Three young men, the oldest no
 more that twenty years, were arrested
 in tbe railroad yards at Yums las
 week, charged with breaking into
 box car. Investigation, howevel
 showed that the car had not beel broken into and the lads were sent t , jail on . charge of vsgrsncy. William Martinez, who was mangle'