Tombstone epitaph., 1908-11-29
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

Five be turbaned and be-whiskered
 sons of India are stranded in Douglas
 awaiting financial assistance from
 their native land. They shipped to
 the United States from Singapore as
 lascars and have been having hard | time to make both ends meet in the land of promise. They were almost refused sdmittance to the United States, getting in by the skin Of their teeth They are doing odd jobs around the Shelter City until they receive the assistance for which they await. If no one else decides to en ter tn field between now and the opening of the next legislative session, Sam Fe Webb of Msricopa and Fred A. Sutter of Cochise will be the candidates for the speakership of the lower house both men having announced that they want the place
 Returns from a chemist who has been testing the relative richness of sugar beets raised in Arizona show the San Pedro valley to lead in this re- spect Beets were grown in tha. val ley this season standing two feet high above the surface and measuring ten to twelve inches in diameter.
 The six men who were arrested in Yuma for election fraud have been dismissed. Only two were brought 10 preliminary hearing and the justiees who heard the cases decided that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant their being bound over to the grand jury.
 New winter cantaloupes are now coming into the territorial markets, the larger part coming from Yuma county. One crop is now being hsr- vested and later planting will yield a crop along about Christmas time.
 The football team of the Univers ty of Arizona, which will meet the New Mexico boys in Albuqerque, is rapidly getting into shape, and Coach Gal brsith says they will give the New Mexico boys fast run for their money.
 Sam Barkley of Tucson is the home Hest man in Arizona and has the largest feet, If the result of the vote taken the last day of the fair cs ] be relied upon, Mir. Barkley was the winner of the "homliest map" contest by comfortable majority, the prize being pair of shoes. Now it is dis covered that no shoes large enough can be found and they will have to be uade to order and shipped to Tues on by freight.
 Den Pearman, f-rmer living west of Tempe, had a rather exciting time Sunday morning with an enraged bull aud barelyescsped the loss of good horse which he was riding before the enrbgedbovine could be gotten to the ranch, a short distance in the country.
 The contract for building and in- stalling the plant of the Arizona Brew. ing company at Tucson has been let to the Schneible company of Chicago at a price of S250,000. The first car load of the machinery i- "n the grounds and it is reported that work will be begun in the near future.
 City Marshal Hopley of Tucson has notified the pool and billiard parlors of tine Old Pueblo that in the future Kelly Pool games, played for money, will not be permitted. The game has had quite arun and has been played for money :big enough to embarrass some young fellows in their accounts witb their employers.
 A movement is on foot in Douglas to send big delegation from that city to Pittsburg to attend the American Mining congress, which meets there December ?. The delegation will go all primed up to secure the 1909 con vention from the Shelter City.
 V. R, Stiles, who has for many years been connected with the Fl Paso & Southwestern railroad, and is at pres- sent general passenger agebt, has sev- cred hie connection with the railroad to take effect in the near future.
 While passenger train No. 8 of the NJ. & F. was discbarging freight at the Pacific creamery. one mile from Tempe, Wednesday at noon, an alarm wac spread among the passengers that they were about to be telescoped by a freight aud 6 wild, mad rush for safety resulted. When all of the 20 odd pas.