Tombstone epitaph., 1909-08-29
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF iN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

The annual su mer encsmpmen Q, of the Bisbee Y NC A will leave to. morrow for the Huschucs mountains
 'here the party will remain in camp for several weeks
 By binding themselves to pay $40,- 900 toward the building of the Center street bridge in Phoenix, the associs- tion which made the fight for the bridge in the recent election has complied with the necessary term and the bridge will be built at that point
 Typho'd fever is reported to be still raging at Benson and but little prog. ress has been made toward stamping out the epidemic.
 A raid on the Tucson Chinese guar. ter by the police resulted in the cap ture of two opium smokers. They will be tried on the charge of conduct. ing plum joints
 The Calumet & Arizona smelter at Douglas is enlsrging Its furnaces from their present capacity Of 300 tons per day to 800 tons
 Douglas has begun the system of working city prisoners on the streets with the result that petty criminals are net nearly 50 anxious 10 get into jail as formerly
 Some important changes are likely | to be made at the United Verde smel,er, az a survey IS now being made with a view to extending the railroad track down from the depot to the imelter
 George Patullo, a special writer for the Saturday Evening Post oi high repute, Is touring the territory in search of information for story of western life
 4 petition for local option election is being circulated in the Kirkland val. ley in iavapsi county asking the board oi supervisors to ca l special election ID the near future to determine if that section will continue to have saloons
 What is believed to be the noiy of George Bisbee of Tucson has been foupd on the desert that borders the Panamint range oi mountains in Cali. fornia, and the supposition is that he perished of thirst Reports from the North Star mine in Yuma county are to the effect that the company is being driven to des- perste straits to stop the stealing of high grade ore hy miners working in the shaft
 The new motor cars which are to be used for passenger traffic on the Maricops & Phoenix railroad have arrived and will be put into commis- sion at once. In 8 picture of them published in the Gazette they look ! more like a submarine boat than a land craft
 The Noble building in Phoenix. which has had such checkered career dur ing the course of it's construction, at last is nearing final completion and will be finished about the fret of Sep. tember
 Yuma county tax rate has been fixed at B go per Sl0O
 Operations on the Octave mine in Ysvapai county have been temporarily suspended during the installation of s large amount of new machinery and equipment
 From every section of the territory comes reports of heavy dowppours of rain, ,cloudbursts and floods. Railroad trscks and roads have been washed out and much damage to private property has resulted
 A petition asking for the pardon of storm, former treasurer of Yay' apai county. who is serving foul year term in the penitentisry fol , embezzlement while Tn office, is beini circulated in Prescott and being nu
 merously signed by friends of thu prisoner
 Governor Sloan yesterday mad l public the first report of the Arizonj [ railway commission, showing wha . l that organization has done since Q came into existence iust msrcn. ] has taken up a number of complaint g from shippers. succeeded in correctin l. several evils, and where the railroad refused to act, has passed the matte d up to the interstste commerce con e mission,
 ' As the reeult of a mys terious bligt . which was destroying large number 's of trees in and around Douglas, th ,, forest supervisor of that district hs " taken up the matter with the forei V officials at Washington and aske
 their aid in the matter