Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-09
ARIZONA NEWS
 AND COMMENT

Deputy Sheriff Ike Woods brought to Phoenix from Wickenburg Friday a young man. son of business man at that place, who is charged with high way robbery at the point of pistol, taking $l7 from the person of col aied man.
 I. T. Hazard of Courtland and Char ley Stone of Douglas will be the prin. cipals in wrestling match to be held at Warren September l9 for the cham pionship of the territory.
 An excursion over the Nacozari rail road will be run from Douglas to Purica and Nacozari next Sunday. These ex- cursions are run annually and large numbers are carried into Mexico from the States
 William Norris and Harold Elicott, two Prescott boys of promising mechan. ieal ability, have finished an automobile of their own manufacture, which is said to be credit to their ability.
 Dempsey B. Powell, who shot and seriously wounded Dewitt Milligan in the right shoulder at Cherry Creek Sun. day evening, has been released on $2,000 bonds, pending action of the Yavapai county grand jury
 The attention of Assistant District Attorney l.. s. Arnold of Cochise county has been called to the alleged practice of Bisbee of giving short weights and an investigation will be made which promises 10 be sensational in the ex. treme.
 Fred Vessel has been ramed county school superintendent by the Yuma county board of supervisors, this office coming into existence by reason of Yuma coming into the ranks of first. class counties.
 The annual reunion and picnic of then Northern Arizona Pioneer associa, tion was held al Park Thorpe. near Flagstaff Monday, with T large attend ance of the old timers of the territory.
 The Ranger school of the government forest service opened Monday in Fort Valley, nine miles from Flagstaff, with a good class of men who wish to he come familiar with fofestry methods.
 John Moblenpah of Newark Ohio. and ]. S Price of Denver have been lost in the ice caves of St. Mary, near Flagstaff for several days, and have been completely lost in the labyrinths or drowned.
 Liberty, Buekey, add Arlington were visited by heavy rain and thunder storm Friday night which created much damage to the farming interests of that district
 The owner of the lone saloon at Cen traf has been arrested on the charge of selling liquor to a boy under age.
 Whether Charles II. Taylor, gray haired man of 60 years, living at Phoe- nix, lurcd the ur-year-old daughter of J. E. Stuck into an isolated place for the purpose of committing ter rible crime on her person, is 10 be de termined in police court at the Capital City.
 The Parker Bank & Trust company has been incorporated -lth capital iZation of $l00,000 for the purpose of opening a bank in the new town of Parker, on the Colorado river, in the near future.
 The Dutchman group of seven claims, located near Bouse. has just been sold by Tom Bouse and k. McMahon to John Sharpc and assoclates for con sidefat.on reported to be s,J,0OO.
 ffofcSSCr Munsen or ffaESta1 IS pre- pairing lec,ufe on thc tiopl snake dance and the pictures taken on re- cent trip to witness the ceremony at Wallapai.
 The appraisers appointed to determine the value of the Douglas water plant, which may he taken over by the city in inc near future, have arrived at $221 ,s04 as q fair figure for the prop erty.
 The Douglas Dispatch, which changed hands two months ago, passing out of the hands of the Kelly Syndicate, has grown rapidly under the new manage ment, both in size Aad quality, and sunday morning presented it's readers with prosperous looking twelve-page edition, the largest regular edition ever printed by the paper.
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