Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-22
Arizona News
 and Comment

child of Mir. and Mrs. Jesus Valenzuea died in their miserable little hut of a homo in Bisbee.
 The Douglas baseball team played a series of games at the Pass city Satur- day and Sunday,
 Douglas newspapers hint broadly that faro is being played in that city und ' cover in violation of the territJr al statutes.
 The territorial fair association has set aside $500 as prizes for road and track automobile races at tue fair this fall.
 The first murder trial at the present session of the Cochse county district court resulted in the conviction of Wal. ter Sharp for the murder of Joseph Me Donald.
 No opposition being offered by the def ndants, Justice Kent has granted R. l.. Hayes, who is acting for the Royal Arch, a temporary injunction re- straining the city officials at Phoenix from putting into effect the ordinance requiring saloons to put in open fronts, which was to have become effective July [.
 Fifty Indians have been engaged for big rabbit drive in the section of country about four miles south of Tenn pc in an attempt to rid that community of the destructive little pest.
 Five Phoenix athletes are training for the athletic events to take place in Los Angeles on the occasion of the Elks convention next month. They expect to get away with some of the liberal prizes offered.
 No longer will sheriffs of the terri tory be paid fees for serving legal papers unless they actually travel every mile of the distance for which the claim is made, Justice Kent in the , Phoenix court holding that sending pa pers by mail does not entitle the officer to fees for the distance the document travels in making service. Charged with robbing farms in the Salt River valley of barley, oats and baled hay, and being caught with the goods on. Joe Roberts and Ferdinando | Yelardo have been arrested and await trial ill the Phoenix jail.
 John Desmond, an employe of the 1 Tucson telephone company, has been arrested on charge of being implicat ed in the dynamting of the home of w. II. Whalen in that city last Friday morning. Three complaints were sworn to Sat urday by Mayor Ben Heney and NeaI Le Baum of Tucson, charging w. B Kelly, editor and general manager of the Arizopa Daily Star, with criminal | libel, based on articles printed in con ! squabole in the Old Pueblo. Warraut' nave been issued.
 The Ray Consolidated Copper com | pany has let contract for 4,O00 tons oi structural steel to the Kansas City Structural Steel company at price oi about $335,000 The steel will be useC in the construction of the big eoncen trator at Kelvin this fall.
 The home of George T. Alkire il Tucson was entirely destroyed by fir, Sunday morning with loss of $ll, J00
 James Graves, an elderly man o, Florence, while on hunting trip las week was badly injured by the acciden tai discharge of q shotgun. The charge after tearing off several fingers, strucl him in the abdomen, inflieting very SC we're injuries and may prove fatal oi account of the age and general poo health of the unfortunate man. A. rLeRoy is. under, arrest in Bisbe for shooting and instantly killing Le Perry in the back yard of the former home. Late at night LeRoy discovere' Perry on his premises, and upon th latter failing to heed his order to stop he shot him dead.
 Tucson chamber of commerce has re ccived reply from President Taft II answer to their invitation to him to wis it that city on the occasion of hi western trip, saying that he will giv' the matter full consideration and ad wise them of his decision at latel date.
 Work has, been begun on the survcJ of the proposed extension of the T@u Buttes railroad line from Sahuarita tt | Calabasas.
 | On motion of the district court th' l jury in the, case against Juan Herman dez. on trial in the Cochise county courts for the murder of John Watson | watphman in the Bisbee railroad