Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-08
ARIZONA NEWS
 AND COMMENT

! A Japanese cook employed at the res
 idence of John F. Withers at Kingman fell from the tower of a windmill on, day last week and received injuries which may result in his death.
 The serious illness of F. F.. Calvin general manager of the southern Pa , cific in this section, may seriously in-
 terfere with the plans for the extension of the Twin Buttes railroad from Sa.
 huarita to Calabasas.
 Seven loaded gravel cars on the
 Southern Pacific near Stein s pass were
 derailed Monday, after a thrilling run
 down an incline, and were completely
 wrecked.
 J. F. Shields, Civil war veteran,
 aged 7l years, and prominent resi-.
 dent of Tucson, died Monday morning
 of pneumonia.
 Catcher Jack Myers of the Giants,
 who learned baseball on the Tucson | and Clifton teams in Arizona, is prov.
 ing one of the real baseball finds of 1909, says an eastern writer.
 Fire Monday forenoon badly dam aged the cleaning works of Campbell Smith in Tucson. The origin of the fire is not definitely known, but was probably started by Fourth of July celebrators.
 Caught in the act of carting a bar. rel of beer away from the warehouse of the Bail-Heineman company in Tue. son, Reyes Hernandez was arrested and | placed in jail
 $. s. Allen, well known Tucson 1 theatrical manager and Miss Rosabelle | Leslie, his leading woman of the Rosa belle Leslie Stock company, were mar ried in the Old Pueblo Saturday.
 By reason of the slump in prices the United Verde's net income in 1908 dropped to $2,349,63S, as against s. 07S,S46 in 1907
 The Tucson Star announces inside in- formation to the effect that new arrests will soon be made of persons suspect ed of being implicated in the dynamit- ing of the home of Superintendent Whalen of the Tucson division of tho Southern Pacific two weeks ago. . Nogales merchants are petitioning the council for the repeal of the ordi- nance requiring all stores to be closed at o'clock, saying they are deprived of many late sales by the early closing law. The clerks are busily engaged passing around counter petition.
 Entering the delrious stages of ty- phod fever, Tom Cook, who was taken to the A. C. hospital at Clifton a few days ago, wandered into the bathroom Thursday night and drank the contents of a vial of nitric acid. He died in few moments in terrible agony.
 The nature faker is abroad in the I Salt River valley. He is sending out the unprecedented story of hens in his community which lay eggs with .hree yolks each, and asks the question = of whether they should go to market IS one egg each or three eggs each.
 The will of the late o. NJ. Kcndrick, who was recently killed by lightning lear Tempe, bequeaths all his property, A ! modest fortune, to the use of tho southern General Presbyterian assem ply.
 A formal complaint has been pre- ,ared by Traffic Manager Jones of the daricopa County Commercial club gainst territorial railroads, petition ng the interstate commerce commission R or the regulation of passenger rates n Arizona, especially on the lines run ing into Phoenix, Mesa and Tempe
 The Ray Consolidated Copper com q any, is advertising for 15O pick and " hovel men, drill men and teamsters f, or work upon the new railroad being q, uilt by that company between Kelvin hi nd Ray. n,
 z As the result of too much enthusiasm D , celebrating the Fourth of July in s, 'hoenix, .year-old Willie Johnson =, ill spend several weeks in bed while .. from the effects of receiv lg the discharge of a toy cannon in a, is leg and ankle. ;a Ansel NJ. Bragg, pioneer and promi- q. .t ent in Masonic circles, formerly of - ucson and at one time grand master " the Masons for Arizona, died at his V. ome in Garvanza, Cal, last week, '' yed IS years.
 Father Fernandez Ortiz, native of orn son of Tucson, sang his first mass pu
 San Augustine cathedral last Sun no