The copper era., 1909-05-20
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

 Phoenix will commence running about the first of June, according to the present plans.
 The Copper Queen company is ship ping many carloads of heavy ma chinery to their mines in the Court land district.
 Commencement exercises were held for graduating class of twenty-three at the Phoenix Indian school Thurs day of last week.
 Under new rule of the Bisbee city council, insurance men will pay S5 quarter occupation tax and real estate men Sl5 per quarter.
 Hon. M. A. Smith, former delegate to Congress, returned to his home in Tucson last week from the East where he has been for several months.
 The Tucson Consolidated company has struck rich sulphide ore at a depth of hundred feet in the Bat tie Axe mine of the Old Pueblo group near Tucson.
 J. c. Adams is circulating a pet:- tion among his friends in Phoenix asking the governor to reappoint him to his old job as fair commis missioner.
 A public installation of officers of the Benevolent Order of American Miners, which is being established in the Globe district, was held at Miami last week.
 The Globe Surety & Bonding com pany has qualified to do business in Arizona by filing its articles of in- corporation with the territorial authorities. It is an eastern cor porationS
 The Twin Buttes Mining company has made a proposition to Tucson that the city shall guarantee the ir- terest on the estimated cost of S6OO,- 900 for an extension of the railroad line to their properties.
 An oil burning boiler at the D. C.. shelter exploded at Morenci last week and badly injured Tom Shinn, a fireman. Shinn was knocked off the top ot the boiler, landing on the slag track some fifteen feet below, and re- ceived a bad cut on the forehead, aside from several bad bruises about the body.-Leader.
 Active work toward the securing of a bonus of s1OO,0OO to insure the con- struction of the proposed railroad be- tween Phoenix, Buckeye and Arling- ton was begun last week. The bonus committee appointed at the meeting held April p, at the board of trade, is now circulating among the busi ness men Phoenix Gazette.
 Deputy United States Marshal Guerry and guards arrived in Tucson last week with twenty-three United States prisoners, who were arrested in Yuma and ordered held by the United States commissioner to await the action of the United States grand jury. Nearly all of the prisoners were charged with selling lighor to Indians.
 Two forest rangers employed to patrol the Coconino forest are fugitives from justice and are being closely followed through the country they know so well by a sheriff's posse. The charge against them is murder. The names of the forest rangers are Reuben Neill and Herbert Wood. Their alleged victim was E. P. Schwartz.
 The Arizona fair commission at present only consists of one member Hon. B. A. Packard of Douglas. Both M. Wright of Prescott and MT. Hahn of Phoenix, who were appointed to succeed J. c. Adams and Hank Lockett on the commission, have de- cliued to serve. Gov. Sloan will name those who will join MT. Packard in the work of promoting the 1908 fair in the near future.
 A big bunch of cattle arrived in Tucson last week from the Zapedc ranch. There were HOO head of cat. tie in the herd. The cattle were pur' chased some time ago by Isaac Bird a prominent cattleman of Merced county, California. They will be shipped to MT. Birds ranch in Merced county where they will be put or pasture for short time and ther marketed.
 The work of installing the first big dredger on the property of the Floul Gold Placer company's property ha: been finished according to the report brought in by Johnnie Ensign, who has had charge of the transportation of the machinery. Though the water is now at low stage, it is believed that enough can be obtained to starr the dredger soon. A pipe line will bt run from the Agua Fria river to fur nish water.-Phoenix Gazette.