The copper era., 1909-09-09
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

John Williamson was found guilty at Lowell of mistreating horse ant fined s2O.
 W. E. Porter, of Bisbee, has beer granted patent on a new rock drill ing machine.
 The new townsite of Calzona, few miles below Parker, is to be placed or the map early this month.
 Yuma county board of supervisors has adopted the plans of R. J. Young, for the building of their new court house.
 The La Coronado Development 2, company is preparing to install ten stamp mill on their property in the Kelvin district.
 A carload of silver ore taken out in the vicinity of Mohawk by George w. Norton of Yuma netted the lucky owner SlO,2OO.
 Over fifteen hundred Arizonans registered at the annual outing of the Hassayampa club, held at Venice, Cal, recently.
 The contract for grading the A. & c. railroad from Parker to Bengal has been awarded to Scott, Smith & White, St. Louis firm.
 Elias Summers has catpured Gila monster about a mile east of Fair banks, which measured 19f inches.  This is the largest on record.
 The Southern Pacific has failed in its attempt to develop artesian water at Fairbank, after having driven more than thousand feet deep.
 Ysmael Hernandez, a 12-year-old Tucson lad, has been sent to the Benson reform school until he is 2l years of age for stealing watch.
 w. c. Parkman was bitten by a spider at his home in Buckeye one day last week and as result suffered for thirty-six hours in terrible agony.
 Four companies of the Eighteenth infantry U. S. A. will leave San Fran cisco for Fort Whipple on September 15, after the return of the regiment from the Phillipines.
 The Southwest Indian conference, which was in session at Flagstaff all last week, has decided to make Flag staff, it's permanent home and to erect buildings at that city.
 Commencing with September l, Yuma entered the list of frst-class counties, having passed the require ments for this distinction in showing an assessed valuation of more than s3,OOO, 900 this year.
 The output of the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas for August was S,25O,OO0 pounds of blister copper. This is a slight reduction from last months output, that being S,6O0,00O pounds.
 According to the records of the probate court there have been thirty two commitments to the territorial insane asylum from Cochise county since the first of January.
 The final score from the national shooting tournament at Camp Perry shows that the team sent by the Ari- | zona National Guard gets thirty-first place, 358 points behind the winners.
 Phoenix and Tucson are to trade Mexican consuls. Senior A. M. Elias of Phoenix has received orders to ex- change positions with Senor Gustave Levy, who has been acting in the same capacity at Tucson.
 E. s. Colgrove, special Indian agent, is making arrangements for the use of five hundred red men as laborers on the new railroad to be constructed | by the Santa Fe from Parker to Bea- gal.
 The Phoenix branch of the Con- federate Veterans recently organized, has received it's charter from the national organization. It will be officially known as Stonewall Jackson camp No. 17l3.
 Governor Sloan has appointed Lloyd B. Christy of the Vallcy Bank of Phoenix as delegate to the conven- tiou of the National Association of Supervisors of State Banks, to be held at Chicago September 13 and IA.
 As our water supply is very impure at the present time and not even fl- tered, think it best for the people to boil and filter their water, for by so doing they may avoid sickness, is the notice being sent out by the Yuma county superintendent of health.
 A Sprained Ankle.
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