Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-03
ARIZONA NEWS
AND COMMENT

MhU OOuitVLNt
G. A. Overlook, newly appointed
United States marshal for Arizona,
who is in Tucson this week, confirms
the report that Griggs Carr viii receive
the appointment MS deputy at Phoenix.
Mayor Christy has named the com
mittees that win have charge of the
| arrangements for tire reception of
President Taft when he visits Phoenix
on October Is on his tour of the west
The Tucson Elks baseball team will
play at Phoenix against the Elks team
of the Capital City on Sunday, Septem
Der &c.
w. G. Parkman was bitten by a
spider at his home in Buckeye one
day last week and as a result suffered
for thimy'six hours in terrible agony.
-Four baseball games are scheduled
for the Labor day celebration ut Pres
cott two ON Saturday and two on sun
daT.
Sunday evening at ) o'clock, an old
family feud at Cherry Creek eliminated
in Dewitt Milligan being shot aud
seriously wounded by d. b. Powell, bis
brother'inlaw.
Bids have been opened for the con
struction of the Arizona & California
railway between Parker and Bengal,
and the award Of the contract will be
made in a few days.
Colonel l.. W. Powell, the Bisbec
manager of the Calumet & Arizona Min
ing company, who recently made II visit
to Duluth. Mimi, returned to Arizona
to get cool, according to his own story
having found the heat in the northern
country unendurably oppressive.
Death Monday claimed another Ari-
zonan of the pioneer era, when J. A.
Rokohl OF Prescott died suddenly at
his home in that city of hear failure.
He had been resident of Arizona for
more than thirty years,
An automobile road race il 10 Ice Il
feature of the Prescott Labor day eel
+, ebration, several ears already having
been entered.
Delegate Ralph Cameron, upon his
arrival at his home in Flagstaff from
the recent session of congress, gave
ont the statement that the statehood
bill will be one of the first matters
to be taken up by congress upon the
converting of that body on December
6 and nothing would stand in the way
of rushing the BIZ to immediate pass
age.
After a month Of untold agonieS and
the most intense suffering, an Apache
Indian from the Verde valley, who was
caught on live wire from tne line of
the Arizona Power company, dicd at
Mayer Monday.
Cattlemen all over the country sp
rejoicing over the splendid condition
of the ranges owing to the recent heavy
! rains. and range cattle are FAT and
happy, oblivious of the near future
! which will deliver them 10 the fry
ing pan.
At the point of wicked booking
knife. Francisco Tavinaco WAS held
up near the depot at Tucson last even
ing and robbed of -, all the money
he had on his person AT the time
Sergeant Lambert of Company y,
Twenty first infantry. was painfully in
jured in Prescott Monday Afternoon
| ia fall from his horse. He was
dragged for some distance by the stir
rup and his face badly gasi''d AMI
/ bruised
1 What is said to bc enc of the MOS;
\ ampcrtant strikes ever made cs the
sshattuck mine is reported frebi lis
ice. The rock was encountered ON a
| cxosscut from the fifth level and is
said to be in large quantities rnnaing
81 so .35 per cent copper
Thomas iIianford Shelton. Il Turson
| oetegenarian. died at his ha@c Mon
dar niSlrt at the age of "a years.
r. y. 1d,tings, representing the dry
farming congress to be held in Billings,
Mont. next month, is visiting the agri-
cultural sections of the territory with
view to interesting Arizorans in the
coming meeting.
The Tombstone Consolidated Mines
company is to install new set OF
pumps, which are TO arrive on the prep
erty in the near futufe.
Tucson school board has ordered DPS