The copper era., 1909-08-12
VOLUME II.
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The territorial board of tqualiza tion convenes at Phoenix August 9.
 Yavapai county has cash balance in the hands of the county treasurer of s133, ,888.24.
 Steel tunnel sets have proved un- the Warren district.
 Yavapai county has purchased a modern grading machine and will inn prove country roads.
 Flagstaff is organizing a baseball team to take in the tournament dur ing the Albuquerque fair.
 The output of the smelters in Co chise county for the month of July was 12,9OO,O0O pounds of copper.
 A primary law similar to that passed by the last territorial legislature has proved rank failure in Indiana. as The Frank Murphy donation of land at Prescott for the location of the Pioneers home has been accepted.
 The Postal Telegraph company's office at Flagstaff was entered by burglars and SI6 in cash was taken from the money drawer.
 Howard Wilson, Yuma contractor, has skipped leaving creditors in the lurch to the extent of $500 and aban- doning Philippine wife.
 Tom Cullen, former secretary of the Tucson Eagles, has been arrested at Prescott charged with embedding S4OO from the Tucson aerie.
 B. A. Packard is authority for the statement that the coming territor- ial fair will be the biggest and best in the association's history.
 The Paradise Record is advertising for wide-awake real estate men with $500 in their inside pockets to boom the Rodeo and San Simon valley.
 Maricopa's tax rate for this year will be S3.10, an increase of 35 cents over last year. The Center street bridge in Phoenix is in a measure re- sponsible for the increase.
 President Taft will pass through Arizona en route to California on October IS. He will ride over the Southern Pacific in what will be known as the Presidential special.
 Falling down the 2OO-foot shaft of the Hecla Consolidated mine at Yuma, Mike Kennedy was instantly killed. He was a stranger in the camp and his dentity was not discovered for several days.
 The Arizona-United Mines com pany at Benson has force of men at work grading the foundation for the new 120-ton shelter, and the manage ment announces that the plant will be in operation this fall.
 A check forger, who signs his name H. B. Granger, has been working the saloon men of Williams and Winslow. His operations i'd the two towns amounted to about $500. He made his get away.
 Bisbee is to have a Masonic Temple and that, too in the very near future, for it is said the site for the building has been selected and that compet- tive plans are being drawn for splendid home for the Masons of Bis bee.
 Under the provisions of ruling just made by H. F. Ward, secretary at San Francisco for the twelfth civil service district, which includes Ari- zona, all applicants for the civil service examinations must have been actual residents for one year of the district in which they apply.
 A former Phoenix resident, now re- siding in Fort Worth, Texas, has told a newspaper reporter that it is so hot in the Salt river valley that it melts filings in mems teeth. And the Phoenix Gazette thinks the former citizen is entitled to the presidency of MT. Roosevelt's Ananias club.
 The Anheuser Busch and Rainier brewing companies are engaged in a war at Tucson. An attempt is being mdQe to COnbIOl IHe SdjOOHS anu where necessary the grog shops are being purchased outright by one. or the other of the companies. Honors so far are about even. The war will extend throughout the southwest, it is said.
 Tucson is to have a new country club building if plans which are under consideration are carried out, says the Citizen: The structure will cost about S10,O0O and will be erected along the boulevard that will be extended along the speedway east of the city. A tract of 160 acres will be filed on by one of the members of the country club and the club houses will be erected on this tract.
 The first of the gambling cases was tried at Lowell last week and resulted