Tombstone epitaph., 1909-05-30
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

The fret figs of the season have been shipped from Yuma to the San Francisco market.
 Nerchsnts of Douglas are organic ing to ask 6 reduction of rents from their landlords during the dull months of the summer.
 John L. Sullivan W II umpire baseball game at Prescott during h's coming en, ,sgement in that city.
 Flagstaff, too, is arranging Tor a monster Fourth of July celebration to last three days.
 Delegates from Bisbee to the Elks convention at Los Angeles have ord cred pearl grey suits Tor the occasion and expect to send large delegation. Bisbee has begun work on extensive additions to the water and fire system and expect to finish in about SIX months.
 Thomas N. W ills and Richard Prs- dy delivered to and shipped from Inc son this week 1900 cattle from the San Pedro and Catalina ranges Rev z. 2. Johnson, from the West 1 Texas conference, hes been sent to Phoenix to take charge of the African ! Methodist church in that city. The new smelter at Sssco has been started and is now running full blast, treating 500 tons of ore per day.
 The Thomas ranch, near Phoenix, was auctioned of last weeK in small tracts, the sale ef the entire fifty five acres taking but two and one-ha'f I hop1s.
 Douglas will make an effort to get the dry farming congress next year.
 H. B. Turnbull, of the Hanover Nat ional Bank of New York is here in connection with the Bisbee bank case.
 Francisco Denally, s resident of Mexico, suffering with the hallucins- tion that he owns the world. is being detained at immigration headquarters at Tucson.
 Genefal Manager C. w. Hinchliffe of the Consolidated Telephone, Tele- graph & Electric Go, with headdua-- ters in Tucson, announces that his company will at once begin the ex- penditure of quarter million dollars on the lines of the company.
 Charged with the theft of several hundred feed sacks from the ware house of the Tucson Transfer com pany, we boys are held in the city prison of tue old pueblo.
 A representative of George W. Stone Of Cleveland, Ohio, will attend the next meeting of the Tucson city coun. cil for the purpose of opening nego- tiations for 8 gas franchise.
 Prescott public schools opened Tues day after being closed down ten dsy' on account of a diphtheris epidemic | The two troops of the Eighth cav ally, stationed at Fort Huachucs. vii encsmp at Bisbee on the 18th o! thi,
 month for stay of thiee days.
 A benefit entertainment will Ire helC in Tucson this week for the purpose 0 raising funds fo- the furnishing of { "Free Bed" in the hospital for thoss unable to pay hospital fees. The management of the Phoenii
 Gazette has purchased building sit on Washington street and will erect
 new home for that enterprising paper A flow oi water iour inches deep ant forty feet wide is now running ove ? the Roosevelt dam and is incressin 2 rapidly.
 The population of Phoenix. base
 ou the recent school census, is giveI
 at 10000. . gain of I3 per cent for tb
 past yess.
 r Though the itinerary oi Governo b Slosn's southern trip has hos been de = 6nitely announced, it is known witt r certainty that he will pay Douglas r visit Saturday, May 29. Sunday an, n Monday will find him in Bisbe, | where on the last named day he wi n deliver . memorial address. , The appearance of John L Sulliva and company in PhoeniE is meet D , yith spectacular success. hundreds b' ing tpsEss sway from each perform
 snce
 Mess City is making e desperate e }. fort to raise funds for the building t new city ball.
 e "I intend to retain all the presef