Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-16
ARIZONA NEWS
AND COMMENT.

The management of the Clara Con.
solidated Gold & Copper company has
announced that their smelling plant
will be increased from capacity of
$50 tons per day to 700 tons per day.
After a strenuous ten days in the
saddle, Sheriff Anderson and former
Sheriff Parks of Graham county have
returned from Solomonville, having in
custody Len Mcdonald and Leonard
Taylor accused of horse stealing. The
officers followed their human quarry
the toughest parts of four counties be-
fore landing them in the tolls
A farm with eighty million dollars
worth of gold hidden on it by the
Jesuit fathers hundreds of years ago,
and waiting for some lucky man to
find it, is the latest attraction added
to Maricopa county by the Phoenix
papers.
Four trained elephants have arrived
in Phoenix as a part of the parapher-
MALTA for a vaudeville turn which will
be put on there during the next sew
eral weeks.
The first person in Arizona to come
forward and admit that he knows
Frederick Cook, twin discoverer of the
North Pole, is Harry j. Bennett of
Phoenix, who for thirty-fve years has
been close friend of the now noted
explorer.
Major General j. Franklin Bell, chief
of staff of the United States army, is
visiting the army posts of the territory
this week.
The old '.pen" at Yuma is deserted
now, except for a few men who have
been left behind for few days to
clean up and put the place to rights.
The last consignment of fifty-nine con
victs was transferred to the new prison
at Florence Saturday.
The United States civil service com
mission announces that the regular an.
nual clerk carrier examinations for the
Phoenix postofiice will be held com.
mencing November IL.
Death Monday afternooB robbed
Manuel Gonzalez, an exconvict, of the
liberty for which he longed and prayed
for nearly year. On September 2 he
was granted pardon by Governor
Sloan and upon being released returned
TO his home in Tucson. He survived
his liberty but a few days, dying of
tuberculosis.
Frank j. O'Brien, the busted Tue
son broker. Monday waived prelimin
airy examination a Tucson on the
cargo of embezzlement preferred by
V. y Elliott, and was bound over to
the Pima county grand jury.
The typhoid situation at Bishee is
causing great alarm, over sixty cases
having been reported. 1t is said that
the terribly filthy condition in many
parts of the city are responsible foi
the many casees.
Three hundred mules of the Grant
Brothers Construction company have
arrived in Benson on the way t.
Southern Pacific extensions in south
eTn Cochise county.
Carl Book of Tucson dropped dead
of heart disease at Benson Sunday
night.
Yavapai county officials have sue
ceeded in having an injunction ISSUED
to prevent the army officials from
fencing in Fort Whipple, holding that
the federal government has no right
to fence in any part OF tie public do
main.
Roadmaster Frank Dutton of tn,
Southern Pacific, who has had head
quarters at FL Paso, mas been orderet
to take charge of the construction worl
on the Sprcckels line, now being bull
from San Diego to Yuma.
Seven miles of ninety pound stee
rails have been laid on the Tucsoi
division of the Southern Pacific across
Playas Valley fat.
Edward Richmond, ten.year-o ole
Tucson lad, has been arrested charged
with burglarizing store in the ont
skirts of the city. His booty wa
chiefly cigars and tobacco The officer
think he was coached by older persons
A petition is being circulated in The
son asking the appointment of Majol
j. Neustatter as bailif of the Unitet
States court.