Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-11
Neus and Comment

F. l.. Adams, who has been feecing the people in different sections of the territory through the enlarged picture graft, has come to grief in Jerome, where he was arrested and sentenced to serve ninety days in the county jail.
 santa Cruz county's assessed valua ton is $2,279,s9S. Last year the total assessment was $l,s00,000.
 Latest advices from Washington say that President Taft will pass through Arizona over the Santa Fe, his only stop in the territory being at the Grand Canyon. It is not too late for live Arizona towns to get in and have the president change his plans,
 Tucson s band boys have purchased white uniforms.
 Walter Brundage, son of a well
  ed in Mesa charged with burglarizing store and taking a gold watch vaiued at $60. Brundage was employed in the telephone office and the watch was found on his desk He denies breaking into the store. stating that he picked it up while in the store on business He has been held to the grand jury in the sum of $900. Unable to make bond.
 Frank Collie of Yuma has been ar rested at Mesa charged with failing to respond to a subpoena in dance hall case in Yuma. Collie is young mar ricd man and it is thought he skipped out fearing domestic trouble should his aconaintance with the dance hall con tingent become known to his wife.
 The Salt River valley reports July an unusually cool month. But 1t must not be concluded that fires and over coats were necessary.
 A few territorial newspapers are la menting over the great amount Of money Arinonan 8 are spending for pleasure in California. They should not overlook the fact that Californians are furnishing Arizona millions annual ly for development purposes. It IS matter for self congratulation, too, that Arizonans have money to spend in the pleasure resorts of Southern Califor- mia. The territory will never be hurt by the money it's people spend abroad.
 Tucson is making an effort to have her street ear line extended to the city cemetery. The improvement would cost about s5o,00o.
 r. q. Wayatt. carpenter, who claims Kansas City as his home, was taken from the rods underneath Pullman ear at Tucson with badly fractured hip. He claims that he rode thirty five miles while in this condition. Pima county authorities are taking care of the unfortunate man.
 Southern Pacific engineers are run ming n survey. which may mean rail road from Benson to Winkelman through the San Pedro valley. A saloon man has been arrested and convicted under the new Arizona stat ute prohibiting the operation of sa | loon within six miles of railroad con | struction camp. The case has been appealed and the new law will be given a test
 Phoenix Elks have already com menced making arrangements to attend the grand lodge meeting in Detroit next year.
 J. II. Rosenberg, commissioner oi immigration, has just issued neat lit tie booklet descriptive of the mines of Mohave county. It is handsomely il lustrated with halftone engravings and will prove a profitable advertisement for the section. Kingman is pictured as the gateway to the promising proper ties of the county.
 | The Prescott Journal Miner suggests thu if you can't say anything good about your town he clam The ad vice is mighty good.
 The Jerome district thinks that il will excel in the production of precious metal during the coming year.
 The Douglas Dispatch is boosting nightly for the Sulphur Springs val lev and the mineral section back of it. The paper seems to feel that the flu ture of Douglas depends on these sec. tions.
 Yuma is insisting that the old peni. tentiary, with all of its improvements s---~---------.-