Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-02

The Midway theater at Tempe has closed it's doors after living less than two weeks. Bad business drove the promoters to the wall.
 tract of forty acres has been set aside near Tucson for magnetic and scientific observatory to bc built by the government in the near future. 1 Architect Fitzhugh is in Florence ar ranging for additional Improvements to the territorial prison being erected there, the recent legislative having ap. propriated $60,000 in addition to the original amount for this purpose. | A Rebeil has retired from the presi. | dency of the Merchants bank of Tue. son and the board of directors has SC. lected W. J. Corbett to succeed him.
 Some excitement has been occasioned by the finding of oil indications in the vicinity of Agua Calieilte, and Phoenix capitalists are interesting themselves in prospecting for the fluid.
 Dr. J. M. Bell and E. F.. Free, sci entists connected with the department of agriculture, are in the Yuma valley making investigation of soils and eli | matic conditions.
 Tucson city attorney threatens to sue the Western Union and Wells-Far- go Express companies on criminal charges if the city licenses are not paid at once. The companies in question have absolutely refused to pay the li- cense in question.
 Yazo Murrietta, Cochise sheep herder, is in the tolls for attempting to cash check for labor at three differ ent places by writing duplicates of the same. Tho first check was good, but the others were decidedly phony.
 The population of Phoenix is ls,00o, according to estimates made by the postmaster, based on the business of his office.
 | For peddling chewing gum without license, two strangers were taken up in | Tucson and fined $25 each.
 For attempting extortion in the 1 amount of $l00,000 from Walter Doug las, general manager of the Copper Queen company in Douglas, man named Leroux has been arrested in Los Angeles, it developing that he has been writing letters of threatening nature to Mir Douglas for more than two years.
 The senior class of the Prescott High school will present the play, "A Night Off," at the High school auditorium this evening.
 | Prescott has a candidate for pedes- trian honors who is liable to be for midable competitor of Edward Payson l Weston in the person of Michael Barry, who walked from Fossil Creek to May CT, distance of ffty-six miles, in the record breaking time of twelve hours | and fifteen minutes. Former Delegate Mark Smith has gone to the fishing grounds of Oak | Creek, where he spends his annual sum mer vacation.
 The Yavapai County Good Roads as- sociation began work Monday on the actual improvement of the roads of | that county.
 By the explosion of a gasoline stove, W. Ngg of Congress was badly burn ed about the arms and hands one day last week. The Warren District Country club is preparing to do its share in the Fourth of July celebration at Bisbee this year and will entertain large number of guests on the occasion.
 Stockholders of the Helvetia Copper company are being assessed 50 cents per share to provide new working cap ital for the company.
 The Yuma Indians are preparing to hold their annual kurook, a strange re- ligious ceremony in honor of the dead, which annually attracts large numbers of visitors to the reservation. It will begin tomorrow and continue until next Monday.
 The Prescott Courier announces that great progress is being made toward the territorial baseball tournament to be held in Prescott the latter part of the summer.
 The Mexico & Colorado railroad promises to have trains running be- tween Douglas and Courtland by July l.
 Judge Edward NJ. Doe, the new judge at prescott has named the old set of