The copper era., 1909-08-19
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

OOuSld6 VIII Scuu d teal lO LuG Tucson shooting tournament.
 Cochise supervisors have purchased land north of Douglas for poor farm.
 Fifty laborers are advertised for at the Roosevelt dam. Eight hours a day at s2.5O.
 It is estimated that at the present there are 4.OOO tons of hay under shed in the Gila valley.
 Santa Cruz county's assessed yalua- ton is g., ,279,s ,s9s. Last year the total, assessment was sl, ,soO,OOO.
 The Southern Pacifc wiITspend sl, OOO,O0O on the e2trension of the Twin Bettes ratiroaJ from Tucson. > seventee2<thousand freight cars wese hafndled in the Espee yards at Tucson during the month of July.
 The first rail shipment of ore from the new camp of Courtland was made to the Fl Paso smelters last week.
 Alleged Bisbee gamblers have been acquitted. No other evidence other than cards and chips was unearthed.
 Forty-nine Chinamen picked up in different parts of the territory were deported from Tucson Saturday last.
 E. s. Kirkpatrick of Yuma has re. ceived his commission as head of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias in Arizona.
 The Prescott Journal-Miner sug- gests that if you can't say anything good about your town be clam. The advice is mighty good.
 The Arizona National Guard will go into camp at Camp Brodie September 6. Camp life will last ten days and eight companies will pitch their tents.
 John P. Storm, ex-treasurer of Yavapai county, must spend four years in the penitentiary. The court of appeals has sustained the lower courts.
 Phoenix newspapers suggest big street parade as a feature of the coming territorial fair. They will perhaps permit outside towns to join with them in this undertaking.
 F. L. Adams, who has been fcecing the people in different sections of the territory through the enlarged pie ture graft, has come to grief in Jerome, where he was arrested and sentenced to serve ninety days in the county jail.
 Joe Mefford, of Phoenix, who was given $50 by woman with which to pay bills, spent the money and skip ped to Prescott, where he was ar rested. Convicted in Phoenix, he was sentenced to serve fifty days in jail.
 -Prohibitionists in Cochise county have apparently abandoned the struggle for a local option election. Several weeks ago they were busy circulating petitions, but of late nothing has been heard from the cold water contingent.
 Oleander, common throughot Arl- zona, and quite profuse in it's growth in Globe, in some cases being used for ornamental purposes, has been de- clared by F. w. Wilson of the Uni versity of Arizona, to be a deadly | poisonto man and beast, if the juice ! is swallowed in even a very small | quantity. Dry leaves are poisonous as we'll as green ones.
 The terms made by the last legis- lature have been accepted by the | owners of the territorial fair grounds and they have passed to the owner ship of Arizona. The price paid was s3O,OOO, 5,OO0 the first year, S10, ,OOO | the second year, and sl5,OOO the third year. There is an indebtedness of | slO,OOO against the fair association and this will be taken care of out of the proceeds of the first payments.
 Summoned to hold a coroner's in quest, to empanel the jury and with | that jury to attend at the scene of the accident only to find that the supposed corps, had run away leaving | clothes behind and was probably | wandering, demented, in the desert was the strange experience which | fell to the lot of Justice of the Peace | Owen Murphy of Lowell last week.
 That the proposed Twin Buttes ex- tension, construction of which has been inaugurated by the Southern Pacific, will cost sl 100000 and fur thermore that the line will be built | direct out of Tucson although pos sibly along different route than the present Twin Buttes line, was the in- formation given last week to the Chamber of Commerce at Tucson by the Southern Pacific company.
 Tests by an eastern railroad have |