Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-10
NEWS
 AND COMMENT

A new and sensational feature has been added to the Kidnapping case from Phoenix, in which Miss Marion Ma larky, a young and attractive nurse, ran away with the person and money of John Scanlan, an aged and wealthy Phoenix mining man. Mrs. R. $. Me. Elrie, sister of Scanlan, has arrived in Tucson and announces that she will take legal steps to regain both the said person and money.
 Will r. Gillette. young man of Tue son, was one of the unfortunates who lost his fife in the terrible Mexican floods last week.
 for $l5 on the Arizona Sash, Door & Milling company of Tucson, George Connors has been placed under arrest on complaint of the above company
 Charged with attempted rape on the NtiNNu VI du 10 Nfdi Oii titHtoii Riii, William Duhnson, third baseman for the Phoenix ball team, while playing a series at Prescott, has been arrested and lodged in the Yavapai county jail.
 Attorney General John B. Wright, in an interview at Phoenix, says that as far as he knows, no test of the new election laws for Arizona is in contem. plation
 Not even "thank you' greeted Conductor Frank Woods at Phoenix when he returned to q passenger on his train three $i0 gold pieces. $20 piece and 5-cent coin which had been lost on Woods train between Prescott and Phoenix.
 F.. Hards, Phoenix man, is the in ventor of new windmill wheel which he claims will generate four times as much power as other wheels of like size
 The building of the extension of the Fl Paso X Southwestern railroad iron Benson to Yuma Is no longer guess, but is soon to be reality, according to the Phoenix Gazette The idea is that this extension will connect with the new Spreckels line now being built, which will form new transcontinental steel highway.
 A. w. Merrill, who has been employ ed by the horticultural commission as territorial entymologist (meaning that he will kill bad bugs) has arrived in the Salt River valley, where he will make his headquarters, and will at once start making experiments with the in sect life of Arizona.
 All unnecessary curves on the Phoenix X Eastern railroad between Phoenix and Winkelman are being siraightened out, and seven carloads of heavy steel rails have been delivered at WinkeIman during the past few days.
 The cornerstone of the new Second Baptist church of Phoenix will be laid on Sunday, September l9.
 Signed by nearly hundred Tempe citizens. !. W. Woolf, president of the Tempe Anti-Saloon league, has filed with the Maricopa county board of supervisors petition asking for local option election in the Tempe district under the provisions of the Pace law.
 Claiming to be the heir to fortune amounting to s40O,000. Frank Bower, a barber, has been arrested on the streets of Phoenix for begging and given q "fioater.
 Governor and Mrs. Sloan have 're. turned to Phoenix after spending the heated part of the suma:,r in Pres colt
 Bonds to the amount of 5000 for the Scottslale district of Maricopa county, were sold hy the board of supervisors to the Valley Hank of Phoe nix at a premium of $a23.J0.
 The output of the shannon Copper company at Clifton for the year 1909 will be more than ls,000,000 pounds.
 After having waited for two full weeks in line to he there first and get their choice, four men acting for the Ray Consolidated Copper company, have filed in the Phoenix land office on about 2,000 acres of land along