Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-27
NEWS
 AND COMMENT

The Douglas Dispatch announces that work on the new road from Cananea to Agua Prieta will be commenced with in the next two weeks. This road will connect Douglas directly with Can. anea, the great Greene eCananel Cop per company camp
 Douglas officers announce that the law regulating the speed of automobiles, | which has been overlooked in the past, will in the future be enforced to the letter
 Two young ladies of Prescott lad a narrow escape from drowning Friday afternoon when they fell from foot bridge into the waters of Granite creek They were carried 100 yards in the rag ing torrent and rescued by J. F. Mach oney, who rsked his life in the action. Frank NJ. Murphy, upon returning to his home in Prescott from an eastern trip, announces that the Humboldt shelter will be started again in the neaN future. Several announcements of the reOpening of this unfortunate instI1i- tion have been made in the past, but the fact remains that it is still shut down.
 Gold ore runing $200 to the ion is being taken out of the famous old Tob Reed mine in the Prescott district.
 The big dredging plant of the Spec Mining company on Lower Lynx creek has been finished and the operating of it will be commenced within a few days.
 The abstract of title for the prop erty on which the Pioneer Home of Al izona will be erected near Prescott has been completed and the title formally passed to the territory. The heaviest rain on record visited Prescott and vicinity Friday and ere ated great damage. The tracks of the' s. F. P. X P. were washed out in sever al places and much injury done to prop erty in the city.
 Newt Parks has been appointed ter Yuma county board of supervisors has appointed Dr. T. J. Pugh as county physician.
 Dr. E. & Godfrey of Bisbee, recently appointed territorial health officer, is making preparations to remove to Phoe- nix in order to better attend to the du- | ties of the office.
 After long delibcration. the Business ] Men s association of Mayer, has de- cded to take over the Rigby reduction plant at that place and convert DOT ton of it into lead smelling enter prise
 | eff no serious mistakes are made, Arizona, in my judgment, is sure to he admitted to statehood at the next ses- sion of congress and under clrcum- stances as favorable as its most enthus- Iiastic advocates in the territory can | wish is the statement of Frank M Murphy, returning to Prescott from trip to Washington.
 According to the Tucson Star another suspect is held in the Pima county jail in connection with the dynamiting of the residence of w. II. Whalen, super intendent of the Tucson division of the Southern Pacific about a month ago.
 Advices from Chicago ask the police of the territory to be on the lookout for John Breen, a l7-year-old boy who disappeared from that city last Sep tember and is thought to be in this part of the country.
 Phoenix has been invaded by an army of billions of ants and the cooks of the Capital city are at their wits end to keep them out of things eatable
 Building permits to the amount of $lO4 .465 have been issued during the first half of the present month in Phoe- nix.
 Alex Peterson, who was badly in iurcd while in the employ of the Lake Superior X Arizona mine has filed suit for s2O,0oo personal injury damages in the Pinal county district court against the mining company.
 Frank l. 0 'Brien, the well known stock broker of Tucson, has quit busi- ness. The cause is given as being heavy expenses with business at such low ebb that he could not make both ends meet.
 The school census of Phoenix for the present year has been completed and shows a total number of school children of school age of 6,s3I.
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