Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-11
ARIZONA NEWS
 AND COMMENT

M les southeast of the Kirkland valley. The property is an old locat on and is owned by Ira Moore aud Richard Mes senger
 The Roy hotel, the oldest hostelry in Douglas, has changed hands, passing from the ownership of Homer Prickett to Fred Haas and Jack Faulkner, who will completely overhaul and remodel tue apcIent inn.
 Dr. F. T. Wright has returned to his home in Douglas after trip of five months in the Orient and Europe, mak. ing complete circuit of the globe dur, ing bis absence.
 Tucson city council has adopted \ resolution whereby the salaries of eleven city officials have been reduced from sl5 to $50 per month. Superin- tendent of the Water Department II. D. | Brown was also dismissed and Neal Le Baum nominated to take his place.
 The office of municipal bacteriologist l has been created in Tucson at sal | ary of $50 Fer month. Dr. A. C. Selma | bel has been named to fill the position ard his principal duty will be to see that the milk supply of the city is free from contamination.
 The three compartment shaft on the walapai property in the Wailapai mountains is down to the 600 level.
 A well known young lady named | Blanche paraded the streets of Tucson the other evening decked out in male attire. The costume was very stunning, but Blanche made too much noise and wound up in jail.
 Angel Quiroz of Tucson suddenly came into possession of new mule. Another man claimed it, saying it had disappeared between two suns, and Angel languishes in jail awaiting trial on the charge of grand larceny.
 Charles Purdon of Douglas has been appointed county auditor or examiner of Cochise county, in accordance with the act of the last legislature which abolished the office of territorial ex. aminer.
 Sensational stories of myriads of snakes, scorpions and other desert yer min are coming out of Courtland camp, and frightening the t'mid tenderfoot who contemplates taking up his resi- dence in the embryo city.
 The Courtland Engineering compauy has had it's force at work in Gleeson during the past week laying out the Southern Pacific townsite, which will be put on the market by Courtland real estate men during the next few days.
 The Cauanea baseball club put the bus ness on the Douglas team on their own grounds Sunday to the tune of'7 to o.
 Johann Ritterman, Bisbee German, who claimed to commune with spirits at any time he chose; Philip Nesbit, | abut on his hands and knees, and Fe- hcio Santos, who boasts of enormous wealth in gold and jewelry, were tried as to their sanity in the Tombstone { court last week and all sent to the territorial asylum. Nine applicants for teachers certif- I rato, xuara gxa,n,nad ao thair nualiG. cations in Tombstone Monday. The Tombstone Prospector is seeing arships., It says one is roaming around loose in Arizona and may be expected 10 take up permanent residences most Any place at any time. The Copper Queen smelter at Douglas for the month of May produced nearly aOOO000 pounds of copper and the Cal umet & Arizona smelter, in the same 2 city, made something over 4,500,0O0 7 pounds Territoriay Secretary George '. Young, returning home from an ex- tended trip in the east, says that while1 The depression is not yet over, at the same time it is disappearing and the optimistic confidence of the American spirit is gradually making itself felt. Tucson chamber of commerce has re- eelved a communication from the man. agers of the Seattle exposition saying that August l2 has been designatei as ' Tucson day, and the chamber will he. gin at once the necessary steps to ad- Nertise the resources of the Old Pueblo ' 'a the world on that date.
 The Yuma Commercial club will ex- lend an urgent invitation to President V laft to pay the Underground City a ''slt on his trip from California east in October
 Figures compiled by the Tucson a water department show that the average z Al