Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-09
ARIZONA NEWS
 AND COMMENT

A baseball team is being organized for Courtland.
 The work of grading and surfacing the roadbed for the various spurs and
 lines of the new railroad in and
 around Courtland has been completed
 and the grading camp has been re-
 moved.
 The Southern Pacific will remove the
 roundhouse and superintendent office from Pearce to Gleeson, according to the Courtland Times.
 The project for the construction of a railroad from Yuma south to tide water, and from Yuma north through Bouse, Winchester, vicksburg, north ern Arizona and Utah, has taken def mite form, says the Sun.
 The Yuma anti-saloon league is cir culating a petition to close saloons and all other places of business on Sun. day.
 Announcement has been made of the appointment of Colonel Epes Randolph to be general manage, of all the lines of the Espee in Mexico in addition to his present string of lines in Arizona.
 Articles of incorporation of the Courtland Business Men 's club have been filed with o. T. Moore, president; l.. E. Woolery, vice president; A. w. Joiner, secretary, an. Charles Lock ling, treasurer.
 Mesa orchardists report the chances excellent for bumpe> crop of oranges this season. The seedless Thompson grapes are ready for picking, the crop being exceptionally heavy.
 During the month u- June, the con. tractors working on the great Roose welt dam laid 14,000 yards of masonry. Water in the reservoir is now no feet
 An engineer corps headed by Earl Parker is working in the Casa 'Grande valley making a detailed survey for the purpose of installing an adequate irrigation system.
 The salary of the superintendent of the Tucson city water department, which was recently reduced, has been restored by the city council to the original figure of $50 per month.
 Twentynine carloads of cantaloupes from Imperial and Yuma were in the Tucson yards at one time last week. To date this year rearly thousand 'arloads have been slipped from these points.
 By a terrific bolt of lightning the 'ix horses of team drawing ore from he mines of the Omega Mining com )any to Vail station were instantly | xilled and the wagon smashed to splint ITS. The driver escaped owing to the | 'act that he had left the wagon on | m errand less than minute before he bolt.
 Tariffs showing reduction of ap- 20 per cent reduction 1 he express company rates between Tucson, Phoenix, Mesa and Tempe rave been received in the offices of the Wells Fargo company in those cities nd are now in effect.
 Jewel BarlSly, ten-year-cld lad of 'hoenix, while riding in Mesa Tues lay was thrown from his horse and ustained serious injuries. tucson tomorrow morning will consist f baggage car, a diner and twelve 'ullmans.
 Enrique Comacho, Mexican consul at 'uma, was assaulted in the lobby of he Gandolfo hotel in Yuma Monday y Frank Green and two Mexicans and bruised before his assailants ere stopped by onlookers. The trou le grew out of the failure of the con ii to intercede in behalf of the two Iexicans who recently killed an Indian Dliceman, and Comacho threatens 10 rotest to his government concerning ie affair. The first bricks from the first kiln the new Buckeye brickyard are now l exhibition in Phoenix and are said
 be an excellent building material Reports from Mesa estimate that II thousand people assisted in the his ourth of July celebration in that VI ge.
 A communication has been sent to c various companies of the territory 4 -l |