Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-20

year ago a1tef uNinS tneEe Ior soihe time, is back for the purpose of buy ing place for himself and also loeat ing some for friends. He states that about seven families are ready to ac- company him from Washington if he can find suitable locations for them.
 After drive of over 5000 miles across mountains, valleys and deserts, Mir. and Mrs. D. E. McManigal arrived in Mesa, having made the trip from northern Idaho by way of the Pacific coast to Los Angeles and then across country. They are wealthy people and are so well pleased with Mesa that they will remain there and establish home.
 A prize of $l ,0OO in gold coin is of fered by members of the New York Cotton Exchange to any person or per sons in Arizona who can produce bale of cotton grown and baled in this ter ritory on or before July l, 1910. For years this prize has always been taken by Alabama or Texas but Arizona has now been invited to compete.
  south of Tucson and who shot herself in the side of the neck with rifle on January z, died Sunday at the home of friends in Tucson, after having so far recovered that it had been deemed safe to remove her from the hospital,
 Conductor Clark and Brakeman Shine, two we'll known railroad men of the Tucson division but of different trains, were taken from their trains at Demlng Saturday by United States Deputy Marshal J. H. Smith of Albuquerque charged with assisting to smuggle Chi nese into New Mexico by secreting them in box cars after they had crossed the line near Fl Paso.
 The old Southern Belle mine near Oracle, recently taken over by Hugh J. McIsaacs and associates of San Fran cisco, is again in operation after many years of idleness. The stamp mill IS being operated and force of miners is at work underground.
 A new strike of rich copper and gold ores was made on the property of the Western Mines Development company five miles from the Swansea shelter in the Bill Williams district.
 Members and friends of the city band of Tucson are circulating petitions by which the city council will be asked to appropriate $50 month for year toward the support of the band, thus making it sort of semi-municipal or ganization.
 Angelo Quiroz, a Pima county ranch man, was arrested last Saturday charged with having committed criminal as sault upon Josepha Escalente, young girl who lives near his ranch.
 A $25,000 deal was consummated in Tucson when $. H. Kress X Co.,, pur- chased the Fred Fleishman property on Monday. This firm operates in all 1l6 stores throughout the United States, all being of the 5, 10 and 20 cent variety.
 Miss Ella Wise, who was visiting rel atiyes at Gleeson, died last week as the result of swallowing an antiseptic tablet which she mistook for a head ache tablet. Medical aid could not be secured quickly enough because the tel ephone would not. work.
 Yuma Copper, which owns a property in western Arizona was organized by Lake Superior copper men, who took over the property as a prospect, organ ized the company and are now doing extensive exploratory and development work. An encouraging showing of good shelter ore has been opened up al ready
 The first arrest was made Monday in the crusade against slot machines which has been started in Tucson. H.. B. Rangers, cigar dealer was arrested and fined $2O for violating the lottery law by operating slot machine which paid more cigars at times than It did at other times, although it always paid at least one cigar.
 H. c. Carr has returned to Douglas from New York, where he purchased a fine pumping and hoisting plant, which are now on the way to the Antigua and