Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-25

She had gone on to the coast, expect ing her husband to be able to settle his difficulties and join her in few days. When he did not come she re- turned and the shock of finding him in jail caused her collapse. She paid his fine and secured his liberty.
 The postofiice at Stafford will be moved to new quarters in the near flu ture.
 The Merchants National bank of Los Angeles has been approved as re- serve agent for the new Yuma National bank at Yuma.
 The government has ordered that the 900 acres in the tOwnsite of Parker be sold to the present holders from the reservation at the appraised value of the property.
 Charles Stafford was found drunk and begging on the streets of Phoenix wearing a Masonic emblem on his coat and was arrested for violation of the law prohibiting the wearing of badges except by members. If sufficient evi- dence can be secured this may be made q test ease of the law.
 Dr. Daniel w. White, medical director of the Phoenix Indian school and rated by the Indian bureau as an expert on trachoma, has been ordered to Darling ton, Oklahoma, to examine the pupils of that school for traChoma.
 The report of the Phoenix schools for the month ending January l4I shows a total enrolment of l729, the average daily attendance being 1874.
 The installation of the cotton gin at Arlington has been completed and the Egyptian Cotton Growers association of Arizona will begin at once to gin the cotton now stored at Arlington.
 Milk has been scarcer in the Salt River valley this winter than ever be- fore, according to w. C. Dawes, propri- etor of the Valley Pride creamery a. Phoenix.
 Yuma is excited over a rich silver strike that has been made in the Gas tie Dome mountains, seven miles north of the Thumb Butte mine.
 Both telephone operators at Mesa. Misses Irene Helmer and Gertrude Han sen. were stricken with diphtheria and after the office had been fumigated Miss Mary Hansen took charge and will remain until the regular operators recover.
 The Arizona Democrat of Phoenix has passed into the hands of the Ari. zona Democrat Publishing company, re- gently organized. J. O. Dunbar, vice president of the company, has assumed the duties of managing editor
 The fourth annual high school de- clamatory contest, held each spring at the Tempe Normal auditorium under the auspices of the school paper, "The Stu dent" will be held Saturday evening, March l2. Gold and silver medals will be awarded.
 There is a movement on foot in Yuma to petition the city council to donate the old prison site to a company for hotel purposes on condition that it must always be hotel and must always remain open or else revert to the city.
 It is reported that Allen Gardner, chairman of the Cochise County Re. publican Central committee, is to be ap- pointed clerk of the district court at Tombstone by Judge Fletcher NJ. Doan. The present clerk is George B. Wilcox.
 It is reported from the government experiment station at Fort Valley, near Flagstaff, that on the cOldest nights so far this year the thermometer regis tered 32 degrees below zero.
 Wm. H. Kirkland, the oldest white settler of continuous residence in Ari. zona. died last Thursday morning at Winkelman. He raised the first Amerl can flag in Tucson in 1856. His oldest daughter was the first child born in Phoenix.
 Charles T. Connell inspector in charge of the Douglas immigration of flee. underwent a successful operation at hospital in San Francisco last Fri day, for an aggravated cause of grant, lated eyelids.
 Work will be commenced on the new theater to be built at Bisbee by Quin" Brothers of Douglas. Martin Costello has the contract.
 A colony of Texas people, most Of | whom have some means and large | of farming in semi-arid re gions, arrived in Sulphur Springs val' ley last week, having taken up lands near Whitewater The colony was in | charge of A. G. LoveIady.
 Dr. J. N. Morrison is the owner Of the first automobile in Benson, having last week purchased two.seated 24 horse power ear.
 The musical comedy, "A Night in presened last Friday and