Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-30
Brief Territorial News

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 The following Cochise county towns voted to abolish saloons at the recent elections: Wilcox, Bowie, Dos Cabe- | gas, Dragoon, Eldorado, Warren, Glee- son, St. David, Curtis and Naco. Not single "wet" vote was cast in FL dorado and Curtis.
 The decision in the Copper Queen tax case, which was up before the SUI preme court, has been postponed until April. The suit was brought against the Copper Queen for the collection ot 1 alleged unpaid taxes, which together with interest and costs now amount to nearly $200,0O0.
 A. NJ. Williams, the Douglas aviator, has decided to devote his entire time to the aeroplane game. His new mon oplane of the Bleriot type will be com pleted within the next ten days and he will then give it thorough try-out.
 A ten inch vein of oxide ore, which gives every indication of widening and which is estimated to run at least 60 per cent copper, has just been located at the Little Mary mine in Cochise county.
 J. M. -Coplen, a miner who was still stranger in Tucson, was lured to the outskirts of the city on some preteXt by pair of new-found friends, and there forcibly robbed of all of his money, $6S.
 James Daley, the Mesa eloper, is now being held on two charges, first of ab- duction with criminal purposes and see ond of criminal intimacy with the young girl he abducted. He was unable to furnish the bail, which amounts to S5 000 for the two charges, and Will wait in jail until the grand jury meets for the March term of court.
 The body of Thomas Mason was found lying beside the Southern Pacific | tracks in Tucson near the Round house and his death is believed to be due to alcoholism as he had been drinking l heavily and there were no marks of | violence upon his body. He appeared to be B or 40 years old and was stranger. the only means of identifica- tion being his miners union card. Oscar McAda, for the past IS months on the Tucson police force, has resigned to accept a position on the Arlzona Live Stock sanitary board. He will be stationed at Wilcox.
 Many mining claims are being located in all parts of Pima county, especially | in the Amole and Silver Bell districts, as a result of the certain prospect of the immediate erection of q shelter at the Gould mine near Tucson.
 Satisfied with the returns from sam | ples of ore from his Hobo mine m the | Thumb Butte district, George Uhl will begin at once to take out ore for ship ment to the Humboldt smelters. The samples assayed from $55 to $l9O to. the ton in gold and silver.
 By unanimous vote the directors of l the Phoenix Board of Trade adopted the report of the committee recommend | ing to the secretary of the interior that the right of way through the Gila can yon on the low line be granted to the Southern Pacific railway company. r. Harbuck. scout of the Shreveport ! team of the Texas baseball league, has 1 a movement well under way for Cac tus league in the southwest, to be al class D organization. Fl PasO, Doug | las, Globe, Clifton, Morenci, Phoenix and Cananea are to be included if heI | is successful in obtaining a franchise | from the National Association of Base ball leagues.
 The Mesa Flour Milling company is having q large warehouse erected in the rear of the mill building, the struc- ture to be about 50 feet wide by 139 feet long and built of galvanized sheet steel with concrete cement floor and pillars.
 City Attorney Lockwood of Doug las has come out openly and declared himself in favor of the commission form of city government.
 The Douglas chamber of commerce is endeavOring to have more roads estab lished through Sulphur Springs valley, and will soon petition the supervisors for the buildins of a county road from Douglas to Kelton, following the line of the Courtland railroad.
 A. R. Warren, who was working at mine seven miles out of Kelvin, was arrested by Constable Ivy of Phoenix last week and taken to that city where