Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-07
Brief Territorial News

Ore from small vein on the Eagle claims at Courtland has been found to contain gold scattered all through it in pieces as large as pin heads. The as. say certificate shows gold, 139.G2 oz., value, $l.792.40 and silver oz., value, $l.50.
 T The Douglas offices of the Four C's railroad have been abandoned by Chief Engineer Henning and his corps of em- ployes, and the project to build a line from Cananea to Guzman is off for the present.
 The crew of linemen who were string ing the new continental wire for the Postal Telegraph company disbanded at Williams last week on account of deep snow.
 President D. w. Sinclair of the Peg nee Mining company was shot and killed few days ago by Duncan Me Donald as a result of quarrel which arose between the two men some time ago concerning mining claim.
 The Douglas Daily Dispatch has been made the official paper of Cochise county for the year 1910.
 During the past year the board of supervisors of Coehise county has paid out the sum of $4, 100 in bounties, a to- tai of 3,6ls hides having been turned in.
 The assessor of Cochise county col leeted $19,900 in poll tax for the year 1909, which was S632.50 in excess of the sum collected in the previous year.
 While digging a ditch on his ranch about l4 miles from Cochise station, Frank C. McErwin discovered some buried ruins. He unearthed number of well preserved skeletons, some an cient cooking utensils and an extensive wall. It is believed that he has un- covered the ruins of an old monastery built during the reign of Moetezuma in the fifteenth century.
 , Suit has been filed In the district court at Tombstone asking that the trustees of school district No. 27 be enioined from disseminating the school conducted for negro children in the city of Douglas and from removing the same to Boeyville as decided by two thirds vote of the whites.
 w. II. Rogers, one of the best known of the pioneers of Mohave county, died suddenly at Stockton Hill last Thurs , day morning He had walked from the house to the divide overlooking Cerbat, when he was stricken with heart failure and expired within a few minutes.
 As the result of a riot at Goldroad Hast week six Italians, leaders of mob. were arrested on charge of in citing to riot and taken to Kingman for trial,
 Eugene O'Hare, an engineer in the |, big Goldroad mill, was eleetrocuted last week by coming into contact with a highly charged telephone wire. A horse belonging to the mining de partment of the Copper Queen at Bis. bee and valued at $400, died in it's stall during the shooting on New Year s Eve. It is believed that the horse died from fright as it was nervous high. strung animal and no other cause of death could be discovered.
 Anna O'Brien, the Tucson girl who shot herself Christmsa Eve with In- tent to commit suicide, will recover  During the New Year shooting, a bull let from large-calibered six-shooter, which must have been aimed directly at the house, passed through the wall of the Brady home in Bisbee. It en- tered the bedroom in which Mrs. Brady was sleeping, passing under the bed {" and lodging in the opposite wal.
 Governor Sloan has signed paroles from service in. the territorial prison for Ma Cho Kay, an Apache Indian, and Leopold Aranda, the former haVlng been sent from Gila county and the latter from Yayapai.
 The board of supervisors of Cochlse . county has awarded the contract for the construction of the buildings on the poor farm at Douglas to Bower & Polti of Bisbee for $2S,635. The bid for ' building the Gleeson jail was awarded 7 to s. T. Clark of Douglas for $l,77S. } The Western Maple Syrup company l of Los Angeles has secured site and , will at once begin the erection of a S5, ,OO0 factory in Tucson. c. J. Lewls,
 the eompany's representative, states that it will be in operation in about sixty days.
 Rafael Ramon was arrested at Tue son last week, charged with assault with deadly weapon, for having shot Juan Capon through the leg in dispute over , bridle.
 Braulio Galindo and Jose Leon, two prisoners, made an attempt to dig their way out of the Yuma jail few days ago, but were detected in the act and will be brought before the grand jury for an attempt to damage public prop , erty.