Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-01

Arthur Houle, of the engineering hrm of Houle and Hamilton of Douglas, has been engaged to represent John Hays Hammond in South American fields and has left Douglas for New York, where he will sail for South America at an early date, travelling up the Amazon and in Peru and Argentina.
 The newly organized Copper Queen Employees Benefit association Is prov ing a great success. 9S99 per cent of the employes at Bisbee have become members and 47.59 per cent of the em- plOyes at the shelter and store at Doug las. The company will contribute $25,- 900 annually to the fund if the member ship equals or exceeds 30 per cent of the average number of employees.
 E. T. MeGunigle and John Vercamp, prominent lumbermen of Flagstai, are endeavoring to interest several Bis been and Tucson men in proposition to build another large saw mill at Flag staff, as they have options upon lm- mense tracts of timber land in northern Arizona.
 c. w. Evans, mining engineer of the Copper Queen company at Blsbee, fell a distance of 100 feet down the new shaft at the Gardner mine last Friday, but he landed upon his feet and escaped with only a few bruises. The instru- ments he carried were all ruined by the fall, however.
 The large sulphide body recently found on the 1850 level of the Oliver shaft of the $. P. company promises to reach the 1450 level and it aver ages per cent copper. The tonnage in sight is estimated at at least lOO,' 900 tons.
 Emil Johnson, a miner at the Hoat- son shaft, died at the c. X A. hospital at Bisbee last Friday as the result of injuries received the previous day. He way laying track after the shift had gone home and, while standing at the side of the drift, large rock struck him causing a compound fracture ot his leg and internal injuries.
 Friends of Mato Raieh, who left Bis bee last June for vacation trip to Los Angeles, are becoming alarmed as to his whereabouts. His Masonic and Odd Fellow emblems and some papers have been discovered in possession of J. Cur tis, prisoner at Fresno, Cal, and 1t is feared that Raich has been mur- dered.
 The fremen of Bisbee elected Rich ard Davis chief of the department at their meeting last week. He will be the first paid chief and will devote hls entire attention to the affairs of the department.
 While deepining a well in the back ward of his home at Bisbee, Joe Llp- pert encountered large body of quartz carving both gold and copper The mineral rights, however, belong to Martin O'Hare. on whose patented claim the residence is located.
 An unknown man rented room from Mrs. Oliver, proprietress of a roomlng house at Bisbee last week, but Tn the morning he was missing as were also all the bed clothes and his room rent was unpaid.
 William Pfannkuche, the murderer is now in prison at Florence, having been sentenced to life Imprisonment there at a special session of the dls- triet court at Tombstone last week.
 The Yuma Commercial club has adopted resolutions to- inaugurate move to induce some aviator to under take an transeontinental aeroplane flight. starting at Galveston, Texas, and finishing at San Diego or some other Pacific Coast city. They hope to en- list the assistance of the commercial bodies of the larger cities along the main line of the Espee.
 An agency of the weighing and ln- spection department of the Iranseoh- tinental Freight Bureau has >been es- tablished at Phoenix and A. A. ZaS- trow. formerly of Fresno, will be m charge.
 Acting Governor Young has official Iv recommended that the afternoons during the aviation meeting at Phoenix be observed as holidays.
 A man giving his name as John Page, and claiming that he was employed on a ranch near Phoenix, succeeded Tn cashing four checks for $l7.5O each. They were signed by his fictitious em- blower and in each instance he said It was his pay check.
 Attorney o. Gibson, head of the An ti-saloon league in Cochise county lsI now agitaing the holding of special local option elections for the precincts which went dry at the general county election.
 Jim Murphy, partner of Thomas Ma son, who was found dead at Tucson as the result of a drunken debauch, tried to commit suicide by saving his neck with jagged piece of tin. Murphy had returned to the Silver Bell mine and was brought from there by Sheriff Nelson, a victim of delirium tremens.
 Otto Libardon, an Arizona pioneer C q igt