Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-02

to be donated to the Crittenton home. l The annual meeting of the Arizona Congress of Mothers will be held at Phoenix the afternoon and evening of 1 February B., The congress is the parent organization under which have been or ganized the child study circles of the various schools and to which each cir. cle makes an annual report
 A plat of survey of township north, range r west, G. and $. R. B. and M., has been received in the land office at Phoenix and will be officially filed on February 2S, 19l0,. on and after which date the land office will receive and act upon applications to make entry in said township.
 ! ball played at Mesa last Saturday, the Mesa high school won from the Phoe- nix high school by score of l to 0. A strenuous hobo burglar was arrest ed at Maricopa for the theft of an over coat, and when Immigration Inspector | C. P. Cronin placed him in jail he hand cuffed the prisoner and fastened iron legs upon him, fastening the latter by means of chain to a staple in the floor. But the prisoner fled before morning, taking with him all his metal ornamentations and all portions of the jail attached thereto.
 The quadriennial weighing of Texas and Arizona mail on the roads centerng at Fl Paso will begin early in Febru ary and continue for l05 days, neeessi- tating the employment of or 10 ex- tra men. Contracts with the railroads for carrying the mails for the next four years will be based upon the weight obtained.
 Governor Sloan returned to Phoenix yesterday from Washington, D. C., where he has been for some time on official business.
 Acting Governor Young issued a proclamation last week declaring Sat l urdav, February 12, Lincoln s birthday l anniversary, a legal holiday. The last legislature failed to take action in the | matter of making this legal holiday | for every year.
 During the past week, the Y Bar Cat 1 tie company purchased several hundred | head of cattle from small holders in Coeonino county and also quite exten- sve land and water rights on Oak creek The company is under the man. agement of Gus Thorbecks of Jerome and is desirous of purchasing any nun. Der of cattle from anyone in that see tion wishing to sell.
 Gin Shuck, Chnaman, was arrest ed by the United States authorities of | Tucson last Saturday, charged with re ceiving, buying and selling opium pre- pared for smoking His case was set for hearing February l5.
 Mrs. Wm. A. Phelps last week pre- sented the Flagstaff library with 72 volumes. the books having been a part | of the library of the late Ranger Phelps | Mrs. Phelps also donated thirty volumes | to the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school library of that city.
 Charges that the rate on lumber on | Arizona railroads is three times as high | as it should be were made last week to Commissioner Prouty of the Inter state Commerce commission by three lumber companies of northern Arizona.
 Alden H. Brown, we'll known min, .r .l bv F. s. Hayward of the Morrow & Chamberlain company, has arrived at the company's property near Paradise for the purpose of making a thorough examination of the new ore body that has been encountered there.
 Fully 300 people, students. parents and friends, enjoyed the fifth annual banquet of the Bisbee high school last Friday night.
 Mrs Thomas Hayden, formerly a con cert singer of considerable note. came to Bisbee recently, penniless, i'll and slightly demented, searching for a family of friends named Merrill. who she says will provide a home for her. She would not remain in Bsbee when she found they were not there so mem bers of the Baptist church supplied her with sufficient money to go to Douglas and provide for her for several days.
 Residents of the Osborn district, near the city limits of Phoenix, have been angered to the point where they threat en to use guns if something is not done to stop the reckless driv- ing of autOists along Central avenue to the Grand Canal, constantly endang- ering life and property.
 A strong company of Denver and Pittsburg fnanciers have taken over the marble quarry, located about IA miles from Bowie in the Dos Cabezas and are busy preparing the for a large output of the mar ble, which is of exceptional fneness.
 A report from Courtland states that the Copper Queen company has sus- pended work on the Brown and Casey