The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1910-03-03
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The Country Club of Douglas has
organized a whist tournament to be
held at the club house on successive
Friday evenings, beginning March 4.
The Fifteenth street public school
of Douglas was closed last week on
account of the increasing number of
scarlet fever cases among the pupils.
Cattle Inspector Willard Wright
reports that nearly 10000 head of
cattle and over 900 head of horses
were shipped from Pima county dur
ing the year 1909.
The Tucson aviation meet was not
a financial success and the business
men who guaranteed the necessary
sum for aamilton's S appearance there
had to foot a deficit of nearly 81. 200.
H. N. Brown, of Philadelphia,
after a lengthy conference with
Captain Christopher T. Roberts, last
week appointed the latter general
manager of the Chesterfield Mining
company, with headquarters in Tue
son.
Fifty-two indictments were filed in
the United STAGES court at Tomb
stone against L..C. Hanks and Earl
Davis, formerly cashier and book
keeper, respectively, for the First
National bank at Douglas.
An attempt will be made in the
near future to reorgauize the uni
form rank of the Knights of P ythia
in Bisbee, and swords and other para
phernalia used by the former organ
ization being still on hand.
Three t,,-ousand dollars in one sin
gle gold bar and carload Of twenty
five tons of concentrates was the re-
suit of a run of 200 tons of ore from
the North Capitol, Hidden Treasure
and Eberhardt mines, on Lynx creek,
made at the Poland mill.
To provide against any future
possibility OF being made a part of
Bisbee, the citizens of Lowell have
resolved to put into immediate cir
culation u petition to the board of
supervisors asking that Lowell be in
corporated as a separate town.
An extensive campaign is already
being organized for women's suffrage
in Arizona as soon as the enabling
act shall be passed. The Arizona
Equal Suffrage campaign committee
has been organized and is pre- pairing
to open press bureau in the near
future.
Bert Ryan, the champion bronco
buster of Arizona, has been engaged
for a month at the Hippodrome, New
York's largest and finest theater.
He will leave shortly with a carload
of the widest horses to be found in
Arizona to give little old New York
its first taste of real bronco busting.
The unexplained death of a num-
ber of horses belong .ng to E. W.
Wall, who lives about twenty miles
north of Benson, is believed to be
due to their having been allowed to
Craze in a stubble field which had
been frozen during the severe cold of
December and later thawed and
soured.
J. A. Foshay, of Los Angeles,
supreme president of the Fraternal
Brotherhood, and several other dis
tinguished officials of that order will
visit Tucson April 13. In addition o
big banquet, a class of about fifty
applicants will be initiated into the
order. Tucson has two lodges num-
bering about 300 members.
Territorial Engineer Grand has
made the announcement that within
thirty days work will be commenced
on the Arizona good roads movement
out of Prescott to the south. Four
parties are now in the field in south
ern Arizona. A force of men is al
ready employed in the preliminary
work on the Gila bridge at Florence.
The $1,000 sewer bonds for the city
of Wiuslow have been issued and the
money for them deposited by the
Ulen-Sutherlin Bond company of
Chicago, but the sewer opponents
have asked the aid of the attorney
general and of Governor Sloan in a
contest to determine the validity of
the city councils action in issuing
the bonds.