Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-15
Brief Territorial News

During the month of December, 1909, forty.six marriage licenses were issued by the probate judge of Cochise county.
 Rev. Father I. Gheldorf, pastor of the Catholic church of Douglas, has es- poused the cause of prohibition and en- tered the battle against the liquor forces of the city in the campaign which will be decided by the special election January 26.
 A sensational strike of copper and silver was made this week in the Kep- Ter group of claims seven and a half miles northeast of Globe, when two and a half foot vein of ore carrying 40 per cent copper and from one to two thousand ounces in silver was un- covered.
 Eleven new suits for divorce have been filed in the office of the clerk of the district court at Tombstone and entered upon the civil docket of that tribunal.
 John Kopavitch, Hungarian, secured $57.60 from Scott and Thornton s store at Douglas on bogus cheek and then disappeared before his game had been discovered.
 Albert A. Morawitz of Nogales, Ariz., for the past two years American consul at Bahia, Brazil, has been appointed to the office of consul at Leipsig, Saxony, promotion made in recognition of the splendid record he has made at Bahia.
 Five Mexican families have been quarantined at Bisbee by Dr. Hickman, county health officer, because of scar let fever which is raging among their number.
 When the Yuma Indian reservation is formally opened for settlement the sett- lers will be required to pay $l0 per acre in addition to the pro rata cost of conservation and irrigation works. A. NJ. Foster, lately the owner and editor of the Yuma Sun, has sold his home at Yuma and is preparing to re- turn to his former home at Canton, Texas, where he has purchased the plant of the Van Zandt Enterprise, the only paper published at Canton, county | seat.
 Rhoda Beebe, the young girl who eloped from Mesa with James Daley, married man, and went to Mexico, | |. I,, ,,,.l by Ross Daley brother of James. She assumes an injured air and denies hav- ing seen the man with whom she ran away.
 A city league of the basket ball clubs has been organized at Tucson and in cludes four teams, the Varsity, Reliance, | High School and Meteors. Some hobo, driven to desperation by the cold weather, cut his way into screen porch bedroom at the home of J. $. Jenks at Phoenix and stole a few articles of wearing apparel and all the bed coverings and pillow. Mrs. Jenks is daughter of Judge Kibbey. Through the NOfmal StudenC It IS learned that Prof. F. A. Colder, former ly teacher in the normal, recently re- signed his position in the University of Boston to accept more important position in the faculty of the University of Chicago.
 P. c. Everett, ranchman who came to the Salt River valley last year from Colorado, has been arrested and taken back to Colorado on charge of cattle stealing. He is confident of establish ing his innocence as he claims the charge was faked by his divorced wife and another woman who seemed to eX- pect him to marry her after securing his divorce.
 There are about $l9,OO0 in delinquent taxes to be collected in Pima county.
 At the meeting of the territorial bar association at Phoenix this week a res olution was adopted endorsing the re.