Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-16

two weeks ago in the property of the Mint Gold Mining and Milling company in the Copper Basin district has been. confirmed and proves to be even richer than at first supposed. Ledges and veins in that vicinity which have been neglected are now being prospected and developed. While in charge of freight train, Conductor w. C. Steele fell from q box ear at Alto station, six miles south of Prescott, dislocating his knee and receiving other painful injuries none of which ahe considered serious, how ever.
 Thos. E. Reynolds of Prescott recent ly purchased the Heating ranch in the Agua Fria valley, adjoining the R. T.. ranch also owned by him, and will commence the reclamation of the tract at once.
 John Middlesky, the big Indian wrestler and chief of the Coeopah tribe, is on the way to New York with his manager, Ollie Donaldson, of Bisbee, where he will engage in a series of wrestling matches. He weighs S61 pounds.
 Section Foreman Blodgett, located at Araby Siding, eight miles east of Yuma, has mysteriOusly disappeared. His velocipede was found in the Yuma railroad yards, but he had not been seen. His wife says that this is his third disappearance. He is subject to mental lapses due to fever contracted while serving in the army in the Phil. ippines.
 Hon. Marcus A. Smith is spending the winter at his old home in Cynthi- ana, Ky, and will later go to Washing ton to be on hand when the statehood bill comes up for discussion.
 The Saints baseball team of St. Vim cent s college, Los Angeles, has com pleted arrangements for tour through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. In this territory they will play against the Normal school at Tempe, the Indian school team at Phoenix, the University of Arizona team at Tucson and the best aggregation of amateurs that can be put in the field at Yuma.
 During the month of February civil service examinations for several diff erent positions will be held at Phoe nix, Tucson, Prescott and Douglas.
 f II ,.yIk al organized before the civil war and com manded at different times by some of America's most famous military chief tains, passed through Tucson Saturday in three special trains, enroute from the Philippines; where these troops have been on duty for the past three years, to Des Moines, Iowa, where they will now go into garrison. Many of its present members were recruited in Ari- zOna.
 J. N. Pattison, right of way agent for the Calabasas extension of the Twin Buttes railway, has succeeded in securing the right of way for the en tire distance both in Santa Cruz and in Pima county, with little opposition and at very reaSOndDle cOSI' pIdulhS hdo been completed to Arivaca Junction, twenty eight miles out of Tucson.
 Sheriff Nelson of Tucson is in receipt of a letter from II. D. Hardman, of Forth Worth Texas, enquiring the whereabouts of one John R. Swancoat, who is thought to have settled in Ari- zona some years ago and is now being sought by the representatives of an estate in which the missing man has | considerable interest.
 Dwight B. Heard of Phoenix made g strong plea for the open range at the meeting of the American National Live stock association at Denver, declaring forestry, irrigation and grazing insep- arabic, and that the only hope for grazers in using public lands was in federal control of the open range.
 According to the report of Dr. John Hagan, city physician of Bisbee, War ren and Lowell, for the year 1909, there were Al deaths and PA births in the district. Of the latter 225 were white, 17 were Mexieans and ? were negroes.