Arizona daily citizen., 1901-05-17
Brief News Items
Of the Town.

Lost, strayed or stolen, one Jose Mar
tinez. Apply to Chris Christensen.
The board ofsupervisors are in session.
The bids OF the Star and Citizen for
county publishing were rejected and re-
quests for private bids were made.
Governor Murphy has appointed the
commissioners to the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition as follows: First District,
Judge w. II. Barnes, Tucson; second
district, Charles +. Taylor, Globe;
third district, A. f. Dalton, Phoenix /;
fourth district, w. C. Bashford, Pres
colt.
Col. Low states that he holds lease
of five years upon the San Augustine
and that the sale of the hotel property
to r. G. Brady does not affect him in
the least. Col. Low is the proprietor of
the San Augustine and he has made it
popular resort with the tourists and
home people.
The indications are now that the
Mammoth will run for at least so days
before shutting down. The work in the
mine will go on. 1t is contemplated to
continue the drift into the Collins mine
from the GOO level of the Mammoth
mine. 1t will require 1000 feet in drift
ing to reach the Collins ore body. Work
will also be started on the Collins shaft
to connect the drift.
The Prospector says in regard to the
pun going the rounds that a new bank
is to be opened in former Tombstone
barber shop and the barber tools press
ed into service to shave notes, it might
be said pending the establishment oft he
same, that persons in Tom bstone doing
business with the present local bank will
have to continue calling atits headquart-
ears in a saloon where draughts are al
ways on tap.
The following is list of pupils whose
yearly standing has been the highest in
their respective classes. Sth grade,
Harry Thomas; 7th grade, Helen Schole-
field 9th grade, Beppie Leslie; 5a grade.
Myrtle Drachman; 5b grade, Frank
odermatt; IA grade, Emory Malin; 4b
grade, Charlie Dodge; 3rd grade, Alfred
syzmanski; "a grade, Laura Vasquez
and Manuel Echeverria 2b grade,
Frederick Rogers. Congress Street
school-3rd grade, Mable Hartley and
Martha Goldbaum; End grade, Natalia
Allison and Roy Omstead.
Col. Allen T. Bird who is here today
from Nogales says that the sale OF the
Mulatos mine, one OF the largest gold
mines in Sonora, has been made. The
Aguayos who have held the mine for
years have disposed of it to an eastern
company. The new owners will increase
the milling capacity to 1900 tons per
day, and make other extensive equip
ment OF the property. This mine has
been worked for nearly hundred years,
first by the crudest methods, second by
arrastras and last by stamp mill. The
mine is located in the heart of the Sier-
ra Madre range and is accessible only
by rough trails. Col. Bird believes that
the Mulatos is now going to become one
OF the great gold producers OF the world.
Jose Martinez, fugitive from death,
is yet an unknown quantity so far as the
officers OF Tucson are aware. Ever
since he quit CHS. Christensen by slid
ing out of the Southern Pacific ambu-
lance, Jose has maintained a most dig
nified absence; he has crawled into the
greasewood and sage brush of the desert
and is playing hide-and-go-seek with
Marshal Taylor, Jailor Dufton and all
the other officers who have been on his
ubiquitous trial. The mystery of Jose
Martinez has afforded much food for de-
Liberation and every day new theories
are advanced. The latest is that the
man was really dead and that the corpse
was stolen from the am bulance as it was
being driven to the hospital But the
concensus OF opinion favors the solution
given by The Citizen, that the man was
stunned in the accident and came to his
senses while being taken to the hospi-
tai. Thinking that he was going to the
burying ground in hearse Jose de-
cided to decamp,