The copper era., 1904-09-29
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CLIFTON
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road to BocOaChi will be built yer.
 soon. The road is necessity ant
 mean, the opening up of d wonderful
 country and making it tributary t
 Douglas. The only good road int
 Bocoachi is from Cananea and ton
 of machinery and merchandise, t
 say nothing of the people. go owe tni, old road. When the road i
 built from the NacOzari road all of
 this travel and frieght traffic vii
 pass through Douglas and will be {
 big factor in the business of this city
 American.
 \ deplorable occurrence took place
 on the John Nelson ranch, six mile.
 down Salt river from Livingston, or
 Sunday, Sept. I. A young Mexican
 woman in q fit of despondency or mental abberation took her own life.
 Tn doing so she used an old revolver that had been about the house and
 unused for long time. She took
 the revolver and at q short distance
 from the house put the muZZle of the
 pistol against her forehead and fired |.
 the ball entering her brain and pro-
 ducing instant death. The ball did
 not pass entirely through her head | but lodged in her brain
 William Bynum. d one armed man
 was held up last week in the rear of | Rinard's stables at Phoenix. He had | hpsn 1lyiD,r tn ,-nrt,l. of on the street near the corner of ! Washington and First. He left them there and started to his home in the northern part of the city. Those who had seen the men talking ob- served also that after Bvnum moved away they stcalthily followed him. They overlook him in the shadow of the stables and one of them seized him by the throat and held him while the other explored his pockets. The holdups got only Sl.5O. The indications are that the police are going to have q busy win ter. There are already great many suspicious characters in the city and some of them have been taken up and detained. Republican.
 Half submerged in pool of rain water with q crushed skull the body of Jesus NJ. RoblcS. d Calabasas ranChcr, was discovered last week at Nogdles by Joe Carbon. the well known stockman. The ghastly dis Covcry was made at q point not far distant from the round house and near the rock cut on north Merely avenue. An examination of the re- mains of the murdered man demon Stratcd that the blow which caused his death was brutal in the extreme. \ large rock smcared with blood and Il hole in the skull as large as dol lar bore evidence of shocking death at the hands of an as>asSin. 1t k stated that the officers have d num- Der of good clues and expect to have the murderer and probably one or more accompliccs behind the bars in d very short time. RobleS, the mur- dered man k well known in Nogales. tit lN st lIlsil lttl llliI Ol liI St ldInllN and has worked as q rancher in the vicinity of CalabaSa> for number of years.
 One morning last week Line Rider ReddoCk saw q Mexican crossing the line from Agua Prieta with bottle of mc>Cal under his arm. The off Ccr followed the hombre to d shack l in Ragtown. where he saw the bottle | on q table RcddroCk ordered the l Mexican to hand over the liquor | which he said he would do. adding that he had another bottle behind q trunk which he would also surrender. l The hOmhrc reached behind the i trunk and before Reddock knew i what had happened he was looking | down the business end of q 3S six | shooter. The officer drew his gun. | Can over the sky trail another Mexi- | can stepped between the two guns dhTf-se->-A---a------s tt.-. -.-.,.r-.sl..r under and locked him up in hISA1 shack. Inspector Baily arrived at | this time and the Mexican was made | d prisoner. When the house was en- | tered the man had two siX-shooters | in his hands. He iS now in iail ! awaiting examination. During the | trouble the me>cal was taken away ! by some of the MeXicanS who were ! hanging around.
 The prO>pector> who have stood by | the Dragoon district for years now ! look forward to an early reward for ] their patience. The blowing in of 1 the Benson shelter is the basis of i their hopes. There is no doubt of 1 the district being q good one, but it 1 needs the magic hand of capital to develop it. and the chance to treat the ore in the Benson shelter will en- courage capital to go into the dis trict. Considerable development work has been done in the district. and the ore bodies uncovered show good values in copper. besides the precious metals. Wolfram mining iS attracting considerable attention in the neighborhood, and the income from that source is gratifying to the claim owners. The metal brings 20 cents per pound, and the cleanups in some of the claims amounts to from 200 to 100 pounds of wolfram daily. ,,afhnl of r,irinn trsna1lx ha