Arizona republican., 1906-06-07
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VISITING ToMBsToNE-Professor Brinsmode of the New Mexico School of Mines. accompanied by a party o' eight students, is making a tour of the
 Tombstone and other big Cochise county mining camps for the edifica- ton of the students.
 NEW CAR LETTERS-The Santa F'e has begun renumberins and letter 1 ing the tanks and engines over the en- tire system. The new letters and num- bers will be of aluminium bronze. The numbers and letters on the engines and tanks heretofore have been of yellow for the freight engines and gold leaf
 on the passenger engines. The new numbers on the engine tanks will be
 twenty four inches high instead of ten inch figures that have been in use for severa! years. The aluminium figures will make better appearance and be more durable than the old letters and figures
 A SUMMER IN THE EAsT-AIiss Grace Andrews and Miss Carrie Christy left last night over the south ern route for Chicago. There Miss An drews will visit for q short while with relatives and later spend the summer in Ohio or in the lake country of north ern Wisconsin. Miss Christy will make no stop in Chicago but will continue her journey to Highland Falls, N. G., near which city is located West Point. where her brother, Carroll Christy, is attending the United States Military academy. There she will spend the summer. her present plan being to re- main in the east for about four months.
 DEPARTURE OF CARL COcHEMS Carl Cochems, who for the past two years has been in charge of the vocal department of the Arizona School of Music, left Monday night for Chicago, where he will spend a few days, later going to his former home, Sturgeon Bay. Wis, for a two weeks visit with his parents. He will then leave for
 New York city and sail about the first Of the coming month for Rome where he will begin a course of study under MT. Henry Russell. It will be remem- bered that MT. Russell visited Phoenix last winter with the company in which his wife. Alice Neilsen. was starring.
 TURKEY CREEK MINING Colt is stated in the Prescott papers that a hoisting plant has been ordered for the Turkey Creek mine. situated a few miles south of Poland station. in the Bradshaws. The news will be of i'm terest to many Phoenix readers, for quite a number of Phoenix people own stock in the Turkey Creek company. whose property has looked promising from the beginning of it's exploitation The last carload of ore shipped from the Humboldt shelter to the mines about three weeks ago. gave net re- turns of $40 to the ton in gold and sil- yer values. The mines are opened by about 1,500 feet of tunnel and shaft work. large bodies of ore being blocked out and ready for stoping as soon as the hoisting plant is placed in working order on the ground.
 SONORA CONDITIONS.-A Rede- will of this city, who has been touring Sonora on piano campaign. has given a lengthy interview to a B:sbee paper in which he reviews Sonora conditions. He speaks of a number of Yaqui mur- ders and says: Many stories are be- ing told about what the Yaquis are doing that are not true but enough of them have foundation 70 make tome parts of Sonora an unsafe country in which to venture without a big escort. From what I could learn l judge that the Indians are getting worse. For a time they would not harm Americans or other fore gners. but now they seem to have turned their hand against every race but their own. One of the strangest features of the whole matter IS the source from which they are get ting their arms and ammunition. When any of them are captured they are ai- ways found to have modern rifles and plenty of cartridges. I believe these Indians are getting help from white people Part of their guns may be sent from the United States by their own people, but they are getting other help Where it is coming from is more than I could learn Redew.H spent a couple of days at Fl Tiro and Boludo, where Colonel Epes Randolph and a party of capitalists are expcud- ing large sums to prepare for placer mining on a large scale. Randolph is sending about S2O0.OOO worth of ma chinery which will be installed as fast as possible. Fifteen miles of ten-inch pipe is to be laid to bring water to .he placer ground. Fourteen mule teams F of from ten to twenty animals 4rs now hauling machinery and supplies from santa Ana, point on the ratIroad | fifty eight miles from Fl Tiro If