The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-11-07
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

About 100 passengers boarded the
Valley train for the south one day
last week, in the main Slayoniar
miners, who are making for the San
Juan country of Colorado and the
Black Hills of South Dakota.-Belt.
According to a current report the
contract for the Old Pueblo building
has been awarded to the Barber
Bradley Construction company OF
Los Angeles. The cOntraat price is
said to have been S37, ,000.-Tucson
Citizen.
A Chinaman giving the name Of
Chung, and refusing to give any more
of his name, was arrested last week
at Tucson for killing G. Laborta, a
Mexican boy, twenty years old, as
the result of a Halloween prank.
BOYS had strung a wire across the
street and Chung was tripped. He
pulled a gun and shot into the crowd
killing Laborta instantly.
Acting Governor Nichols granted a
pardon to a colored woman who is
serving a fifty-day sentence in the
Navajo county Jail for assault. The
pardon was recommended by Judge
Sloan of that district. and by At
torney General Clark. The reason
for it is that the woman is in bad
health and must Immediately submit
to a surgical operation to save her
health, perhaps her life.-Repub-
lican.
Several Mesa farmers have com
planned recently that they cannot get
good farm hands, though they are
willing to pay the highest prices.
One man says he has had several So
called farm hands recently; but that
the maiority of them were incompe-
tent, and the others would work only
long enough to get few dollars, and
then quit. He wants to know why
some organized effort cannot be made
to induce lot of young and compe-
tent farmers to come to the valley.
A young man of good habits, who un-
derstood farming, could get steady
employment, and in few years
would be able to own farm of his
own.-Republican.
Eighteen months ago w. r. Hardin
lost mail pouch between Congress
Junction and Congress. Twelve
months ago he died. Now United
States Attorney Alexander has
brought suit in Prescott against the
Fidelity & Deposit company of Balti-
more to recover 500, the amount
Hardin is alleged to have lost in the
mail pouch. Hardin had d sub-cou-
tract for carrying the mail between
the Junction and Congress, and on one
of his trips lost the pouch. No trace
of it was ever found. In the bag
were checks, money orders and mer-
chandise, some of which belonged to
Phoenix people. Hardin's bondsmen
were the Fidelity company of Balti-
more.
The bodies of four men were dis
covered by a trackwalker last week
near Maricopa. An investigation
showed that death resulted from
drinking wood alcohol stolen from
box car. The men are probably
miners, as one carried union card
from Globe in the name of Fitz-
patrick. The fifth member of the
party attempted to escape, but was
captured by the officers. When
taken before a justice of the peace
at Maricopa he stated that the party
reached there and broke open car
to steal. In the evening they found
a can of wood alcohol and all but
himself drank it and were immedi-
ately taken with convulsions and
died shortly afterward. He declared
he would not give any names and re-
fused to talk further.
Two Slavonians indulged in very
weighty discussion last week, the
question being whether one of them
owed the other the sum of 65 cents
or whether he did not owe said sur.
Two of the city officers were stand
ing nearby all the time the discussion
was going on and warned them that
if they did not quiet down they would
have to curtail their liberty. The
question was evidently too important
to be side-tracked by such trivial
consideration and the discussion con-
tinued. One said that the other had
agreed to go half on a 30-cent water
melon and had failed to come across.
Also that at one time % cents worth
of crackers and cheese had been in
dulged in, and that on this he had
also failed to ante. The discussion
waxed hotter as time went by, and
discovering that arbitration could
not settle the matter. they re@orte d
to methods of warfare and fell prey
to the officers.-Review.
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