The copper era., 1907-10-31
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

''After having been behind in the
land office three months in the work
we have now by laboring part of the
night as well as in the day caught up
with our work and we hope hence
forth if everything goes well to keep
up with the business" This was the
statement of Lyman J. Wakefield,
register of the land office.
Every prisoner leaving but one and
he with only five days more to serve,
the Mohave county Jail at Kingman
was the scene of a jailbreak last
week, which has practically broken
up the session of the district court
which was to be held there. Visitors
from Kingman stated that the men,
several of whom were charged with
desperate crimes. secured saws by
outside help, and cut their way out
during the night. The sheriff and
large posse are in the field trying
TO recapture the escaped prisoners.
1t is belieyed most of them have
made their way into California
Democrat.
Four fair placer miners of Prescott
while inspecting the Granite placer
diggings, one-halt mile south of the
city limits, in the neighborhood of
the Brooks ranch, "washed" enough
pay dirt to bring home to their hus-
bands and sweethearts several dol
@f ~
was composed of Mesdames Monte
Broaded and Hopkins and Misses
Duke Davis and Bessie Brown. The
gold is supposed to have been uncov-
cred during the recent heavy rain
Storm that flooded Granite creek,
along whose banks, in the days when
the rampant Apache rUamed untram-
meled, save by the presence of ad-
venterous miners, thousands of dol
lars worth of placer gold was mined
in the early 6O's.-Democrat
A dispatch received last week from
Ardmore, I. T., states that the muir
der charge against John Mcintyre
has been dismissed and that he will
return home Immediately. 1t ap-
pears that the charge upon which he
was arrested was merely matter of
self-de fense. He was working for a
blacksmith and in an alterCation was
assaulted with a bar of iron. McIn-
tyre cut the blacksmith in the arm
with a pen knife. The man after
wards died and it was reported he
died from the wound. Mcintyre left
the country. Several years after
wards he was indicted for murder and
the officers knew where he was all
the time, but no effort was made TO
arrest him until abJut two months
ago.-GuardIan.
A list of names aggrecating loco
of children in Tucson who fail to at
tend the public school, has been
handed in by Superintendent w. NJ.
Ruthrauff to the board of school
trustees and the officers of both the
city and Pima county will be asked
by the board to see that the truancy
law is enforced. The truant law is
one of the most strict of the Arizona
statutes. 1t provides that the par
ents who fail to send their children
to school are guilty of a misdemeanor
and can be fined or imprisoned This
law has been hagrantly violated in
the past, and to all appearances it
will be regarded as usual again this
wear unless the officers take action.
Striking proof of this is shown by
the large number of children of
school age who are to be seen ab ut
the streets during school hours.
However, it is not proposed to longer
allow these violations. The school
trustees have a complete list of the
children in Tucson of school age,
turned in by the official census taker.
I he list has been carefully checked
over by Superintendent Ruthrauf
and comparison made with the en-
rollment list. 1t was found to the as
constituent of the school officials
that the truant list numbers approxi
mately 1000.