Tombstone epitaph., 1908-08-23
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

suddenly the other day in pasture showing evidence of having been pois oned by some deadly insect.
 Colonel Epes Randolph has returned to Tucson from San Francisco, where he had a meeting with E. Ii. Harri man.
 County Recorder Shibell of Pims county who has held that office ten terms and was two terms sheriff O. that county, celebrated his 9th birth day Friday.
 The last touches have been applied to the Granite Reef dam and it is now completed. The chains for raising and lowering the gates have been installed and are working,
 Sneak thieves are reported be op- erating in Flagstaff with vsring sue cess, much to the annoyance of the residents of that town.
 Stockmen iron. Mohaye county re- port that deer in that section are un. usually plentiful this season.
 At mass meeting he Id in Mesa ou Wednesday even ing, thirty-three young men enlisted in Company D, the new National Guard branch in that city,
 Tempe postoffice is advertising for bids for carrying the mail from the new depot to the postofhce.
 w. F. Cooper, who in the last cam paign was the Republican candidate for delegate 10 congress, has announced that he fsvore General A. J. Sampson for the nomination this year.
 A large force of rurales and custom house guards is being kept stationed at Agus Prieta, across the line from Douglas, in anticir ration of an inva. sion of Yaqui Indians.
 The once famous Thirteen club of Tucson has been reoresnized and promises some of it's old-time trolics for the coming social season.
 The Orphans Home Sewing circl. has been organized by charitably in clined Tucson ladies fer the purpose of preparing clothing for the needy.
 Secretary John A Black of the Tue son Building and Loan association has turned over sufficient property to guarantee sn alleged shortage in his accounts. He insists that the &C., counts are al. right, and that he gives this security merely that the stock holders may feel perfectly safe.
 It is reported from Tucson that a coffin factory may be located there in the near future.
 Tucson Democratic club has opened permanent headquarters and club rooms.
 The women's clubs of the territory have been asked to designate a flower which shall be adopted as the territo- rial emblem, and many old residents have suggested the desert lily as an appropriate blossom. A night rainbow was seen in Tue son Tuesday evening and the unusual spectacle was viewed with great inter. est by the residents of the Old Pueblo
 The Pioneer livery stable in Phoe. nix is minus horse and buggy, which disappeared the othsr evening simul taneously with two Mexican girls snc juggler who had been showing at , local theater.
 Tempe has passed her much dis cussed Sunday closing ordinance 10 saloons.
 Three Indian boys were arrested 8
 the Phoenix Indian school Saturds
 morning for robbing the school con
 misssry oi things to eat. Gins have been o-dered to handl
 the cotton crop of the Arlington di trict, and picking will begin ne,
 month.
 : Excursions will be run from all Ar r 1ona points to the Labor day celehr | tion at Prescott next month. ' Several fine diamonds were stol, '' from the home of Mrs. M. E, Feldmi Y at Tucson one day last week, presun e sbIy by Ysqui Indian who had be- employed about the house. D. l.. Gates of Tennessee, vii. ( D, tablieh . big poultry farm near Ft Il. Lowell, in Pima county. 4. Robert Champie, . seven -yesr-t CT boy, was dragged to death by . bul H. last Wednesday evening in front oi
 parents home in Harrington.