Arizona republican., 1909-06-13
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Incidents of Recent Occur renee in the Cities, Towns Mining Camps and Sur rounding Hills, Wales and Ranges.
Husband Shoots wife's Affinity.

Husband Shoots Wife's Affinity.
 After working side by side in the field, Injenio OtOno shot the lover of his wife, Antonio Vasques, on [ small ranch just out of Nogales. June T. It was the same old story oi one Mexican trying to love the wife of another. Otono is in hiding across | the border somewhere and has mol been located as yet
 Japanese Walks In Search of Swindler.
 ShunZaburO Ota, a Japanese, waS arrested at Tucson a few days baci ! and held as a suspect by a govern ment immigration official. He claims to have walked into the country 1T search of an alleged swindier, who promised to deposit $l30 in Los Angeles bank, but who failed tC make the deposit. The Jap vas caught just after he had crossed the border from Sonora and will be held until further instructions are receiv- ed from the secretary of commerce and labor.
 A Dependable Convict.
 H. D. Maynard, a convicted Santa Fe conductor who was mixed in a Chinese smuggling conspiracy has been given an eighteen months sen tence and took the trip to the New Mexico penitentiary unattended. He recently withdrew his appeal and volunteered to take his sentence, says the Albuquerque Mining Journal, buy ing a ticket in Fl Paso and leaving for the pen without escort.
 Five Millions Of Wool.
 The Albuquerque Wool Securing mills are in the throes of the rush season. The mammoth plant is run ming night and day, and theSe are prospects of the double shift being kept up for quite a duration of time Though over SOO,OOO pounds of Ari zona wool usually handled went out in grease and. a number of consign ments of Mexican wool have gone unscowred this year, yet there will be over five millions to handle.
 Cheaper Wages.
 According to the Douglas Dispatch, notices have been posted to the ef- feet that the large concerns in Courtiand have reduced the Mexican muckers wages from $2.50 to $1.75. It is the object to give American labor the preference in all kinds of employment.
 Hokus-Pokus Controls Maniac.
 The Prescott Journal Miner states that Birmingham, the miner who re- gently went entirely mad over an old mining case, has been subdued by an attendant, Ray Close, who on hearing his screams, rushed to the sheriff and volunteered his services. Opiates and every other means had been tried to quiet the rawlings of Birmingham, but to no avail. MT. Close, though he does not claim to be a hypnotist, after having a few minutes of conversation with the miner, eXerted an influence over Birmingham that pacified him so thoroughly that he has not spoken above a whisper for over eight hours, having been a raving manias for forty eight hours before
 Mammoth irrigation Project.
 The largest irrigation project ever undertaken in Pima county was ifAuiiCl-th StoNtldeig Niitl Nht di Nlttto of incorporation of the Barnes Daily Power, Land and Irrigation company were filed with the secretary of the Territory and the initial work was begun June 1st by a score or more teams with blows and scrapers eight miles west of Tucson. at the old over land stage station, known as the Nine Mile Water hole, at the Junction of the Santa Cruz and RiIlito rivers.
 At this point the underground flow of these rivers comes to the surface and there is running water during the driest of seasons. Two large canals will be taken out at this point, one on either side of the river The heads of these canals will be sunk to a depth of twenty-five feet below the bed of the rivers and connected under the river with a shaped per fOrated cement conduit, tapping and draining the underflow of water.
 The fall of the river is so great be- low this point that the canals will come to the surface within a distance of two miles and the water can be taken out over the land for irrigation
 A natural basin has been secured on either side of the river where at small expense earthen dams may be erected for storing the surplus waters. Tucson Star.
 Finerty Owns Don Luis Site.
 In the recent ruling of the depart ment of interior MT. Finerty has been given the fight in which he be- comes possessor of almost the en- tire tOWnSite of Don Luis Mr Fin erty based his claim on the fact that the land was worth more for agricultural purposes than as min ing property According to the Bis bee Evening Miner, this is an inn portant ruling and will be referred in several cases that are going to come up later on.
 Mine Accident AvoidabIe.
 Because of improper timbering in the Spray mine Jas Christian met |