Tombstone epitaph., 1909-09-19
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

Douglas has succeeded in producing on his ranch ih Sulphur Spring valley . stalk of sorghum more than sev.n feet hgh. making all it's growth in five weeks.
 Yuma county board of supervisors ir busy looking for location for @ poor farm. When txo buildings, the contract. | for which have just been let, are com- pleted, Glendale, the beet sugar town, will have a sol d block of glass front business houses.
 The Yuma Indian school opened its regular fall session last week with 6 large attendance of young redskins.
 The balance in Yuma county's treas.
 ury at the beginning of September wac
 s23, $50.
 An ordinance prohibiting the opera
 ii n of any general merchand SC store in Tucson on Sunday was unceremon-
 iously tabled at the last meeting of the
 city c uncil.
 The last Irand Canyon excursion of the season will be run out of Phoenix next Sunday.
 Phoenix will soon have 6 pstholog. icsl and meteorological laboratory for the purpose of aiding physicians
 in quickly diagnosing cases of cons
 tsgious or infectious diseases il the
 plans of Dr. Roy E Thomas and
 other med cal n.en are carried out 7. rhe department will also look after the purity of the city milk supply. Y By the authority of the Secretary l, of the Interior, the inappropriate D public land in the s73l acres elimin
 sted from the Crook national flores
 reserve of Arizona by executive orde
 dated August I2. will be restored |,
 the public domain and to settlemen 6 on and after November 22. It vii ,f not bee suject to entry until o' ID and after December P at the lsn .g othce at Phoenix. Ths areas to b ie restored are situated in Gils and Grs I'd ham counties.
 'o Cotton experts estimate the yiel n on the experimental cotton fields il Yuma county to run over e bale t n the acre.
 h. Will F Gillette, a young man c M Tucson, was one of the unfortunate ,d who lost his life in the terrible Mexi can floods lsst week.
 A w Merrill. who has been em = ployed by the horticultural conn is O sion ss territorial enty nlogist (mesn Tt ing that he will kill bad bugs) has ar
 rived in the Salt River valley, wh r
 he will make his headquarters, ant
 will at once stsrt making experiment.
 with the insect life of Arizona. b All unnecessary curves on the Phoe s. nix & Eastern railroad between Phoe m nix and Wiokelman are being straight ,r ened out, and seven csI loads of hesv, n steel rails have been delivered a e Winkelmsn during the past few days D The corner stone of the new Second 's Baptist church of Phoenix will be lsic D on Sunday, September l9. Attorney General John B Wright in an interview at Phoenix, says thai
 ss far ss he knows, no test of the new election laws for Arizona IS in con. compilation.
 c Signed by nearly a hundred Tempe y citizens, J w Wooli. president of the D Tempe Ants-Ssloon le-gue, has fl ed
 with the Msricops county board ol y supervisors a petition asking for local . option election in the distric. under he provis .ons of th, Pace law. Claiming to be the heir to . for tune amounting to $4 O,OOO, q barber ) has been arrested on he streets of Phoenix for begging and given e "h ,ater" if Bonds to the amount of $5,000 for
 the ScottsdsIe district of Msricops county, were so!d by the board ?!
 supervisors to the Valley Bank of
 Phoenix ct . premium of S23 50
 Alter having waited for two full
 weeks in line to be there fir an get their choice, four men acting for
 the Ray Consolidated Copper com
 pany, have 6lsd in the Phoenix land
 office on about 1000 acres of land along the Gila River in Pinal county,
 weet of Winkelman The land ct Ire company in the neigh oorhood of $2p,OsO
 Bisbee bsrbers have adopted c uni- form scale of prices snd schedule of hours or doing bus ness embracing ev. cry shop in the city.