Tombstone epitaph., 1909-07-04
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF iN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

II Q Robertson, formerly of Gloie has been elected sul erinte' dent of the Mess schools to succeed P. oiessor j l. Loper. who recently resigned.
 The first carload of beets from the Mesa district has been shipped to the Glendale factory and a large crop will be harvested by the growers in that 
 The big railroad shops of the South ern Pacific, which are being built at Empalme at . cost of sl.5oO,OOo are nearing completion.
 The Southern Pacific will attempt to develop artesian water in the Sul- phur Spring valley, and has sent a deep well boring outfit to Kelton, where operations on a test well will be begun at once.
 The frst carload of wstermelons for the season was shipped out of the Salt river valley Wednesday to Tucson.
 Callsntsno Lopez, found guilty in the Prescott district court of dynamit- ing the restaurant of Charley Hong, in Jerome, wac sentenced to serve ten years in the territorial penitantiary,
 John Fanato was found dead in his room in the Scopel house in Prescott Monday night. Tine verdict of the coroner's jury was that death came by natural causes.
 Mother NJ Agnes and Sister Eliza beth of Goldkeld, have arrived in Douglas and announce the opening oi the new Sisters hospital there on July l5.
 A family of five Mexicans. the mother of whom was found to be in the last stages of tuberculosis, were caught by i'm migration officers in the act of smuggling themeelses across the line and are being held in the deten- tion camp at Douglas pending de- portatiOn.
 A Mexican lad had confessed to an attempt to wreck Southern Pacific train at Benson for the reason, as he says, that he wanted to be sent to the reform school, where he would have 6 good time and plenty to eat. His wish will be gratiied. A two story apartment house was , destroyed by fire in Douglas Saturday morning. The house was occupied by . Mrs Ardison, and the origin of the fire is unknown.
 Yuma chamber Of commerce offer: to pay s20O of the prizes of the Lo'
 Angeles to. Phoenix automobile race: this fall on condition that ths race: are scheduled to pass through Yuma
 Three tons Of alfalfa to the acre is 8 record cut being made on the ranch oI
 A H Kent in the Yuma valley.
 According to the Star there are in
 tucson 250 automobiles in constant service.
 Parke Charming, consulting en- gineer for the Lewisohn interests. has . announced that his people will take sn active interest in the Planet Cop. per company property, located in the
 Bill Williams Fork. , CT Roberts of Tucson. has been granted a patent for a fire extinguish- ing system.
 The body of Judge Burnett, who re- ceptly died iu Phoenix, has been taken to Los Angeles, where it will be buried by the lodge of Elks of that city, of which he was 6 member. | Snsrpshooters of the Arizona state militia will begin practice at once for the coming national shoot to be held at Camp Perry. Ohio, the latte- p,rt of August. Such are orders from the sdjutsnt general.
 Another carload of convicts was transferred from the territorial prison at Yuma last week to Florence, where they will work on the construction Of the new penitentiary. I The young peoples societies of the Baptist, Christian. Central Methodist and First Methodist churches of Phoe- nix have perfected . plan for the hold ing of union meetings during the sum- msr.
 Linemen employed on the plant of the Arizona Power company at Wick enburg are on strike for an increase of 50 cents per day.
 There are now about five hundred men at work on the new Shsnuon- Arizona railroad aod the dirt and rock is flying on every section between Cliff ton and Metcslf.
 A bar of gold worth 4.oOO has been received by the Prescott National bank, e the result of the latest clean.