Tombstone epitaph., 1909-08-08
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF IN- TEREST CONDENSED.

In the city election held Wednes day to determine if Flagstaff should have a new charter, there was a ma Iority of nine votes in favor of re tainiDg the old regime.
 For the instruction of forest ser. vice rangers @ school will be opened by the department on September l on the Coconiuo national forest near Flagstaff.
 Mir and Mrs Harry Veil of Phoe- nix, are now singing in the opera "MIkado" at the Majestic theater at Los Angeles.
 l While trying to pass between two moving cars Monday Ed Hoopes of Sahord. got his foot caught between .he couplings and 30 badly mashed that he will be confined for several l weeks.
 The new dredge on the Clark estate on Lynx creek, which will open up a new era in placer mining Tn Yavspai county, was started on its preliminary run Sunday, The machinery is re- ported to be working in a very satis- factory manner.
 That Smith, the crack pitcher Of the Chicago White Sox, will be the manager of the Tucson ball team this fall, is given out from the Old Pueblo,
 Phoenix papers claim that this has been the coolest summer in the his- tory Of the Salt River valley. But don't get excited over that. They say the same thing every summer.
 The biggest of the big pumpkins is Ton display in a Mesa store. It was raised in that vicinity and tips the scales at seventy pounds.
 Jose Espino oea, Mexican laborer working on the new Twin Buttes rail- road in Pima county, was struck by a train and fatally injured Thursday He was sitting on the edge of the rail-. road, so engrossed in eating his lunch that he took no notice of the train until 1t had struck him.
 The Calumet & Arizona Mining company has purchased copper property in the San Felipe district, in northern Mexico, at the reported price of s25O,OOO.
 Thomas J Ryan, formerly of Pres | colt, was run over and killed on the Santa Fe railroad, one mile east of Pineveta station, Sunday at noon. His body was msngled beyond recog- nition.
 John A Black, alleged embezzler of $l0,Oo0 of the furds of the Tucson ] Build ng & Loan association, has been remanded to jail after failure to se- cure Sl5,OOO bail.
 Three million pounds of sugar had been manufactured by the South. western Sugar and Land company of I Glendale, near Phoenix, up to last week. At the price on the ground this amount is worth Sl83, 900. The Colorado river continues it's | extraordinary antics east of the Gils river levee. It has carried away two hundred town lots and moved millions o. tons of sand, and still continues to encroach On valuable territory. The board of supervisors of Yuma county has decided to readvertise for bids for tract of eighty acres or any fraction thereof not smaller than forty acres, to be used as a county poorfarm' Bids recently advertised for produced nothing satisfactory to the board
 Rev Scott Cotton of the Valley Bap. tIst church at Yuma, has resie ned after a squabble with one of the dea- cons of his church, in which he came out second beet.
 | Tonsilitis has tscome epidemic m Yuma. There are many dozens oi cases, most of which are light, but several being of a severe nature. Mrs Dorothy Johns, formerly the Countess Dorothy Von Pioutkowski will deliver an address on socialism a,
 wickershsm park in Stafford. A Mexican prisoner named Vslen. xusia, working on the new territoria
 pr:son at Florence, fell of the ma chinery building one day last weel
 and broke one thigh hIs collar bon, and one arm in two places.
 ]. The application of the Peoples In dependent Telephone company for franchise to operate in the city 0
 Tempe was turned down Wednesda,
 night by a vote of three to two. | The Tucson Poet relates that . Phoenix man who bet $2 that h b could eat 24 raw eggs and drink ? f | glasses of beer within 15 minute y won his wager. His estate, however !. nov shows a loss of Sl3s for funers >eIpenses.