Tombstone epitaph., 1910-08-28
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF IN.
 TEREST CONDENSED.

Castle Hot Springs, has been in Phoe. nix for several days outlining i'm. provements. Among the more im- portsnt work is the enlsrging o: the ice and cold storage service and other lesser changes to be made in the sc- comDodations. The date fer the opening of this resort is set for No, vember l of this year.
 Gils county democrats in msss meeting assembled. following the ex- ample set by Maricops democrats by voting 10 instruct their delegates to the constitutional convention to sssnd | for a constitution providing for in- itiative, referendum. recall and direct | primaries. M. Kinchsls, general manager of the Arizona Metsls company, has re- ceivsd word from his company in ne" York to prepare for active develop. ment work in the near future. The company owns . nun Der of elaine in ! the DosCs bezas mountains. The regular term of the Northern Arizona Normal school opened Aug ust 18th at Flsg.taf. ana the pros poets for a large attendance through- out the year every flsttering. Henry Adams and Gail Gardner. two young men of Prescott. are back
 from three weeks outing to the
 northern part of the territory. and
 accom- plished the interesting feat of
 ascending the San Francisco peaks,
 near Flagstsi. reaching the elevation
 of 3,s2o feet.
 It is reported that the annual
 budget of the Southern Pacific con-
 psny includes an appropriation of
 sl50. 600 for the con,t,uc ion O. rail-
 road shops at Phoenix.
 Governor Sloan hss issued requsi.
 ton papers for Thomas F. Rucker, in
 accordance with . request from the
 governor of Arkansas. The papers
 were forwarded to Sheriff Livingstone
 of Yuma county, and it n supposed
 that Rucked has been apprehended I IL ,. kA ha tal A
 kansas on an embezzlemsnt charge.
 Charged with having robbed dead of s60, several suits of clothing and
 valuable watch. Manuel sopez has
 been arrested at Douglss. Othcere throughout the southwest have been seeking the man for the past several | weeks.
 The Walnut creek region. nesr Prescott, was inundated by several cloudbursts within the past few dave, and . considerable property loss wac suffered by the farmers in that locsl- ity. Entire crops were buried under ssnd ard debris. The rainr were the heaviest ever experienced in the Wal- nut creek district.
 The county tax rate for the Globe district for the coming year wac fixed at 8. 25 per SlO0 of assessed vslua- tion by the county board of super visors.
 The long repressed feeling against the liquor traffic Tn the Gila valley came to sudden end this week when . petition, signed by many residents of Ssfford, was filed with the county supervisors, asking that an election be called to vote on local option.
 The board of supervisors of Mari | copa county has ordered by epecial levy 25 on each SlO0 of valuation for the purpose of raising &42, 900 for the construction of . bridge scross the Salt river at Tempe.
 Charged with picking s lock and purloining $l0irom the sheriff's office at Phoenix, Red" Hamilton. c fam. ilisr figure around that office, has been locked up in jail. Red" has done time in the past for numerous petty offenses snd the officers cleim to have the goods on him.
 The Little Daisy mine ot the United Verde extension is to be listed on the Boston exchange within short time.
 Within the next two weeks that portion of the Prescott-Phoenix terri torisl highway, lying between Prescott and Groom City. will be thrown open 10 the public. Work on this project is 1, progressing in an entirely satisfactory manner.
 While prospecting in the Ajo of Sonora, George Dunn discovered the skeleton of man who . to all appearances must have succnm. , med come fifty years ago. probably be. lore the civil war. Beside the body was found an old muzsls loading