Bisbee daily review., 1910-02-02
Brief Arizona Notes

Mesa Free Press. Clarence Giles
pne this morning accidentally shot
himself in the face with an airgtn.
He was fooling with the gun when il
was discharged, the ball lodging IN
the CHEEK bone just under The eye. \
short distance higher up and the BOY
would have lost an eye
Winslow Mail. The local Santa Fe
lire brigade was called out Tuesday
afternoon to extinguisb a fire ON
switch engine No. 212e. The damage
was confined to the woodwork in the
cab Monday night while standing In
the round house. passenger engine No.
1871 sustained similar loss by fire
from unknown origin.
Mesa Free Press The Queen Creek
Development Co, have struck some
fine wells cut on the ranches where
they have been working with their
new well drilling machinery. In ses-
eral places where they have put down
16-inch well from I35 10 $50 feet.
they have struck a flow of good. pure
water which rises TO a height OF 81
feet, although they have not gotten
down to the boulder formation.
Florence Tribune: NJ company. ma
tional guards of Arizona. was organ
ized here Wednesday evening Dy Maj
| Carl Hayden of Poenix. and Lieut..
Harris. of Tempe Something over
forty men were enlisted and sworn in.
| Sheriff McGee was elected captain
Deputy Ranger Thompson. first lieut-
| ent; s. w. Dougherty. second lieuten-
| ant. The equipment for the company
Is now on the way here and the Off
GERS expect to be ready for active drill
i work within a week or ten days.
Prescott Courier: Anticipating good
crops this year the farmers of Skull
valley are cultivating more land than
| any time since the settlement Of the
| valley. This was learned last night
from Alfred Stapp of that section who
returned home after transacting bust.
1 ness here yesterday. More winter
! wheat is being planted than ever be
fore and almost the entire valley from
Kirklasd to the DEVILS Gate will be
under cultivation by early spring.
Mr.. Stapp said The ground is thor
oughly soaked by the recent storms
and rains and in excellent condition
for ploughing."
William News: To escape from be
ing scalded to death by escaping
steam from a burst steam pipe, Fire
man Paul Yoder jumped from the en-
gine of the Grand Canyon train No. Il
Friday noon. while it was standing il
the yards here. breaking his leftles
at the ankle joint His left wrist wai
hurt, too. but not badly Fireman Yc
t, der opened a valve in preparations e
fill the boiler with water when Th'
, steam pipe leading from the boiler Il
the injector burst He says that h
| either jumped or was blown off by tn
escaping steam He was picked N
and carried to the Williams hospital
An unknown man was lying fac
downward near the tracks west G
Winslow last week with marks of
blunt instrument on his head and hi
: feet badly frozen. He died at the hos
pital without regaiuing consciousness
His pockets were empty and II is b'
!, lieyed tat he was robbed and then lei
for dead. His right forearm wa
tatooed with the figure of a woma
and a dove
Augusta Pingree, an eight year oil
child of Winslow was accidental,
: shot with a % calibre rifle In til
! hands of six year old playmate
: ! week ago. The bullet entered the al
e domen and recovery was thought
= be very doubtful.
l. ]. +. Jones. who has edited an
l. published the Flagstaff Gem for man
Ie years. has sold the plant to A. L. BE
): tersworth of Hollister. Cal. and WI
II devote his entire time to his law bu
N mess.
O. The first Chinese baby ever bon
ar in Flagstaff arrived at the home
Mr.. and Mrs. Loui Show last Tuesda