The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1910-01-13

Anderson of Bisbee, will meet In
wrestling bout at Bisbee on Wednes
day evening, January u.
A dispatch fram Washington, D. c.
dated January 5th, stated that Albert
Morawetz of Arizona was appointed
as consul to Leipzig.
Last Monday morning the city of
Prescott formally turned over the
Del Rio farms to Fred Harvey, who
will install an immense dairy thereon.
Five Mexican boys of Douglas left
their homes on New Years eve and
the anxious fathers and mothers have
sought the aid of officers to locate
them.
ON January 9th, Eugene O'Hare, an
engineer in the big Gold Road mill,
was electrocuted by coming in con-
tact with highly charged telephone
wire.
The Bisbee board of trade will take
steps to induce the Wells Fargo Ex-
press company to lower it rates in
sympathy with the lower freight rates
recently instituted.
December was a banner month for
the Copper Queen company at Bisbee.
During the month $4,000 tons of ore
were mined, hoisted and shipped to
the smelters at Douglas.
w. P. Payne, of the Payne Webber
company, New York brokers, has filed
an appeal in the supreme court from
the decision recently rendered in
Tucson in favor of the stockholders
of the Copper Bell, operating in Co.
chise county, against the payment of
promissory note for s2l6,000.
Thomas A. Edison, the worlds
greatest inventor, will next spring
visit the only cobalt mine in the
United States, which is located about
eight miles south of Jerome, in the
Black Hills, at the head of CIapcvipe
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An sSOO,OOO tourist hotel, six stories
high and with basement, steam heat,
elevator service, light and power
plant, and all the most modern con-
veniences, will be erected in Phoenix
by local capitalists who have formed
a stock company.
The fees collected by the territory
through the auditors Office for fling
incorporation papers amounted dur
ing the month of December, 1909, to
S3169 40. That is about $3.50 less than
was collected during the preceding
month.
William E. Beck and Miss,Francisca
Flores we're married at Tucson Satur-
day January 1st, Mr.. Beck is one of
the best known old timers in Arizona
and is better known as "Cyclone Bill"
His wife is a favorite in social circles
and has resided in Arizona since early
childhood They will live in Tucson
-Hurrah for Bill.
at is not possible for that fight to
take place here and come within the
law. I will uphold the law if it be-
comes necessary" With these words
Governor Spry of Salt Lake swept
aside all doubt of his attitude toward
the JefTries-Johnson championship
contest, and disposed of the plan of
the promoter, Tex Rickard, to stage
the fight in Salt Lake.
That Cochise county trappers and
hunters have been busily engaged
during the year just past is evidenced
by the fact that the board OF super
visors have paid out in bouuties the
sum of s41O0 for the various pelts
and hides on which a bounty is allowed
according to the statutes of this ter
kory. A total of 361S hides have
p turned into the county for
mites.
THE largest ranch deal in the his
tory of Arizona, involving approxi-
mately 100000 has been practically
in the taking over by the
Date of the late Walter Vail of all
Icae ranch interests owned by c. W.
Gates in the great corporation of Vail
and Gates. Thousands of acres of
fine land, much of it located in Pima
county, and thousands upon thousands
nGdO Ol CdIllC dlC lAhOlNCQ III lnC
Prospector.
Douglas had an earthquake tremble
Wednesday night of last week. The
tremble came at % minutes after 10
O'Clock. The seismic disturbance
was not only quite distinct but it con-
tiuued for four or five seconds or pro-
badly longer. The shock was dis
tinctly felt in the central telephone
Office, where the night hello girls
we're alarmed. A group of men
noticed the shock quite plainly in the
Gadsden hotel. According to tie
Dispatch, several of the lady guests
in the Gadsden were so alarmed that
they came down out of their rooms,
while others began calling on the
hotel telephone lines to inquire what
had happened.
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