Tombstone epitaph., 1910-04-17
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lh-
 TEREST CONDENSED.


 school who makes the best record the present term.
 E l,worth Huntington, Ph. D, as- sistant professor ID geography a, Yale university, will deliver series oi three lectures at the University of Arizona this week.
 The first baby ostrich to be hstched in Yuma county pecked through the shell the other day on ranch near Yuma. after being in an incubator forty two days.
 Tempe Normal board hss elected Pres dent Matthews, making his term of office indefinite as a compliment 10 the manner in which he had conduct. ed the institution. Two carloads of citrus trees from Florida were turned down by the Ari. ora Horticultural commission on ar ivine in Phoenix the other day on the ground that they were infested with the dreaded mealy bug. The Nogales board of trade has taken up the matter of building good wagon road from that city to the Altar mining district, where consid- erahIe activity in evidence just now.
 The mines of Arizona produced 29l. s.CO0 pounds of copper during the past year. The entire mineral product of ti,e territory fnr the gear is valued &, $i2,29l ,2sl.
 Thir,y-ive slsnt-eyed CeIestisis are now awaiting deportation in the fed eral prison at Tucson, charged with be,ng in the United States illegally.
 In the last eleven weeks Sl ,C0J of the Phoenix Y. NJ. c. A. fund has been collected 4 little over f43 600 of the subscribed Sl03,00 is s:ill out standing
 While attempting to talk over the long distance telephone to San Fran cisco the other day. Walter Singleton, an escaped lunstic from the territorial asylum, was arrested and taken back to the bug house.
 1 The Pima county grand jnry will convene on April 25, with an unusu- ally large number Of cases to be con sidered.
 Tempe has ten teams engaged in hauling gravel from the river bed to be used in the improvement of hei streets.
 Between thirty and forty men have been put to work on the canal of the Palomas Land & Irrigation company, on the Gila rIyer.
 l John Neville, formerly a resident of Prescott, was killed in Fresno the other day in a shooting .tfrsy over s woman of the tenderloiu.
 After 8 suspension of more than a year and half, work has besn re- s1med on the Jerome Verde Copper company mines in Ysvapai county, Seventeen carrier boys from the force of the Phoenix Gazette were ar. rested and taken to the police sta. tion the other day charged ty Eugene ] Brady O'Neil with stealing his buggy whip. They were discharged after fstberl, talk from the court. J. D. Loper, superInte ndent of the Phoenix public schools, recommends the expenditure of s2.OO0 for repairs on the Central school build :ng, say ing that the building of a new home Tor the school at the present time is unnecessary.
 Representatives of the Knights of Columbus are in Prescott looking fer 6 suitable site for the erection of the prog 1sed SI00, % national sani,ar.um of the lodge. They will visit rucson, Bisbee a:.d Douglas. which towns are bidding for the institution. Tomb stone also offers special inducements
 Acting upon suggestion contained in an snony nous letter, Phoenix su. thorities pried up the floors in the rooms of Roy Welch, the young man accused of robbiDg six stores. in the hope of finding further deposits of loot, but were disappointed in their search.
 Eighteen Arizona mines paid in dividsDds for the fret quarter of 1910 the snug sum of l,477 ,590.
 Col. l.. W. Powell denies the cur. rent report that he has resigned his position of general manager of the Calumet < Arizona mines at Bistee
 Governor Spry of Utah, accompa- Died by he wife, sas in Phoenix lsst [ week. looking after some Arizona