Tombstone epitaph., 1910-04-24
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF ln-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

anvas of the northern portion of the erritory.
 The Southern Pacific has begun the so. k of oiling the tracks on the sec ion between Yums and Imperial.
 The Flagstaff Lumber manufactur- ing company is building a new saw mill of large capacity in the suburbs of the mile high city.
 Miss Ida Nelgner has been selected to succeed Prof. A. H. Mcclure as of the Yuma grammar schools for the coming year.
 The walls of the new Yuma county court house have reached the second story and the framework for the tower is being put Tn place.
 Two shipments of gold from the Gold Road and Tom Reed mines m Kiugmsn district, representing recent clesnups, amounted to s67 GOO.
 The Phoenix Trades Council at a recent meeting outlined the provis- ions which organized labor will de. mand in the state constitution of Arizona.
 w. II. Bentz, union soldier in the civll war and an old-time Arizona prospector, was found dead in bed the other evening at his home in George town.
 Willie Page, colored citizen of Prescott, Is Tn jail awaiting trial for firing & number of shots promiscu ously in the Manhattan club, a resort for -colored gentlemen. the other evening
 Mrs. Jesse NJ. Lo!lins of Flagstaff has received woru from San Francisco that her only son, George F. Lollins, was serving 8 sentence of two yesrs on Alcatraz island, had been killed recently while trying to make his es- cape.
 Farmers of the Salt river valley are forming an organization for the mu- tusi banef, c. the grangers Of that district
 The iraternsl orders of B.sbee will ask that the city council issue titles to lots in Evergreen cemetery to each lodge.
 The Boston store at Douglas was entered by burglars Friday night and goods 70 the amount ni about $700 stolen.
 Mrs, Kate Warren Barrett, national president of the Florence Crittendsn mission, will visit the Phoenix insti- tuition next week.
 NJ. A. Pickett of Phoenix, and Geo. r.. Slight Of San simon, have been app ointed notaries.
 Rumor has it that the new Phoenix Buckeye railroad is to De taken over by the Southern Pac tic
 A new newspspe. for Parker. to sail under the caption of the Parker Post, will oe launched by J. F. Fl4nnigsn, late of Nevada.
 Ranchers of the San Pedro valley are experimenting with the soft shell English walnut with good indications
 i success, it Is said.
 The Arizona United Mines com pany. operating smelier and mines in the J ,hnscn district, has suspended s!i operations.
 Secretary Ballinger has set May 10 AS the date for the sale of the unen tered and nnIeserved lots in the town. -,te of Parker
 An epidemic of measles seems to he general throughout the territory. Yuma is the latest city which reports the invasion of the juvenile disorder
 in author ty on eye q seaees, in the employ of ;he government, will soon visit Arizona to study the causes Of trschoma among the Indians of the territory.
 The Southwestern Sugar & Land company announces that it will start its beet sugar factory for the season at Glendale June |. The spring beet crop in the Salt river valley is coming along fine and heavy harvest is pre- dicfed.
 Yuma county grand jurors made great fu-s the other day when they received their pay for attendance. The cleik credited them with eight days, the time the grand jury was in actual session, but they claimed paJ for eleven 1ays as the time from the date they were called until they were discharged. They made the claim stick.