Tombstone epitaph., 1910-02-06
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF iN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.


 The award was tentatively made to | the Des Moines Bridge X Iron Works ! at s3i95
 A meeting of Salt River Vall+y farmers was held Thursday evening for general conference concerning the marketing of valley products. It is planned to form an association for the purpose of iurthering the interests of the farmers in securing better mar kets and better cooperation in sup plying them.
 The Salt River Valley bank of Phoe- nix has offered a gold medal as prize tor oratory among high school students. It will be contested .or by Miss Arizona Johnson of the Athe. neum society and George Pedkins of the Alethoriap
 It is reported from the offices of the reclamation service that water will be distributed to lands lying under the Eastern canal at Mesa soon after Feb. l.
 Duncan is to have a rural telephone system in the near future. the materials having already been ordered. , Connections will be made with exist ing long distance lines.
 A very promising body of ore, show ing 75 per cent lead values, Sl0 in gold and 90 ounces in silver has been discovered by NJ Roland on his prop. erty adjoining the Button group of mines on Minnehaha Flat, Yavapai | county,
 The Scottish Rite Masons conferred 1 the thirtieth degree upon a mum Der of candidates at Tucson Wednesday evening.
 | The directors of the Aero club of Phoenix are endeavoring to get a regiment of the soldiers stationed a. Fort Whipple to attend the three days | aviation maet.
 1 EW Walker and c Phillips were sentenced to pay fine of S20O each and spend 30 days in the city jail for having sold liquor in Tucson without license.
 Plans are being formulated for an all day iestivity at the Phoenix | Country club on February ?. A golf tournament will be held and the finals of a..tennis tournament will be played, the preiT mary mstches to be played several days before hand.
 By an unanimous vote of the Ray [ Chamber Of Commerce has accepted the terms Of the Overland Teleph ne company to connect Ray with their system. Work will be commenced at once and probably completed within 60 days.
 l An unknown man rented room from Mrs. Oliver, proprietress of a rooming house st Bisbee last week, and in the morning he was missing, as were also the bed clothes, and the room rent was unpaid. There will be special rates to Phoe- nix rum all points for the aviation meet, Feb. lG, II and F. l J. M. Coplen, miner who vas still stranger in Tucson, was lured to the outskirts of the city on .some pretext by pair of new-fouud friends and there iorcibly robbed of all his money, S6S
 James Daley, the Mesa eloper, is now being held on two charges, first of abduction with criminal pun poses and second of criminal intimacy with the young girl he abducted. He was un. able to furnish the bail, which amounts to 5000 for the two charges, and will wait n iail until tbe grand jury meets for the March term of court.
 The body of Thomas Mason was ound lying beside the Southern Pa cIfic tracks 'n Tucson near the round house. and his death is believed to be due to alcoholism, as he had been drinking heavily and there were no marks of violence upon his body. He appeared to be B or 40 years old and was 8 stranger, the only means ni identification being his miners union card.
 A strenuous hobo burglar was | arrested at Msricops for the theft of an overcost, and when Immigration Inspector Cronin placed him in iail he handcuffeI the prisoner and put leg irons upon him, fastening the latter by means of chain to & staple in the floor. But the prisoner fed before morning, taking with him all