The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
STATE NEWS
ARIZONA
IN BRIEF

held in Tempe April to 8, inclusive.
Gov. Sloan has appointed Miss Laura
Olive Dobbs of Tempe. notary pub
lie.
H G.. Beck, of Miami met with a,
painful accident on Wednesday when
he fractured his ankle.
The mines at Silyerbell and Tomb
stone are reported as being in. a very
prosperous condition.
Delegate Cameron has introduced u
resolution in the House for the ap-
proval. of the Arizona constitution.
The Chautauqua opens at Phoenix
on the evening of April 22nd at the
Elks theater with a splendid musical
attraction
This winter will go down as a rec
ord breaking season for rabbit hunt
ers. For the first time in d number of
years the use of ferrets was allowed.
William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill for-
mally announced his; candidacy for the
United States senatorship from Arizo-
no, in lecture being delivered in
Philadelphia.
w. P. McNair,. chairman Of the Ari-
Eona railway commission, is i'm Phoe-
nix to assist with such work of the
commission as may require his atten-
ton and to- confer with Secretary De-
Pass.
The hoodoo that has always accom-
panied the Mama ball team to Globe
was with them recently when they los-
a ten-inning game by a score of to. A,
the winning run being made in the
tenth with two out.
The Arizano Marble Company of
Bowie are doing great deal
of development work in their
quarries and a belief exists that
some day Arizona will be one OF
the greatest marble producing states
in the Union.
Levees for the control of the Colora-
do river in Lower California have
been completed and the grading stock
and equipment taken into Mexico from
the United States has been withdrawn.
The levees are in all twenty-one miles
long.
In duel on the outskirts of Mo,
renci, Ariz., Constable Len Scott and
Night Watchman George Johnson both
were killed. An old feud between the
| two men was due to Johnson's ar
rest by Scott five years ago on a
charge Of cattle theft
The "Phoenician" is the Phoenix
high school official paper 1t has only
been issued once, which was last
spring, and that edition was certainly
a credit to the school From a typo
graphical, literary and pictorial stand
poitn, it was triumph.
The coroner's jury at Phoenix, at
the inquest of Mrs Jesus M. RodrI
guez directly charged her husband
with her murder by finding that her
death was the result of pistol shot
wounds inflicted upon the deceased by
her husband, Francisco Rodriguez"
The Mesa country now has it's third
ostrich farm. w. J. Clemans, who
has a. large ranch south of Mesa is
the third to enter the ostrich business.
He purchased of Dwight B. Heard Of
! Phoenix eight pair Of the magnificent
birds, four old pair, and three young
pair.
The arrest of an American, carry
ing messages from General Blaneo 60
Juan Cabral, caused the overthrow OF
the mayor of the city of Huepec, Mex
| leo. and as a result that official has
! left his authority behind him and has
crossed the border to find protection
under the American flag.
A political discussion on the ranch
of the Greene Cattle Company, near
! Hereford, twenty miles from Bisbee,
between two vaquerOs, Ricardo Garcia
and Refugio Encinas, was ended when
Encinas who is said to have been
political refugee from Mexico, drew
revolver and shot Garcia, a loyalist,
to death
The recent slump in the price OF
Sesh eggs has caused the farmers in
| the vicinity of Tempe considerable wor-
ry. and rather than unload the prod
ucts of their henneries on low mar.
ket they are considering the construc-
| ton of a cold storage plant Where tne
eggs may be laid away until prices
pick up again.
Recent speeches Ola the recall, as
embodied in the Arizona constitution,
which applies it to judges, and made
by former President Theodore Roose-
welt and Attorney General Wicker
sham, have served to call attention
to the fact that this question is gong
to be much discussed in the extra
session of Congress.
Firmly convinced that they have
gold mine which will outrival the Gold
field Consolidated, M. Groedel and A.
7. Luoues are now in Phoenix making
ARRANGEMENTS to lease or bond theif
property, which is located seventy-si&
miles southwest of Tucson in the
Oceanic district. Their own opinion
of their prospect is borne out by Phil
10 Wiseman of the Guggenheim inter
ests, and other mining experts.