The Winslow mail., 1911-01-07

state constitution.
Salt River valley of Arizona, grows
the finest peanuts in the world
The nineteenth annual meeting of
the Arizona Teachers Association and
Joint county institute was held in
Douglas, December 9th
Ending relentless search of nearly
two years, G. Nj. Myers, alias Roy ].
! Smith, alias R. J. Myers, wanted in
Prescott for forgery, has been cap
! tured.
For the first time in the history, the
! United States government is shortly
| to take notice of the ostrich Industry
in Arizona and issue a pamphlet about
the big bird.
AS result of the election held in
Phoenix recently, the voters approved
of the proposition to purchase the eX-
listing sewer system by vote of near
ly two to one.
Through the carelessness of some
| Toys who started a fire in Phoenix,
in Library park, one of the stately
palms on the west side of the grounds
was completely destroyed.
At Harrington, in the Bradshaw
mountains, recently, an assault was
made by Joe Veleria, an Italian, on a
oountryman, that will probably result
i'll the latter losing his life.
J. H. Girand, territorial road engi-
neer, has returned to Phoenix from
Bisbees and Douglas and says that
work on the south end of the terri
torial road is now well under way.
According to the statistics of the
agricultural department, Imperial val
ley of Arizona, will produce 5000
pounds of cotton per acre planted,
which is more than other states can
do.
The directors of the Calumet and
Arizona, Superior and Pittsburg Cop
per Companies of Bisbee, at the meet
ing in Chicago, completed plans for
the consolidation of the two big min
ing concerns.
The Tucson division of the Southern
Pacific took first place in competition
with eight other divisions of the Pa
cific coast system in the annual sys-
tenn inspection made recently by
number of officials of the Southern
Pacific.
Friends in Albuquerque of Arch
deacon julius W. Atwood, of Phoenix,
have received invitations to be pres
ent at Trinity Church, Boston, OH
January 10th, at which time he will
be consecrated as bishop of the Epis-
Copal Church.
In the Riverside mountains, about
eighteen miles from Parker, there is
intense excitement over gold strike
which is said to be the most important
made in that section in years The
property is owned by the Calzona
Mines Company.
While riding the range fifty miles
from Globe, Ariz., recently, Walter
Williams, foreman of the Chiricahua
Cattle Company, was fired upon by
larty of Apache Indians, whom he sur
prised in the act of killing beef Will
Iams returned the fire and one Indian
fell
/ No order was made by Judge Kent
Of Phoenix, in the segregation case in
which a negro resident named Sammy
Eayless sought to enjoin the Board
of Education from compelling the at
tendance of colored children at the
West Madison street school, which is
reserved for children of the African
race.
District Court for Navajo county has
ended, disposing of one of the largest
calendars in recent years. During
the term there were eight important
criminal cases, in which five cOnvic-
tons were returned and the guilty
men sentenced and taken to the peni-
tentiary. Two murder cases also were
called, but went over until the next
term of court.
J. E. Russell, attorney of Prescott,
who has returned from attending
court at HolbrOok, states that cons1d-
cradle interest is prevailing in that
town over the placing recently of an
engineer corps in the field, engaged
IN running a preliminary line of sur
yey for a railroad and which is gath
oring data of the industrial resources
of the country through which it will
pass.
Late developments in the plans of
the Chuckawalla Development Com
pany lead to the belief that the COM
pany plans to provide system for
the irrigation of the reservation lands
in the vicinity of Parker. Heretofore
the company has disclaimed any in
tention of that sort, but recent events
seem to demonstrate the fact that If
10 such intention had existed before
certainly there must be some such
plan now, for work in which the COM
pany is now engaged seems to assure