The Winslow mail., 1911-02-11
STATE NEWS
ARIZO MA
IN BRIEF

O,oOJ III lJUU.
High prices are now being paid for
| good beef cattle in Arizona.
Twelve buildings, including the
bank, were destroyed in Winkleman
by fire.
Dave Thatcher of Miami has been
arrested in Clifton charged with en-
bezzlement.
A vein Of copper said to average 20
per cent. is reported to have been
struck on the Summit property, near
Miami.
The twenty-ninth annual communi-
cation of the Grand lodge of Arizona
A. F. G A. NJ, will convene at Tucson
on February a.
A road has been built from Lower
Miami to Warriar Switch to accommo-
date the heavy ore wagons which
make the trip to the mines.
Felix Knox was killed by band of
renegade Apaches under Na-chis, so1
of the famous chief Ca-chis, near
York's ranch in southeastern Arizona.
The Miami Copper Company will
soon start work on the new road to the
hill, which will begin at point
short distance east of the power
house.
The first semester of the Tempe
Normal school of Arizona closed Jan.
nd ha
Monday, Jan. 30, at which time many
new classes were formed.
The revolution in Mexico has Gre
ated a situation on the border in Ari-
zona which is straining the energies
of the United States marshal's office
and the immigration service.
Castle Dome mountains, near Yuma,
are attracting considerable attention
now, owing to the numerous promis-
ing gold strikes which have been made
there
Arthur Kunzie and Jim Corcoran of
Miami are the owners of a valuable
silver mine in the famous silver min
ing region near Socorro, N. NJ. The
ore assays $100 silver and $40 copper
per ton.
Governor Sloan has signed paroles
in behalf of J. N. Pemberton and
Cosme DeLeon, now serving in the
penitentiary, and Rafael Ramos and
Jose Mendez, delinquents, now attend
ing industrial school at Phoenix.
Troop 1 of the United States cavalry
arrived in Douglas from Fort Wi1gate,
N. M, and Immediately went into
camp with Troop M Of the same regi-
ment, already stationed there. Many
prominent Mexican families have ar
rived there and taken up quarters.
Wholesale murder of Chinese labor
ers by Mexicans in connection with
the smuggling of contraband Celes
tials across The border is indicated by
the story of wounded Chinese who
was found in an isolated mountain 10
cality not for from Nogales.
The Arizona and New Mexico Rail-
road Company has filed notice of an
increase in it's capital stock from 81,
100000 to $2,3OO,O00, the additional
sum to be used for extensions and bet
terments. The line runs from Lords
burg, Grant county, N. NJ, to Clifton,
! AriZ
James w. McCreery is in Washing
ton to secure legislation authorizing
! contraction of a dam for irrigation
purposes across the Colorado river in
| Arizona. Bills for this purpose passed
the Senate and House at the last ses-
sion and are now being considered by
a conference committee to adjust diff
| ferences between them.
The bodies of three Chinese. victims
of the murderous hand of Mexican
smugglers whose existence was re-
vealed by one celestial whom they
failed to kill, have been found in d
deep canon, five miles northwest of
Nogales. Sheriff Saxon of Santa Cruz
county came upon the bodies while he
was hunting for men supposed to be
members of the gang.
Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by
Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roose-
welt, will visit Arizona on March IS.
He will participate in the dedication
of the irrigation dam that bears his
name. He will spend the night at the
dam and the following day go to Mesa
and visit his son, Archie, who is at
tending school there.
Hemmed in by $50 rebels and 400
Pima Indians under Gen. SeverinO
Talamantes, who is now in command
of the insurrectOs in Sonora, Mexico
Gen. Torres, the government com
mander-in-chief is now engaged in a
desperate struggle on the tanks of the
Yaqui river, twenty-five miles below
Saurahapi, according to advices re-
ceived in Douglas.