The Winslow mail., 1911-05-06
STATE NEWS
ARI Q MA
IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF

of statehood.
The Verde Valley Fruit Growers
Association will try organized or CO.
operation business again this season.
Word has reached Phoenix of the
death at San Diego of j. e. Hurlurt
who for five years lived north of that
city.
Drifting west from the 700-foot sta
ton in the shaft on the Jerome-Verde
Copper Companys property has been
started.
Former residents of Kentucky who
now reside in Arizona will soon hold
state picnic An organization has been
formed.
About fifty boilermakers in the en-
ploy of the United Verde Copper
Company of Phoenix have gone on
| strike.
Recently the local option people of
Maricopa county succeeded in closing
every saloon in that county, outside of
Phoenix.
There is every reason to believe, ac-
cording to all reliable reports from
Washington, that Arizona will be adj
mitted to the Union during the pres
ent sitting of Congress-
The meeting of the Development
Board of Arizona in Douglas will be
held May 13 instead of May 6 as pre-
viously announced, and it is expected
| Governor Sloan will attend and deliver
an address.
The United Verde mines at Jerome
will add much new machinery in the
near future Another turbine engine
of the latest model will also be added.
There is a plan on foot to move the
smelter from it's present location.
At the Hull, at jerome, Foreman
Pender reports good progress, and
that they are continuing to DRIFT
through the kind of formation miner
likes to work in. A formation that
only occurs where ore is near at hand
Before a large audience that COM
fortably filled the Elks' theater, DR..
Frederick A. Cook, second attraction
in the Phoenix Chautauqua series, told
the story of his adventures in the Arc
tic and why he believes that he
reached the pole.
DR.. F. Shoemaker, specialist in the
treatment of tuberculosis, and j. F.
Singleton, an expert photographer.
both in the employ of the Indian Serv-
ice are in Phoenix and will make that
place headquarters for a week or so,
during their activities in that vicinity.
At the Arkansas and Arizona the
foundations for the new machinery
have been completed, and they are
impatiently awaiting its arrival. All
of the machinery ordered has been on
the road for a couple of weeks, and
its arrival in Jerome is expected daily
Pursuant to the instructions of the
grand lodge of Odd Fellows at its re-
cent meeting in Globe, a special ses-
sion of that body was held in Phoenix
| for the purpose of installing as grand
master A. A. Ferguson of Douglas, who
could not attend the grand lodge ses-
sion at which he was elected.
The Saurer motor truck, for which
] the entire population of Globe has
| been looking for the last two weeks,
| has arrived A. L. Westgard, who rep
resents the United States office OF
public roads, the Touring Club Oh
America, and the Automobile Blue
Book. is in command of the exped.-
ton
In order to keep down the dust
which always arises during the dry
season, the Southern Pacific company
has begun spraying it's main line
track between Phoenix and Los An
geles. Two crews are already at work,
one on the west end of the Tucson
division, between Gila Bend and Yuma,
and the other on the west end of the
Los Angeles division, near the Salton
Sea.
That the Northern Arizona Baseball
league will not tolerate breach of faith
on the part of any player who signs
for the season with any club, was
demonstrated at Flagstaff recently
when President w. Alvord suspend
ed John Campbell for noncompliance
with the rules. Information TO this ~
feet was received by LindeI, treasurer
CT the Prescott club.
The Santa Fe railroad must make
answer to a complaint alleging 100 vio-
lations of the federal law limiting the
hours of continuous labor on the part
of train and engine crews. The pa
pers in the suit have been forwarded
from Tucson by United States Attor-
nev Morrison to the United States
Court at Precott All the alleged in
fractions of the law are said to have
taken place on the Arizona divisions
of the system during the last winter.
The court is asked in the complaint TO
penalize the railroad in the aggregate
sum of $4,000. The law fixes the max
imum days work for train crew at
sixteen hours and requires rest OF
at least ten hours in all cases where
the maximus service has been exacted'