Tombstone epitaph., 1911-08-27
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.


 irst of October.
 Douglas will have new city band This was the decision reached st & meeting Of American musicians helo there Thursday night. Organization will pr oceed at once, and subscription among the merchants will be taken for the purchase of uniforms and in- struments.
 Affairs at the Salt River and Mc- | DoweIl Indian reservation, according | to reports received are in an improved condition and are now in better shape | than they have ever been before in the history of the reservation. At meeting of the territorial board of education held Thursday in Phoenix it WAS decided to send John Norman, aged ii, who is totally deaf, and little blind girl named Hirsom, who lives in Douglas, to the Cshf- ornis institute for the deaf, dumb and blind at Berkely.
 | H. Y. Tailor, of the chamber of commerce, has leen appointed sssis- tsnt in Pima county to W. w P. Mcconnell, government statistical agent for Arizona.
 His duty will be to gather statistics regarding crop yields. tbe cattle in dustry and a live stock report gener- ally. This will be included in the territorial report which MT McConell will compile for the information of the department Of agriculture.
 An eigbteen-hour dance or "pas- quale," was held at Tucson hy the Ysqui Indians of Bsrio Libre in cele- hration of the harvest season. The dancing and ite attendant fessting commenced at noon Saturday. lasted without intermission until Sunday morning. Young corn, vegetables and beet formed the essentials Of the feast, while much vine stimulated both the ieasting and the dancing. The Ysquis applied early for an officer 10 stand guard over their celebration -u that the tnuIr riotous ones might be restrained from sudden violence.
 ; John Johns Papngo Indi.D whom seven tribesmen swore positively killed another Indian. while seven other witnesses swore just AS positively that the murder was committed by an Indian named Citsno. will be released from the penitentisry September Ii. It was he V hom the jury finally con 'ict- d ,snd he was seut tenced to the peniten. tiary in 1908 u 6 term of 10 years.
 John Whiting, who met with the fatal accident st the Whiting Saw Mill at St. Johns. on the evening of the 9th irst. passed peacefully away on the morning Of the I2th.
 | Grandma Callahan who is aged about Ss years, and who has been resident of Benson since its early days, now lies seriously i'll at her home in the junction town.
 The union men Of Flagstaff are making great preparations for the doIngs on Labor Day, Sept 1.
 John Msssing has been awarded government contract 10 supply W hip- p!e Barracks with !o75 .oas c. coal. l party Of summer tourists left Pres colt this week for an overland trip via~Camp Verde and Flagstaff for the Grand Canyon. The party Is made | up of Mir. and Mrs. Wm E. Sawyer, Mrs. W. A. Weston and daughter, Mrs. 5. 0. Green, Miss May Camp. Dr. John NJ. Criley died last Sun day, at Fosters, Ohio, of cancer of the stomach. He left Phoenix las, May for a visit with relatives in Ohio.
 H. A. Goodwin has received license from the board of supervisors of Yuma county to conduct a saloon at the foot of Black mountain. about five miles from Parker, just across the southeast line of the reservation, which is also the Parker precinct line.
 At the public mass meeting held last Saturday iu Psrser, the question Of admitting Indian pupils n the public school was settled in the negative.
 Louie L Burns and D. Daniels of Los Angeles are in Flagstaff this week in the interest of the Co-Operative Film Manufacturing Company. The gentlemen went tout to the Clif Dwellers ruins the latter part of last week where they succeeded in secur- b ing 6 most excellent film of the ruins I which will be shown all over the f, il A large number of Adventists from b be southern part of the territory, To