The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
STATE NEWS
ARIZONA
IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

being made at Mesa
In what, up to the very last frame,
was anybody's game, the Phoenix as
sociation team Won from Tempe by 8S
pins net on the Y. M. C. A. alleys in
Phoenix.
A bolt of lightning fired several hay
stacks on the Pushell ranch in Lehi
and hay and grain to the value Of $500
was consumed before the rain
quenched the fire.
The vacancy in the Ehrenburg post
office, which was occasioned by the
death of Postmaster S. M. Wilson, has
been filled by the appointment of
John N. Smith to the position.
The rainfall at Sacaton passed the
record for the season for given time
and yet at Casa Blanca, twelve miles
south, not trace was reported. The
rainfall at Higley and vicinity ex-
ceeded half an inch.
A new rule has gone into effect on
the Southern Pacific, under which,
on and after August 10th, all tickets
purchased east of Deming, N. M, or
Ell Paso, Tex, will be good for a ten
days stopover in Phoenix.
One-half inch of rain fell in Tempe
during the rainstorm recently, accord
ing to J. H. Cummings, who keeps a
pretty close tab on the precipitation
in that locality. The rain did not last
very long, but while it was raining it
literally came down in sheets.
Denied relief from the operation of
the ''long and short haul clause, the
Santa Fe has put into operation lower
rates on commodity and class freight
between Ell Paso, Deming and stations
north of Phoenix. 1t is much longer
by the Santa Fe from Ell Paso and
Deming to Phoenix than on the South
ern Pacific, though the Santa Fe has
always met the latter's rate.
D. H. Fitzgibbon, seventy years old
and notorious in Phoenix for wearing
an overcoat in all weathers, even when
he wore no other coat, was found dead
in his bed under several blankets,
quilts and with his overcoat spread
over all. FitzgibEon, who was without
relative there always complained of
the, cold, and it is supposed that he
3mothered himself under the heavy
coverings in the heat.
E. E. Bacon, a freighter between
Mesa and the mines in the Supersti-
tious mountains, lost his entire outfit
= y ioh hxYa
can of gasolenc being overheated by
the sun until spontaneous combustion
resulted. Before he could make an eff
fort to subdue the flames that burst
forth from his load the whole outfit
was enveloped and he saved the team
with extreme difficulty.
In opposition to the proposal to re-
duce the duties on woods and manu-
factures of wool, Delegate Cameron
of Arizona, pointed out in the course
of his speech the fact that Arizona
possessed a sheep population of one
million He called attention to the
fact that there are approximately six
ty-seven million sheep in the United
States and in that basis the due pro-
portion was contained in the territory
which he represents.
The Glendale sugar factory has this
season turned out 100000 pounds of
as fine sugar as anybody would care
to see, and before the season ends,
which will probably be in the first
week of August, 100000 pounds more
will have been made. The beet grow
ers are all getting fine returns for
their seasons work and more salts
factory season in every way could not
be asked for, either by the farmers
or by the management of the factory.
Arrivals in Prescott from Beaver
Creek in the past few days, state that
the building of the territorial highway
through that section is being rushed
with a force of 125 men and sixty
teams. The work being performed is
the most important On the route to
Flagstaff, and owing to new grade
being established, will require some
time to complete. The new road to
the Mogollon plateau diverts at Monte
zumas Well and passes up Beaver
creek on new survey, and gently
winds up the mountain on an easy
grade, avoiding the old route that goes
by Beaver Head. The latter is steep
and rough.
When the territorial highway now
in course of construction in Pine
is completed, it will be formal
ly opened by big automobile run
all over the territory where the ter
ritorial roads reach. By the time the
Southern Arizona highway is COM
oleted it is considered certain that
he north and south road will have
1een built through to the Grand Canon.
Territorial Auditor George Mauk has
made a suggestion that the call for
he run be issued by George Purdy
3ullard, president of the Maricopa