The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

organized.
Only Arizona, Utah and Nevada beat
Colorado in the yield per acre of bar
ley.
Supervisor A. H. Kent of Yuma lost
his fine Percheron stallion, valued at
$500
Peacock, aged thirty-one, one of the
oldest horses in the West is dead at
Bisbee.
number of cases of measles are
scattered about Flagstaff The cases
reported are in mild form.
Arizona territory is very prosperous,
its mineral production last year was
something over s42,00O,000.
Joe Breton, aged about eighty-four
years, we'll known miner and pros
pector, died in Prescott recently.
A railroad for Holbrook which will
pass through the coal fields in that
section is being figured on and sur
veyed for.
Pat BOYLE, a miner who has been
working at Twin Buttes for the past
two months, was shot and killed re-
Gently at Tucson.
A black bear nearly eight feet in
length, and weighing in the neighbor-
hood of 800 pounds was placed en- ex-
hibftion in Tucson.
Arizona Legislature has nineteen
senators and thirty-five representa-
tives at 81 per day. Per day, 1878,
,ix lo,r
Augustus C. Brichta, a veteran Of
the Mexican war, former recorder of
Pima county, and the first school
teacher in Tucson, is dead.
Lee Huffman and Archer Jordan of
Yuma are home from the Big Eye
mine. They report that the tunnel
through the ledge has been started.
Humboldt has a small building
boom and the confidence in the per-
manency of the operating of the smeI-
ter is giving confidence to the people.
c. S. Howard, one of the Oldest of
old pioneers of that vicinity, being
ninety-two years of age, is reported as
being seriously i'll, in Yeager canon.
Within the next four weeks, the
board of trustees of the Phoenix high
school, expects to be in possession OF
the completed plans for the new build
ings.
Although the taxable assessment Of
Arizona is almost twice as much as
that of New Mexico, the former has on
ly thirteen National banks while the
latter has forty-one.
The Douglas officers who are work
ing on the cattle rustling cases are
getting evidence which shows that
gang of at least ten have beeen oper
ating. Several arrests have been
made.
At Chihuahua, Mexico, Gus Monroe
and Joe Sooma, both known in Ari-
Zona, quarreled over game of cards.
Each man emptled his slx-shooter at
the other and both passed in their
checks.
Arizona and her constitution are re-
ceiving little attention at Washington
according to Theodore Phillips, the
we'll known mining man of Phoenix
and Winkleman, who has just re-
turned from the East.
Arizona has provided one Judge for
each county and the constitution fixes
the salary as based on population.
Provision also is made that in counties
having over $4,000 population addi-
tional judges may be elected.
Because she would not get up and
give him some medicine several
nights ago, Antonio Tecolote, a Yaqui
Indian, near Tucson, crushed in his
wife's head with a hammer and then
buried her, head downward, in the
yard
George Myers, a miner of Phoenix,
shot and killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. After being wounded
by one bullet, Mrs. Myers was run
ming from the house when a second
shot struck her and she fell, dying on
the sidewalk.
contract has been let for the
building of thirteen miles of road be-
ginning at Prescott and running south
along the west slope of Mount Union.
Being in mountain region, the cost
of this road is necessarily high, being
approximately $4,000 per mile.
Arizona's constitution provides for
three Supreme Court judges at $4,000
per annum, $4,000; five superior court
judges, at $4,000 per annum, 100000;
one superior court judge at $500 per
annum, s3,500; eight superior court
judges at $4,000 per annum, $4,000;
total $62,500.
The Montezuma college, to be es-
tablished at Las Vegas hot springs,
San Miguel county, n. NJ, by the Pres
byterian church of New Mexico and
Arizona, has filed Incorporation pa.
pers The Santa Fe Railway company
has given the proposed college the
100000 hotel and grounds at hot
springs.