The Winslow mail., 1911-03-04
STATE NEWS
ARIZONA
IN BRIEF

Ohui NdIAey IeCelVou comparatively
little snow.
Constable William Stephens of Mi
ami has been arrested on an alleged
charge of bribery.
Wickenburg had what is believed to
be the heaviest snowfall in the his
tory of the place.
has been visiting Prescott, looking
over the mining field.
1t is estimated that over 10000
head of sheep were sheared this win
ter at Beardsley, Ariz.
Twenty pioneers have applied to
enter the Pioneer home at Prescott.
The home will hold forty
Grant Vanhoose of Ordway, Colo,
has been appointed irrigation inspect
or, with station at Tucson, Ariz.
1t is certain that out of 10000 votes
cast at the recent election for the ap-
proval of the constitution, less than
1000 are against it.
Thousands of sheep are being
shipped from New Mexico to southern
Arizona ranges to fatten, owing to
lack of feed in New Mexico.
Thousands of acre feet will be added
to the stored water in the Roosevelt
reservoir when the snow that fell gen
orally over the watershed is melted.
Arizona maintains prison, an asy
lum for the insane, an industrial
school, a home for aged and infirm
pioneers, a university and two nor.
NAL schools.
Eduardo Perez was taken to Flor
ence from Prescott last week, and will
be executed there April 21st for the
murder of a Mexican named Chacon
at Congress last August.
The Fourth cavalry has been trans
ferred to the Mexican border from
Fort Meade, S. D., and are stationed at
points along the southern borders Of
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
The Yavapai board of supervisors
have established kitchen in the coun-
ty Jail to feed prisoners. They con-
cluded it would be cheaper than let
ting contracts for feeding them.
Five Mexicans at Williams were ar
rested for petty larceny and sentenced
to forty days in Jail. They stole cloth
ing from Joe Blumberg's store while
the clerks were engaged in another
part of the store.
The people of Yuma are up in arms
against the Consolidated Telephone &,
Telegraph Company, owing to the an
nouncement that they would increase
rates. A mass meeting was called to
consider the matter.
''Dan," the fireman dog, at Douglas,
who always ran to fires with the en-
gine, jumped through an open second
story window at the sound of the fire
alarm recently and was killed. The
door to the stairway happened to be
locked, leaving the window the only
means of exit.
At Powell, small station on the
Santa Fe near the Colorado river
bridge, section boss who had been
troubled by petty thieving at his shack
arranged trap with gun behind it.
A hobo named Marrone, in attempting
to break in the house, touched off
the trap and was killed
The bill to allow the territory of
Arizona to levy taxes during the en-
forced inactivity of the Arizona Legis-
lature, due to the clause of the enab-
ling act which stated that mo session
of the Arizona Legislature shall be
held in 1911" has passed both the
House and the Senate, and now only
awaits the signature of the President
to become law.
Paved streets for Phoenix are a GER
tainty. No longer any doubt remains
as to the question of whether or not
Phoenix will have paved streets. At
an enthusiastic meeting at the Valley
bank, fifteen business men, who rep
resent the downtown district, the
paved street matter was thoroughly
discussed and preliminary steps taken
for paving at an early date.
1t had been decided by those inter
ested in the good roads movement to
ask Congress for an appropriation of
100000 for two new concrete bridges
one over the San Carlos and the 9th
er over the Gila. Those bridges will
form part of the proposed extension
of the territorial highway from Globe
to the Arizona-New Mexico line by
way of Pima, Thatcher, Stafford, Solo
monville and Clifton.
Three-year-old Leonard Chesser was
shot and fatally wounded at Stafford,
by bullet from 22 calibre rifle, fired
from the gun while in the hands of his
brother, Floyd, aged 5 years. The
shot took effect in the head
A delegation Of prominent citizens
of Arizona, in Washington to further
the cause of the ratification Of the
constitution for the new
state of Arizona have expressed con-
fidence that the President would send
it to Congress with his approval, as
he did the proposed constitution of
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