The Winslow mail., 1911-02-25

PRESCOTT ........ 5,092 80. -.
Morenci ........ 5,010 -. 49,.
The people of Arizona approved its
constitution by about a three to one
vote.
1t is probable Douglas will get the
next meeting of the American Mining
Congress.
The President has sent to the Sen
ate the names of George O. Nolan to
be postmaster at Ray and J. o. Mullen
at Tempe.
Preparations for the reception OF
Colonel Roosevelt and party, when he
comes to Arizona in March, are rapid
lily rounding into shape.
AS a result of going into a we'll
where there was poisonous gas one
man is dead at Kelvin and two others
came near losing their lives.
At a meeting of thirty of the prin
cipal property owners of Phoenix re-
Gently arrangements were made for
paving fifteen blocks of the city's
streets.
In order to accommodate the Mesa
people who wished to see the Phoenix
Elks put on 'Toodles in Holland" the
Phoenix & Eastern ran special train
from the Gem city.
Senator Beveridge presented Sen
ate memorial from the board of trade
of Phoenix and others asking for reg
ulations for the restriction of the
spread of alfalfa leaf weevil.
Twenty thousand copies of the last
folder issued by the county commis-
sioner of immigration have been dis
tributed during the last month through
the board of trade at Phoenix.
With every resource bent to the
task, the Diaz government of Mexico
is now intent on crushing the rebels
in Chihuahua, the hotbed of revolu
tionary sentiment, according to infor
nation received at Douglas
Following orders issued by General
Schuyler, commanding the American
troops along the border, army signal
men are preparing to install field tele-
phone and telegraph systems along the
line between CaleXico, Cal, and Ell
Paso. There are now 123 signal corps
men between Douglas and Yuma.
Senator Curtis of Kansas and the In
dian Rights Association, on behalf OF
the Navajo Indians have asked that
additional allotments be made to the
Indians outside of their reservation.
The secretary of the interior has in.
formed; them that a further investiga-
ton will be made before any action
will be taken.
After a conference with President
Taft at the White House Delegate
Ralph Cameron, of the territory of Ari-
zona, stated that the territory of Ari-
zona could not become a state unit;
after the convening of the next Con-
gres. He said that the vote of the peO-
pie of Arizona on the organic act could
not be certified and filed before March
5th.
large body of ore has been de-
veloped on the United Globe property
near Phoenix. Three crosscuts have
been driven into the ore shoots on the
fourteenth level, the crosscuts averag-
ing about twenty-five feet in length.
A sample representing the full length
of the crosscut returned an average OF
seventeen per cent copper, about thir-
ty ounces in silver and $1.50 in gold.
The Senate has passed bill pro-
viding for the levy of taxes by the tax
ing of officers of Arizona, with some
amendments. The necessity for the en-
actment of this legislation arises from
the fact that there can be no session
of the Legislature of Arizona in 1911,
a proviso at the close of section twen-
ty-three of the enabling act declaring
that mo session of the Territorial Leg
islature shall be held in 1911
A special Pullman car, attached to
the Southern Pacific railroad train
bearing the ION to Washington" com
mittee, from Arizona, whose mission is
to urge statehood upon President Taft
and Congress, has gone to Washing
ton. There are twelve prominent Ari-
zona citizens in the party, both Demo
Gratis and Republicans. Among the
Democrats is G. w. P. Hart, chairman
of the late constitutional convention.
and Col. H. l.. Pickett, leading mem
Der of the Arizona bar Among the
Republicans is Charles Il. Akers, edi-
tor of the Arizona Gazette, published
at Phoenix The party is hopeful OF
success and believes it will win the
coveted statehood.