The Winslow mail., 1911-02-18
STATE NEWS
ARIZON MA
IN BRIEF

Heavy rams nave tall6n over nearly
sll of Arizona and the farmers and
stockmen are delighted
Gov Sloan received a telegram re-
Gently which announced the death of
his mother, at Hamilton, Ohio.
Population statistics from Washing
ton give Bisbee 9,019, Douglas 6,437,
Globe 7,038, Morenci 5,110.
R. E. Hammond of Colorado Springs,
Colo, died in Tucson. He was the
son of San Francisco millionaire
iumberman.
A territorial association of county
assessors was recently organized at
Phoenix, at which John J. Birdno, of
Graham county, was chairman.
Delegate Cameron is urging in Con-
gress the bill he introduced last spring
providing for the sinking of expert
mental artesian wells in the territory
OF Arizona.
Mike Petrofsky, scientific garden
er who has bene employed at the
Adams ranch near Phoenix for the last
three or four years, has been taken
into custody on charge of insanity.
The Indians bill just passed in
Washington, carries an amendment by
Senator Flint of California, providing
that the Yuma Indians shall have an
e]lotment of ten acres instead of five
acres as originally proposed.
The commander of the Mexican gov
ernment troops in Aqua Prieta, across
the border from Douglas, appealed to
the United States troops on this side
for assistance in handling prisoners in
the Mexican Jail, but it was denied
Ralph Cameron, Arizona's delegate
to Washington, is of the opinion that
the constitution with the provision for
tho recall of judges, will be disap-
proved by the President. In this case
Arizona will be deprived of statehood.
The constitution was adopted by a
large majority vote.
George J. Ellison, who is in Phoenix
from the Frong Tanks section, south of
Castle Hot Springs, brings the news
that the badly decomposed body OF
a Mexican was found on the banks of
the Augua Fria, in an isolated place,
by himself and companion, Ziba Will
son, while riding the range.
The Granite Gap Mining Company
CT Douglas, Cochise county, filed in
corporation papers in Santa Fe, N. M.
The capitalization is 100000. The
directors and incorporators are Rob-
ert L. Daniel, Arthur M. Pillsbury and
John F. Downing. The New Mexico
headquarters will be at LordSburg,
Grant county.
Contractor ]. H. Maxey, who has the
construction of nine miles of the Colo
rado RIVER levee on his hands, has
large force of men and 500 mules at
work near Yuma Half of the grub
bing and clearing is done and levee
construction will proceed apace. Mr..
Maxey figures that he may complete
his contract before March 20th-cer-
tainly by the first of April.
Fred Hansen, a farmer at Wheat
fields, few miles north of Globe,
shot and killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. The shooting occurred
in the presence of children of the cou-
pie. Mrs. Hansen had brought ac-
tlon for divorce and about a month
wife. He was in Jail for time, but
reconciliation was effected and the
two had been living together again.
Although little water is encountered
as the well of the Arizona Eastern,
at Miami, attains depth, which to the
railroad company is discouraging, the
sinking of the well has been closely
watched by mineral exports and much
geological information of value con-
cerning underground formations at
this point has been secured. The
we'll is now down $50 feet and rich
metallic copper float is frequently en-
countered. The float is encountered
in conglomerate and the first speci-
mons were taken out at a depth of 250
feet. From that point the float has
increased in quantity and richness.
Some of the float taken out contains
metallic copper which will run as high
as 80 per cent.
Owing to the election machinery of
the statehood enabling act, which pro-
yides that precinct election returns
be sent direct to the territorial Sec
retary instead of being canvassed by
the county boards, nothing like COM
plete figures on the recent election on
the new constitution will be available
for at least two weeks. 1t is certain
that the constitution has been ap-
proved by vote of three or four to
Cne-perhaps by greater majority.
Only one small county, Apache, hav-
ing a sparse population, voted against
the constitution. In five out of eleven
precincts there, the vote was 176 for
the constitution to 243 against. In
the other and more populous counties
the vote ranged from about to l as
high as to l in favor of the consti-
tuition.