Tombstone epitaph., 1911-06-25
TERRITORIAL ITEMS oF N.
 TEResT CONDENSED.

At Lees Ferry, the Lees Ferry Placer company is putting in Che lat" est and best machinery for placer work and pro6tsble results will soon fol- low.
 W P McNsir uf the Arizona rsil- | road commission has been elected l president of the Douglas Chsmber of Commerce and Mines Before his | appointment, NIT McNair was secre- ,ary of the Chamber. For several years past he has been prominent in republican ranks in Arizona.
 Harry Mitchell. pioneer citizen. miner and prospector of Pima! county, died in Florence few days ago and was buried by the Carpenters union, of which he was . member in good standing
 About thirty men arc burning bricks and working on the nes Cath ollie school building at Flagstafi. The Jerome News says that the Verde Valley railroad is no longer . myth, as news is abroad that the right of way is all stsked through the valley and notices posted along the route. Presumption is that the road
 will be built from Phoenix up through Camp Verde, striking Jerome near the Jordan ranch.
 In Globe, few days ago 2 Mexican
 stood outside . cabin and with re-
 volver fired upon . Mexican man and
 woman inside the cabin, killing the
 man, fatally wounding the woman,
 and then turning the pistol inflicted
 wound upon himself. Jealousy wss
 the cause.
 The two Despair boys, who were
 bitten by a bydraphobis skunk, May F
 at Joseph City left last week for Pssa.
 dens, California, to take the Pssteul , treatment.
 4 At Fort Whipple, Quartermaster ' Sergeant Walters has opened bids and , forwarded them to Washington fo, } putting 6 woven wire and Cedar poe,
 fence around the government. rife
 range st Point of Rocks. the estimst- ed cost of the work being about &7O0f Andrew Johnson, . Coconino coun. siy resident for 2i yesrs and . native
 of Norway, aged AS years, died in Will Hams few days ago of heart failure. , The Yuma Sun says that work al the Arizona siphon was resumed Monday after . shut down of three months. Fifteen men were put to
 work cleaning up the grounds and putting things in shape for the in. stsllation of the air plant most oI
 which is now on the ground The concrete foundations for the air ms-
 chinery has been installed.
 Finely favored Irish pots.oes
 weighing over two pounds each, grown
 in the territorial prison gardens, have
 been left at the office of the Arizona
 Blade Tribune.
 1 China will call on the government of Mexico for $5OO.OO0 damages for J the 303 Chinamen killed by Mexican linsurgents.
 At Cave Greek, Arizona, 6 few days ago, Charles 2 Ph:.ss, : p;osss. ssin. CT, was bitten by hydrophoois skunk.
 E E Edgar has taken out sl5O of placer gold from his claims on Turkey Greek, Ysvspsi county.
 The Copper Era esys the Shannon is understood to be making its copper at cost of eleven cents . pound and earning between $l0 600 And $l5 900 monthly, which is ct the rate of 50 and 60 cents a share for ite stock.
 Sunday was . big day at Yuma in the icing business ct the ice plant and the Southern Pacific Railway. 1 sixty.6ve cars of melons were iced during the day, thirty-five cars of oranges. an even 100 cars in all On the cars of melons it took 45OO pounds Of ice to each car and the oranges re- ceived 1900 pounds to each car. This is icing some.
 A distant and rather severe earth queke of very great length was re. corded early yesterday morning by the seismogrsph at the United States Magnetic Observatory st Tucson. les location has not yet been determined 1t the observatory. Reductions for the smsll copsumsr 'f water are the demsnds in . peti-i ion circulated in Douglss following l , hs annual report of the water com. nission which sbowsd tbse rouoic;psl wnsrship was netting the city nsss ro6t. 1.