The Winslow mail., 1911-07-15
STATE NEWS
ARIZONA
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

A. A. Ward, we'll known stock
man of the Tonto country, died at his
residence in Phoenix
A dozen cars are on the siding at
Glendale waiting for the first train
load of cantaloupes to be shipped
Rain believed to be general through
out Arizona has fallen, the precipita-
tion totalling about one and three
quarters inches.
The Avery shaft on the Calumet
Jerome property, at Jerome, is prog
ressing rapidly and the formation
through which they are passing is en-
couraging.
The drift from the Dillon tunnel to
the 1888 shaft on the Hull Company's
property at Jerome is being pushed
steadily along. High grade ore is be-
ing found.
Power generated at Fossil Creek,
forty miles south of Jerome, will be
furnished the United Verde Copper
Company and other mines in the vicin-
ity of Jerome.
The Amalgamated Metals Company
at Jerome, is continuing development
and expects soon to have three shifts
at work when the opening up of the
property will be rushed ahead.
The survey has been made for the
line of railway which is to be built
from Cedar Glade into the Verde
valley to a point near Jerome, where
the United Verde Copper Company
will erect new smelter.
The recent rain at Glendale has
done some damage to wheat in sacks
and alfalfa in shocks out in the fields.
1t will probably be of some benefit
to other crops just maturing. 1t has
washed the dust out of the air.
Julian Morales took his eighteen
months old boy to dance at Clifton
and when he returned with the baby
after midnight he placed it in its bed
into which scorpion had crawed.
In three hours the child was dead
After fairly getting into official
harness as justice OF the peace OF
Seligman precinct, w. ]. Wiersbach.
appointed last March to fill vacancy
caused by the resignation of Judge
Stiyers, is in the meshes of the recall
of the judiciary, according to a peti-
tion that was received by the board
of supervisors.
Walter r. Barrows, graduate ge-
ologist of Yale, is in Holbrook, AriZ.,
whence he will go out on the Navajo
reservation to join Prof. T. H. Gregory
of Yale, an eminent geologist now
working under the direction of the
bureau of Indian affairs in locating
water supply for the Indians on the
Navajo reservation.
The government is spending thous-
ands of dollars in developing larger
and more permanent water supply in
Arizona for the Navajos for irrigation,
stock and domestic use. The NaVajOs
are gradually becoming thrifty pro-
prietors of larger and larger herds
and many of them are tilling the soil
successfully. 1t is to encourage these
Indians to become self-supporting and
industrious that the government is
prospecting the country for an under
ground water supply Many wells
have been drilled and furnish water
to the Indians, while it is hoped to
locate an artesian belt on the reserva-
ton.
Kingsley Olds, the prospector ac-
cused of numbering Lulu and Myrtle
Goswick, The young daughters OF his
mining partner, who were found
drowned in the Salt river, thirty miles
from Globe, recently, was instantly
killed as ne lay in his cell in the coun-
ty jail in Globe, by shot fired from
a window in the county court house,
thirty feet distant. The murderer es-
capped, leaving the rifle by the window
from which the shot was fired. Con-
fusion reigned for some time after
the shot rang out and when the Off
GERS finally ascertained whence the
bullet had come, no traces of the as
sassin could be found. 1t was dis
covered that he had gained entrance
to the building in the night by means
of keys belonging to the janitor En-
tering judges chamber overlooking
Olds' cell window, he poked hole
in the window screen, and, carefully
resting his rifle on the window ledge,
sent his first shot between the bars
into Olds' shoulders. 1t ranged down
ward through the lungs and caused
instant death The cOroner's jury re-
turned verdict of death at the hands
of person unknown. A brother OF
the murdered man has arrived ana VIII
begin an investigation. Olds was
found recently by cowboys making
his way to Globe from the Salt RIVER
His Jaw was shot away and he was
unable to talk, but wrote that while
bathing in the river with the little
girls, who were 10 and II years old,
respectively, and who had accomIan-
led him to Globe from their fathers
ranch, he had been shot by Mexl-
can or an Indian.