The Winslow mail., 1911-01-28
STATE NEWS
ARIZ Q MA
IN BRIEF

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rifle club was formed among the bows
of the Phoenix high school.
A general rain all over Arizona, ex-
cept on the higher mountains both
rorth and south, where the precipita-
tion took the form of snow, has been
reported.
In Arizona there was no production
in 1909 from the quicksilver mines of
the Colonial Mining Company near
! Quartzite, in the Plomosa district,
Yuma county.
Governor Sloan announced that he
had appointed Dr. Herbert K. Beau
for the insane, to succeed DR.. j. A.
ketcherside, resigned.
At the Vulture gold mine, in Mari
copa county the old mill was run half
the year 1910 and the first unit of the
new stamp mill, with cyanide plant,
was in operation in August
Ben Lindsey shot and killed his
wife at hotel in Duncan, where she
] was working and was in turn shot and
Probably fatally wounded by J. H. Nc
Allister, proprietor of the hotel.
Pliny Stokes occupying cell in the
county Jail at Miami, on a charge of
murder is the toll of a midnight
tragedy enacted in the redlight dis
| trict recently.
The Maricopa county Board of SUI
pervisors has just closed contract
with Phoenix undertaking firm
whereby those who die penniless will
be laid away decently at an expense
of one-tenth of cent each
Engineers of the Southern Pacific
iii Mexico have presented demand to
General Manager Ingram at Ell Paine,
Sonora, for wage schedule similar
to the one in effect on the Southern
Pacific in the United States, says
dispatch to Naco.
A man believed to have been named
Wilson, and who, as shown by papers
in his pocket, recently worked at the
Navajo hotel at Winslow, was killed
and frightfully mangled under the
wheels of Santa Fe train at the east
end of the tunnel near Williams.
The Supreme Court denied the ap-
lication of a writ of mandamus of
Hans Herlick to compel the sheriff
at Phoenix to issue license for
saloon on the ground that the saloon
is located within six miles of a con-
struction camp of men engaged in
public work.
Big irrigation enterprises are under
way in the Gila valley which, when
completed, will furnish the water for
the reclamation of thousands of acres
which are at present unproductive, To-
Gated between Pima and FIT. Thomas.
Clifton men and Clifton capital are in
terested in these enterprises.
The president of the constitutional
convention made public telegram re-
ceived from Washington signed by
Senators LaFollette, Bristow, Clapp,
Cummins, Dixon and Brown, saying
that they would join Senator Bourne
In struggle to obtain the approval
of the Arizona constitution.
While it is true that a great ma
iority of claimants coming to Arizona,
have selected the Jerome Junction
country, still there is healthy move
ment at other places, and especially
sc on the strip that was recently with
drawn along the Aqua Fria to the
Maricopa county line, and in the
Verde valley also.
The annual banquet of the Arizona
Bar Association was held in Phoenix
and was an occasion of much felicita-
ton among the twenty-five or thirty
gentlemen present, all of whom were
either practicing attorneys or judges
and officials of the Supreme Court,
who were the specially invited guests,
the judges of course being members
also.
The preliminary figures show that
Colorado has lost first place to Cali
LOl anu uOW olcauOo oOCOAlu ClAe@C
Alaska has lost third place to Nevada
and now stands fourth; South Dakota
and Utah remain fifth and sixth, re-
spectively, in order of gold prOduc-
tion, but Arizona has changed places
with Montana, and these states now
stand respectively seventh and eighth
in order of output.
Statistics compiled by V. c. Heilkes,
CT the United States Geological Sur
vey, indicate that mining in Arizona
was decidedly active in 1910. The
copper output of the state, which
greatly exceeded that of Montana, fell
telow that of 1909, but was nearly |
2S7,000,000 pounds, which shows that
the large smelters were doing steady |
work. The copper ore mined in Ari-
zOna SunD1ioa about Ono-third of the |