The Winslow mail., 1911-06-03
STATE NEWS
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killed by Frank Green at Yuma. They
had an alteration in the redlight dis
trict which resulted in the shooting.
The house committee on territories
has taken up a bill which had been
referred to it for consideration, and
provides for bond issue for sewer
purposes at Phoenix, Ariz.
Charlie Rampf, the miner who
short time ago was reported as found
dead at his mine near Camp creek,
has arrived in Phoenix looking finer
than he has before for year.
When Constable Julio Martinez of
Yuma, was called to the Southern Pa
cific depot he found a Mexican by the
name of Juan Sinaloa had been found
very badly beat up and wounded.
After drinking several days, Charles
Cook, bridge builder of Douglas,
Ariz., while in Ell Paso, imagined the
Mexican rebels were pursuing him and
then cmptied the contents of a shot
gun into his head. He died from the
wound.
The Arizona penitentiary is some
what crowded at present according to
Guard ]. l.. Ward, known to the world
as Dad" Another bunkhouse capable
OF accommodating seventy-five or
eighty prisoners is being built, and it
will relieve the situation.
The main building of the University
of Arizona at Tucson was damaged by
fire and threatened with total destruc-
tion the other night. Had it not been
for the quick action of the university
fire department and a prompt response
from the city department, the build
ing would have been total loss.
Sidney and Frank Richards, six and
eight years respectively, are some
where on the desert in the vicinity of
Rice station on the Arizona Eastern
railroad. A special engine carrying a
carload of searchers, and many auto
mobiles left Globe in quest of the
youngsters. The last report says the
boys have not been found
The ashes of Artist Frank Sauer-
vein, painter of the Grand Canon,
have been taken to the Grand Canon
by Al Doyle, his old guide, and Miller
Herlinger, friend, and scattered to
the four winds. Sauerwein died in
Connecticut last June. His last re-
quest was that his ashes be scattered
at the scene of his life's greatest
work.
A duel with pistols in the business
center of Phoenix, between William P.
Crump, a commission merchant, and
Virgil C. Lane, a saloon porter, both
negroes, will probably result in the
death of the latter, who was wounded
four times. Lane shot first with a
derringer and missed Crump, who re-
sponded Immediately. Disagreement
over a political appointment is said to
have caused the trouble. Crump is in
Jail
Renewed attacks upon the recall
provision of the Arizona constitution
from the Republican side, and Demo
cratic criticism of the un-amendable
feature of the New Mexican consti-
tuition, held the attention of the
House in the consideration of the
statehood resolution. Representative
Booher of Missouri, Democrat, said
that New Mexico was virtually con-
trolled by the railroads and large in
terests and that the present form OF
the constitution is such as to preclude
the possibility of being easily changed.
He urged letting Arizona have the re-
call for judges. Representative Pick
EFT criticised the principle of the re-
call as applied to judges. Following
him Representative Connell of New
York, Democrat, approved the pending
resolution, declaring it was the only
fair way to treat the two territories.
The sobs of his 1O-year-old daughter
led to the Arrest of Jack" Munro, ac-
cused of shooting and killing Deputy
Sheriff Edward Drew at Ray. When
Munro was menaced with death the
tear-stained checks of the same little
girl stayed the hands OF the mob. A
masked man walked into McGee's
saloon in Ray and at the point of his
re|olver, demanded the contents of
the cash drawer. Drew, who was
standing near the end of the bar, fired
at the bandit, who returned the fire,
killing Drew almost instantly The
following afternoon little girl came
slowly down the stairs into the office
of the Ray hotel, saying: MY dady
came home last night all shot and
crippled, and left before l got up.
Some one left the hotel hurriedly and
hunted up a deputy. Ten hours later
Munro was arrested and lodged in
iail. A deep bullet wound was found
in his side. The feeling against him
which at all times has been intense,
crystallized and mob was formed at
the depot. A significant forward
movement of the crowd as the train
was drawing in, was checked when
white faced little girl, whose childish
innocence had betrayed her father into
the hands of the law, was led forward
to bid her father farewell