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

An ordinance passed by the City
Council of Phoenix and signed by the
mayor provides for an amendment to
the ordinance in such a manner that
hereafter for all theatrical perform
ances or other public exhibitions or
entertainments a license fee of S.
must be collected.
Young Papago Indians at the EScu
ella, Arizona, training school, are learn
ing to mix dry farming practises OF
the aboriginals with American scien-
tific theories. The Papagos for cen.
turies have been successful on the arid
lands of their native heath in raising
beans, melons, pumpkins, etc.
Total shipments of canteloupes from
Mesa odate, quoting car lots only,
are reported as follows: Mutual Dis
tributlng Company, 81 cars; John Nix
& Co., % cars; Gibson Fruit Compa-
ny, IA cars. Ten carloads of water
melons have been shipped by Ed Pom
eroy, lesser lots to local points not
quoted.
When the story about one of the big
telegraph companies trying to influence
Congress to cut out the recall OF the
Judiciary in the Arizona constitution
reached Washington it reused both
sides to action, as a result of which
Chairman Smith has been deluged with
kilograms from Arizona insisting that
he use his efforts to have the Senate
pass the Flood resolution without
change.
Captain Rynning, superintendent OF
the territorial prison at Florence, says,
twenty-five or thirty more prisoners
will be taken from Florence to Tempe
in short time. A force of men is now
busily engaged in excavating for three
of the piers of the new bridge. The
excavating is quite job, as it is nee
essary to timber the holes up and
pump water after they are sunk to a
certain depth.
A CHASTITY accident occurred on the
Santa Fe road near Glendale when a
passenger train run down and killed
an unknown Mexican. The body was
simply cut into mince-meat, and was
scattered along the tracks for quart
er of mile. Naturally, identification
of the unfortunate victim of the acci-
dent was out of the question, and al
most nothing is known about the
causes that led up to the fatality.
Earl Parker, engineer of the Santa
Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railroad, went
into the field from Cedar Glade, sta
tion on that line, for the purpose OF
surveying the line of the new branch
from that place into the Verde valley
to the point east of Jerome, where
the new smelter will be erected by the
United Verde Copper Company. Ce-
dar Glade is located few miles north
of Del Rio. The road, it is presumed.
will drop into the valley at or near
the Perkins ranch, a short distance
above Sycamore cai1on on the Verde
river. The new line will be about
forty-five miles from the junction with
the S. F. p e P. railroad to the smelt
or.
torian, is completing arrangements for
making one of the most interesting
and novel journeys ever undertaken
by any woman in recent years in the
West, in conjunction with her official
duties in gathering data of pioneer
days of thrilling character Her pur
pose is to leave Flagstaff, going to
Mohaye county, where her journey viii!
be initiated in long and wearisome
trip to the isolated regions of south
eastern Nevada, where many are still
living who will recall events of long
ago and who also have stored away il
memory some of the vivid doings OF
other days, of an intensely interesting
history of Arizona.
Bulletin 463 of the United States
Geological Survey, which contains the
results of spirit leveling in Arizona
from 1899 to 1909, inclusive, compiled
under the direction of R. B. Marshall
chief geographer, has just been pub,
lished and may be obtained free on
application to the director of the sur
vey at Washington, D. G. The report
should be of advantage to engineers
and surveyors, for each locality whose
elevation has been accurately deter
mined affords a starting point for
survey of any kind that may be con-
templated. More than 1000 points in
different parts of Arizona, which have
been determined by the Geological
Survey in connection with its topo
graphic surveying, are included in the
report The surveys topographic maps
of the quadrangles already surveyed
in Arizona show a large number of
elevations, but they are stated only to
the nearest foot, whereas the bulletin
gives the elevations to the third deci-
NAL place.
The New Mexico Museum of
Archaeology has received from Berlin,
Germany, the famous Fincke archaeo-
logical library purchased for the mu-