The Winslow mail., 1911-03-11
STATE NEWS
ARIZONA
IN BRIEF

the kllllng OF Deputy Sheriff CnarleS
s.. Wood
F. V. Perkins, of Flagstaff, president
of the Arizona Wool Growers Associ-
alton, is in Washington in the interest
of that organization.
Out of the total of 16,0O9 votes cast
in the recent constitutional election
12,187 were in favor of the constitu-
tion and 1892 were against it.
Ben Goodrich, who has been resi-
dent of Arizona since 1880, will move
to Los Angeles. He has been promi-
nent figure in Arizonas affairs.
The entire edition of the Border
Vidette, weekly paper published at
Nogales, Ariz., and circulated in So
nora, was confiscated by Mexican Of
ficials.
A large and modern hotel building
will soon be erected in Kingman by
Eastern people The hotel will have
accommodation for at least one hun
dred and fifty guests.
Prominent citizens of Cochise coun-
ty have organized a "tax payer asso-
ciation' for the purpose of regulating
tax eaters and protecting themselves
from over-taxation.
Attorney General WickerSham has
appointed Cleveland A. Newton, law
yer of ST. Louis, to be his special as
sistant in the prosecution of recent
census frauds in Arizona.
In eliminating Sunday work in
their mines in the Bisbee district the
Phelps-Dodge interest are following
the admirable initiative of Mr.. John
Greenway, the general manager of the
Calumet and Arizona.
| Senator Guggenheim secured pas
sage of his bill granting the Arizona
Colorado Water Company, Colorado
organization, the right to construct a
dam for irrigation purposes across the
Colorado river, near Parker, Wis.
The Tri-State Telephone Company,
with general headquarters at Ell Paso,
! but whose affairs are administered by
the executive officials of the Colorado
Telephone Company, is building a cir
cult from Bisbee to Douglas, which
will give Denver connections with all
Arizona points.
A number of capitalists from Ohio,
are in Arizona for the purpose of in
vestigating the proposed railroad from
Holbrook to Fort Apache. This sur
vey and stock is held by the Navajo
Improvement Company. The railroad,
if built, will tap one of the largest
bodies of virgin timber in the south
west.
In order to visit some of the most
isolated schools Uncle Sam has es-
tablshed for his native American
ward, HAYWOOD Hall, superintendent OF
schools in the bureau of Indian al
fairs, left Phoenix recently for
horseback trip of about ten days
through the Tonic basin and Verde
valley country.
Deputy Sheriff F. F. Bartlett of Ash
Fork, shot a Mexican twice recently,
hitting him once in the jaw, the other
bullet entering his body. The MeXl-
can was drunk and when the officer
attempted to arrest him, drew knife.
The wounds are considered serious.
He was taken to the county hospital
at Prescott.
1t is evident from the present line
up of fast ball players, signed up by
Manager E. A. Brown for the Flag
staff team, tnat city will be repre-
| Iu the
swiftest aggregatio4s of ball players
in the southwest and bunch that will
be able to mix things with any OF the
minor leagues.
A boulder weighing three tons loos-
ened by rains, crashed down the
mountain and demolished portion
of boarding house in Bisbee Tues
| day, Sam Smith, a bOarder, with
premonition of impending danger, left
the room a few moments before. HAD
! he remained he would have been
crushed to death.
DR.. T. B. Davis, the we'll known
Prescott physician, died recently lie
was an army physician and particl-
| patod In the lnQ1an cdHpdlSno AlOAh
the Staked Plains in Texas to the Bad
Lands of the Dakotas, from 1858 to
! 1880. He was a brother of Major
General Jeff C. Davis, of the Union
army, and came of a military family.
Jealousy caused bloody tragedy at
Prescott recently. Alexander Oaks
shot and killed a woman of the un'
derworld, wounded soldier named
Kimbro, then sent a bullet into his
own head. The woman came to Pres
colt with Oaks from California and
the shooting occurred because she
preferred Kimbro. The woman died
instantly, Kimbro was wounded In the
arm and the bullet fired into his own
head with suicidal intent will prob
ably result fatally,