The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
STATE NEWS
ARIZONA
IN RRIEE
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Delegate Cameron has asked for con-
gressional aid in fighting a plague Of
grasshoppers at Eagar, Ariz.
Arizona has organized eighteen
banks, one was declared insolvent,
four went into voluntary liquidation
and thirteen are still in operation.
w. E. Farnsworth of Silver City,
New Mexico, shipped from Phoenix
to that place car load of beef cattle
that he purchased of Lon Harmon.
The season of 1911 promises to be
one of the most enjoyable ever spent
In Iron Springs. Each day brings sew
eral new arrivals and every cottage
in the camp is occupied
The result of the election recently
for the trustees of the Glendale Union
high school resulted as follows: w
H. Slaughter, DR.. J. B. Hill, +. H.
Perkins, ]. w. Robinson and ]. w.
Etter.
If progress entitled to statehood,
then Arizona will be admitted to the
chosen without delay. From the capt.
tai city of Arizona a survey of the
territory proves the ready growth and
the prosperity that is to be noted is
of permanent nature.
With ten stamps pounding inces-
sanity on ore extremely rich, the pres
ent outlook for big things from the
Mammoth mine, near Phoenix, is
brighter than it has ever been since
the days when Hall was taking $780,,
900 month from the Mormon slope.
A large number of powerful arc
lights have been placed on the Hotel
Adams site at Phoenix, and a night
I force will be employed to advantage.
The pouring of the fifth and last
floor to be built at this time is about
to begin and in a few weeks the roof
will be on.
After smashing all county records
in road construction, D. M. Clark has
/ returned to Prescott from Ash Fork,
having finished the new boulevard to
the Grand Canon to point one mile
east of Ash Fork. He built and re-
paired fifty miles of road in fifty-seven
days with an average force of ten
men.
Twenty-Five convicts are now occu-
pying the Tempe stockades and doing
the preliminary work preparatory to
the building of the territorial bridge
across the Salt river at that point.
This work consists in constructing
good road from the town to and across
the river at the place where the bridge
will be built.
The grain product of the Verde
valley, Yavapai county, will aggregate
100000 pounds the present season,
about equally divided between corn
and barley. A smaller acreage was
seeded to grain in that section the
present year than usual, owing to the
fact that farmers are giving up much
of their land to alfalfa
A proceeding for the condemnation
of a strip of land containing about
four acres has been begun in the dis
trict court by the Arizona Eastern
against w. A. Coffman, who owns
farm a short distance south of Mesa.
! 1t is through part of this farm that
the Arizona Eastern desires to run its
line in the branch contemplated to
run from Mesa south distance OF
twelve miles.
A party of oil men from Oklahoma
were in Glendale recently to make ar
rangements for boring for oil on the
Fowler property. The formation OF
| ic OF
they were informed by an expert
geologist that the prospects for oil
were very favorable On the strength
of this machinery was sent for and
will be on the ground and work COM
menced very shortly
The annual meeting of the Arizona
Wool Growers Association for the
election of officers and an executive
committee, and for such other bust
ness as may come before it, will be
held at the court house in Flagstaff,
Ariz., on Thursday and Friday, July
6 and 7, 1911, commencing at 130 p.
m. on Thursday. Ex-Governor F. r.
GoodiDg of Idaho, president of the Ma
tional Wool Growers Association, will
be present and address the meeting.
Charged with assaulting and then
drowning Mula and Myrtle Goswick,
II and 12 years old, in Salt river,
twenty-four miles from Globe, Kinsley
Olds, prospector, 46 years old, min
ing partner of the father of the two
girls. was lodged in the county jail in
Globe, with his lower jaw shot away
IN an Intellectual attempt, it is be-
lieved, to commit suicide after killing
the two girls. Olds rode into Globe
and told a story of having been shot
by an Indian or Mexican, and it was
feared that the girls, who were known
to have been with him, had been also
shot and killed. Later their bodies
were found in the water of the river,
where they evidently had been for
nearly twenty-four hours They had
been drowned. The bodies were inn
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