The Winslow mail., 1911-04-29
STATE NEWS
ARIZONA
IN BRIEF
TN BRIEF

lodge of Royal Neighbors an aux
iliary order of the Modern Woodmen
lodge, was organized in Tempe.
Captain Gaujot, commanding the
First cavalry, has asked that another
troop be sent to Douglas at once.
The property known as the Gregory
lodging house in Phoenix was burned
beyond any possible repair recently
Loss $4,000.
Frank Gotch won three falls from A.
A. Johnson, a professional wrestler,
in "a minutes and 81 seconds in Phoe-
nxi He undertook to win them in one
hour
o. Garcia of Albuquerque. N. M, has
closed a deal for 100000 pounds of
Arizona spring clip at Holbrook, Ari-
zona, which will be shipped to Albu
querque for securing.
Fire caused loss of $4,000 in the
destruction of the stables and ware
house of the T. F. Miller company,
and cottage belonging to the United
Verde Copper Company at Jerome.
New Mexico and Arizona are about
to receive a well-earned share of the
advertising long due her as a desir-
able place to spend an outing on the
American continent instead of chas-
ing off to Europe.
R. ]. Myers, who was being held in
the county jail in Prescott, to appear
before the next grand jury on two
charges of forgery, developed into a
ravicg maniac and was taken to the
insane asylum at Phoenix.
An exodus of families living in Aqua
Prieta into Douglas has been fea
ture. The refugees say they have been
advised to get out of the town by the
federal authorities, as they are expect
ing an attack from the rebels.
Postmaster McClintock of Phoenix,
custodian of the federal building site,
has received plans for the building,
which it is estimated will cost approx
mately $4,000. There is available
for construction about $160,00O
The April term of the United States
Court has been opened in Phoenix
with the impaneling of the grand jury.
Most of the business of the term will
consist of the trials of seventeen Mex
leans and Indians held for the selling
of liquor to Indians.
That work will be begun just as
soon as possible on the road toward
Rosemont, connecting Tucson with
the completed portion of the Douglas
highway to Florence and Phoenix, is
the statement of j. B. Girand, terri
torial road supervisor.
Gustave Thiebault, about thirty
Mary by the accidental discharge of a
shotgun. In attempting to get out OF
the boat, which he and compan-
ion had occupied while hunting, the
boat rocked. In some manner the
hammer of the gun caught and the
weapon was discharged.
That Yavapai county will repair the
road between Prescott and Ash Fork
and Coconino County will build be-
tween Ash Fork and the Grand Canon
was the important announcement mai
after the return of Supervisors B. II.
Smith and J.. w. Stewart, together
with H. A. Cheverton, F. w. Foster
and D. NJ Clark, who composed an
auto party of investigation over the
projected wagon road to Prescott.
They inspected the route and are very
enthusiastic over the feasibility OF the
undertaking.
There were POI deaths of tubercu-
losis acquired in Arizona in 1910. OF
these fifty-eight were whites, eighty
five Mexicans, fifty-five Indians and
three of other races. The suggestion
is that much of the tuberculosis is due
to the conditions which surround the
Mexican and Indian population as
whole this population being smaller
than that of the whites and the deaths
much greater, and those races living
in the majority of cases under unsanl-
tary conditions.
AS the result of information received
Douglas of Pedro Uriguis, secretary
to the Mexican consul there, and G. c.
Lellivier editor Of pro-rebel paper,
following a fist fight between them,
the governor sent a message to Doug
las newspapers, in which he said The
situation all along the border is such
that such occurrances tend to aggra-
vate international difficulties. In the
present emergency anyone who wilful-
ly aggrevates the situation diShonors
his country and puts our government
at disadvantage with Mexico. Such
acts canot be too strongly condemned,
and | call upon the citizens of Douglas
to assist in every way possible in pre-
venting repetition. Good citizens
should be more concerned in uphold
ing the honor of their own country
than in showing their sympathy for or
against the government of neighbor-
ing country