The Winslow mail., 1911-02-04
STATE NEWS
ARI Q MA
IN BRIEF

| ported by United States officials.
Election to ratify or reject constitu-
ton of Arizona, February 8, 1911.
Arizona's mineral production in
1910 was of the value of $42,946,745.
The population of Phoenix, Ariz., is
11,134, as compared with 5,544 in
| 1900.
Theodore Roosevelt will visit Ari-
zona after leaving San Antonio, Texas,
March 18th.
The Tucson building record for 1910
approximates 100000. Outlook for
1911 very favorable.
Ralph Sims, colored, porter on Santa
Fe train No. 9, was killed at Fairview
by falling under the train.
The Hopi Indians, who number
about 1000 souls, inhabit eight viii
lagos in the Painted Desert of Ari-
zona
through the Flagstaff, Williams and
Ash Fork country is proceeding rap
idly.
In Graham county the Shannon, Ari-
zona Copper and Detroit plants are
collectively averaging 100000 pounds
Of copper month.
Master Mechanic Stone of the United
Verde Copper Company of Jerome, has
added a number of blooded cattle to
| the stock on his Verde Valley ranch.
At Winkelman fire destroyed twelve
| buildings, among them the Bank of
Winkelman. The buildings burned
| embraced a large part of the business
section.
The supervisors of Maricopa coun-
| ty have approved the change of name
OF the town of Sidney to Buckeye.
Buckeye is becoming famous for it's
alfalfa seed growing.
Manned by Mexican engineers who
took the place of striking Americans,
! all trains on the Southern Pacific
| lines of Mexico, between Cananea and
| Naco, Ariz., have resumed operations.
It has been discovered that portion
of the Navajo Indian reservation in
Arizona is underlaid with many strata
Of valuable coal carrying in thickness
from a few inches to seven or eight
feet.
Warned by the mayor of Moctezuma
to remove themselves from the zone
of an impending battle, Mexicans of
the Moctezuma district in the state of
Sonora, are flocking across the border
into Arizona.
A message to Yuma says: "In an
ticipation of an attack by lnsurrectos,
the customs officials of Algodones
have removed their records and money
to Andrade on the American side of
the border.
Oil has been discovered between
Tucson and Bension on the west slope
OF the Milestone mountains, accord
ing to J. N. Curtis, who claims to have
seen crude petroleum on water in
POOL caused by a spring.
With the raising of the passenger,
freight and express embargo On the
Southern Pacific railroad in Mexico
the head officers of the company at
Tucson announced that the strike of
the engineers is considered an Incl
cent of the past. The officials insist
that no concessions have been or will
be made.
A man suspected of being James B.
Bryce of the San Francisco trio
wanted for the purchase of dyna-
mite supposedly in connection with
the blowing up of the Los Angeles
Times, was arrested in Globe. The
officer assert he fits perfectly the des-
Cription of Bryce, sent broadcast by
the Los Angeles police.
1t is a probable that within very
few days the work of tunneling under
the Colorado river will be begun at
Yuma by the reclamation service
force No official information is at
hand, but it is stated unofficially that
the water problem, which has so long
delayed the breaking through the con-
crete wall of the Arizona shaft, has
been satisfactorily adjusted.
A report from Winkelman says
Frank Hawkins, deputy shertf at
Hayden, shot and killed Mexican
recently The feeling was so intense
against Hawkins among the country
men of the dead man that the officer
was sent under guard to Globe few
hours later to prevent a possible at
tempt at lynching. Hawkins was
formerly business man at Paradise,
Ariz.
Col. Fosterlitsky, commanding the
Federal rurales in the northern part
CT Sonora, has been killed in fight
with insurrectos. The information
came to Bisbee from Cananea, Sonora,
in a letter from the wife of proml-
nent business man whose name can
not be divulged Another report from
Cananea says it is believed Col.
Kosterlitsky is confined in hospital