The Winslow mail., 1911-06-24
STATE NEWS
ARIZONA
IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF

| FOurLn OF July celeDratlOn.
The First Congregational church of
Jerome has organized mems club.
The matter of building a larger
penitentiary for Arizona is being con-
sidered.
In May, the United Verde mines at
Jerome, paid it's usual monthly divi-
,dend of $225,000.
Federico Serna of Ranches de AL
buquerque was fatally shot in row
at Holbrook, Arizona.
On the Catalins range near Phoenix
a fire which ragged several days has
done considerable damage.
A decided novelty in the shape of
number of perfectly green roses is on
exhibition at the Board of Trade in
Phoenix.
When the Woman's Club of Phoenix
j opens it's twelfth season on October
Bird it will be in the handsome new
club building now nearing completion.
The Anti-Saloon League has pre-
sented it's petition to the board of
| SupSIFISOIS dShluS luoC d 1OCdl up
tion election be called for Yavapai
county.
J. T. Young, formerly of AlbuQuer
que has closed deal for steam
laundry in Mesa, Arizona, and will
open the plant for business the first
of September next.
The Arkansas and Arizona Copper
Company has miners at work sinking
the main shaft on it's property near
| Jerome Three shifts will be put to
work at the bottom of the shaft.
A bulletin of interest to all Ari-
zonans has just been issued by the
agricultural experiment station, uni
versity of Arizona. 1t is known as
Bulletin No. So and deals with the
! grazing range of Arizona.
After twenty years of exemption,
the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix rail
road will now pay taxes. Twenty
years have elapsed since the road was
constructed and the exemption clause
In it's franchise has expired.
Postal savings repositories in the far
West are being better patronized than
those in other parts of the country.
t Bisbee, Ariz., and Tonopah, New, led
in the amount of deposits the first
month, with $11,S0O and $4,000, re-
! spectively.
A stranger was found dead in cut
near Bisbee Two champagne. bottles,
a partly drained whiskey bottle and
a bottle of dark wine, also partially
drained, were by his side. The body
was in an advanced state of decom-
position.
| Not only is Phoenix and the Salt
River valley to be advertised effec-
lively throughout the length and
breadth of the United States, but by
means of the latest and most up-to-
date system of moving pictures Will
the fame of this section soon be
spread all over the continent or
Europe as well.
Twenty-Five members of the party
of former Governor Diego Redo OF
Sinaloa, who were escorted across the
American line on their arrival at No
gales, Sonora, reported that General
Morales, brother-in-law of Redo and
commandent of CulIacan, and Captain
Stein and other federal chiefs, were
executed by the insurrectos recently
Too much money, rather than the
opposite, is the situation at the Mesa Z
banks. Usually the summer season
finds the bank balances and deposits
depleted by the summer rush to the
coast resorts. The reports recently
! published show the financial condition
of both banks to be of the most fiat
tering character.
AS the second automobile pathfind-
er in the annual Los Angeles-to-Phoe-
nix race was passing Mexicali, it was
fired at by a band of Socialistic insur-
rectos still camping near that border
town. The driver put on full speed
and drove by, followed by shower
of bullets. Two bullets struck the
car but no one was hit. The car
reached Yuma safely
The movement started by James H.
McClntock and Harry Welch, presl-
dent and secretary of the Phoenix
Board of Trade, to have all CONNER
cial bodies throughout the territory
wire William Alden Smith, chairman
of the Senate committee on Terri
tories, urging prompt and favorable
action on the House bill providing for
the admission Of Arizona, has met
with an instant and enthusiastic re
sponsc.
Indian reservation is a hell-that
is, an awful place-yes, hell de-
clared DR.. Carlos Montezuma, of Chi
cago, a full-blood Mohave-Apache In
dian, who appeared before the House
committee on expenditures in the in
terror department at Washington ON
behalf of his tribesmen of the McDow-
ell reservation in Arizona. The In
dians are protesting against plans OF
the government to transfer them from
their old home.