Tombstone epitaph., 1912-05-12
News of the State
 in Condensed Form

--:-:-.. Pittsburg, Pa. and 300 feet of ten.,l ch casing from Los Ang les, with the l .teDtioo Of boring two artesisn wells on his ranch, eituated between Nam | moth and the mouth of .he Arsvsipa | valley. Aseeond unit Is to be added ,o the | Pioneer smelter at Tucson ss soon a. it can be secured and installed, in- l creasing the capacity Of the sme'ter to at least 300 tone per day. according to an announcement msde. The smelier is now running full blast Howard w Kemper. prominent Tor many years in mining circles in Me- jsve county. shot himself in the head. Financial difficulties and worry over the condition Of his wife, who is i'll in Los Angeles hospital, it is believed, prompted Kemper's act.
 About forty thousand head of cattle have been sold and are being delivered aboard the care at Gutter, Gils coun. ty. during this springs annual round up. w A Hutch'son of Midland, Tex. {; W D Campbell! pf Fl Pasn and F G Caruthers of Yuma, the buyers who have bought practically the entire number are in Globe closing he many big deals and looking the ,ca;,le yer.
 Announcement was made of the closing Of the d, al for the Big Pine mines on the Hasssy smpa for the sum of SS0, ,0CO, win & substantial pay ment made.
 The hay cutting season is on a' Florence snd the farmers gre now busy in the hay fields. They are get ting large yield per acre ard the total tonnage. in the valley will bt ls'gs. The grain crops will also bt better than usual and the total yield should considerably exceed that O last year.
 The financial affsirs of tie Arizon, State Mining company were, on Sat urday last, etraigbteDed out hy tn, | 6l;,u of G,,,,,a,,s ;o ,ho ,,oo.I,, flee at Prescott, and it is stated tha work in the Tom Boy mine, Cs.tl, Greek district, will soon be resumed Mark Bradley, formerly manager O the mines, sili take charge of tn, practical work of develcl ment. snC IS confident that the old mine i about to enter upon an era Of pros perity.
 How time does fly. Forty-stvel years ago today (april 27th, ls65l. tn editor of the St. Johns Observer wa on the Little Colorado river, aut csmped for the night above Hors Head crossing in the bend of tine rive just below the mouth Of the Ri Puerco.
 The big dike along the Colorsd river in the Mohave valley is fast as cunning proportions of magnitude The q ke will be one of the largest II the west snd will reclaim many thou sspds of acres of the richest farmini lands in the state. Much of tte re claimed lands will be planted to alful Ia and cotton as soon as it is vel protected from the overflow of tn river.-Mohsve Miner.
 CT Jones, presi ent and treasure | of the African Land and Irrigation company, recently visited Tucson where he interested number 0 people in his company which is unde the able direction of himself and Lieu Henry o Flipper.
 There will be festivities ct Sar Xavier this week, matrimonial rev. elry. Manuel Escobosa and Mari. Luice are to be married. They are { son aud daughter of the Pspsgoes, sDc were authorized Monday to entsi the welded state.
 William Ca,snsugh of Tombetons who s employed by the Sonora New Go q. Nogales. has this week been 6 visitor in Gusymss, where his com pany has a branch store. He ws' scce mpanied by Mrssrs Lavre and Poston, officers of the company who are making their annual tour of in. spection of all the compaDy'- brsnche. io Mexico. The main store and isc- tories gre in the City of Mexico.-No- gsles Vidette.
 At one of the largest mass meetings held in Nogales in many years, lss, Monday night, the following promin. ent citizens snd taxpayers were named to serve the town of Nogales ss city councilmen: Otto H Herold, George H FeidIer, A A Doherty, Bracey Cur tis. Capt L W Mix. " E Overton and Iobn Brickwood. For city clerk Grover Msrsteller; J K Wright town