Tombstone epitaph., 1912-04-28
News of the State in Condensed Form


 be provisional governor of Sonora in case the rebsls overpower the govern ment in the present Mexican revolu- ton, is reported at Douglas It is aiso stated that c P Lsrszolo of New Mexico is slated for the vice govsr. uorsbip. Msscsrenss owns . big ranch nesr the border south of No- gales.
 | That the rush into the Loet Hills | Basin oil field has no wise abated IS simply proven by q list of locs'ers from the recorders office ct Tomt- stone. The list shows that between the fore part Of last October. when ground began to be taken up, and March 25, which was the last dste covered in the list, ,3i2 locaters have entered the field The average holo- ing of each is 20 scres. This gives the enormous t0tsi of 6240 acres in all taken up during the las. six months.
 Newton TrenhAm Of Bi-bee arrived in the city yesterday and has sssocia- ted himsel; with O D Wslker,oi Tomb stone, in the business of selling Ever glade lands. Mir Trenhsm having re- gently returned from Florida. For seversl years Mir Trenham has been engaged in the .V,spspsr business in he southeastern part of the state. Star
 The sec.etary of the interior has authorized the reclamation service to
 furnish water to such gravity lands below Yuma, ss may be reached by the government lateral system for the . Yuma project GO this is completed. :. The charge for such service shsll be at 2 the rate oi 50 cents per acre loot ot
 water delivered a, the turnout of the
 government lateral.
 II At Globe, City Attorney Allard
 stated that all money due the city by
 R N Anderson; e1-marshal, had been . paid into the treasury. When Mir
 Anderson left she msrensl's office sr accounting was made and c debt ol
 SEA. 70 was shown. It resolved itseiI u into 8 mere matter of bookkeeping and } Mir Anderson has now settled the acc 1T count in full
 II Senator Mark smith has appointed
 Collin Ray Jones of Lebi, and Turner
 Church Smith of Globe, ss cadets al
 the naval academy.
 Dr James Douglas, president oi
 Phelps Dodge and company, passed :. through Douglas yesterday after noon . on his way to Bisbee, coming to Ati- u zons on one of his ususl inspect
 trips.
 = Ats typewriting contest for the S medal offered by the Remington type. , writer company for the mos: rapid 1 and best work on tfe Remington ] ,ypewriter, the prize was won by .
 student o! the Lamson Business Col
 iege at Pho nix. The contest which was held last Saturday. lasted thirty , minutes, and the maeter copied vas from ordinary newspaper print. con-
 sisting of sn article which had never
 been read by cay of the contestants. , The best record wss made by Clyde
 Bristow, who wrote l426 words, net. C Second was Miss Helen Pepper who 6 wrote 1868 net. Clyde Brissow made
 thirty errors. while Mise Pepper made
 but twenty-five. For each error five . xords were deducted from the total . number written.
 Congressman Oscar Galloway of ) Texas and Louis L Hanna of South 2 Dakota, the remaining members Of
 the congressional investigation com-
 nittee of the Salt River project will go to Roosevelt fer the purpose of making the fret survey of the work
 that has been done at that place in connection with the Tonto irrigation scheme.
 , Hon W A HsN kins of the law firm of Hawkins < Franklin Of Fl Psso, Texas. general counsel fer the Fl Paso & South western railway system, will arrive in the city today to spend
 some time here on business. He will be accompanied D; Eugene Fox, gen. .rsl passenger agent of the system. The gentlemen will stsy st the Hotel Adams. It is rumored that their coming here at this time has % do with the rumored introduction of the three cent fare bill in the Arizona leRislature.- .-Gaze;te.
 One Of the lsrgerreai estate deals Of Phoenix was the sale of the six,b Avenue Hotel ct the cGrner of Sixth Avenue and Adams street for the sum of s22 900.
 Nogsies, Sonora. is to have . big canning factory in the very near fu- ture, according to recent advices re- csived. The enterprise ~'.l he