Tombstone epitaph., 1912-03-24
News of the State
 in Condensed Form

A son of David Scott of UpFer Verde has been missing from home for sever. al days. It is feared he became lost in the sDow and perisbed.
 Thomas J. Donshue, who came to Arizons on e cattle buying mission, has completed the purchase of 3 900 head Of Pima county cattle. the cone sideration being stated as SS0, 600.
 An impor ant discovery of ore wac made in the Superior and Bo.ton mine on Copper Hill at Globe last week, the esst drift ou the twelf h level on the Great Eastern vein heinz breasted ia chalcopyIite ore reported to assay three and one half per cent copper and forty per cent iron.
 A meeting of business nen wac held in Stafford last week, attended by about twenty, at which 6 commercial club was organized, 70 be known as the Graham County Board of trade. A meeting of those who are interest ed in the ostrich industry in Arizons wss held in Phoenix last week. At this meeting there was organized an association of which J. G. Spsngler is president.
 Noticing c hanging wire while in B bath tub, a Phoenix womeI, not thinking that water was an ideal con. ductor of electricity, attempted to brush it away. Her thumb and fi1- ger aere severely burned and che suf- fered from shock as we'll
 Upon entering meat msrKet by the aid of jimmy last week, burglar received nothing for bis labor. On breaking the cash drawer he found that the precaution had been taken to put the each in the safe.
 While on a hunting tr.p during the recent cold spell and snow storm. H P. Shepard, 6 Ysvspsi county miner, was frosen to death. His companion was badly frozen, but will recover. A former friend of Senator detch- man, Bolder, recently arrived in Phoenix Cup against it" and the Sep ator kindly gave him sn order for clothing 10 outfit him for work. He obtained other goods in s similar man. ner only that he signed the legisla- tors name to the subseg uent orders himself and without duly constituted authority.
 l. is proposed in Phoenix to sell ,he court house block and erect another building Tn another location The | crowded condition of the present ac- commodstions are respo ns,ble for the present at itstion, there having been much complaint ae to conditions eiuce the advent Of statehood The Earl of Rothers, one of the moet noted clubmen and sportsmen of England arrived in Phoenix last week and is stopping at Hotel Adams. He is accompanied by Hon B How ard, also well known in English so- cial circles and Harry I. Scot, Of Tor onto, Canada.
 An important cattle case is in pro- gress at Holbrcok in which the Har- ley brothers are accused of running of several hundred mead of cattle, valued at more than $s,OO0. Suit vas brought by the Arizona Live Stock Sanitary Board.
 At Yuma stranger ran out in front of two frightened animals driven by Miss Ruth Rowen of thst ci y, and and seizing the reins. held on until the horses stopped. He was dragged nesrly fifty yards before he brought the team to a stsndstill. The name of the stranger could not be learned.
 George MicLe.sen expert account ant and secretary of the Democratic State Central Committe of Arizona, hse been appointed by Governor George W. P. Hunt. exsminar oi ell Of the accounts of the outgoing ferri- torial officers and will check up snd estimate the value and cost of all ter- ritoriai property turned over to the new stste.-Yums Sun.
 The Arizona weather Bureau bulle- tin says the year 1911 was the coldsst in Arizona for the psst fifteen years. During the latter part of December wac sn unusually loog cold spell.
 LA Melbourn and two companions went fshiog io the Colorado esst of hill at Yuma. While walking along . ssnd bar MT. Mel- bourn suddenIy sank to his knees in quicksand. He called for help and one of his companions rsn to . willow . short distance away and breaking of brsoch, reached is out to him 50 lhs, he ~au~hk holA oS ie and w>. .kla