Tombstone epitaph., 1912-08-25
STATE ITEMS OF IN. TEREST CONDENSED.

of the house pests will be put to death.
 That oil indications are excellent from the north side of the Catalina mounisins to Wooiley, near Kelvin is declared by geological experts who have gone over the ground carefully.
 Charles Bell ne, e fearful ard spec taculsr death on the Bright Angel 1 trail by . missed hole blast. Just ss | he was over the blast it exploded throwing Bell into the air several feet, pitching him over a cliff onto the rocks about so feet below. He lived sbou. an hour and c half alter the accident. His legs were broken and his skull crushed ss e result of the fall on the rocks.
 The Mexico state congress has postponed for one week the Sonora elections called for the last Sunday iu August, and instead of that day they will be held on i.he first Sunday in SeptemberE
 Nosmsn Mckenzie. well known in Tucson has been admitted 10 the Pio- ueer home in Prescott. He wss for more than 30 yesrs 6 resident of Pima and Santa Cruz counties. He is Il years of age and c blacksmith. His last residence was at Patagonia.
 gray kitten has become 6 regular fixture ss 6 passenger on the cafe par. Tor car trucks on trains seven and eight. running be ween Douglas and Benson. Her catship is secure in her knowledge that possession comprises st least nine points of the law and with srched back and violent splitting retreats whenever snyore attempts to remove her from her precsrious perch.
 According to sdvices received from Los 4 Angeles. Calvin H Bullard, for. merly United States post office in- spector, whc was found lying uncon- scious in & road near Newham. Cal. f, with a needle. thrust three inches inc to bis head near the right temple, died in the county hospital last Tues day without having regsined con. sciousness.
 George H Crosby, county attorney of Graham county was arrested at Globe on a charge of embezzlement in Safiord. He declared there is no ground for bis arrest. He ssid that the party causing it was iIre.ponsi- ble.
 That tobacco will do we'll iu this climate is being demonstrated by Geo. Kelly, of the Whitewater peighbor- hood, to the satisfaction of himself and his neighbors. Kelly has three acres in "tbe weed" His crop has now developed sufficiently to show
 that i; will be @ prize winner any where.
 The charter election for what sp- proximsted e commission form of government, for three commissioners with salsries of s2.O 900 each, wac de- fested at Globe Tuesday, by nearly four to one.
 The Finance Committee of the Phoenix Trades Council will visit | business men Of that city thIs week to | invite their assistance in providing | for . fitting celebration of Labor Day.
 The State Land Com mission has sn extensive camping trip in front ot it. The commission will have to go over every bit of public land in the state of Arizons, all in . matter of six months. The work would take c mater of four years, but the com mission is deter- mined to go over the most important parts at first. Their frst trip ~ill be- gin next week, when they go into Apache and Navajo coun ,ies.
 Presideut A J Mstthewe of the nor. nal is in receipt of many letters from students all over Arizona who are desirous of working their way the normal. This has been quite 6 common practice in past years. The students have received homes with different local citizens and work ed during their leisure hours while not attending school.
 Two six-mule freight teams used by L E Carr in transporting freight he tween Yzabel and El Trigre were over. taken by . flood of water last week in the box canyon this side of the river and all drowned. l
 R A Evans of Muskogee, Oklahoma. one of the largest land owners and live stock growers in that stste, who is associated with F A Reid of Ash Fork, in large range interests in this ,tate hes decided to become . per- resident of that section of Arizopa, and ~ill probably make ks~