Tombstone epitaph., 1912-12-15
STATE ITEMS OF lS- IEREsI CONDENSED.

| he Pioneer home. located on the out. ki.ts of Prescott. He found every. hing progressing most satisfactorily It the home. There are now thirty. ,wo inmates and there are sccomods tions for forty. There is short wait. ing list. however, and tbe vacancies will be filled in few days.
 For . sun not made public. the E A Starr suit for $20OOO damages agsinst the Arizona Telephone & Telegraph company at Phoenix sss compromised by Attorneys Bullsrd and Carpenter for the telephone com pspy and Hawkins X Hawkins for the plaintiff. The case was settled by agreement. Starr sued the company for Djuries received from an electric wire in the rear of his corral at the southwest corner o! Center and Jeffer. son streets.
 In the vicinity of the Inspiration spur on the Arizona Eastern railroad sbou, half . mile down the valley be- low Miami is scene of activity with the building of the great warehouse of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper company. and the railroad building going on from the spur up the side oi the hill on the north side of the valley toward the site of the came compspys 7OO0-ton concentrating plant and mines in the neighborhood Of two miles up in the hills.
 The Colorado Delta Canal company has sued the United States g1veru- ment for nearly million and half dollars, which amount is asserted to be due it because the secretary of the interior deprived the company of the right to irrigste the arid lands of the Yuma valley.
 E E Jordan, formerly Of Phoenix, may SC. .s leader of the inauguration ceremonies He is now banker at Washington, D 0, and has been se- lected to act ae chairman by the Dem. ocrstic leaders.
 A Mexican is being held in the city jail at Douglas on the charge of shop lifting. He entered the Pbelps- Dodge .tore Saturday afternoon and proceed. ed to the grocery department where he took an overcost belonging to an employee. In another section of the store he appropriated two hsndsome toilet sets and a plate glass mirror.
 Believing that he is condemned to be hanged either st sunset or at sun- rise, and dreading to see either the beginning or end of day. Tom Kei- legher is being detained at Phoenix poe lice station pending inquiry into his sanity.
 David Reed has sold his orange grove located two miies west of Mess to Mir Herren, late of Ohio, the price paid being something more than $9O.- Oo0. Mir Reed will remain in thii section and will make his home ou property he owns near the grove.
 At Prescott, Jow Sing. . Chinese gardener of Miller valley is an ex- ceedingly happy Celestial this week for last Saturday he was reieased from the custody of the United Ststes who were trying to deport him. The in- terestinR part of the case is that the man was tired for the same offence in Tucson in 1901 and cleared. and his Tucson record was brought to Prescott to substantiste bis claim ol legitimate residence.
 Figures for production of the Cop per Queen and tbe 0 and 4 smelters for the month of November have been received and show increases of out put over the average months of the pact five or six years. closer approach Q. operating ct full capacity. In that month the Copper Queen turned out Il, ,3O0.O00 poundsgoi the red metal and the 0 & A 4,80O, 900, the prodoc- ton of the former including the pros duct from the concentrates shipped from Nacosari e is customary in give ing those 6Ruree.
 Woodrow Wilson has declined the invitation of Mayor Lloyd B Cbristy oi Phoenix to yisit that city during the time of the midwinter festival The presidens-elecs will not come west prior to bic inauguration, owing to the demands which are msde upon bis time.
 Navajo county cannot be complain cd of ss . race suicide proposition almost averaged . birth dsy for the past year.
 Nstiooal Democratic Committee man Reese M Ling left Tor New York on . business trip which will keep him iu the east for several weeks. In ell probability be will visit washipg- son while hs is os bis trsvsla::