The Winslow mail., 1913-08-09
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
Important Happenings Occurring Owe ;
the State Mentioned Briefly.

comes effective Aug 18th
1t is stated that Luther Price has
confessed killing Tom Wilson, at Bis
bee.
All children will be admitted free
to the state fair on children's day,
November 3.
Three men were burned by molten
metal at one of the converters at the
Copper Queen Smelter at Douglas.
Charles J. Eames, a mining man
from Nogales, swallowed a handful Of
bi-chloride of mercury tablets and
died at Tucson.
Governor Hunt has extended execu-
tive clemency to Mrs. Lulu Y. Car
ruthers, who was convicted of having
sold liquor at Mesa.
D. R. Springer, vanner foreman for
the Ray Consolidated Copper Com
pany, was accidentally electrocuted
while at work at Hayden.
The 1914 convention of the Arizona
Cattle Growers Association, which
Tucson on January and 6.
Three hundred names have al
heady been placed on the referendum
petition for the county seat removal
bill now being circulated at Tucson.
J. M. Hackett, proprietor of the
Rosario, one of the promising silver
properties in the Santa Ritas, near.
Tucson, has entered the list of ship
pers.
Former Justice G. w. Bartch of the
Supreme Court of Utah was in Tue
son to look into the claims of the
Mormons who were driven out of
Mexico.
Clerk A. C. Karger of the board of
supervisors reached the final figures
of the assessed value of Cochise coun-
ty for 1913. The grand total reached
to $88,432, ,604.31.
Supposedly as a result of domestic
troubles, Mrs. Gertrude Campbell, wife
of Elmer E. Campbell, shot and in
stantly killed herself at the family
residence in Douglas.
Secretary Garrison inspected Fort
Huachuaca at Tucson and decided
not to permit large tourist hotel to
be built on the military reservation,
as had been planned.
A great eagle, with a spread of sew
en- feet from tip to tip was captured
alive and is to be kept as a mascot
for the two troops of the Fifth U. S.
cavalry now stationed at Fort
Apache.
There are 2O4 school teachers in
Cochise county. Eight new school
districts have been established in
the county and fifteen new school
houses have been built in the past
twelve months.
That Gabriel Aguillar came to his
death as the result of a knife wound
administered by some person un-
known to the jury, was the verdict
rendered by the jury drawn by Coro-
ner R. S. Maclay to hold an inquest
at Douglas.
The Magma Copper Company is
still shipping about six carloads per
month, of their rich ore. But as soon
as their new power line and the cleo
trio equipment to be driven thereby,
are in operation, shipping will be
largely increased.
D. M Clark, the cattleman who was
reported lost, and for whom grave
fears as to his whereabouts were held
by his friends, arrived in Phoenix
with two thousand goats, the ones he
went after and is now safely at his
home with Mrs. Clark
Alexandra, Ramos must spend the
remainder of his life behind the pris-
on doors for the murder of Repeno
gree was the verdict brought in by the
jury at Phoenix, and the judge pro-
nounced sentence Immediately.
V. A. Young, Charles Brock and
Jack Gatlin, who were arraigned on
the charge of smuggling cattle, the
latter two also being accused of the
theft of the beasts, were bound over
for trial before Commissioner Taylor
of Bisbee, in the sum of $500 each.
The last day in camp at Camp
Hunt, Whipple Barracks, was the
busiest for the National Guard of
Arizona. From the moment the men
turned out of their tents to greet |
Governor George w. P. Hunt, until |
the last light was out, there was some
thing doing
Jose Villegos shot and killed him
self at Tucson because his fathers |
creditors were pressing him for their |
money His father, rancher near
San Xavier, died recently, heavily in
debt. Villegos was found by his
mother, two brothers and sisters 200 |
Yards from the house.
Harry Sackman is lying at
the Sisters Hospital at Phoenix with
three broken ribs, a development OF
+ ro nm atip D1pl1riSV thirteen stitches