The Winslow mail., 1913-06-07
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

tally destroyed by fire.
The new Catholic church at Flor
ence has been dedicated.
The cornerstone for the new M. E..
church at San Simon has been laid.
Arrangements for the second annual
Arizona State fair are we'll under way.
1t is reported that the cattle sales
at Globe this year will total $490,O00
The Loyal Order of Moose of the
World will institute lodge in Miami
The brick walls of the new school
building at Florence are nearly com
| pleted.
Work on the new state highway con
Meeting Tempe and Phoenix has been
| started
/ San Simon will probably have
Get Together" meeting of business
men and ranchers soon.
Globe favors new septic tank sew.
or system. 1t is to be referred to the
taxpayers by the council.
City engineer of Globe, while under
his automobile, repairing it, was pain
fully bitten by centipede.
Chas. M. Bruce of Arizona has been
| appointed assistant commissioner of
the General Land Office at Washing.
ton.
Excited over disappearance of colts,
Webb Hultz, a Wyoming banker visit
ing Phoenix, dropped dead on the
street.
Louis Pratt, a lad sixteen years OF
age, broke into the Calzona postOf-
flee and stole a quantity of stamps
and about $14 in money.
A new Catholic church, to be built
of stone and brick at cost of 100000,
will be erected at Bisbee, on a site do
mated by James Higgins.
Louis Nash, son of Judge Nash, who
was arrested at Globe on charge of
perjury, was released on $4,000 bonds
furnished by two business men.
Clara Tilton and Minnie Pablo, two
Papago Indian girls, were sent to the
reform school by Judge Cooper of
Tucson, in the Juvenile Court in Pima
county.
John J. Gosper, former territorial
governor of Arizona, secretary of state
of Nebraska and an official in the
Civil War died in Los Angeles in
poverty.
E. ]. Vance, who has large farming
interests at Casa Grande, has had a
portion of his farm prepared and is
now having olive trees to the value
of $22,500 set out.
That a transcontinental highway
will not be built for several years is
the opinion of Senator Mark Smith
contained in letter to the Tucson
Chamber Of Commerce.
Probably the heaviest raises in tax
able values are being made on bust
ness property in st. Johns, the county
seat of Apache, according to Tax Com
missioner c. M. Zander.
The tax roll of Yavapai county for
the current year, as it was turned
over to the board of supervisors by
Assessor Campbell, ranges close to a
valuation of s35,O00,OO0.
Rag dancing, with all of it's sensu-
GUS import, must go, is the determi-
nation of the Phoenix Civic League, of
which Mrs. Brady O'Neil is the presi-
dent, and Mrs. Ruth Biddings the sew
retary.
That clause of the state weights and
measure law which requires the cor
rect weight of each package to be
marked upon it is on trial at Phoenix
in the Supreme Court tc test constitu-
ionality.
Ebert Hubbard, the "Sage. Of East |
Aurora" editor. writer and lecturer,
delivered one of his philosophical and
nspirational addresses to the prison
,rs at the Arizona state prison at
Florence.
Since Douglas has become an i'm
oortant shipping point, the various
.ailroad companies have found it nee
essary to send representatives to look I
after the freighting of ore and the |
shipping of cattle.
At the Magma Copper Company's
property in the Superior district of
oinal county, diamond drill explora
ion is proving very satisfactory, the
:hree shifts of drillers having made.
exceptionally rapid progress.
Members of Salt River Valley Cot
ON Growers Association will send
agents through the southern cotton
oelt in an effort to induce 250 white
families to come to Salt River valley
n the fall to handle Egyptian cotton.
Felix Rivera, a soldier in the Con-
stitutional garrison of the Aqua Prize
"a, OF Captain Cota's command, was
bound over to await the action of the
federal grand jury by U. S. Commis-
sioner A. M. Sames at Douglas, after
hearing, during which evidence was
introduced to prove that Rivera had
been apprehended in the act of snug