The Winslow mail., 1913-08-16
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Owe :
the State Mentioned Briefly.

dC HnOenlX, NOV. SO.
The total valuation of the state for
tax purposes is near $370,000,00O.
George Beebe, ten years old, suf-
fered broken arm in a runaway at
Tucson.
The new Masonic temple at Globe
will be ready for occupancy about
Sept. 1st.
Articles of incorporation of the Rap
i'd Transit Company of Phoenix have
been filed with the corporation com
mission.
A rousing welcome was given E. M.
Dickerman by Tucson Elks when he
returned from the national convention
at Rochester.
Nathan 7. News of Tucson was sen.
fenced to the penitentiary for term
of from one to fourteen years. He
pleaded guilty to forgery.
DR.. w. A. Baker has been appoint
ed member of the dental examining
board for term ending January 1,
1917, by Governor Hunt.
Getting hunters instead of mar
riage license at Mamonomee, Wis.,, de-
layed the wedding of Robert Connell
of Prescott and Miss Bonnell for ten
days.
The members of the Blue Lodge of
Masons at Phoenix are planning the
erection of a 100000 four-story COM
bination mercantile building and Ma
sonic temple.
The golden harvest of the alfalfa
seed crop is being threshed in the
Yuma valley and stories Of phenome-
nal yields are coming in with each
recurring day.
At the meeting of the board of SUI
pervisors at Tombstone H. H. Hotch-
kiss, superintendent of schools of Co
chise county, rendered his resignation
to the board
Considerable headway in the organ
ization of the Northern Arizona Fair
Association was made at an enthusias
tic session of the enlarged Chamber
of Commerce fair committee at Pres
colt.
A total of $6,S58.02, the amount re-
naming of the enabling act fund after
all disbursements had been made, &C
cording to law, has been turned over
by Governor Hunt to the State Board
of Control.
No movement to refer the eight
hour law for women has developed
by it are disposed not to offer opposi-
ton. The law will go into effect Au-
gust II.
C. H. Brabbin, twenty-siX years old,
was instantly killed at Douglas when
in tapping parallel circuit at the C. g.
A. smelter he grasped two live wires.
believing one to be dead, and thus
completed the circuit.
While engaged in chloriding in the
old deserted Triple x mine three
miles from Tombstone Louis Lambar.
BIZ aged fifty-three, miner and old
time resident, was killed by the cave.
in of a stope.
Claiming that he had had trouble
with his wife of four months because
she would not allow him to share his
trunk with her, Juan Espinosa, a sec.
tion hand on the E. P. & S. W., living
about one mile east of Douglas, delib-
erately went home from his work, sc
it is stated, and shot his wife, the bul.
let entering the left temple and emerg.
ing from the right side of her face.
The $175,000 estate of William ].
Palms of Tucson was divided half and
half between Mrs. Vera Brabb and
Palms relatives by agreement. Arthur
]. Lacy, the Detroit lawyer who drew
the will and put in a bill for $4,000
gets nothing, except what Mrs. Brabh
may choose to pay him. N. E. Plumer,
the executor received $4,000 and John
B. Wright, Plumer's attorney, $4,000.
Chas. Schmidt, the well-known mine
owner, operating near Alto on the S.
F. P. & P. railway to the west OF Pres
colt, about five miles, had miracu
lOuS GSCdpS l1Oul dCdCl1 O1A hOA OOdJ
afternoon by a cave-in from four to
five tons of rock, while working alone
in the shaft. The timely appearance
of his partner, however, saved
Schmidt from what would have been
death by suffocation.
Charles NJ. Osborne, secretary of
the State Board of Prison Control,
went to Benson to investigate charges
of brutality against A. L. Harper,
superintendent Of Arizona reform
school, which, if sustained, Governor
Hunt says will result in the removal
of Harper Twelve boys were lashed
twenty-five times with a strap on
June 28 Another lad received forty
five lashes and another 107 lashes.
Robert Gray, eighteen, of Douglas,
who was one OF the boys beaten, made
the charge. Over a telephone Harper
admitted that the boys were whipped
with straps and said that the beat
ings were to discipline them for con-
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