Tombstone epitaph., 1913-02-16
STATE ITEMS OF ,m- TEREsT CONDENSED.

The board ci tesde has received sn ( Inquiry from Little Rock. Arksnsas or one hundred head 0i brood mares. Many settlers are arriving daily ID san Simon and are buying or taking ID land in that artesian..water dis tsict. according to Renwick White, ,ditor and publisher of 'he San Simon Artesian Belt. He believes it will be only short time before the entire district viii bs . thickly populated region. producing 9ua"- titles of farm produce. A Washington dispatch ssys;-
 William Jennings Bryan Jr has given up his home here. resigned the presidency oi the freshman class of the Georgetown University law school, and gone to Tucson, Arizona. It became known here last night. be- cause of the illness of bis wife.
 Dr F w Randall, city health officer, is strongly in favor of mu,zling every dog in Douglas. unless the animsIs are kept chained up. according to |" statement made by him recently. This opinion is based upon the fact that several children were recently bitten by dogs known to have rAbies.
 At Douglas, Louis Elias, the six- teen-year-old son of Juan Eiiss, who shot and killed Roche Snays, was ex- onerated from all blame by . cor oner's jury.
 William Grant. fireman at the Cop. per Queen power house, wss found aimlessly walking about the streets of Lowell one morning. When Charles Riley approached to inquire into the cause of Grants behavior, he found him speechless and apparently men tally unbalanced. An automo- bile conveyed Grant to the Copper Queen hospital. where physicians have examined Grant, but have been unable to find the cause of bis plight. Grant is slowly recovering but his mind is yet . blank.
 One of the best strikes of the Chiri- cAhua mountains, has been made at the Willie Rose Copper company mines about fourteen miles south of San Simon.
 An effort is boing made to have the Southern Pacific company move its stock yards away from the station st San Simon.
 An itinerary is now being planned for series of health lectures to be de' livered throughout the state by lec- tu,ers under tue auspices oi the Uni- versity of Arizona and the Arizons Medical association The party will include two members of tine associs- tion. . representative of the Ameri- can Medical association and Dl Charles A Meserve, state chemist.
 Colonel Cordovs, one of the few rebel leaders, who is known to be iu Sonora ct the present time with ( force of about lG0 men. took the town of Lsmpazos last Tuesday and robbed the company store to the ex' tent of about $l 900 in merchandise and took eff the horses sD5 saddles in the town, but returned most ol them before he left when asked to do so by the owners.
 The new federal building in Phoe- nix is 60 near completed thst the quarters to be occupied by the poet- office will be ready March l, at which time the postofics will bs moved. The building is eaid to bs the most expensive built. considering its size, in the United Ststes. Congressional spprcpriations for the local building have aggregated Si70 .S06. of which S155, 900 will be spent on the etruc- tuFe alone.
 Vice President-elect Msssbali spent Saturday in Chsrdler e the guest Of the Chandler Ranch Land company. and Dr Chandler. The vice president wss greatly interested in every thing and was most enthusiastic about the valley and iss fsrms.
 JP Cudsby and wm c wiossesd returned so Patagonia from sbs cosss early lsst week. Ms Winstead is Mr Cudshy's private secretary sod be stated that either one or both of them would return ::to the district in tbe coarss of six weeks. oHe did not ssy just ~bat properties Cudshy would in- vest in, but said that he was greatly pleased with the district.
 A plan that will probably discour. age jail birds, will be tried out by the board of supervisors e scon % the rainy weather is over. A resolution has recently beea passed providing that when four or mors prisooes srs in the county jsil for comparatively long terms. thsy shsll bs stvss . pisk