The Winslow mail., 1913-07-19
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
Important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

poluLeu SldI0 historian Dy Governor
Hunt.
Sam R. Bradner is again the Sec
retary of the Arizona Live Stock San
itary Board
The Copper Queen Mining Company
will construct a concentrator in the
Bisbee district.
Zonia, as coming copper produc
ing center, is attracting much atten.
tion at the present time.
The creation of a PARK commission
was authorized at special meeting
OF the county council at Tucson.
J. H. Stephens, a cattleman, went in
to saloon at Prescott and shot John
Lindell in the palm of his right hand.
Placing a 80 caliber revolver to her
temple and pulling the trigger Mrs.
Vincent Davis killed herself almost in
stantly at Bisbee.
Building and loan associations will
be taxed in Arizona this year for the
first time. This has been decided by
the state tax commission.
Competitive bids for the construc-
tion of the state highway from Tue
son to Vail will be received by the
board of supervisors on August 4.
Williams seeks to be the county
seat of a new county planned for won
derful development and as summer
playground for the people of the state
At depth of $50 feet the largest
artesian water flow ever before en-
Countered was struck on the ranch Of
N. L. White, two miles north of Here
ford.
Bob Truman, the sixteen-year-oId
speed demon, driving Bill Tremaine's
"Old Pope" was the only finisher in
the eighty-eight-mile Prescott loop
race.
An application of the state land
commission for the survey of three
and a half million acres in Arizona
has been granted by the General Land
Office.
Vanadium ore, running $500 to $40O
to the ton on ninety per cent of the
samples sent away, has been found by
Ed w. Blair, one of the best known
miners of the Warren district, near
Bisbee.
Leila Dalton of Bisbee was robbed
of diamonds to the value of more than
$500. Less than an hour later Officer
Brooks had the thief in custody and
little later returned the stolen prop
erty to it's owner.
Ernest Hooking, young English
man, fell ninety feet to death in the
Old Dominion mine at Globe. The
youth was horribly mangled by the
taken to the hospital.
A tragedy was narrowly averted in
front of restaurant in Globe when
Hinson Thomas, justice of the peace,
was attacked by Bill Mallory, it is
claimed on account of a court decision
rendered by the judge.
The state land commission selected
and located about 100000 acres of
land, covering the mesa which extends
from Florence north to the base of the
Superstition mountain and west from
the Mineral Hill and Reymert noun
tains to Higley and Mesa.
Cotton growers in the Salt River
valley have just perfected a new gin
ming process which it is claimed will
handle the fibre and seed in a way to
eliminate the wastes caused by the
old method and enable cotton grow
ers to get from $3.50 to SIS more per
bale than at present.
With a bullet hole through the up
per part of his right leg, and lying
in a dry irrigation ditch, Frank Gar
cia, one Of the three Mexican high
waymen who, it is charged stabbed
Night Policeman Charles Harris to
death at Phoenix, was found five
hours after the killing.
The flag flying above the Mexican
consulate was tonr down and trampled
here at Tucon. Reports of the Incl
dent vary, some saying the act was
committed by Americans, others that
the flag was desecrated by Mexican
sympathizers with the constitutional
movement in Sonora.
Unpitied, uncared for save by the
forces of nature, wandering alone, a
creature of God, with mind gone and
long since believed dead and devoured
by wild beasts, Richard C. Mckee is
now supposed 20 be the wild man seen
by "Jave" Reynolds, employed on the
cattle ranch of Charles Poison about
twelve miles southwest of Williams.
In a futile attempt to place under
arrest three Mexicans, at least two of
whom were armed with six-shOoters
and who had just held up and robbed
William Connolly machiniSt.
Charles Harris, special city policeman
in the employ of the Arizona Eastern
railroad at Phoenix, succumbed to
stab wound in the neck inflicted by
ono Of thp men who had henn hrOughT