The Winslow mail., 1913-06-28
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

Tempe road
An experiment station at Cochise.
seems now to be assured.
Six prisoners were granted paroles
by the state parole board.
State land commission, says school
lands may be leased for two years.
Five murderers have been reprived
by Governor Hunt until Dec. 19, 1914.
John Day died at hotel in, Tucson
from too large an injection of some
opiate
A train load a day of Imperial
Valley cantaloupes is the regular
thing now
Carl Rice, manager of the Superior
and Boston mine, near Globe, died of
pneumonia.
Great activity is being shown at the
Four Metals mine, located about six
teen miles from Patagonia
The Phoenix business mems excur.
sion to Winkelman, Hayden and Ray
was a success from start to finish.
Bisbeeites will get their mail on
Sunday if plans now being worked out
by Postmaster Cassidy are successful.
Work on the Inspirations huge mill
site and concentrator building at
Miami will proceed without further de-
lay.
Ray Swain, of Tombstone, was ar
rested in Los Angeles on the charge
of wife desertion, and held under $5,'
900 bonds.
Another election will be held in
Globe for the purpose of determining
what site the new high school build
ing shall occupy.
Edgar A. Brown of Flagstaff has
been chosen rate expert for the Ari-
zona corporation commission sue
ceeding the late Charles A. Smith.
Thomas Edwin Parish, writer of
early Western history and author of
Gold Hunters OF California" was
appointed State Historian of Arizona.
Francisco Mollenedo, a Mexican
boy living with his parents in Par
ker died following a short sickness,
the cause being cerebro spinal menen-
gifts.
The late spring apparently gave
especial vigor to the first crop of al
faIfa, and the farmers harvested an
average of over one and half tons
per acre.
j. T. Airhart, better known as "Uncle
Jimmie aged about fifty years,
thought to be native of Ohio, died
suddenly at Douglas in cell of the
city Jail.
At Globe another large damage suit
was filed in the Supreme Court by
Benjamin c. Nevin against the Miami
Copper Company, asking for $25,00Q,
for the loss of an eye.
J. H. Cooper who has been made
superintendent of the American Girl
Mine, at Yuma, which recently passed
to new ownership, is making prepa-
ration to reopen work on the mine
which has been idle for some time.
Three men were injured, two posi-
bly, fatally, and three others are un-
der arrest as result of an outbreak
of an old factional fight at Rowie,
when a special election was held and
Justice of the Peace Hendricks re-
called.
Fighting off his pursuers in El Paso,
Henry W. Chase, or w. H. Chase,
wanted in Douglas on a charge of
giving $3.50 check on Phoenix bank
to a Douglas auto concern without
having funds in bank, escaped to
Juarez
The United States Gypsum Com
pany, operating about twenty miles
west of Blythe, will within the next
few days start up it's new well drill
ing outfit, prepared to prospect for
water to a depth of three thousand
feet if necessary.
branch land office in Tucson has been
favorably considered by Secretary
Lane of the interior department is in
dicated in a congratulatory letter from
Senator Henry F. Ashurst received by
the chamber of commerce.
While examining the workings of
the old Copperosity mine south of
Casa Grande, G. M. Gooding, a min
ifig engineer, fell from ladder in
a shaft and sustained injuries from
which he died while being rushed in
an auto to Casa Grande.
In an accident which occurred on
Fish Creek hill, Glen Cullen of Phoe- |
nix was thrown ninety feet down the |
side of the hill and escaped with only |
a few bruises. A frightened horse
which caused all the trouble rolled
500 feet down the hill and was killed.
Sweeping reductions on all freight
rates from California points to Tue
son., as we'll as to other points in Ari-
IONA and New Mexico, to go in effect
On July Is, according to announce
ments of the traffic department of