The Winslow mail., 1913-10-04
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
Important Happenings Occurring Owe
the State Mentioned Briefly.

OISdHlZ0u dL bOWl0.
A bridge will be constructed over
the Colorado river at Yuma
The state bridge across the Salt
river at Tempe has been completed.
The annual conference of the Metho-
dist church of Arizona was held in
Kingman.
Governor Hunt signed a pardon for
Harry Spencer, restoring to the mali
his citizenship.
Contracts for s134,554.33 worth OF
street paving were let by the City
Council of Phoenix.
Kan Wo pleaded guilty in the Su
perior court at Tucson to beating his
wife and asked to be paroled.
Judge w. H. Sawtelle has issued an
order for United States grand jury
to convene at Phoenix, Oct. 20.
A fire of unknown origin badly dam
aged the interior Of the warehouse at
the c. & A. smelter in Douglas.
The Tucson Indian Training school
opened for the fall term with 142 stu
dents, mainly Pimas and Papagoes.
Juan Lopez plead guilty at Tomb
stone to burglarizing store and was
| given sentence of from one to five
years.
By vote of rs to 2, voters of Flor,
ence granted light and water fran
chise to the Florence improvement
Company.
Mrs. Anna Hirst of Douglas was ap-
| pointed school probationary officer for
the city, without salary by the Supe-
rior Court.
Aurelio Valencia, who was found
guilty of burglary at Tombstone, was
given sentence of from one to fiji
teen years.
With the price OF copper keeping up
and every indication that it will go
higher, the mining industry in the Pat
agonia district has revived.
Collector of Customs Con OKeefe
of the district of Arizona has resigned
and Deputy Collector w. T. Fitzher-
bert and others are candidates for the
| $500 place.
John King, a colored trooper from
the Ninth cavalry, was arrested at
Douglas on the charge of forgery, and
is in the branch county jail in de-
fault of $1,000 bond.
Taxes are now due. Those who have
not paid up to the county treasurers
by December will owe four per cent
additional, besides interest at the rate
of ten per cent year.
Captain Schultz of the Ninth caval-
ry, located at Douglas, has been di-
rected to make detail of his best
men to attend the Arizona state fair,
the week of November 3-8.
Suit was filed in Santa Cruz Coun-
ty Court for the annulment OF the tax
assessment made against the Worlds
Fair mine, owned and operated by Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Powers.
The discharge of City Attorney J. F.
Ross and appointment of Jurge d. A.
Richardson to fill his place, the resig
nation of Alderman d. j. Danihy and
appointment of o. e. Jones to fill the
vacancy and the discussion of the
muddle in which the council finds it
self on account of making a city tax
levy contrary to law were features OF
recent meeting of the City Council
of Douglas.
The following ten mining men have
received appointment from Governor
Hunt to represent Arizona at the an
nual convention of the American Min
ing Congress, to be held at Philadel-
phia, Oct 20 to 24: E. Britton Colts
berger; c. E. Mills, Miami; Horton
Jones, Clifton; l.. S. Gates, Ray;
Stewart w. French Bisbee; P. G.
Beckett, Globe; Charles Grimes, Oat-
man, Mohave county; ]. L. Sizer, Dos
Cabezas; Joseph CASTOR, Ajo, Pima
county
Within the next thirty days the at
tractive new administration building
of the Phoenix United States Indian
school, north of Phoenix, will be COM
pleted.
In a proclamation, Governor Hunt
says: "In connection with the seventh
International Purity Congress, which
will be in session from November TIN
to 18th, at Minneapolis, Mimi, under
the direction of the Worlds Purity
Federation, proposal has been made
which l heartily commend to the citi-
zens of Arizona, namely that Sunday
November 9th, 1918, be designated
Purity Sunday and be observed by
churches fraternal orders and kim
dred organizations for the promotion
of social and personal purity. The de
voting of this day to the fostering or
those influences which supplant disas-
trous ignorance with that knowledge
of the sanctity OF sex relations which
enhance health and happiness. should
be a potent factor for wholesome en-
vironment and exalted parenthOod.
Such a movement is, in my opinion,