The Winslow mail., 1913-09-06
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
Important Happenings Occurring Owe.
the State Mentioned Briefly.

dDdI6u.
1t is stated that restaurant owners
at Prescott are ignoring the womens
eight-hour law.
Thieves stole $500 from Chinaman
who runs the noodle joint in China
town at Phoenix
Three entries have been made to
the Los Angeles-San Diego-Phoenix
road race for the fall.
The fifth semi-annual meeting of the
Stock Growers Association of Cochise
county was held at Bisbee.
The championship of the Gila coun-
ty tennis singles went to H. T. Cowen
by the default of F. S. Naething.
The prisoners in the county Jail at
Tucson went on hunger strike-for
a short time-then resumed eating.
The Board of Supervisors of Pinal
county fixed the tax levy for the year
1914 at $1.3O on the $1OO valuation.
Silas Simpson, miner, aged about
40 years, was instantly killed in a cave
in on the 20O-foot level of the Holbrook
mine.
Work on the state highway under
the direction of Assistant Engineer
Barlow will begin soon in Santa Cruz
county.
Fire of an unknown origin at Phoe-
nix destroyed the Donotrio building
and a stock of furniture, the loss be-
ing $500.
Miguel Norlega, charged with the
murder of Jim Walker of Glendale.
was arraigned at Phoenix and was
held without bail.
Jose Torres was arrested at Tucson
on warrant charging aggravated as
sault. He is alleged to have shot at
Cosnelo Acevedo.
A thoroughbred stallion has been
presented to the agricultural depart
ment of the University of Arizona by
J. H. Jack of Bisbee.
Damaso Rodriguez, aged 48, died at
the Calumet hospital in Douglas as the
result of burns sustained at the C. &
A. smelter and complications.
A hot reply has been filed by
George B. Pruitt, deputy sheriff OF
Jerome, who is being sued for $4,000
by M. NJ. Gordon of the same place.
w. E. Golding, who lived with his
family at 851 Eighteenth street in
Douglas, was found dead, lying on the
bench in front of the Murphy restau.
rant
Mat Keedan and Edwin Parsons
were in Bisbee with some fine speci-
mems of cantaloupes, watermelons and
tomatoes grown in the Sulphur Spring
valley.
An attack with pebbles and water
melon rind was made on the Mexican
Baptist mission at Tucson while serv-
ices were in progress, supposedly by
Mexican boys.
Lorencio Robes, who was arrested
at Douglas on complaint of Guadalupe
Martinez, was given a preliminary
hearing before Justice Maclay on the
charge of rape.
The board of directors of the Young
Women's Christian Association of
Phoenix has chosen Miss Jessie Name
of Pasadena as general secretary for
the organization.
An American named Cook and
Mexican named Paz Figuera had an
alteration in a club saloon at Yuma,
down and had his neck broken.
Appropriate exercises were held at
the Erie schoolhouse, five miles north
west of Douglas, on the Cortland road,
to celebrate the completion of the new
$1,000 addition to the schoolhouse.
The 3-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Dominick Rabogliatti was almost in
stantly killed when an automobile
driven by Frank Hon went over the
bank of the big hill just outside of
Globe.
A telegram to President Wilson, re-
questing him to set aside the embargo
on expectation of arms to the Mexican
revolutionists was sent by leaders of
the Sonora state troops at Douglas.
Destitute, without money, and with,
out friends, Mr.. and Mrs Charley Du-
vail of Tecna were stranded in Tucson
after one of the strangest races which |
a husband ever followed after a wife. |
Whether Yuma county shall issue |
100000 worth of bonds for the pur-
pose of building roads and improving |
her present highways will be decided
at a special election called for Sep
tember 27.
A motion for the release on bond of
j. w. Richards, postmaster of Apache,
who shot and killed Constable j. w.
Miller, was heard in the Superior
court at Tombstone, and the request
denied and the prisoner remanded to
jail.
The Arizona Egyptian Cotton Com
pany has entered into a contract with
w J. Tucker for the construction of
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