The Winslow mail., 1913-08-02
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Ove.'
the State Mentioned Briefly.


| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A new school building will be built
at Phoenix.
The cantaloupe season at Yuma is
about over.
Work has been resumed on the old
Florence canal.
There is much building in many
lines at Morenci.
Postal officials estimate the popula
tion of Phoenix at 21,00O.
Three new buildings will be added
to the Normal group at Flagstaff.
The A. & N. M is erecting an at
tractive passenger station at Clifton
The demand for miners and men
employed about mines is increasing.
three-day sport carnival is being
planned for Tucson on Aug. 30-Sept.
Five prisoners made an unsuccess
full attempt to break out of Jail at
Tombstone.
Al Smoot, painter, was found dead
in his shack at Flagstaff, with his
head crushed in by blows from club.
The corporation commission has
promulgated its decision fixing cleo.
trio light ard power rates in Tucson.
A. w. Crittenden and associates
have taken bond and lease on the
Dixie mine in the Patagonia district.
Forest fires ragged in the Pinal noun.
most severe electrical storm of the
season.
Governor George W. P. Hunt, com.
mander-in-chief of the National Guard
of Arizona visited Camp Hunt at
Whipple barracks.
A. c.. Lockwood of Bisbee was ap.
pointed by Governor Hunt as superior
judge of Cochise county to succeed
Fred Sutter, resigned.
A project to water about 1000 acres
of the rich land in the Huachuca, 10.
Gated near Ramsey canon and extend
ing west, is now under way
OuC VI d LOldl Ol 4oU NOLGS cast IlO
proposed commission form of govern
ment in Douglas received 162 votes,
being defeated by majority of LOG.
Gabriel Aguilarg formerly captain
in the Mexican constitutionalist army,
was stabbed to death on the main
street at Douglas by Huerta sympa-
thizer.
The three-cent fare bill, known also
session of the Legislature over many
strenuous objections, has been re-
ferred.
A petition has been presented ask
ing the board of supervisors to call
special election at Parker so the vot-
ers can decide whether that city shall
have saloons.
J. P. Ivy was appointed state in
spector of apiaries by Governor G. w.
P. Hunt. The position carries with
it salary of $1,000 per year and trav-
cling and other expenses.
While lying on the railroad track in
the vicinity of Forest station, near Bis
bee, an unknown Mexican was instant
Iy killed when the train struck him
and hurled the body far in the air.
The city of Douglas is worth $4,-
489, ,469.19 plus an unstated amount of
personal property, the tax on which
amounts to $4,000 and which has been
collected by City Assessor Edward
Gleason during his rounds of assess
ing.
Laboring under a deluSion that he
still owned the house, William NAL
lory, a wealthy retired miner, invaded
the home of Mrs. J. c. McAllister at
Globe and attacked and nearly killed
her before she was rescued. He was
held for insanity.
Word was received at Nogales from
Phoenix to the effect that in future all
agricultural land in the state would be
taxed $50 per acre instead OF $25 per
acre; also, that grazing lands would
be assessed 81 per acre instead of 81
as in the past.
Remarkable strides are being made
by the state of Arizona along banking
and general financial lines. A report
Just issued by the state banking COM
missioner shows that deposits in the
national banks of the Southwestern |
state grew from SS,241,00O to $10,662,-
900, and state banks from Sl5,138,0OO |
to $19,514,000 in the past year.
This month will see the big cOncen- |
trating plant at Hayden running at its
full capacity. The eighth unit will be
opened up. 1t will then be matter
of but a short time until $4,000 tons
of ore will be mined, treated and |
shipped daily, and it is predicted that |
the eight units will be developed to |
capacity of 10000 tons daily, accord
ing to advices from Ray.
United States government agents
who returned to Douglas from the
Kickapoo Indian reservation in Sono-