The Winslow mail., 1913-06-14
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

Wilcox.
An ad club has been organized at
Douglas.
Fine Arizona peaches are on the
Tucson market.
Fort Yuma store, one of the land
marks, was destroyed by fire.
The copper production of Arizona
last year amounted to $2O0,OO0,O0O.
Only $6O9.99 remains in the procla-
nation and reward fund of the state.
The library building at the Superior
& Boston mine at Globe was destroyed
by fire.
Frank de Sousa has been elected
secretary of the state corporation COM
mission.
A company to build an apartment
house at cost Of s55,000 is being or
ganized at Tucson.
Drilling for oil has commenced at
Tanque Verde, on the property of the
Catalina Exploration Company.
A department of household eco
nomics is being established for the
fall term in the university at Tucson.
Tucson has appropriated $1,000 to
be added to the $1,000 appropriated
by the Legislature for $4,000
armory.
Six big mining companies are now
operating in the Jerome district, and
there is prospect of two more start
ing up soon.
Jim Jeffries and Barney Oldfield
will spend part of the summer in the
White mountains of Arizona hunting
and fishing.
Isaac Haynes of Nogales has been
appointed customs collector at Yuma
in place of Con O'Keif who recently
passed away.
The California appropriation OF
bridge across the Colorado river at
Yuma is now law.
The work being done by the forest
service on the Flagstaff to Williams
road is showing up in splendid shape
at the present time.
Crushed beneath a boulder which
fell from the roof of a drift in which
he was working, John Gays expired
at Gleesoa6sfter the accid&
Phoal res that employ women
will $3.50 a. m. and close at
5:3dV II. after July 15, when the
eight-hour law for women goes into
effect.
VIM, Stewart, sentenced to hang
Aug. 1 for the murder of Fred 'IEib-
bey, was taken from Phoenix, and is
now confined in the county Jail at
Globe.
Phoenix went wet by $50; Tempe
dry by 10, Mesa dry by small ma
jority Aqua Caliente voted wet, but
saloons are barred from the spring
grounds.
The Bisbee postoffice has the dis
tinction Of having more rented locked
mail boxes than any other office in
the United States, the total number
locally being 9,100.
tenn is working on it's new passenger
and freight depot In Lowell. The
structure will be 40x70 feet in dimen-
sions and will cost $4,000.
Trouble of serious nature is brew
ing between cattlemen and Indians in
the northern part of ella county and
the authorities fear that an open
clash at arms will be the result.
J. Dowsan and c. Gagnon, convict
ed counterfeiters who were to have
been taken to the federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, Ca, sawed their way
through the roof of the county Jail at
Phoenix and escaped.
Walter Sharp, life-termer, escaped
from the penitentiary at Florence on
May 30. Sharp was sent up from Co.
chise. The murder occurred at Baker
vile, near Lowell, in 1909 The vic
tim was l.. E. Mcdonald.
A severe loss was sustained by Ari-
zona, Cochise county and the Warren
district when Judge J.. NJ O'Connen
succumbed to pneumonia at the Cop
per Queen hospital after an illness of
a little more than week.
United States Marshal G. A. Over
lock passed through Tucson with
twenty prisoners bound for Atlanta.
They were sentenced to the federal
penitentiary at the recent term of the
United States District Court.
A proposition to build Tucson city
hall with a municipal market attach
ment at a cost of s150,000 for the
privilege of renting the market stalls
for a period Of twenty years will be
made to the city by Eastern capital
lists.
Basing the claims for recognition
on the ground that of the total inter
nal revenue derived from the dis