The Winslow mail., 1913-09-20
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring ove'
the State Mentioned Briefly.

1Ol euCe handsome new SCnOOl
building is completed.
Neal Broaded injured three men in
a shooting scrape at Kingman.
A big new smelter is to be built
near Burch in the near future.
Water has been struck at depth of
1876 feet in the we'll on the fair site
at Tucson.
Pinal county's school assessment
has been reduced from 19 cents to )
cents on each S100.
Twenty boys, who escaped from
Benson, were taken to Fort Grant in
a special car.
John Hayes, a track inspector on
the section west of CLAWS, was run
down and killed by a train.
The classification for the better
babies contest of the Southern Ari-
zona fair have been announced
Bids for the San Carlos bridges for
which $4,000 in government funds are
now available are to be received on
September %.
At a meeting of the Bisbee city
council, the tax rate of the city for
the ensuing year was fixed at $3.50 on
the 800 valuation.
One spinal meningitis case, the first
since the rigorous quarantine of last
winter, has been reported to the
health authOritiaS at Richoa
/. Jesus Osorio and Jose Ramirez con-
fined for burglary, sawed their way to
liberty from their cell in the Douglas
jail and made good their escape.
Congressman I Hayden has an
nounced that he will not be candi-
date for governor, but will ask re-
election as congressman.
While riding from his work at TWIN
Springs to his home in Lost Gulch
near Globe J. A. RED" Carmichael
was instantly killed by stroke of
lightning.
"The industrial department of the
Southern Arizona fair will show the
progress made in this field by this
young, but enterprising state," said
Secretary John F. Myers.
Formal organization of the "Wom-
ems Moral and Civic Society" was ef-
fected at well attended mass meet.
ing held in the Superior Court room Of
the county building at Globe.
Sam Hartsfield, aged thirty-two, of
BiSbee was shot twice and almost in
stantly killed by his partner, C. J.
Winters. After Winters and his wife
told their story to the coroner's jury
he was exonerated.
The preliminary survey of the Car
umet & Arizona railroad to the A10
mines has progressed three-fourth of
the distance. Two lines are being
run. One has been extended ninety
miles the other sixty.
Sheriff Haynes discovered plot 90
free forty-seven prisoners from the
county Jail at Globe. A steel wall
from cell to corridor was nearly
sawed through. The projected jail
delivery was exposed by a former
prisoner.
The tenth anniversary of the found
ing of the Carnegie Desert laboratory
will be celebrated on Saturday, Sep
tember 20, by banquet to twenty-five
visiting scientists who will visit Tue
son as guests of the American Phyto-
GeOgraDhicaI society
Copper Queen engineers have re-
Gently made careful examination of
the Red Rover mine, fifty miles north
of Phoenix, on Cave creek If a deal
now under way is consummated the
Copper Queen company will take over
the property under a working bond
and option.
Engineer c. J. Berg of the Chand-
Ter Improvement Company has or
dered his corps to lay out three more
sections of land as the demand for
one thousand acres of land must be
ready for the market by the first of
November.
Probably the baseball career Of
Frank Doran, both as an arbitrator
and in a uniform, was Terminated
when his left foot was badly crushed
on hogback near the Black Warrior
mine at Globe. Surgeons at the Mi
ami-Inspiration hospital fear that the
foot will have to be amputated
Miss Claire Simpsons request for a
jury of women was denied at Tucson
when she was placed on trial in po-
lice Court for having worn on the
street an X-ray gown, and the magis
trate acquitted her because he could
not determine whether pink tights
worn beneath the gown were immod-
est.
Travelling from the coast to join his
wife and two children at their home
in Phoenix, De Witt Brown, i'll but
joyful at the prospects of the reunion,
went out upon the rear platform OF
the train at Seligman Sudden
tO1av-