Tombstone epitaph., 1913-07-06
News of the State in Condensed Form

rear sbe managed to start . move. nens which is expected to result in Arisoos being relieved O: much of the burden of caring for indigents who some from the east on account of 'heir health. Miss GiIehrist will esve Phoenix next Tussdsy.
 At Tucson, the finance committee of the Southern Arizona fair raised the total to S16.9OO last Wednesday night. Subscriptions to the amount of $l5n0 were secursd from the fol- lowing. Csssnovs & ssrvin, Alex Mckay & Arias, Boyd & Thresher, J Toriashi. Heimbsck & Decker and O'Keefe & Lee.
 With the highest psaises of Ari- sons's climate and the expectation o' rsturnins to invest in Phoenix 'eslty Tn, mas L Zook of Columbus, Ohio.' left for .Cochiss county. He spsn; several days in Phoenix. visiting Tax Com missioner Charles R Howe, and in Cochise he will visit other old friends.
 The Warren postmastersbip is the immediate matter of interest to pci ticians in the district. It has been 90 since official information was received last week of annullment of the order for the holding of examination under
 civil service rules for selection of . postmaster.
 For the purpose of collecting data
 on Arisona's new mine tax law. R H
 Vail, assistant editor Of the Engineer
 ing and Mining Journal. New York
 publication of national importance,
 arrived in Phoenix this week. He
 spent some tims looking over records in the office of the state tex conmis- sion
 With sixteen strikebresksrs in Phoenix, having arrived on the early
 morning Santa Fe train from Cali fornis points and landed at Six Points
 the Phoeni1 Railway company promo ised to resume service Monday after.
 noon. Until late hour, however. DO car was seen dos D town. Preparations for the barbecue in
 rombstone on the Fourth are under
 way. The beeves have been slsugh-
 tered and put in cold storage. Don't fail to be one of us.
 A profit of $6-O on two acres of
 sweet potatoes opened the eyes of
 John Harrison of McNesl to the
 profits to be made in this crop. As .
 result he has planted 40 acres in this
 crop this season and anticipates, with
 average luck. securing . profit of sev.
 ersl thousand dollsrs. He is irriga-
 ting the tract by pumping. having . three-inch pump driven by . gasoline engine.
 A fire which broke out in the upper story of the Globe Building company's strocture in which the postof6cs is located, on South Brood street, threatened the business section of Globe. did damage estimated all the way from 5000 to 5000 and during the blaze the lives oi several frsmen were endangered by . number of cartridges exploding The origin of the fire is not known.
 U s Land Commissioner J D Taylor has returned to Bisbse from . trip in the San Pedro valley. He reports that there is much activity there with many settlers who have taken up bomssteads moving onto their lands. Hou. es are going up all over and those who have been there some little time have already broken their ground and expect crop thie .cmme:. Others are devoting their energies to home building and are waiting for the rsins before breaking ground.
 The corousr's jury brought in . verdict of taking carbolic scid through mistake" in the case of W J Clino, who vss found dead with . ! smsll vial of the acid beside him, ct i! Bi-bse. It developed in the testi- mony that be wss in the habit of us- l ing pure alcohol thst ws. kept in the | houss. On the night of his death | the alcohol bottle happened so be empty, but bottle of carbolic acid, about the came size, but bearing the poison warning, stood beside it.
 Aueus McIver and Fl B Haiebt eompese . team of driIlsrs which will in the drilling oonsess to be held st GIobs on the Fourth oi July. The men have sent in theis spplica. Eious and arc confident that they sill ss their 0lobe cootemporsTiss know hey hsvs beso drilling before they ,eospt defeat A price of 500 will be Iivsa the viotorioos driIlers and the went psomisss to bs one oi the iss.