The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-07-04
AROUND THE STATE NOTES

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Two school teachers from the east
called at a local employment agency
in Tucson for teaching positions yes
terday morning. One wanted high
school position while the other was
satisfied with teaching rural school.
News has reached Tucson by tele
phone that one Pete Baca, familiarly
known as "Dago Pete a Mexican
lcowman living at Copper Creek, was
shot and instantly killed by Mexi-
can cowboy.
| Chief of Police Moore of Phoenix,
will have a gas tank built for killing
the citys stray dogs.
| To be the parents of twins, and to
have them die within a year and
within a month of each other, is the
misfortune that has fallen to the lot
Globe.
Too deaf to hear the approach of a
freight car and switch engine or to
heed the warning of the switchman, /.
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the Southern Pacific railroad in Tue
son, was run down and killed in the
yards Just in front of the passenger
station He was 81 years of age and
leaves a wife and two children.
AS a result of an alteration be-
tween t. A. Yarbrough, prominent
cotton planter of Chandler and living
south of Chandler, and a hired man
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latter was shot in the right arm with
buckshot by his employer and is now
in Mesa after having his arm amputat-
ed, in a very precarious condition.
! President Wilson has signed the
bill appropriating $4,000 for the build
ing of a bridge across the Colorado
river at Yuma. The appropriations
for this bridge are now all made.
California and Arizona having each
appropriated a like sum at the recent
sessions of their legislature. AS the
money is now available for the build
ing of this bridge construction will
no doubt begin early this fall and the
bridge be completed during the win
ter.
Within a short time a five-stamr
mill will be in operation at the prop
erty of the Coronado Gold Mining
company at Rees, near Congress, &C
cording to advices from Prescott
Along with hundreds of feet o.
cement sidewalk that have recently
been laid in Lowell, that town ha:
now decided to add street paving ant
about 10000 square feet will be laid
Although ]. T. Airhart had a banl
account of SIS in Douglas when ht
died in the city Jail, his remains mus
be buried at the expense of the coun
ty. As strange as it may seem, the
law is such that the banl
cannot legally give up the money, 81
they say, until an administrator o
the estate has been appointed and the
: same administered in the regular way
That the Sulphur Spring valley is ;
successful wheat-growing country wa'
demonstrated when w. HATTIE, will
known farmer of the valley, brough
| to Douglas a sample of wheat which
: was raised on his farm. The whea
was raised by dry farming and Il
wonderfully developed.
: Deputy United States Marshal Rub'
Harpham is conducting an active
crusade against sellers of whiskey t.
Indians and sixteen men accused o
that offense have been lodged in the
; ella county Jail since the latest ses
sion of the federal grand jury, Apri
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By decision of the Arizona Corpora
5 ton Commission, Bisbee householder
will get water from Bisbee-Nac'
: Water Co at the rate of 81 per Az
} gallons or lesser quantity used pc
month For 500 gallons the charg
: will be 81 .05 and from 500 gallons VI
l to $4,000 gallons the charge will b.
: ! at the rate of 81 per 1000 gallons.