Tombstone epitaph., 1913-04-27
News of the State in Condensed Form

| re sent present prevailing there. The roperty holders are continually being -stered by requests for money and for the support of the state orces. So persistent are the requests hat they have already become uus Many of the property bold- | Ire are escaping to the American side # the line, so they say.
 Mics Gertrude Feel. 9O4 North Eighth street. Phoenix. who was 'e,zed with spinsl meningitis lsst week, was reported as improving. Miss Teel is IS years of sge. This is the only case of the disesse in that city at present, according to City Health Officer Sargent.
 Jack Willians, . shifs boss at the Old Dominion mine. at Globe. nar- rowly escaped death when he fell from . ladder in 6 rsise from the fifteenth level to the sixteenth. He was taken to the hospital immediately. and on examination wac shown to have 6 shoulder dislocated, besides other minor injuries. He will recover, ale though he may be confined to the hos. pital for some time.
 CD Reppy, one Of the best known residents of Florence. arrived in Globe recently and expects to spepd several days in the district looking after property interssts. MT Reppy prob ably is the oldest newspaper man in Arizops as he established the '1omb- s'one Epitaph in 1879 and published it for several years. He has sl-o con- ducted c newspaper in Florence and has wide acquaintance throughou, southern Arizona.
 The Liquor Dealers association ot the Royal Arch were hosts to the children of the orphans home Friday afternoon at a thester party at the opers house, where the movies of ths fire department of Tucson and othe' street scenes were shown. The out ing was . delight to the youDgsser' and the hosts felt we'll repaid at wit messing their enjoy ment.
 The superintendent Of schools igbi in Yuma county i, causing consider. able of stir. Petitions were circu lated for the recall of Superintendent
 Hess and he filed bis resignation which he later sithGrew. The friend of Hess claim he is being unjustlI aud grossly mistrested and are urginJ him to defy his enemies. The Super. intendent is . capable official, but il claimed to bs the victim of persona enemies.
 ID sa exciting game of better clas than the score indicates, the Temp high school baseball team defeated Mess high school on the varsity dis' mord, Tucson. Thursday mor hing b. . score of Is to9. IL was a frse.hit ting game. but many pretty play were pulled and the contest, tskini it as c whole. was . thriller.
 F Mondar, acrobat, and F f Adams. contortionist, who were lef iu jail in the wake fthe circus. fitted the csge shortly after midnight Sun, day. They made their escspe througl use of their professional tslents, go ing out of .the roof of the Tucsor prison.
 Farmers from the middle west or, fiockirg to the Dendora valley, eighty five miles west of Phoenix on the Gil, river. T~eu,y-fve families moe. o them from Missouri and Illinois, hay, settled in the valley and they hav' sufficient money to enable them to gt about the redemption of the valley ir the right way. The farmers will probably ec into she raising of Egyp. tisn cotton.
 Mesger particulsrs of . shooting scr.pe were learned as having occurred st Congress Japcsion in which Mex. icsn wss killed by James Rivers, the latter using . .45-cslibre Colt revolv- CT, and death followed instantly. The two men had had differences On the range. where both were employed e sheepherders.
 Yuma wss visited by the fire fend sud for half an hour 1t looked like red ruin would sweep . eonsidersble por- tion of the business district. The wind wss high and conditions were favorable, but . splendid fire fighting organization, magnificent water ::pres. sure and good luck won the dsy.
 Ats meeting oi the Globe city $500 wss appropriated by he city for decorations and lighting or the Elks reunion. After the sp- ,ropristiop wse made, sn oficial of | EIks announced they were going c