Tombstone epitaph., 1913-01-12
STATE ITEMS OF .s- TEREST CONDENSED.

The state highway from the Globe Indian reservation line, near Geroni- mo. to Pima, is being surveyed by Engineers Joe DeSouza end FIR Goodwin, aseisted by two honor con-. victs from the Globe Ray camp. It is possible that the line will be sur- veyed beyond Pima. which is over the Graham county line. While Elmer Liner was driving his automobile to Miami, two masked men attempted to hold him up. They stepped out of . clump of cotton ood trees, pointed revolvers at his head and ordered him to step. Instead of ooeying. Liner put on high speed. Two shots were fred after the car, bat neither struck the machine.
 The new exchange and cable eye. tenn of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company was put to work Sunday morning at Douglss.
 Frank McGee of Globe, was shot in the back Friday, while talking to his mother. whom he was visiting ip Ell Paso- McGee vas sssading with his back to 6 window when he was ac- cidentslly shot io the back. It is be- lieved the bullet came from the Mexi- can side of the river, As no one in the neighborhood heard the report when the shot was fired.
 4 petition is being circulated in Douglas for the call for an election for new city chsr'er.
 A peculiar circumstance attended the Kidnapping of . child in Phoenix when the cbild's owa mother stole her five-yesr-old daughter. The child had been taken away from the mother and placed in 6 Glendale home. The mother, accompanied by man, CD route to Glendale in buggy, met the child with it's custodian. Asking to kiss the baby, she was allowed to do SO, and as she took the child in her arms, the man with her drove on at srapid rate of speed.
 While on his way to spend the night with friend, Larry Swanson, night foreman of the Inspiration mine at Miami. was held up and robbed by two companions with whom he had come from Miami to Globe. One of the men was captured but the other one got away.
 Work is to bv begun at once on the high tension line from the Roosevelt dam to Miami and Globe for the pur- pose oss7sst q supply ing power end Iigh. to the mine: ne:snsa-towus. The line will be capable of carrying 45 900 volts.
 Eastern :c.pitalists have bought Pat McHugh's property as Ghristn ss for sl5O.OOO The McHugh claims are known ss the Shamrock group .aa s.c purely scientific r:opo::::cs. There is DO ore in sight. but experts claim that there mrst be great ore bodies at depth of 400 to 600 feet.
 John Cheney. of Frescott, died in the Pioneers' Home in that city Sst- urdsy. He was S6 yesrs of age and has lived in Arizona e:nce 1862. He assisted in the laying out Of the city of Prescott.
 Ten carioads of cattle, comprising about 300 head of the beet Salt river valley Esttened bee', went out of Pboe. nix Ss. urdsy. consigned to San Diego.
 Chief ol Police Moore of Ptoenix will be the dramatic critic at "The Third Degree"s, the theater Thurs- day night. The Republican, Of Phoe- nix, has induced the chief to criticiss the play from the standpoint of being perfectly familiar with the details of the very incident about which the story of the play is woven.
 Melville Greenlsai, sheriff of Yuma county, was married to Margaret E Payne.
 The bonds recently issued by the Yuma high school dietrict have been bought by . Denver company for &60.o00. This is premium of $50.
 At Giots, four live turkeys d;s. played in shs front of local butcher shop go. intos 6ghr rrba t'cted . plate glAss window into ;he strest.
 The stockholders of the Firss Ns- tionel Bank and the Arizona Bank & Trust company of Douglas. received checks for dividend of 10 per cent che first Of the year-
 The governors of the Wster Users' association granted the homestssders on the south side under She Western and Highline cansls. near Phoenix, until the end Of the fscal year to make payment of power assessments, which amount to $4 50.
 The new election on the charter for the city Of Phoenix will be held Msy c,