Duncan Arizonian., 1913-11-05
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Inc nome Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J.
Meier in Douglas was destroyed by
fire.
Gus Hansen, at Lake side, has COM
pleted what is said to be the first silo
in northern Arizona.
The contract for the new postoffice
site at Miami has been signed in ia
vor of the Live Oak street site.
Suit for $4,000 was brought in the
Federal Court against the Ray Con
solidated Copper Company by Clar-
ence A. Barrett.
Joaquin Miller, an oldtimer in the
Globe district and a musician CT note
throughout the Southwest, died very
suddenly at Globe
Ramon. Ybarra of Bisbee shot and
seriously injured Pedro Barola. Ybarra
was arrested and is held awaiting the
outcome of Barola's injuries.
A hay warehouse belonging to Al
fred ]. Peters & Co., of Tempe was en-
tirely consumed, with fifteen hundred
tons of grain and hay, by fire.
The case of the State VS.. Harvey
Hughes, charged with the murder OF
J. M. McCampbell, was dismissed by
the Criminal Court at Tombstone.
A census is being taken of the In
dians in the southwest by Vincent
Natalish. a full-blooded Apache In
dian and supervisor in the United
States service.
The Farmers Short Course will be
held at Tucson Jan. SIT, and plans
are being made for a program that
will be of interest not only to men
but to women also.
William King, convicted Of forgery
in the Criminal Court at Tombstone,
was sentenced to serve term of from
one to fourteen years in the state
penitentiary at Florence.
According to report made public
by the State Corporation Commission
$2,827 59991 was collected in Arizona
by insurance companies between Jam
uary 1, 1912, and June 80, 1913.
Governor Hunt signed papers re-
storing rights of citizenship to Will
liam Connors, a resident of Yavapai
county who was paroled from the peni-
tentiary in 1907 by Governor Kibbey.
Whether case Of illegal liquor
selling can be transferred from a wet
to dry precinct is a knotty law
point that was argued before the SUI
preme Court of Arizona at Phoenix.
Everything at the industrial school
is in fairly good shape for the winter,
according to Charles r. Osborn, secre-
tary of the state board of control, who
returned to Phoenix from Fort Grant.
Jose Pima convicted of statutory
rape at Tombstone, was allowed to go
on suspended sentence He is nine
teen years of age and the sole sup
port of his mother and several smaller
brothers and sisters.
They came, they saw and they were
conquered by Bisbee, the great mining
city of the Southwest. That was the
conclusion reached by the busy Ell
Paso business boosters who were in
Bisbee, sixty-five strong.
Another election must be held in
Phoenix for the purpose of voting
bonds. The bond election of October
II, held in connection with the char
ter election, was illegal because the
four items were not segregated.
That prospects for a combination
creamery, ice plant, meat market and
laundry, to cost $4,000, are bright is
the belief of l. M. Kellogg, pioneer
creamery expert who is working out
plans for the establishment of the en-
terprise at Chandler.
AS result of the gathering of the
executive committee of the Knights OF
Pythias grand lodge at Douglas, John
D. Loper, of Phoenix, grand keeper OF
records and seals, and John F. Ross,
grand chancellor, were chosen to be
the states delegates at the golden
jubilee of the order, in Washington D.
c., Feb. 19 to 21, 1914.
Leaving Douglas, after offering to
wager that he could drive his high
power Bear Cat" racing car to Bis
bee in twenty minutes, Jack Forrest,
of Ell Paso, entered in the El Paso
Phoenix race, was killed by his car
turning over on the Bisbee road fiji
teen miles west OF. that city, while
going at the rate of fifty miles an
hour.
County, city or any other taxing
subdivision has right to levy taxes
by direct taxation not to exceed ten
per cent. more than that received
from the same source the previous
year. This is the gist of an opinion
handed to the State Tax Commission
by the attorney general relative to
the apparent over-levy of Greenlee
county.
The President announced the follow
ing appointments of postmasters for
Arizona: Sheldon, Walter C. Bile
ctoin vioo wv w HOIdor roc;o,, I'D.