The Winslow mail., 1913-07-12
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
Important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

0''A AnS OA CAe charge OIL attempting
to murder Joe Davis
}. j. Birdno has been appointed re-
ceiver and Thos. F. Weed, register of
the land office at Phoenix.
Frank Campbell of Yuma was SEN
fenced to from one to ten years in
the penitentiary for embezzlement.
The Howard Sheep Company lost
$4,000 worth of wool when their cor
rails near Ash Fork were destroyed by
fire.
Harry S. Knight of Phoenix has pur-
chased the Three Link ranch, includ-
ing the cattle and other stock for $780,
900.
More than 100 students are now reg
istered for the summer course at the
Northern Arizona Normal school at
Flagstaff
Postmaster Reed of Dale, is report
ed missing and it is alleged that his
account with Uncle Sam is about
SLOTS short.
A new company, sailing under the
name of the Gold, Lime, Stone and
Cement Company, has been incor-
porated in Yuma.
The Southwest Indian Mission con-
ference, an interdenominational gath
ering of Christian workers, will be
held in Flagstaff, August 4 to 26, in
elusive.
Cochhise county will employ over
200 teachers during the coming school
year and will have monthly payroll
of over $4,000 per month for teach
rs alone.
Arrangements are being made by
farmers in the Sulphur Springs valley
to call meeting at Lowell for the
purpose of organizing bean growers
association.
Phoenix street cars are again rum
ming and Manager Mitchell says he
will announce a voluntary raise in
wages if the strikers drop other de-
mands.
At depth Of $50 feet the largest
artesian water flow ever before en-
countered in the San Pedro valley was
struck on the ranch of NJ L. White,
two miles north of Hereford.
The total assessed valuation of the
banks in Tucson this year is S520,25O,
as compared with $343,OOO last year
They are assessed on capital, surplus
and undivided profits.
Louis Robles was run over by
Southern Pacific train at Maricopa
His right foot was so badly mashed
that it had to be amputated, which
was done at the hospital in Tucson.
An order requiring the Phoenix
street Railway Company and it's strik-
ing carmen to submit their differences
to board of arbitration was issued
by the state corporation commission.
The Pacific Gas and Electric Com
pany will resort to the federal courts
it is said, to defeat the action of the
Corporation Commission in ordering
an eight and one-half cent rate in
Phoenix.
The railroad returns made to the
state for the present year amount tc
$5S,925,269. This amount is over
twice the size of last years returns,
when the railroads declared their
holdings in the state to be worth $685.
512,434.
Death by an accidental revolver
shot fired by his own hand was the
tragic end of a vacation period which
Conrad Fry was spending with his
daughter, Mrs. Frank Lang, at her
home in the San Pedro valley near
Bisbee
Architectural plans have been
drawn for 100000 shrine auditori-
um, to be located on Central avenue,
three blocks north of the business cen
ter of Phoenix 1t is to be erected for
Ell Zaribah, the only shrine temple in
Arizona.
Hans Beichteler, one of the propri
etors of an ostrich farm in the Yuma
valley, had finger broken by the
kick of an ostrich
Two thousand acres of cotton in
Palo Verde valley this year should
yield $500 bales of lint, basing the es-
innate upon the average yield last |
year of bale and a quarter to the |
acre-649 bales from a little more
than 500 acres.
That the new steam-shovel process
OF mining ore by wholesale will be in
voked at the Cornelia mines of the
Calumet & Arizona Mining Company
In Pima county, the purchase of which |
was completed at price said to be in
the neighborhood of $80O,000 is re-
garded as most likely by officials of
the company.
Referendum petitions against the
county division bill are being curcu-
lated at Phoenix and simultaneously
its friends have discovered that the
official copy in the hands of the sec
retary of state is not exactly as they
thought the measure was passed. They
claim that ono Of tho iyoDOrtant nor