The Winslow mail., 1913-06-21
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring over
the State Mentioned Briefly.


A gigantic cave has been found near
Flagstaff.
H H. Howard of Phoenix would like
to be named federal judge.
1t is expected that a land office will
be established at Tucson.
Glendale's cantaloupe crop is likely
to be the heaviest in her history.
A fire damaged the interior of the
Reed & Skipper store at Phoenix.
The finishing touches are being put
on the new postoffice at Phoenix.
Another auto stage line is to be es-
tablished between Phoenix and Mesa
Tempe.
Arizona banks show a big increase
in deposits in reports made under the
recent CALL
Samuel Kukendall, aged eighty
years, died at his home in Douglas aft
er brief illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Kranke and their
three children were injured in run
away accident at Phoenix.
Mrs. Catherine Corbett Power pio-
neer of Tucson, died at the age of
eighty-one and a half years.
The State Fair commission has Sc
lected superintendents for the various
classes for the state fair this fall.
Cattle sold at close to $5OO,OOO and
probably above that figure, were
shipped out of Tucson during the May
deliveries.
Imperial valley has begun the ship
ment of cantaloupes to New York and
Chicago. The first melon was sent by
parcels post.
All ballots cast at the Phoenix No. 3
A polling place in the prohibition elec-
tion of May 29, and both sets of tally
sheets have been lost
The Phoenix street car system is
not financially prepared to carry out
the orders of the corporation COM
mission and double track its lines.
A brakeman fell from freight car
at Cochise and was run over and in
Jured SO badly that he died shortly
after being picked up.
1t will not be necessary for Nick
Povich to serve a year in the peniten-
tiary for stealing $1.25. He was grant
ed full pardon by Governor Hunt
G. l.. Leonard, sentenced to an in
determinate term of years in the state
penitentiary for statutory crime, has
| Mt nd OF
the Supreme Court
In the first recall election held in
Arizona, ]. F. Hess was deposed from
the office of superintendent of schools
of Yuma county. He was recalled and
Miss Boehringer elected to fill his
place.
Petitions bearing sufficient sigma
lures to initiate an anti-capital punish
ment law in Arizona were filed with
the secretary of state. The people
will vote on the question at the gen.
eral election in November, 1914.
One negro killed, one wounded and
may die, three Mexicans wounded,
one of them seriously, and another
man beaten up and minus many teeth,
was the result of a nights fights at
Douglas on recent pay day.
Through deal just completed with
F. S. Hildreth, former receiver of the
government land office, it was an
nounced at Phoenix that the Santa F6
railroad had disposed of 100000 acres
the last of it's land holdings in this
state. The price paid was $250,000.
George Nelson, a trooper of the
Ninth cavalry, colored, ran amuck at
Douglas with an army rifle and fired
five shots at Albert Jones, a comrade.
Jones was instantly killed and Tom
Evans, another trooper, who stood be-
hind him, was fatally wounded by mis-
siles which had passed through Jones
body.
A woman's exchange has been or
ganized at Douglas.
George Bogartis, a wealthy Mexi-
can-American rancher, attributes his
safety and the possession of his mon
ey to his success at feminine imper-
sonation He arrived at Douglas to
relate how, by donning women's
clothes, he escaped bandits who had
demanded his money. Captured near
Oputo, Sonora, Bogartis was ordered
to pay $4,000 for his life.
Governor Hunt issued the second
reprieve to Charles Schaffer, con-
victed murderer of Gila county, now in
the penitentiary, and will issue a fur
ther reprieye on June goth to the 9th
er five murderers heretofore re-
p)ieved to the same date to which
Schaffer was reprieyed December 19,
1914 The reasons for the extended
reprieve are two; the most important
| that 2,247 names have been signed to
the initiative petition for law abol-
| ishing capital punishment in Arizona;
the second reason is because the new
board of pardons bill to which the
governor takes strong and emphatic