The Winslow mail., 1913-09-27
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
Important Happenings Occurring Owe :
the State Mentioned Briefly.

lightning at Lower Miami.
A force of road builders has started
work on the road between Oracle and
Mammoth.
The explosion of gas tank at
Miami started fire that caused a
100000 loss.
By vote of 35 to 16. Parker pre-
cinct decided in favor of saloons at
the local option election.
Seven thousand eight hundred and
sixty acres are to be added to the
cultivated acreage tributary to Tue
son.
The proposal to pave the streets of
Tucson in the business district will be
given renewed attention at an early
date.
Several fights occurred when union
las, and several arrests and fines fol
lowed.
Twenty more automobile licenses
have been issued by the secretary of
OloCS, ILS lOldl IOW OClllo past tAlC
$500 mark
Figures show that more than $751;
100000 Tas expended for equipment
for the mines in the Bisbee district
the past year.
The Ell Paso Business Mems trade
excursion will pass through Tucson,
October r. They will spend the en-
tire evening there
An order covering 100 typewriter
pages prescribing uniform system of
accounting for water companies was
issued by the corporation commission.
Peter Cornelius, a miner and
rancher, who lived eleven miles north
of Douglas, committed suicide by lit
orally blowing off the front of his
head with shotgun.
At the preliminary hearing in Doug
las of Kid Lee, colored, charged with
the murder of Walter Johnson,
colored, in Pirtleville, the defendant
was released by the court
If the road between Tucson and
Bisbee is in good shape by October 4
the Southern Arizona Automobile
club will travel over the Borderline
route from Tucson to Bisbee.
The drillers reached a depth of l.
900 feet i'll the artesian we'll at Rodeo
the depth the contract calls for
and it is believed that a good flow of
artesian water has been found.
For 100000 the government can
build bridge across the Gila river at
Sacation that will be a vast and per-
petual beenfit to the Pima and Mari
copa Indians living on the reservation.
Following a quarrel in her room
May Clark of Seligman placed the
muzzle OF a six-shooter against the
stomach of Chas. Pitts and fired. Pitts
was picked up from the floor mortally
wounded.
Advices have been received at Tomb
stone from the Mascot Mining Com
pany' 'sSproperty near Dos Cabezas
that P. Jenson, one of the trusted en-
ployes of that company died sudden
ly OF heart failure.
Final details have been completed
for the consolidation OF the London
Arizona Mining Company with the
London Range, Copper Company, the
London Shamrock Copper Company
and the Ball Copper Company
News reached Phoenix of the death
Gooding, former chief justice of the
Supreme court of Arizona. He died
at the Palms hotel from the effects Of
a bullet wound inflicted by footpad
many years ago, in front of his Los
Angeles home.
In his forthcoming report on horti-
cultural conditions in Douglas and
vicinity, Prof. J. ]. Thornber will give
a list of the various kinds of trees
which are peculiarly adapted to the
soil in that section and list of those
varieties the growth Of which should
not be attempted.
The net taxable valuation Of Tue
son property is $13,881, ,60906.
OF the $140,000 estate of William
Riggs, county supervisor, which was
divided by the court at Douglas, when
Mr.. Riggs was granted a divorce from
his wife, Ida Riggs, on the grounds Of
non-compatibllity, over one-half of the
estate WAS given to Mrs. Riggs with
the full consent of her husband.
Barney Beach, racing man of Dun
can, was shot and killed in Solomon
Vile, by Howard Wright, his seven
teen-year-old stepson. Immediately
after the shooting, young White was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff w. A. Ben
nett and lodged in the county Jail, and
later exOnerated as it was shown that
he shot Beach in protecting his
mother and to save his own life.
Following a quarrel with his wife,
which had resulted in her leaving him,
elect Burrows, aged about twenty
eight, a driver for Douglas ice COM
pany, while being temporarily de-