The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-07-17
STATE SETTINGS.

STATE SETTINGS.
 An effort is being made to organize a Moose lodge at Mesa.
 A $20,OO0 addition to the Prescott Pioneers home is to be built. The first capitol building of Arizona at Prescott is being torn down. Arizona will receive $10,00O under
 the Lever bill for agricultural exten- sion work.
 A crew of engineers have run a sur vey for a new road connecting Su- perior and Ray.
 About a million dollars worth of cattle have been shipped from Cochise
 county this season. S. H. Brockurier of Nevada City, Cal, has contracted to purchase the Williams tungsten mines in the Aqua
 rius mountains.
 Miss Alice Mathews, formerly a member of the Kalamazoo, Michigan,
 police force, has been added to the Phoenix force.
 Professor c. O. Case, state super intendent of public instuction, finds the total cost of free text books for the year trifie over $100,000.
 The five-cent beer war, that was started in Globe has spread to Miami and dozen saloons in that city low cred the price on the summer bev- craze.
 | L. B. Norton, mail carrier between Roosevelt and camp Verde, recently handled 2000 pounds of salt, by parcel post and an 80-pound shipment of Ioats.
 F. H. Duran, claiming to be phy- sician of Phoenix, was arrested at Pecos, Texas, and jailed at Deming, N. M, charged with passing bogus checks.
 The county attorney of Gila county is preparing to appeal from the deci- sion of the Superior Court of Gila county holding the eight-hour law for women to be unconstitutional.
 Frank Salisbury, of Stafford, aged 14 years, son of the late Vim. Sails bury, died last week as a result of an accident. The boy fell into a tub of boiling suds.
 1, For the first time in history, the clocks that hang in so many offices and back Of hundreds of counters an nounc,ng U. s. observatory time hour | ly by Western Union, will this year h.: to contribute heir share to the eychequer of the state Of Arizona.
 Applications continue to pile up in the office of the Board of Control at Phoenix for the position of Superin- tendent of the Industrial School at Fort Grant. Carl S. Gung'l, band l master at the school in the past is at | present in charge.
 E. NJ. Dickerman. of Tucson, vas elected Esteemed | eading Knigh5 of i the Grand Lodge of Elks at it's ses siGn in Denver this week. The | next session of she Grand Lodge E. | P. . E. will te held at Los Angeles in 1515.
 After waiting, or rather, after | working unremittingly for tirty-fve years, Mrs. Anna Wite is in a way | to receive $3500 as damages for pro- perty, belonging to her and her hus- band, destroyed by the military at Camp Mcdowell more than a genera ClOn ago.
 At the seventh annual state Council | of the Knights of Columbus held at \ Flagstaff last week. L. E. Bigley was elected State Warden and Frank E DeSouza of Phoenix and Patrick Ke[ ly, of Bisbee, were elected as Su- preme Council to the convention | which will meet at St. Paul, Minn., in August next.
 Persons who have made declaration of their intention to become citizens of the United States will hereafter be | entitled to purchase land at public | sale where the right is not expressly limited by statute according to a new ruling received yesterday at the L United States land offices at Phoenix. |
 Application will be made today to Judge William H. SawteIle, of the United States court, for tempor- ary restraining order to prevent the corporation commission from putting into effect the recent order fixing rates on timber and lumber from Northern Arizona mills to points in the southern part of the state.