Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-06

Kingman ie to have a hospital.
 A fire at Douglas destroyed three shacks.
 A soldier was overcome by the heat at Douglas.
 Cheaper power for the Oatman dis trict is promised.
 The contract for the new Keystone mill at Chloride has been let.
 A number of parties have been con victed of "bootlegging" at Tucson.
 The Santa Fe railway is oiling it's right of way through Mohave county.
 The exhibits at the Yuma county at Phoenix.
 It is reported that Mrs. Chas. Bell of Douglas was bound and robbed of go by an unknown man. The Tom Reed Gold Mines Com pany hereafter will supply water to its former patrons in Oatman.
 An order prohibiting swearing on the street of Ray has been issued by Justice of the Peace E. w. French.
 Ore, banning free gold, has been struck at the bottom of the shaft of the Oatman Combination Mining Company.
 John c. Taylor of Douglas was | electrocuted when he came in con tact with live wire that had been blown down during a storm. The tunnel of the Metallic Acci- dent at Chloride is in distance of 15O feet Over forty feet of good ore has been cut in development. | Surface work on the DUndee-Ari- zona property at Jerome has been completed and the entire fierce Of men is now employed in actual min | ing.
 | The Goldroad mine and mill at Oat man are shut down. the Snowfall Min CTS Union, No. 124, having called a strike there. From 70 to 75 men are affected.
 Fired upon by skulker in a patch of underbrush south of Winkelman, l Deputy Sheriff Hamilton shot and wounded an unknown man who made his escape.
 Max Findley was killed and Lyle Cooke was badly injured at the Thumb Butte property at Union Pass by the explosion of charge of dyna- mite that had hung fire.
 Inhabitants of Pine celebrated Pio- neers' Day, commemorating the set clement of the Utah valley by the Mormons Races, roping, frontier and cowboy sports were features.
 Violation of the eight-hour law is the charge that has been placed against the names of two of the prom inent mine operators of the Oatman district and two contractors.
 Luther Yeager, age P, was instant ly killed at Miami by being caught between the locomotive of an under l ground railway, and a bulkhead at the entrance of a shaft in the Inspiration l mine.
 The Leopard Spot shaft at Oatman ! is having what may prove to be an exceptional run of luck. It dropped onto stringer. at first barely an inch wide. which banned gold at the rate of s75 to sl00 ton. The Dixie national forest in Mohave county is practically wiped out by an | executive order, received at the Unit ed States land office. opening twen- ty-two townships of reserved land to entry and settlement.
 One days building permits at Tue son totaled sl0,595. At the George Washington at Min eral Park new hoist and compressor will be installed at once. On this property there are two tunnels driven on the vein. The upper, or No. l, 560 feet long, has opened up the vein to a depth of 26O feet, and several | carloads of good ore have been l shipped.
 The Lady Ann group at Chloride, which is supposed to cover an exten- sion of the George Washington main ledge and which is also owned by the Moyle brothers, is being developed by a tunnel, now in 90 feet. The workings now show 9 per cent cop | per ore, similar to that shipped from | the Washington.
 The New Jersey brigade camp at ! Douglas is a mass of wreckage, the result of hurricane which tore through the company streets, ripping tents from their moorings, lifting frame hospital and company buildings bodily and throwing them across the state highway into the big ditches be- tween the camp and the railroad | tracks.
 Two more Western celebrations, be- side Frontier Days, will be given in Arizona this year. The first, a cow boy reunion, will be present at Camp Verde, Sept. 1, 5, and 6, in connec- ton with a big Labor Day picnic. Another will be held at the state fair at Phoenix, Nov. 13 to IS.
 A deed filed in the office of the I