Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-08
ARIZONA STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Tucson.
 Nov. l3-ls-Arlzona State Fair at Phoe
 nix.
 Nov. IS will be automobile day at the Phoenix Fair.
 Plans for Flagstaf.'s new sl00,000 hotel are being prepared.
 At Tombstone. 1000 acres of state land were sold for approximately s55,' 900.
 The Twenty-second Infantry has been moved from Camp Greenaway to Douglas.
 Arizona's State Law and Legislative Reference Library contains over 155,. 900 volumes.
 An interesting feature of the Coun' ty Fair at Sonoita will be the Better Babies exhibit.
 The Tucson Civic League has been admitted to the Arizona Federation ot Women's Clubs.
 The epidemic of black-leg which threatened range cattle in Yavapai county has been wiped out.
 The last of the old smelter pipe on Copper Queen hill at Bisbee has been removed and an old iand mark Is gone
 Russell T. Johnson. who shot and killed Eugene Caruthers at Gila Bend vas released from the Phoenix jail oD slO.0OO bond.
 The members of the American Min ing Institute were royalty entertained when they visited Bisbee and the Warren district
 Interested parties have announced that the Golden State mine, near Wickenburg, will be in active opera tion within sixty days.
 Mrs. A. J. Dunaway and her two children. Madeleine and Clark Duna way were found in the pond at the Iower station at Burch.
 The old Desert Mine, located two miles north of Vicksburg, has been taken over by San Francisco parties after laying idle for years. , Large numbers of Papago and Va qui Indians are leaving the Tucson 10 cality for the Salt River Valley, wher. they will pick cotton for the season.
 Guy E. Pierson and J. G. Dugan oi Lost Basin have just completed the 10 cation of a number of mining claims on a new gold strike made by the for mer.
 Plans for the construction of 9 large sampling mill and Notation re ,uction plant for the handling of GUS tom ores at Wicken burg are well un fer way.
 Report from the Golconda mine states that on the tenth level thert has been exposed ore of the largest bodies Of high grade zlnc ore ever re Vealed in the state.
 Eight thousand bales of hay wer. destroyed by fire at the ranch of F. K. Cumming. about three miles iron Nogales. The hay was valued at 8, poo. and only partly insured
 The fall reunion Of the Arizona Con sistory No. 1, Ancient and Accepte: Scottish Rite Of Freemasonry, in the Valley of Tucson. Orient of Arizona will be held Oct. 16. r and IS.
 Guns and knives were used freely in a duel which ended in Globe after one of the participants had been sno! twice and the other had been slasheo with knife. As a result. Refugio Le mos is in the county hospital and Luis Diaz is in the county jail.
 The seventh great hall of the South west Museum, christened Arizona hall, which contains exhibits of every description from the desert state, has teen thrown open to the public at Los angeles.
 With the metal market in the healln.est COndIIIon for many months and the stock market in equally good shape, mines in Tavapai county arc being developed at rate that seems almost impossible.
 Possible means of developing the flotation process to the greater bene fit Of the country's mining interests were taken up in the sessions of the American Mining Institute of Engin eers, meeting at Globe.
 Clark and Peterson are reported to have made q rich strike on the Amer ican Boy in the Patagonia district. IL is said that the pay vein is from three to four feet wide and runs high fin silver and copper values.
 Egyptian cotton growers in the Chandler district have been offered a cents a pound for long staple cotton for the next three years by a repre- sentative of one O: the largest tire manufacturers in tke United States.
 Two hundred thousand dollars were added to the school funds through an auction sale of school lands at Yuma which brought $380 per acre for i'm proved and $l00 for wild lands. The United Verde is producing about 6.00O.00o pounds of copper a month and this will te increased to 10,O00. 900 pounds as soon as improve ments now under way are completed.
 The fourth annual northern Arizona fair at Prescott, Oct. is. 20 and 2l is destined to prove one of the most interesting expositions ever staged by the five northern counties of Arizona