Tombstone epitaph., 1916-12-17

eFation or Womens Clubs at Globe.
 The postoffice at Columbus has moved into new quarters.
 Judge William F. Cooper of the Pima County Superior Court died at Tucson.
 Fifty carloads Of sheep-about 7.5oo head-were shipped to the Imperial Valley to be pastured
 The demands of the striking miners at Ajo were refused by Manager J. c. Greenaway. of the New Cornelia-
 Articles of incorporation for two new Verde district mining companies have been filed with the corporation commission.
 Vice President and Mrs. Thos. R. Marshall will spend Christmas at their winter home at Sccttsdale. fourteen miles northeast of Phoenix.
 Beautiful specimens of silver glance ore. taken from the new workings on the second level of the Worlds Fair mine. were shown at Patagonia.
 A gain of 2,7S7 in the population of Phoenix in the past year is shown by the latest directory. The population of Phoenix according to the directory Is 27.537.
 For s50.000 Boston capitalists have bought the properties of the Tucson | Copper Company, located 40 miles west Of Tucson in the Silverbeu min ing district.
 There is great activity at the Cop per Age, due to the carrying out of the development policy of its owners. the Arizona Ore Reduction Company of Kingman.
 The Magma-Arizona railroad, which connects Superior with the Arizona Eastern lines at Magma. is to be changed from a three foot gauge to standard gauge.
 Six hundred and eighty.seven cars Of cattle and sheep were shipped out of Holbrook during the past year, ac- cording to figures furnished by the Holbrook railroad office The Carlson mines, located directly across the Gila river from Stafford, have been purchased by the Cowan- Walker Company Of Salt Lake City from a syndicate of Stafford business men.
 That old story about the Jerome Verde shaft passing through ledge of quartz and chalcopyrite ore at coo feet was proven when the miners reached that point in enlarging the shaft.
 State authorities may be appealed 10 in order to aid in the campaign to stamp out an outbreak of blackleg which has appeared among cattle in the Huachuca division of the national forest.
 Mechanician brennan of Oklahoma City. Okla, driving with R. B. Arm strong in a hundred-mile automobile race on the State Fair grounds track at Phoenix, was almost instantly killed when the big racer plunged through the fence while attempting 10 pass another car at one end of the oval.
 Messrs. Andreas Jepson and John bebson. living west of Chandler, have lGO acres of what Is considered the most valuable cotton ever grown in the Salt River valley. "Jep" refused i9 cents pound for the lint and an nounces that he wants 56 cents a pound for the staple He will average bale to the acre, which would give him s250 an acre for the cotton.
 Fifty-six cents a pound for mohair is the price offered Arizona growers by eastern buyers. according to ". s. Holden. owner of a large goat ranch at Kirkland. A flat offer of s4 tead for goats on the range has also been received.
 Members Of the Globe local, West ern Federation of Miners, will take no action. either now or in the immediate future demanding the closed shop or an increase in wages. This question was settled definitely at meeting of the Globe union.
 Returns from a recent shipment of ore from the Night Hawk mine was received at Kingman by Frank Fer
  raris and others interested in the lease on that rich old property. The ore gave a net return Of $500 per ton In gold and silver.
 The recently formed Louisiana-Ari- zona Copper Mining Co, with Its head office in Bisbee has recently acquired thirty-one mining claims north of Bisbee, in the WarrSn Bisbee mining district, on which yalus ble ore has been located and the actual development of the property will be- gin in few days.
 The frost has killed all the green bolls on the cotton stalks. Most of the bolls, however. have reached that state of maturity that the frost will not seriously injure them. The pro duction this year has been the best in the history of the industry.
 A Globe dispatch says Ed Donnelly. president elect Of the Arizona Fedora ton Of Miners, and an agitator named Moreno, were forced to flee from Mi ami after they had made speeches . .sraat oxrpa- aAvnr,ttno a