Tombstone epitaph., 1916-12-24

! Bisbee officials are insisting that local dairies furnish pure milk.
 Judge Wm. Fenimore Cooper. of the | Superior Court of Pima County. died at Tucson.
 The punch board that has had popular run in Winslow fer some time is now under the ban. Three persons were arrested on a charge of engaging in a free-for-aIl | fight in billiard hall at Bisbee. Tucson people expect that Gerald Jones will succeed Samuel L. Pattee as Assistant United States Attorney.
 Con P. Cronin. state law and legis- latiye reference librarian, is assembl. ing the complete tabulation Of the re- cent election.
 The First Battalion, California field artillery, with 35O men and 100 horses, arrived in Tucson from Nogales and went into camp
 Copper water has been struck on the l6iOfoot level Of the Arkansas & Ari, zona. al Jerome, and the drills are l coming out green
 Over 100 cars of lettuce will be ship ped from Glendale to eastern markets | according to estimates of the crop made by railroad officials. J. G. Cash. who was defeated for re. election as sheriff, filed a complain in the Superior Court at Clifton, and asked a recount of the votes. pF has prompted the Santa Fe railroad to order every section and bunk house, occupied by Mexican laborers, to be fumigated
 Public dance houses in Arizona may be compelled to close down as the re. suit of a complaint filed against the management of a Miami resort by John A. Davis.
 Fifty-six cents a pound for mohair is the price offered Arizona growers by Eastern buyers, according to W. $. Holder, owner of large goat ranch near Kingman.
 Within ninety days the ten-stamp mill at the old Etta mine, nine miles south Of Jerome. will be turning out gold bullion, if the new owners. cary out their present plans.
 Lengthening of the lines Of copper, productive area in the Warren dis trlCt. which is now confined to small acreage, in comparison to the world of apparently-mineralized ground, is the topic of conversation in Bisbee al the present time
 Nearly quarter of million dollars was put into circulation in the Globe district and the pros pectors who orig inally owned the property now owned by the Miami Consolidated Mines Company received second cash pay ment for their ground.
 Reverting to the savage instincts Of it's ferOciOus forebear. the wild boar d domestic hog belonging to Pete and Steve Galich, in the Cottonwood sec ton near Jerome, disemboweled two horses and attacked a COW before | bullet put an end to its existence. Governor Hunt signed proclama- ton in which was embodied the dec laration of the carrying of the prohi- bition amendment, the anti-capital punishment bill, and a revised game law. The three laws went into effect when the proclamation was signed.
 The Mexican bandits who robbed the bank at Buckeye and killed Chas. Miner. have not yet been apprehended, but one of the posses in pursuit fol lowed so closely upon them that they abandoned their course north of the Arizona canal, northwest of Phoenix.
 It is stated at Phoenix that while Tom Campbell is elected governor on the official count, and will receive certificate of election and take his seat January 1. unless the courts should decide Governor Hunts con lest in favor of the governor by that date. the governor-elect has given no attention as yet 10 appointments, al though there are many applicants for positions.
 Nine lists of land selections were filed in the Phoenix land office by the State Land Commission as follows: For university purposes, 7,505.36 acres; normal schools, 1,964.16 acres; payment of principal and accrued in- terest on the bonds of Yavapai, Mari copa, Coconino and Pima Counties, S,2991S acres; agricultural and me chanical colleges, 3,360 acres: insane asylum, 3,547.77 acres. Total 21,675.4 acres.
 On the declaration of the Secre- tary of State, that in the late election Thomas E. Campbell. Republican, re ceived 27,976 votes for governor, that Governor Hunt had received 27,946 and that Mir. Campbell was elected, Governor Hunt instituted contest in the Superior Court of Maricopa County.
 Definite steps are being taken by the United Verde Extension toward the building of smelter on the c. V. Hopkins ranch, near Cottonwood, a little less than four miles from the mouth of tse Edith shaft.