Tombstone epitaph., 1916-12-10

Jan. s-7-Annual Show Bisbee Poultry
 and Pet stock Association at Bisbee Jan. lS-2l-ConventiCn of Arizona Fed
 eration of womens Clubs at Globe
 Roy Hamblin was killed in the Pay roll mine at Chloride.
 Two Mexican laborers were killed y a passenger train near Flagstaff
 The Arizona mining exhibit at the Mining Congress convention made a big hit
 Jitneys will no longer be permitted to occupy stands on the Main street in Lowell.
 Vice President and Mrs Thomas R. Marshall will pass the Christmas holi- days in Arizona.
 Retimbering of the old tunnel on the property of the Roosevelt Lake Cop per Company is to begin at once.
 The creation of a state fire marshal office for Arizona is being advocated by insurance and business men in Phoenix.
 License to transact a banking busi- ness in Arizona has been issued to the Copper Belt Merchants and Bankers. . Miami corporation.
 Ranchers, dry farmers and hunters in Cochise county this winter promise 10 put in a profitable winter in hunt ing and killing coyotes.
 Mortie Graham. proprietor of a pool hall at Globe. was eXonerated for the killing of Felipe Lopez, a Mexican who attempted to hold him up.
 Tucson assay offices are flooded with samples which continue to pour in from all sections of the state, and adyices from Phoenix and other points out the state.
 Relieving that be has discovered a large body of brick clay superior to any found in the southwest, A. w. Roberts. a Globe contractor, has be gun the construction Of brick manu- featuring plant
 A three and a half foot vein running per cent copper and carrying good s-lNfGB udS b'ti SlI Osa the sixty foot level of the Floss:e Min ing Company property, northwest Of the famous Republic mine at John son
 Jerome Consolidated Copper Com pany is the name of a corporation formed for the purpose of developing s. T. Bentley's group of ten claims near First View, on the U. V. & P. railroad, two miles northwest of Jerome.
 A winter series of baseball games has been arranged by a new league composed Of three Mohave county teams and ., team from Needles, Cal. The season opened on Thanksgiving day with a game between Oatman and Needles
 The Glory Hole Bonanza comes to the front again with another new strike, or rather the discovery of an other rich ore shoot in the main big quartz ledge. about 400 feet west from the present workings above the Glory Hole pit al Salome.
 Mechanician brennan of Amarillo, Tex, driving with R. B Armstrong in a 10O-mile auto race on the state fair grounds track at Phoenix, was almost instantly killed when the big racer plunged through the fence while at tempting 10 pass another car at one end Of the oval. brennan was pinned beneath the car and terribly mangled. Armstrong was thrown clear of the wreckage and escaped with minor in- iuries.
 Tine oii lands formerly owned by the Yavapai oil Company north of Del Rio have been relocated and develop ment work is to be resumed.
 Because their demands for a sliding scale Of wages based on the price of copper. the same as paid in Douglas, clans employed by the New Cornelia Copper Company at Ajo walked out Tn addition to the electricians seventy of the l50 carpenters employed by the company quit and they were joined by approximately 800 Mexican miners, making practically 50 per cent of the entire 1,250 workmen employed at the mine out on strike.
 John Bowman, homesteader, Hives exactly 100 miles from anywhere" ac- cording 10 accurate measurements of the distances from four important Arizona cities. Bowman, who recent ly filed on a homestead near Young, selected ls0 acres of land that lie just exactly 100 miles from Phoenix, 100 miles from Globe. 100 miles from Flag. staff and 100 miles from Winslow. The homestead is in the northern part of Gila county and almost exactly in the center of the state.
 The State Land Commission has filed four lists of land selections en- bracing a total of l2.720, in the Unit ed States land office. One of them consisting of $500 acres, was for the benefit of normal schools, one of G40 acres for the benefit of the school of mines and two aggregating 3,2S0