Williams news., 1916-06-15

 D. c. Babbitt has been appointed postmaster at Mesa.
 Arrangements have been made to drill for oil near Phoenix.
 All the preliminary details for Pres cott's $250,000 Court House have been arranged.
 Mother" Jones, the most famous of all labor leaders among the wo- men, spoke in Miami.
 Leslie Hardy. for the past four years assistant attorney general of Arizona, has resigned.
 The Pittsburg-Jerome started up again after shut down of few days incident to a needed repair on the machinery.
 Since the mines of the Arizona Butte Mines Company at Stockton Hill near Kingman were placed in op- eration, good progress is reported.
 Charlie McCandless, hero of the Co lumbus raid, and ex-two-gun Texas ranger, will help guard the border with the National Guard of Arizona What bids fair to become a small stampede has been created in the Fig Springs district by the discovery there of free gold in dazzling quanti- ties.
 The corporation commission grant ed permission to several railroads in the state to reduce their rates on .,, 0f valuation.
 The contract for silver service to be presented by the people of Arizona to dreadnaught Arizona" which will be placed in commission this fall has been let.
 Salt River valley will produce over 900 carloads of cantaloupes according to B. I. Dawson, who has finished survey of the crop and acreage for the coming season.
 The Ash Peak mine, located about ten miles northwest of Duncan, is soon to resume operations, after a four-year period of idleness and on a larger scale than ever before.
 The corporation commission has set for hearing on July 10 the application of the Santa Fe Railroad Company to advance all intrastate freight rates 20 per cent. The hearing will be held i'll Phoenix.
 Owing to the great demand for the Bulletin on Tungsten recently issued by the Arizona State Bureau of Mines, reprint has been necessary, and with the reprint will come com plete revision.
 Word has been received that con- stitution amendment calculated to provide for the shortcomings con- tained in the present prohibition law, is being drafted by the Temperance Federation of Arizona.
 Charles Grimes, mining capitalist and operator of Pasadena, Cal, and until recently controlling factor and general manager of Tom Reed mine at Oatman, was found dead in his room at a Kingman hotel.
 Rev. George L. Horene, of Stafford, Arizona, who enlisted as a private in Company B of that place, when the company was called into the field was appointed chaplain of the First Ari- zona Volunteers by Governor Hunt.
 Owing to the recent embargo on ore which has been placed on ship pers in Arizona and New. Mexico, by both the Douglas and Fl Paso smelt- CTS, many leasers in Cochise county have been forced to suspend opera tions.
 On a charge of embedding a regis tered letter containing $3O, addressed to Miss Clara Davis, Cullman, Ala, James F. Ireland, postal clerk on the Globe-Bowie run, was bound over to the federal grand jury at Tucson.
 Final details pertaining to the reor- ganiZation of the Inspiration Needles Copper Company and the acquisition by that concern of eleven claims ad- joining it's property in Live Oak Can yon, just west of Miami were closed in Phoenix.
 Governor G. w. P. Hunt received a handsome silk American flag en- closed in a highly upholstered green plush box, along with which was an embossed vellum book, highly ilumi- mated, and containing the seals of all the states of the Union and the great seal of the United States
 Without an outward sign that they realized the nearness of their impend. ing fate, Manuel Peralta, Eduardo Perez and N. B. Chavez, faced the judge in the Superior Court of Yava. pal county and were sentenced at Prescott to be hanged at the peniten. tiary at Florence on Friday, the 9th day of June.
 The old San Juan mining property consisting of twelve claims located on the Graham county side of the Morenci mountains, has been sold by Phoenix parties to F. A. Estabrook one of the board of directors of the