Tombstone epitaph., 1916-07-09

Jake Lewis of Phoenix was arrested
for menacing his wife with an axe.
Yavapai county roads are reported
| equal TO the best in Arizona and Cali
| fornia
The new plant of the Standard Oil
| Company at Miami is nearing COM
pletion.
VIM. NJ. Clark. Duncan merchant.
met instant death in an automobile
| accident.
| infantry was ordered TO leave Douglas
| for Bisb..e.
| Work has been started on the con
struction of the new highway between
Miami and Globe.
The five-room bungalow OF J. II. Nc
knight, three miles north OF Douglas,
was destroyed b. Gre.
5. y. Moore, a deputy inspector. was
accidentally shot while rounding up
cattle near Tombstone.
! Development work on the Riggs and
! Douglas asbestos claims southwest OF
Superior will begin at an early date.
| The first OF the continued series
Of gettogether gatherings Of groups
| OF new members OF the Y VI. c. A
was inaugurated at Bisbee.
Seven persons were injured, none
/ fatally. when four cars OF Southern
| Pacific train No. !. westbound, jumped
the track near Wellton.
Arrangements have been completed
for the meeting in Arizona from the
| 18th to the 18th OF September of the
| American Institute OF Mining Engi-
/ neers
! Company c OF Tempe, the machine
/ gun platoon and band OF the First
| Arizona infantry, were mustered into
the federal service at Douglas. com
! plotting the regiment
An experimental lookout station has
been established on the summit of
| Humphrey peak, the highest OF the
San Francisco mountains, by the For
est Service at Flagstaff.
| |. is announced at Douglas that the
| Americans and Mexicans have entered
| into a reciprocal arrangement where
| By load OF provisions will go south
| for every load of ore coming north.
Numerous appeals for troops 20 pro-
tect settlements and ranches along
the Arizona border we're received at
| Douglas by Gen. T. r. Davis. COM
manding the Arizona military district.
Shipments from the Mormon Girl
mine twenty-seven miles north of
Phoenix. have been suspended until
September by reason of the destruc-
! ton of the sampling mill al the Hay
| den smelter.
| A deal is pending on the Rupert
which if consummated, will result in
| bringing TO the Patagonia country
more first-class mining men. finan-
| cially able TO carry on mining devel-
| opment on big scale.
Capt. Lewis Morey OF Troop X,
| Tenth cavalry, who was killed in the
battle OF Carrizal. was well known to
many army officers stationed at Doug
| las. He was exceedingly popular both
/ in military and civil circles.
4 wild ride over the mountain from
| Oatman in a high-powered auto in the
| custody of Bill Grizzelle, a ranger
/ deputy sheriff. probably saved the life
/ of William Kirk. miner. Kirk had
| been sent to the Oatman Jail for safe
keeping on charge of despoiling the
/ little 6-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Robert Mcmahon of Goldroad.
Arrangements are being made for
| pumping the tailings water from the
| precipitating plant at Lowell, back of
the Holbrook and Gar shafts. piping
| il down into the mines again and irri-
| eating some OF the old worked-out
| slopes.
Suit to obtain possession of all the
property of the Southern Arizona
| Smelling Company, bankrupt. the
| principal part OF which is the s500,000
smelter at Sasco. now under lease to
| the American Smelling and Refining
| Company, was filed in the United
States District Court at Tucson.
An examination OF the quicksilver
deposits of the Mazatzal Range has
Oeen Hldde Dy r. L. hdnsOme OF tne
United States Geological Survey, and
| his report has been published as Bull
letin go r. These quicksilver de-
posits occur in a strip of country
| about six miles long that extends
northeastward across the Mazatzal
Range in the vicinity OF Pine Butte.
| eleven miles south of North Peak
All the claims are in the Sunflower
mining district, in which cinnabar
was discovered in October. 1911, by
f. II. Bowman of Phoenix while pros
pecting for gold.
II may be said that because of the
ultra fashionable location sandwiched
as IL is between the United Verde and
the United Verde Extension IL is rea-
sonably certain that Jerome Verde
will eventually develop into a mine
comparable to its two giant neigh
bors.
large shipment OF silver gold bull
lion from the property of the FL
Il