Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-24

SUPERIOR COURT AT
 TOMBSTONE ADJOURNS /, FOR SEVERAL WEEKS
Judge Lockwood and Clerk James Leave for Coast. | Scarborough Taken to Flor elce.

TOMBSTONE. May 2S-(SpeciaD- There will be no session of the su- perior court for at least three weeks, as Judge Lockwood has taken his little Ford and bade Blackstone and all the other legal lights good bye for the time being He will visit the Grand Canyon and then go On into California to spend few days with Mrs. Lockwood and family. IL is eX- pected that he will return about the second week in June to resume work at which time the criminal calendar will be called and the jury report for duty The work of the criminal cal enGar will take at least month rS clear up after which civil business will be taken up. The Judge did not expect to take his vacation at this time put as the lawyers asked to have the criminal cases passed for a few weeks, on account of the United States court in Tucson, he decided to take this time for his vacation. Clerk Ed James has also left. He will spend a few weeks with his family in Sacramento, where they have been for the past month. They will re turn with him.
 Sent to Asylum.
 Leonard Miller, of Douglas, was ex- amined by the lunacy commission yes teTday before Judge Lockwood left, and was committed to the asylum. He has Authorizations that he is be ing murdered, eats dirt, and sets fire to his room and also tried to burn his cell. He was taken to the asylum today
 Taken to Florence.
 Edward Scarborough, convicted of the murder of John Clinton at Here ford last June, was taken to the state penitentiary at Florence last Sunday by auto. Scarborough, since his con yiction of murder in the second de gree last February, has been held in the county jail here, pending the ap peal of his case to the supreme court. Recently Scarborough decided to serve his sentence of from ten years to life and the case on appeal to the supreme court was dismissed at his request. He was taken to Florence by Deputy Sheriff Harry Rafferty and Porter Mcdonald in the latters ma chine.
 Books Turned Over.
 County Assessor Edwin Hughes has turned over to the board of super yisors, as required by law, the assess ment rolls for Cochise county for the year 1916, and they are now open for by the public and taxpay CTS who desire to see with what prop erty they have been assessed. The official notice of this fact has been issued by the clerk of the board.
 The supervisors will convene as a | board of equalization the first Of l June, and will sit as such until the | 10th of JurN, during which time they | will raise or lower such assessments ! as they may deem proper. The mine have not been placed oh the rolls as yet as the State Board | of Equalization has not sent them down. They are expected ro arrive almost any day now. It is expected | that the total of the assessment rolls will be increased some over that ot last year. There will be some nss in the cattle valuations as a large | number oI cattle were shipped out of the country last year. The land as easements will show an increase as here have been several hundred home steads proved on during the past year and patent secured to several thousand acres by script.