Tombstone epitaph., 1916-07-30

The old ore dump at Patagonia has been torn down to make room for a new one.
 A paving district covering the prin- cipal residence section of Douglas is to be created.
 The badly burned body of Michael O'Brien was found in his dugout about two miles west of Chilto.
 Mrs. Ralph Raphael committed sui eide by drinking a solution of cyanide at her home in Clarkdale.
 The new Notation plant of the Stod- dard Mines Company on the Aqua Eric river, has been completed.
 Site for a club house to be used as a social center at Copper Hill has been donated by the Iron Cap Con- pany.
 Seven county prisoners will be en- ployed in a surveying party, which is laying out a new road into the Pinal mountains.
 Chloride's postoffice has grown out of it's former class several months ago. At the present time it is crowd ing third class.
 Wm. Curtis was killed by lightning in one of the worst rain and electric storms that has visited the Tombstone section in years.
 The compressor plant house of the Jerome-Oatman Mining Company was destroyed by fire, causing loss placed at s25O,OOO.
 A three-foot body of gold ore has been struck on the Old Homestead mine in the Walker district at depth of seventy-fiye feet.
 Samuel and Isaac Appel, brothers of Phoenix are believed 10 have been drowned in the Salt river three miles from Roosevelt dam.
 Civic improvements amounting to s10O,0OO are being held up pending the approval from a legal standpoint of bond issue recently voted at Cliff ton.
 Henry and Willis Azbil, convicted at Flagstaff of the murder of Henry O. Thomas, were sentenced to be hanged on Sept. % at the state peni- tentiary.
 Whether it is a ledge or a stringer is as yet undetermined, but ore that pans free gold has been struck at the bottom of the shaft of the Oatman- Combination.
 The net valuation of all property in Cochise county for taxation purposes is s114,S14,726.56, and the tax rate is expected to be about sl as against s1.07 last year.
 High grade sulphide ore has been struck in the 250 foot tunnel being driven to drain the old 90 foot winze at the Long Pine Verde mine in the Jerome district.
 Twenty-seven men of Company D, First Connecticut infantry, were talk en i'll with ptomaine poisoning at Tucson as a result, it is said, of eat ing canned food.
 With his bride more than two thou sand miles away, Private Louis Banse- mer, Company II, First New Jersey infantry, was married at Douglas to Miss Ethel NJ. Sergent, of Newark, N. J.
 A 5000 legacy was left Miss Flu nice wingo, a trained nurse of Phoe- nix, by Mrs. Harry E. Kirk, who passed away at her home in Douglas two years ago for caring for her hus- band.
 Another case of cerebro spinal meningitis appeared in the Warren district when Alonzo Garcia, the eleven-year-old son of J. Lozano Perz. formerly Villa consul at Naco, died of the malady.
 A mammoth monument, constructed of thousands of pieces of the various kinds of ore to be found in the Casa Grande district, will be erected in a park near the Southern Pacific depot by the Casa Grande Chamber of Mines.
 An order prohibiting swearing on the streets of Ray was issued by Jus. tice of the Peace E. w. French as a result of complaints against profane language in public. Applications for loans of state funds to the amount of s125,000 have been filed with State Land Commis- sioner w. A. Moeur by farmers of Yuma and Graham counties.
 Option on the old Sunnyside group of gold mines, eleven miles southeast of Prescott, has been taken by H. A. Groom of Phoenix. who is preparing to begin work on the property.