Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-20

Nht oCHeheCtdus Hiiue dt NuiOIlue. The Ray.Hercules Company will build a 1.OOO-ton mill at Florence. Aug 22 is the last day for filing nominating petitions for county office.
 Copper production for the Douglas district was about 22,O0O.OO0 pounds.
 Jose Maria Leon was killed by light ring while loading wood east of Cedar Glade.
 The Ray and Gila Valley railroad las cut the fare to three cents per ile.
 The Arizona State Federation of Labor held an important meeting at Tucson.
 i Sta;e SupeIil,;5 aia1; Case has aI portioned s33,ss2. 60 among the schools Of the state.
 The pumps at the Jerome-Verde shaft are working for the first time | in several years.
 Negotiations for a merger of the Venture Hill and Verde Apex are in progress at Jerome. The production for July at the Old | Dominion shelter at Globe was in ex- cess of 3.OOO.0O0 pounds.
 The Arlington Dam, south of Buck eye. was slightly damaged by the re- cent rise in the Gila river. The Oatman-Belle, under the per sonal supervision of President Lester Nj. Dull. is working three shifts.
 The Ash Peak mine, located about twelve miles northwest of Duncan is the scene of considerable activity at present.
 At Oatman the east drift on the 3j0-foot level of the Carter is in mill. ins ore that has given assays of from St 10 s20 a ton.
 High grade ore has been struck in the Oatman-Empire shaft, assays go- ing around $500 a ton. The find was made at depth of thirty feet.
 Arrangements have been perfected fer reopening the old Silver Hill prop nediately west of Chloride. At Prescott, Sam A. Parker was awarded judgment Of s2,3i0.90 and costs of suit against the Buckeye Cop Per and Gold Mining Company. A passenger train running be- | tween the Grand Canon and Williams, was derailed and ditched, killing the fireman and injuring the brakeman.
 On Sept. 15 Robert Talley. under l sentence of death at Florence must pay supreme penalty for the murder oi Jesse Danner in Miami in 1913.
 A group of claims close to the Iowa. l Arizona-White Chief and Oatman- Leader has been organized as the Oatman-Gold Center Mines Company.
 Ling Sing, a Chinese laundryman at kingman, ended his life by firing a bullet into his throat, the missile passing out through the back of his neck.
 An election precinct will be estab- liEhed at Fort Huachuca by Pima county for the purpose of receiving votes of members of Company E, ac- ccrding 10 Capt. Robert Soto.
 A report from Stockton Hill states that a strike of ore has been made on | the Fraction claim of the Kingman Zinc Company that gave return of bet te.- than s65 per ton in gold and sil- yer.
 Killing a large rattlesnake with a butcher knife and escaping uninjured wak the experience of little 5-year-old Gertrude Morrison, daughter of a farmer living near Roosevelt. For the purpose of taking over and operating the old Gold Basis mine, or Groom Creek, five miles south Of Prescott, the Groom Creek Gold Min ing and Milling Company has been or ganized.
 Two mountain lions in the Thomp- son Valley country that had been de stIoying range cattle for several weeks, were run down and killed by T. R. Patterson and L. D. Bennett CT Prescott.
 Lieut.. James Cornell, a battalion aGjutant of the Fourth New Jersey Infantry, and Lieut.. Harry E. Wright cf Company l, same regiment, each had leg broken at Douglas when an automobile in which they were rid ing hit trolley car.
 Cantaloupe shipments by the car load have ceased. but smaller lots by @ press will continue for some time | 1Gere being no rain to interfere, this has been an ideal year and from the Mesa neighborhood alone s200,000 has been paid out for cantaloupes. About as grewsome a sight as . person can stand was the scene in the east end of the s. P. freight yards at Yuma, when Jesus Cordova, a sec ton hand, was completely decapitated under a box car. his head rolling to one side of the track while his body remained on the ties between the rails.
 Discussion of the prohibition ques- tion was tabooed by a unanimous vote at the opening session Of the annual convention of the Arizona Federation of Labor at Tucson.