Tombstone epitaph., 1916-07-16


 Palo Verde has organized a home guard
 Miami is to have new Catholic church.
 Tucson women are forming an aux Hilary home guard.
 Miami is taking steps 10 organize Board of Trade.
 Arizona will organize many Red Cross associations.
 In the Wentworth district, 1G0 acres of barley was destroyed by fire
 Fourteen alleged bootleggers were taken in a wholesale raid at Bisbee.
 The jury in the Johnson Kilcoyne case returned verdict of not guilty.
 About ,000 persons at Miami have already registered for the fall cleo tions.
 The Commercial Hotel at Phoenix was destroyed by fire. with an est!- mated loss of slO0,0OO.
 Just now there is quite an activity in mines and mining properties throughout Pinal county. Three Mexicans were killed and six injured. while working on the roads near Metcalf, by an explosion.
 Ore that runs anywhere from sl0 10 sl00 per ton is being found in punches in the drift in the Black Range.
 Twenty-Five residents Of Douglas, all arrested on charges of bootlegging were escorted through Bisbee on their way to Tombstone 4 deposit Of high-grade copper ore of promising possibilities has been encountered at depth of 100 feet in the workings of the Black Rock Com pany m Yavapai county.
 The Arizona Supreme Court de clared unconstitutional the initiated law adopted by the voters in 1914, pro- | yiding for mothers and old age pen sions.
 Wholesale arrests of persons about | Tucson hotels, restaurants and soft i drink places, on charges of violating the prohibitory law, followed raids by county officers.
 Four thousand dollars worth of gold bullion and a carload of high grade concentrates Is the monthly output from the Tiger Gold property l in the Bradshaw mountains. | In the Superior Court at Tombstone ! Erip h.c | from Los Angeles under eXtradition papers, on the charge of embezzle- ment, entered plea of guilty. The output of American mines for 1916, as seen in production for the | first six months of the year, will | reach new records the government | bureau of mines statement says. | A tragedy of the mines was discov cred at the Gold Trails property. about twenty miles southwest of King man. Randolph Alger and wife and an unknown miner being the victims. | Congress will be asked to relieve miners from doing their assessment work on claims near AjO. on account of being compelled to abandon their claims owing to war conditions on the border.
 United States soldiers Of the bor- ! der patrol at Douglas made their first i crossing into Mexico territory, but re- ! turned to the Arizona side in few 1 minutes. The soldiers crossed the | line in pursuit of Private Edward Stone. a deserter from the Arizona militia
 l Some excellent samples of asbestos are on exhibition at Phoenix from Arizona mines.
 Preliminary steps toward the con jtruction Of a narrow guage railroad from Branaman station on the Phoe- nix & Eastern Railroad 10 the Snider
 mining property are being taken by George E. Crittenden.
 A comedy young American girl is | thought to have been the cause of an attempted murder. perhaps successful. md a suicide at Douglas, when Dave Kuri. Syrian chauffeur. shot Fran ! then turned the gun on himself blow. | ing his brains out. | Record productions of all metals are predicted for the mines and smelt- CTS of Arizona this year. At the rate they are now working they will pro duce 600,00O,0O0 pounds of copper, against i5O O,000. 900 in 1915. A core | spending increase is noted in the out put Of precious metals, and in that of lead and zinc. which. at the great Iy increased prices. will probably make the total value of the output in 1916 nearly double that of 1915, which was about $ss.000,0 900. Gen. P. Elias Gales, military com mander in Sonora, issued statement through Consul Ives G. Leleyier at Douglas, that he intended to preserve the best possible relations between Mexico and the United States, and would cooperate with the American authorities and that he would sur render the murderers of William Parker and his young wife at the