Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-13
Parker Is to have a smelter.

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 Miami is to have big Labor Day celebration.
 Bisbee fire insurance rates have been reduced.
 Water is 2l5 feet deep in the Roose- welt reservoir.
 State money will soon be loaned to Arizona farmers.
 The strike at the Gold Roads mines has been settled.
 A s4o,OoO grain elevator is being erected at Tucson.
 The old Empire mine at Chloride has been unwatered.
 Mrs. Teresa Martinez was killed by lightning at Sahuarita.
 The proposed Arizona game law is declared to be faulty.
 Tucson may be chosen as a location for a recruiting station.
 The paving of Flagstaff's business center is about completed.
 During the fiscal year 4,oOo,000 acres Of land were surveyed.
 A new slOG,OOO ice and cold storage plant is to be erected in Douglas.
 Sheelite has been discovered in the Hassayampa district near Prescott.
 Express companies are now accept ing liquor shipments from any point.
 The trustees will sell the unpatent- ed claims of the Pioneer Smelting Company at Tucson.
 Two miners were injured about the face and hands by an explosion in the Shattuck mine at Bisbee.
 More than 300 Mexicans were made homeless by a fire which broke out in the Mexican quarter at Miami
 A heavy cloudburst caused the big gest flood down Deception gulch south of Jerome, that has occurred in years.
 Charles F. Williams was bound over to the Superior Court at Yuma on two counts, both for passing spurious checks
 After being in the Salt river for eighteen days, the bodies of Samuel and Isaac Appel of Phoenix were re. covered.
 Two Pioneer mine contractors were held on charge of permitting an em ployG to work more than eight hours in one day.
 In a battle with Mexican cattle thieves, Jose Francisco, Papago In dian, was shot through the breast at Indian Oasis.
 Serious damage by washouts was sustained by the Chloride branch oi the Santa Fe. but the ranges were greatly benefited by the rain.
 An association Of secretaries e commercial organizations in Arizona New Mexico and West Texas is the latest scheme for boosters of the Southwest
 By a change in management which affects both Phelps, Dodge & Co. and the Copper Queen Consolidated Min ing Company, Douglas becomes head.
 
 D. NJ. Locey, who expects to start work very soon on a group of mines near Prescott, is an aviation expert and proposes to use a biplane on his journeys between the city and the mining camp.
 At Tombstone the jury in the Nal, donado case returned a verdict of murder in the second degree.
 From the July crop report of the United States government Arizonas prospects for this year are estimated as follows: Corn, 724,0OO bushels; wheat, 100000 bushels; potatoes, s9,000 bushels.
 For $200,00O H. G. Murphy of Phoe- nix, representing Washington capital ists, has bought the Woodbury Copper Company holdings at Superior. The property consists of 120 claims said to be the largest surface showing in Ari- zona.
 Only few more little crooks and turns of wrenches, rivets, hammers, bolts and pulleys and the big gallows frame at No. ? shaft of the United Eastern will be hoisting the big buck cts of rock from the 375-foot hole at Oatman.
 Instead of complying with the three cent-fare law the Arizona Eastern, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe will give coupons for excess charges, the same to be refunded provided the fed eral court does not sustain contention of the railroads.
 That Private James G. Alden of the hospital detachment of the Fourteenth infantry came to his death from heat prostration was the verdict of the cor oner's jury at Douglas.
 Max Findlay was killed and Lyle Cooke was badly injured at the Thumb Butte property at Union Pass by the explosion of a charge of dyna- mite that had hung fire. Miss Eunice Wingo. who was willed $50,0o0 by Mrs. Harry E. Kirk of Douglas, is a nurse in regular employ