Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-29

Prisoners were assigned to clean up the streets of Tombstone.
 Captain Tod, Yuma man, is recov- ering from the bite of centipede. A rooster attacked and seriously wounded an lS-months- child at Douglas.
 Prof. E. P. Taylor is the new direc- tor of the agricultural extension work at Tucson.
 Fred Ruhan. of Jerome. is reported to have been buncoed out of s2,000 in Los Angeles. The Mountain States Telephone Company is to build a new line from 7! "aso e Benson.
 Salvador Cruz confessed at Tucson that he robbed P. C. Brena of a val uable diamond ring. All records in cotton sales were broken when Fred C. Weeks of Mesa sold six bales for sl,O0O. A fine lot of horses have been en- tered for the races at the state fail at Phoenix on Nov. 1918.
 SIX convicted bootleggers. serving sentences in Cochise for their crime, ! escaped from the county road camp. Ramon Morales. a Mexican miner of Tombstone, was shot and killed ! while returning 10 his home from ! work.
 On the plea of self-defense, Russell Johnson was eXonerated at Phoenix for the killing or Eugene Caruthers at Gila Bend.
 Ore carrying values around the slJO mark is reported by Boyard & Reynolds on their property ten miles south Of Globe. Yavapal county is entering upon a period of mining prosperity that prom. ises to surpass the stirring scenes oi decade ago.
 Sever No!and, a negro, died at the Arizona hospital at Tucson from bul. let wounds received in a brawl neal the negro club.
 The Parker Consolidated Mining Company will commence development work on its property adjoining the Billy Mack mine.
 A fact not very well known to the general public is that some of the na. tional forests of Arizona contain ex tensiye stands of cypress.
 An epidemic resembling malaria at tended by a high mortality rate, is reported at Douglas, 10 be prevalent in Northeastern Sonora.
 The Geronimo Mining Company, re. gently formed to take over a large copper property near Geronimo, has started development work.
 The government October crop re port places the corn yield in Arizona at 19S.C0O bushels; all wheat, 1,l6O, 100; oats. 5SS,O0O; barley, I,l6O 900, potatoes lOl .0Go; hay. Gl6,OOO tons.
 Assay returns from a high grade strike made on the 300-foot level of the Keystone mine at Chloride showed values of 226 ounces in silver, 40 ounces in gold. or about siS0 per ton
 gift of sG0,O00 for an observatory and thirty-six-inch telescope was an nounced at a meeting Of the board of regents of the University of Arizona The donors name is to be kept Sc cret.
 Hon. G. w. Shute will resign his position as judge of the superior court in Gila county and enter upon private practice of law al Globe on Dec. l.
 Private Herbert James, Company D, Fifth New Jersey Infantry, has been arrested pending complete inyestiga- ton of the discharge of his rifle while he and several comrades Were standing around a campfire at Here ford, fifty miles west of Douglas. Pri- vate George Back and Private John E. Main have flesh wounds in the thigh
 Three former officers of the law sat Tn the Pima County District Court while jury was being empaneled to try them jointly for murder. Deputy Sheriff Wiley. Deputies Johns and Salazar faced charges of murdering the wife of Captain Bates, an army officer, while she was returning home after a theater party in Tucson six months ago. The former deputies de clared they fired revolvers at an auto in which they thought burglars were fleeing. In the machine Capt. Bates and his wife were riding. She was struck twice and died almost in- stantly.
 Eleven bootIeggers were delivered to County Engineer J. F. Ryan at Tombstone by Sheriff Wheeler, to be taken to the Bisbee extension road camp.
 A new company, the United Jerome is being formed for the purpose of developing a group of 20 claims ad joining the Pittsburg-Jerome on the north and northwest.
 While building a new road to the old Black Range shaft, Dave Wright of Oatman, unexpectedly uncovered paystreak of rich ore, carrying gold values up 10 s23 a ton.