Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-22


 Tucson.
 Apache county is planning a new court house.
 A dairy business is growing in the Chandler district.
 The new Cornelia company has shipped its first ore from the Ajo mines.
 The short course for miners at the University of Arizona starts on Oct 30.
 Oatman Is again assuming the busi ness appearance that was so evident 8 year ago
 John Ellis, charged with bootleg ging. was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court at Tucson.
 Jess Willard, who was a cowboy be- fore he became heayyweight cham pion, will visit Miami Oct. 2S.
 Arizona's revenue from automobile and other motor vehicle licenses for the year 1916 will be approximately sS0,OO0
 A reward of s25 has been offered for the detection of the party killing mountain sheep along the Oracle road. near Tucson.
 The Keystone, in the Kingman dis trict, has entered big body of ore on the 30O-foot level. the cross-cut having already entered seven feet of high grade.
 The Civil Service Commission has announced an examination for the po- sition of forest ranger on Oct. 30 at all forest headquarters in New Mex ico and Arizona.
 Two rounds of shots fired in the Venture Hill tunnel at Prescott have apparently demonstrated that a per manent body of high.g grade copper ore has been discovered.
 The reports sent in to district headquarters of the Forest Service for Arizona and New Mexico indicate that the forest fire season is practi- cally closed for this year.
 A large brass cannon of the vintage of '63 is going to grace the state house grounds as soon as Curator Jim Keene can find time to mount the field piece on its carriage.
 Globe mining men who have exam ined the 1900 acres of ground owned by the Miami Consolidated Mines Company, are enthusiastic over the possibilities for the new company.
 By way of preparation for the enor- nous placer plant which is to be in- stalled to V ork the old La Paz gravel beds, the construction of a 2.0OO ,0O0- gallon reservoir is being pushed to completion.
 The United States Vanadium Devel- opment Company Of Ray has over 500 tons of ere in the dump taken out of the tunnel fin cross-cutting their ledge, of ore which assays 3.65 per cent vanadium pentoxide.
 In the United States court at Pres colt Assistant Attorney General R. w. Kramer was permitted to withdraw the former motion to dismiss what are known as the 3-cent fare cases, three in number, and file answers to the complaints.
 The mill Of the Arizona Butte Com pany is turning out the highest grade concentrates ever produced in Mohave county. Samples taken from the bins show the concentrates to have a value of 66 per cent lead, $i5 gold and I2 ounpeS silyer tn tho ton
 Charging that he was connected with the operation Of a disorderly house at Sasco, United States immi- grafton authorities arrested Linn Coon, Chinese merchant of Tucson. He was released on s1.0OO bond and his hearing set for Nov. 1.
 Hundreds of ancient relics of in. tense archaeological interest nave been recovered from the cliff dwell ings of the Aztecs and Navajos in Nitsie and -Segia cahons on the Nav aio reservations by Prof Malcolm Cummings of the State University.
 If the Supreme Court affirms the referee in his decision relative to the eastern boundary line of Yuma county and the western boundary line of Ma ricopa county the four and a half mile strip over which the controversy arose will be retained by Maricopa.
 The McNeal Fair Association is not alone anxious to better the grade of livestock and foodstuffs raised in the Sulphur Springs valley, but the crop of human mites as we'll. For that reason a better babies" show will be a leading feature of this years fair at McNeai, Oct 2s, according to resi- dents of that section.
 George A. Thayer of Prescott has filed in the Yuma county recorders office damsite location on Bill Will jams Fork and also an appropriation of all the waters of the creek. The intention of the locator is to dam the creek and use the waters for power and irrigation purposes. Lying with his face on the ground, with a single -barreled shotgun with a discharged cartridge in the barrel, be- meath his body, James Kologomos, a young Greek, was found on the des- srt and taken to Phoenix.