Tombstone epitaph., 1917-04-22
ARIZONA STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. July +s-EIks' Annual State Reunion at Prescott.

1uy s-e-rlhs Ahhuai state heuhioh at Prescott.
 Chloride is to have a fire depart ment.
 High grade ore is being shipped from the Old Desert at Salome.
 Governor Campbell has called all able-bodied men. IS to i5, to colors.
 The Mowry mine near Patagonia has been sold, and work will start at once.
 Ten Mexicans seeking work gave a Gila Bend family scare, as the fam fly feared a raid.
 The Tucson City Council has passed an ordinance making it illegal to have liquor on the premises.
 Federal aid has been asked in order to get funds to repair the bridge over the Gila river at Florence.
 About 10000 acres of land excluded from Crook National forest will be subject to entry May 23rd.
 The Campbell Construction Com. pany at Kingman has a large amount of SIS ore ready for shipment.
 A clue to the poisoning of TOO sheep on the Arizona Utah strip has been found, according to c. B. Stewart.
 Judge F. o. Smith of Prescott re- fused to accept the $500 per year ad- ditional salary. under the new law. The Golden Hammer at Chloride re- gently acquired by Prof. F. C. Smith and associates. is in big ore in the tun- nel
 Copper production for March beat the best previous record for produc- tion in the Douglas district, the total being approximately 26,OOO,OOO pounds.
 The Hunt Campbell contest for the goyernorship is just about where it was when the contest started, slight gains and losses having been made by each.
 The Twin Buttes Mining district is rapidly nearing that stage where it will be regarded as one of the great copper producing camps of the South west
 Granite Reef Dam, the power house and the canals near Mesa, together with all the works of that diversion project. are guarded by deputy United States marshals.
 Forty Tucson women gathered in the Woman's club to assist the members of the local chapter of the Red Cross in sewing bandages and surgical dress ings in preparation for war.
 The production of the Old Dominion Company during March was 3,3OO,OO0 pounds of copper. This includes Old Dominion copper produced at the h. ternational shelter, Miami. Cattlemen from all over the south ern part of the state will gather in Tucson on April Fist, to attend the regular annual convention of the Southwestern Stock Growers Associ- ation.
 Governor Campbell issued a procla- nation designating April Sth as "Loy- alty Sunday" and thousands listened to patriotic addresses, and pledged ! their allegiance to the Stars and Stripes.
 The Yeager Copper Company has been formed for the purpose of de veloping a group of 26 claims north and west of the old Yeager Canon mine, about four miles and half southwest of Jerome A full company of Yuma Indians, as part of California regiment in | ha nf tn ernor w. D. Stephens of California in a telegram sent by l.. L.. Ode, su- perintendent of the Yuma Indian Res crvation.
 E. NJ. Binford was in Kingman from the vicinity of Bull Canon, in the Wallapai mountains, where he has been prospecting for a month or more and took with him samples of ore that gave returns of better than 300 ounces silver.
 Earl c. Stone waived preliminary examination and was bound over to await the action of the Superior Court on a charge of murdering Harry VII Hams, whose body was found in a prospect hole on the Davis ranch, ov- CT the divide near Bisbee.
 William Wilson, Ajo mining pros pector. accused of killing A. E. Con ley, one of his four partners, in a gun fight in the hills twenty miles from Ajo at Bisbee, appeared before Superior Judge Samuel L. Pattee to answer to a charge of murder and plead not guilty.
 Equipment of Tucson with a machine gun, additional rifles and an ample supply of ammunition to meet any emergency was provided for at meet ing of Mayor Parker, Sheriff Miles, Chief of Police Bailey and the nine citizens comprising the committee of