Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-13

Greenlee county at this time Is tn0 Longfellow Extension, whose property on Chase creek is humming with ac- tivity.
 Calumet & Arizona has plowed up the beautiful park of several city blocks extent at its Warren general office and townsite location and is putting it to potatoes and onions.
 At Ajo. the New Cornelia Copper Company management has steps un- der way with the Papago Indians in the valley country between Ajo and Tucson which are bringing in many calls for beans for planting.
 Due to the departure of nearly every male student in the senior class of the university into the military training camps or into agricultural service, the University of Arizona held its com mencement one month early.
 Charles H Meadows. for many years famous snowman, and known the world over as Arizona Charley" was acquitted at Yuma on the charge of libel preferred by Mrs. W. Woodawise. proprietress of a root beer stand.
 At Jerome the United Verde and the Verde Extension are both planning az ricultural development on lands they have in the Verde valley. and will add a considerable acreage Of potatoes and the like to the yield in the northern part of the state.
 K. Matsumoto. a Japanese gardener. living six miles south of the Mexican line, near Sonoita, about thirty-five miles from Aio. is dead. and 1t is be- lieved that another Japanese, Tamaka. an employe. knows something about the circumstances surrounding his death.
 Gov. Thomas E. Campbell issued a proclamation offering a reward of s250 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those implicated in dynamiting the home of J. s. Acker at Prescott. this in addition to a reward of s1.000 already offered by Yayapai County officials.
 A meeting was held at San Simon and resolutions adopted urging the farmers to raise the largest crops pos sible this year, and urging the gov ernor to cali a special session of the Legislature 10 appropriate funds to aid farmers, fruit growers and stock men in their efforts to increase food production.
 At the end of the five months gov. ernorship contest, instituted by former Gov. G. w P. Hunt. judgment was en- tered by Judge Stanford at Phoenix for Thomas E. Campbell, de facto gov ernor, who has held the office since early in the year on an order from the Supreme Court, sustaining his cer- tificate of election.
 The rubber industry may be added to Southern Arizona's assets. Senator Henry F. Ashurst and Con gressman Carl Hayden have intro duced bills in the Senate and House of Representatives during the present session of Congress providing for an appropriation of s10,000 for the pur- pose of compiling report on the feas- ] ibility of constructing the Colorado River Indian irrigation project. In order that they may do their share in the program of food conser- yation and production mapped out for this state by Gov. Thomas E. Camp bell and the State Council of Defense, | the inmates of the State Asylum for the Insane have for the past two months been storing eggs for use this | fall and winter when the prices again | shall advance.
 A fellow giving his name as Joe Bai. | ley Marcum was taken into custody | by the officers at Gallup who con. | fessed that he, with two other men, had entered into an agreement with eration of S10.0o0. they would dyna- mite the coal mines at Gallup and the Santa Fe bridges at Winsiow and Can yon Diablo.
 Allowing for the importation of all men available in this state for farm labor in the Salt River valley and | figuring as conservatively as possible members of the executive committed of the Arizona State Council of De fense determined that more than 2,00t
 farm hands will be needed inside the
 next two months, and that the short
 age in farm hands for the season vii
 range from 1000 to 5000.
 The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows | sccent cd the site offered by the peoplt
 of Stafford for the Odd Fellows Home
 at the session of the Grand Lodge.