Tombstone epitaph., 1917-04-15
ARIZONA STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS


 Long staple cotton growers met at Casa Grande and perfected an organ iIaliou
 With spring weather. mining activ- ity in tue Prescott district is on the increase
 Growing Egyptian cotton is becom- ing an extensive industry in the Phoe- nex section.
 Standard guage railroad service for Jerome :s probability of the imme- diate future.
 Two trunks of borded whisky, 96 pints. were rabbed by d deputy sher. fir at Miami.
 Reports from Douglas state that Mexican bandits are footing ranchers in that section.
 Thirty cadets enrolled in the off cers corps a; the University of Ari. zona at Tucson.
 Governor Campbell has signed the antitobacco bill which raises the age limit from IS to 2l.
 Mrs. Clara Fish Roberts took office as trustee of School District No. 1 at Bisbee. April 7th.
 The new million-dollar acid plant at the C. X A. shelter at Douglas is being operated at full capacity
 A L. Conley was killed and John Bach seriously wounded in a gun fight about twenty miles south of Ajo.
 The Dig Reef Copper Company. corporation organized last November, is opening up its property near May. CT.
 Attacked by man in the uniform Of soldier as she lay in ted at her home, a Douglas woman underwent a narrowing experience.
 Jerome will have a chapter of Roy al Arch Masons as soon as the neces- sary dispensation arrives
 Report comes from the Telluride mine at Oatman that the drift on the lowest level has entered excellent ore. although the streak is not large.
 Mayor Jacob Erickson of Bisbee, is- sued a proclamation asking residents of the Warren district to display the American flag over their homes.
 John Croft, charged with complicity In the murder of Stephen Hughes of Tempe, was given his preliminary hearing and bound over under sS5 ,OOO bonds
 The Middle Golconda at Kingmar made Q total shipment of raw ores to the smelters during March far in eA. cess of any other month Of its ex- | istence
 Ten per cent increases in passen- ger and freight rates have been granted the Arizona Southern Rail road by the State Corporation Com. mission.
 Religious worship from the top of the Agricultural building on the campus of the University of Arizona was novel feature oi Easter Sunday i in Tucson.
 With the arrival of two new auto mobile fire engines. costing s9,150 each, Tucson sprang into the position of having the leeding fire department l in the state
 Sam W Proctor. chief clerk of the | house Of represer 'atives of the legis lature. has been appointed secretary | of the State Corporation Commission to succeed W. L. Sangster. who be | comes auditor of the commission in charge Of investments. Thomas 3. Cashel was made rate clerk
 An early morning blaze did sl5,OO0 damage to two buildings in Bisbee. Bert Morton, a Sulphur Springs | Valley rancher, is lying at the c. x A. hospital seriously wounded, as the result of a mysterious shooting scrape at his ranch.
 At Tucson, on American Sunday" ! 1000 men, women and chiliren rev. erently marched to the armory and pledged their fealty to the Stars and of justice and honor tequea'hed them by their forefathers at Lexington, at 1 Concord, and at Bunker Hill.
 Three persons were instantly killed and one other injured when an automobile in which the party was travelling from Johnson to Dos Ca bezas was hit by Southern Pacific Train No. 2, a half mile west of Co ! chise. All of the killed and injured were old residents of Dos Cabezas.
 Because they were refused an in crease in Wages, more than 100 min | CTS employed at the Big Ledge Cop per company's mines near Prescott quit work and left the camp. The dismissal of a Japanese cook em pioyed at the mines also was includ ed in the demands of the men.
 c. J. Parker, Ray Mcvey and R l.. Kimmel, three Bisbee men, were taken to Tombstone and placed in the county jail to await trial on a boot logging charge.
 An ore body. four and one-haIf feet in width, was encountered at the l 1,60C foot in a crosscut from a wing froTI the HOO to the 1,6O0 in the Tennes see minc at Oatman. Chief Master-at-Arms A. Gradin recruiting officer for the United States navy, reports that he is meeting with