Tombstone epitaph., 1917-07-01
ARIZONA STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

July 4-s-Elks' Annual State Reunion at Prescott.
 Big shipments of cattle are being made from the Salt River valley. Douglas Liberty bond books closed with total of s9sl 900 subscribed.
 Arizona people did their bit" in subscriptions 10 the Red Cross fund. All Saints church at Tucson was destroyed by fire of unknown origin. An artesian we'll is to be bored in Mineral Valley by the State Of Ari- zona.
 The Azetc Hot Springs Company is the name of a new organization at Clifton
 Several bootleggers plead guilty at Tombstone and were fined s150 and given jail sentences.
 Flagstaff is the highest city in Ar izona being one and a quarter miles above the level of the sea.
 Captain Edwin Stoner Tice, honored by all the residents of Globe, known and admired throughout the West, died at his home in Globe.
 IL was announced that an accurate crop survey of Arizona is now in progress. under the direction of the Arizona Council of Defense.
 Oatman. Goldroad and other mining camps in the county joined in hon bring the twelve men who left Oat- man to join the First Arizona
 Loans of state money to the amount of s51,166 have been approved by the state loan board since Senate Bill No. 95 became law on June :.
 One hundred and thirty-six men. in cluding Navajos, Moquis and Caucas- ians registered for the selective draft at the Moqui agency at Kearns Canon June 5th.
 | No clue has been obtained to the parties who tried to blow up the house occupied by Sam Watt and John Hartman, in the lower part of Tombstone
 Operations are in progress at the Venture Hill mine at Jerome on prac- tically tie game scale that prevailed before the strike Two shifts are be ing worked.
 There will be no draft in Mohave county, according to Col. Charles liar ris, adjutant general of Arizona. The county has filled its quota by the vol unteer system.
 Nine hundred and ninety-two auto mobile license tags were issued dur ing May by the secretary of state, g record for the month. The fees represent approximately $7,000.
 John w Bell was murdered in the hay field of John R. Beasley. living on the Hackney place, near Chandler. Beasley surrendered to the sheriff, saying he committed the crime in self defense.
 Either abducted by men or lost in the desert in some foolhardy adven- ture, two girls, Alice Miller and Ma rion Coyle, each aged 12, were miss ing from home June 16th. and the sheriff dispatched searching parties in every direction.
 Finding of more liquor cached at the home of Jeff Cole. alleged king of the wholesale bootleggers in Tue son, brought the total amount confis. cated in connection with Coles ar rest by Sheriff Miles, up to forty-five cases or 1.OsO pints of whiskey.
 With a carload of timber on the ground, tents erected whim up and the old shaft strengthened up from collar to bottom, operations are go- l ing forward with vigor and vim at the property of the Jerome Yeager Copper Company, six. miles west of Jerome
 The Cananea Consolidated Copper Iompany, at Cananea. Sonora, fifty miles south of Naco, Ariz., pulled fires from it's smelters and mills and sus- pended operations. A $30,000.0O0 mortgage was filed by the American Smelling Company at Globe.
 The billion pound figure to which Arizona is going this year. from 432.- 4G7,c90 pounds in 1915 is the best ev- idence of the great expansion in re- sources, investment and labor which she has made in and in which she is at this time at the high tide of endeavor.
 Six years ago. while drilling a well eight miles north of Bowe. on the Lower Gold Gulch creek, oil sand and asphaltum were discovered. Some work was done and many claims To- cated, and now, as a result of more recent examination. there is another rush to file oil claims in that section | According to a copy of a letter re- ceived by the sheriffs office in Tomb stone. the governors office in Phoen- ix and the board of pardons and pa- roles will not consider any applica- tions for pardons or paroles for par ties convicted of violation of the pro hibition amendments unless they are very unusual
 Governor Campbell appointed the following members of the state board of education: John D. Loper of Phoe- nix (reappointedD; H. E. Matthews, Mesa, successor to w. E. Lutz of Morenci; S. c. Haywood of Stafford. successor to Curtis D. Miller of Pres cott.
 Water rose to within 100 feet of the Jerome Portiand's 500-foot shaft