Tombstone epitaph., 1917-01-28

In 1916 over s27.000,OOO worth of copper was mined in Yavapai county.
 The presidency of the State Senate went to D. II. Claridge of Graham county.
 Gifts amounting to s170,OOO were re- ceived by the University of Arizona | during 1916.
 Turkeys can be raised to better ad- vantage in Arizona than anywhere in the United States.
 News of another big copper strike in the Harcuvars. directly between the Cobrita and Critic, reached Jerome.
 Not many. perhaps no more than one or two, Chinese in Tucson, will celebrate the Chinese New Year this | year.
 The Arizona desert will soon be i stocked with wild ostriches if the | plans of the state game warden are adopted by the Legislature.
 Ten thousand dollars worth of hay went up in smoke at Temple when A. | J. Peters warehouse with its entire | contents was destroyed by fire. l, Grand Master Perkins of the Ma | sonic Grand Lodge of Arizona is mak- ing his annual trip of inspection to l all Masonic lodges in the state.
 A rush IS on to a new gold strike made by George Duncan, IT miles southwest of Aio. Assays run sev- | hnn laIt ha
 An immense vein of vanadium and tungsten ore has been discovered in the vicinity of the old Ripsey mine, six miles south Of Ray Junction.
 With the beginning of the new year, | the game laws passed by the voters of Arizona at the last election as an initiative measure, went into effect.
 Tucson is prosperous, according to the annual report of the merchandise ing research committee of the Associ. ated Advertising Clubs of the World. Wm. Faltin, the murderer that lodged the gallows by being adjudged insane and then escaped from tue asy- lum recently. was captured at Buck | eye
 Herman Schmidt, adjudged sane, | made good a threat he made when he set fire to his ranch house east of Phoenix and burned to death as he lay on his bed.
 w. H. Lewis, a member of Company | N, Eighteenth infantry, was arrested | on the Bisbee road near Douglas while driving an auto that contained nine cases of whisky.
 One of the most important plans of 1 the Arizona State Bureau of Mines is | to conduct a legislative research bur eau for laws relating to mining, both state and federal.
 Bituminous coal output has now passed the half billion ton mark, an increase of 1215 per cent over the previous year. Coke production in creased 30 per cent.
 The land office at Phoenix is re- ceiving from twenty to twenty-five applications a day through the mail for live stock homesteads under the new law recently passed.
 Grief over his sweethearts alleged infidelity led Francis Flynn, a chauf- feur, to attempt suicide at Phoenix. l Flynn shot himself in the stomach with a, .32 long-caliber revolver
 The preliminary hearing of Kit Car son, who shot and killed his brother in-law, James w Roberts, three weeks ago, was held without bond to answer to Superior Court at Tombstone.
 Ten or twelve skeletons dug up at Tucson by workmen excavating on the sewer job in the front Of the city hall are believed to have been from a small Mexican burying ground of the early days.
 Twelve thousand acres of land in the Bowie valley have been purchased | by California capitalists and home seekers who will at once begin the work of converting the land into farms.
 The last person of i'll fame" had moved from Gay Alley, and the his toric restricted district of Tucson was closed permanently by the decision of Judge Pattee of the Pima county Su- perior Court.
 Beginning on January 18th, Nogales changed from Sonora time to Noun tain time. There hasSeen 24 minutes difference in time, Mountain time be- ing 24 minutes later than Sonora time, which in reality is sun time.
 In a brief session of both houses of the Legislature the volume of em- bryo legislation was measurably in. creased and the House put itself part ly on record in opposition to the time honored practice of junketing. There will be no more legal hang ings in Arizona, as the pardon board has commuted to life sentence all who had been sentenced to hang. The amendment to the constitution abol ishing capital punishment carried by a small majority at the last election.
 Ten mines in Arizona paid s34,000,- 900 in dividends during the past year. Adding Utah, Montana, Nevada and Idaho dividends to those of Arizona we have a total of over $100, 0,000. 900 in dividends paid out of the mines of these five western states in a single year.