Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-14
Brief State Notes

About $4,000 acres of land, situated
10 miles south of Maricopa, Will De
thrown open Tor homesteaders on jan
uary 4. 1918. This information was
given out by John L. Irwin, register at
the local land office. The land is To-
Gated around the Papago Indian reser-
walton. There is no information a.
he local land office as to the charac-
ter of the land. but it is known that
il is not under any irrigation project
Governor Campbell yesterday hon
ored a requisition from the governor
of New Mexico for the return to that
state of Frank A. Williamson, charged
with obtaining property by false rep
resentation. Williamson was under ar
rest at Globe, where he had been taken
into custody at the request OF the
New Mexican authorities. The war
rant of extradition was placed in the
hands of r. H. Nickel agent for the
state of New Mexico.
If any dentist in Ari ona plans to get
into the dental reserve corps OF the
United States army he will have TO
step lively. Applications must be in
by December Is or not at all. This
information is given out by Lieut.. Eu-
gene Mcclure of the Dents" corps,
examiner for applicants to the corps
in Arizona. The local dentist. who
has recently been commissioned to the
reserve corps. has just received word
from Washington to hurry up the APP
plications from Arizona. Lieut.. Nc
CURE advises all Arizona dentists who
can qualify as dental oral surgeons t.
see him Immediately if they wish to
take advantage of the opportunities Of
fered to dentists in this branch of the
service.
Harold Bell Wright, the popular nov
elist, is in Phoenix for few days
visit Mr.. Wright motored over from
the coast with Walter NJ. Mcintosh, 81
Redlands. Mr.. Wright is bound for no.
where in particular and appeared not
to be in any great hurry TO get there.
I'VE came over from the coast and are
Just passing through Phoenix" he
said. II may spend the winter some
where in Arizona. but ! have not de-
cided where it will be-" The writer
is devoting most of his time To maya
zine feature work, but he plans to
spend his winter in Arizona completing
a new novel that he has ben working
on some time. All" said the reporter
You are gathering the material from
| among the romance that wells Arr
zona." "Oh, no." the author confessed
candidly. "The setting Of this story is
taken from the OZarks."
i At the Shannon mine at Metcai'
Mine Superintendent Mccoy of the
shannon Copper company. and his wiie
and boy. had narrow escape from
death when a bomb, which had been
placed by assassins at the side oil
their house, exploded, tearing away
the side wall of one OF the living
Rooms and shattered every window
pane in the house. The Mccoy family
had been sleeping in the room where
: the explosion occurred until lew
days ago. when their sleeping quarters
: were changed to another rom. rms
incident no doubt saved their hveS
Sheriff Slaughter was communicates
! with by phone and reached the scene
] from Morenci. where he had been caii
! ed on official business earlier in thu
= evening. about O'Clock in the morn
ing with a force Of deputies. AtteI
making an investigation he took into
custody Manuel Ferrar. Arturo Lam
bano. Alverto ColleiO, Francisco Arna