Tombstone epitaph., 1917-02-25

.ons Cattle srower. Association at
 Globe.
 The postoffice at Kelvin was robbed but only of a small amount.
 Mrs. Mary Lapham was burned to death on a ranch pear Aguilar.
 Net earnings of Arizona railroads were shown to be small at the hearing at Phoenix.
 Admission day. Feb. If. was de- clared a legal holiday in Arizona by Governor Campbell.
 In 1917. Arizona will get S137 7.027.0i from the federal appropriation for con strueting post roads.
 The production of the Old Dominion Copper Company for January was g. 100000 pounds copper.
 The Extension schools given by the Agricultural Extension service for the farmers and their wives are proving popular
 The first bars of gold bullion pro- duced by the big mill of the United Eastern were taken to Kingman and shipped.
 Teh general appropriation bill intro duced in the Arizona Legislature, pro- vides for sl91 .00O for the Flagstaff Normal school
 Work Is progressing nicely on the new teaching plant being installed by the Emerald Isle Copper Company, near Mineral Park
 At Miami. S. W. Rautan was killed in the Inspiration mine by a cave-in. and M. Lomis was killed at the smelt- CT by falling on a concrete floor.
 David Kinsey. a veteran of the Civil war. died at his home in Deception gulch near Jerome, of asthma and Bright's disease. He was s1 years old.
 Henry Strawbell has received a pay ment of S5,77O on his Mendocino claim near the Golconda in the Cerbat range which is being operated under a lease and bond.
 According to Kingman and Oatman papers, the stampede from Mohave county into the new Chino valley oil field attained proportions not real ized in Jerome.
 The output of gold, silver, copper. lead and zinc from mines in Arizona in 1916 had record total value of nearly $2O3, 100000. compared with $9O,s06,3i9 for 1915.
 Owing to the heavy flow of water. the work of sinking the Dundee-Ari zona shaft at Jerome to depth cannot be resumed till new compressor is received and installed.
 George w. Oakes, who rode with Buffalo Bill in the brave days of the West, died at Tucson, his mind at rest and ready to follow Cody again on the long trail over the divide. Under date of Feb. l, 1917, the h. terior Department designated 22,243 acres of land in Arizona as being sub ject to entry under the enlarged home stead act after March 10. Five hundred and seyenty-four deer, 597 turkeys, 25 bears, 2S wolves and 39 mountain lions were killed by hunt CTS in the Arizona national forests dur ing the season just passed.
 The Arizona Butte Mines Company at Kingman shipped carload of rich lead ore to the shelter. It was ex- tracted from the adit drift, a distance of about 2,300 feet from the portal.
 To fall eighty feet through a chute, the larger part of which is perpendic- ular, and to work through his shift, was the experience of a miner by the name of Fox employed at the Junction shaft at Bisbce.
 "One of the best strikes made in past years in Walker district" is the way Joe Algert of Prescott puts il when telling of the recent paystreak opened up in the 140-foot level of the Black Diamond mine.
 The Arizona Legislative tangle was still further complicated when the state Senate by a strict party vote of IA to refused to confirm the nomina- tions sent to that body by de facto governor Thomas E. Campbell. III spllc oi tuc iaSt thdt thc dppio- priation committee of the Senate re- ported adversely on Senator Ruther- ford's bill appropriating s20.0OO for a bridge over the Verde river at Cottonwood, the Senate in committee of the whole approved the bill and recommended that it pass.
 The public was excluded from the hearing of Esau Mills, chief of police of the city of Tucson. who was bound over to the Superior Court on a charge of receiving a bribe from Viola Lee, a woman of the underworld, to protect her from arrest. His bond was fixed at s1.00o, which was immediate ly furnished.
 A bill introduced in the Senate amends the pardons and paroles giv- ing the Board of Pardons and Paroles only the power of recommendation and protest The governor, from whom the power of communication. par don and parole was removed two years ago is given almost free hand except in the matter of persons twice convicted of felony.
 The joint camp of the Venture Hill