Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-26

-NAoS NdAAlc Nndu1ltl udS dCCCpNSN
 position as assistant in the Bowie pCsJOIfice.
 P. c. Beckett. assistant 10 the pTeSl- dent of the Phelps Dodge corporation, arrived in Douglas Monday on busi-
 ness NIT. Beckett formerly was gen eral manager of the Old Dominion
 -O-i-I Iaiiy as GlcDe. and he registered
 at the GadSden from that city.
 Fraser and Fairfield os Gleason
 were in Bowie last week attracted here by the reports of oil prospecting
 m this vicinity. They were shown the oil field by J. H. 5aque and were en- lhusiaStic over the surface indications
 and prospects and expect to start
 drilling operations in the near future
 with a deep we'll rig
 John F. Carmichael and family left
 Douglas for Clifton. where Mir. Car michael has taken the chief clerkship of the reduction division office of tho
 Arizona Copper company. He has
 been in the office ot the Copper Queen sme,ter here for the last three months.
 A number cs Gleason mining men were aIIrs-t d 70 the Bowie oil field and speI; two days going over ths IrOspcCuVe cil field north of Bowie and were so elated they have fIle6 oil claims end expect 10 bring in a big standard Oh rig soon and pu; IT a well
 Judge X. C. Lockwood arrived in Douglas Monday nom Tombstone to spend Christmas with his brOther-in- law, O. H. Lincoln. Mrs. Lockwood and children are at Long Beach. hay ing been in that place since last Aug uSt Tomorrow morning the judge will preside at juvenile court in the Douglas city hall The boys who have come within the clutches of the law will either be sent to the reform
 c-OCl or De punished in court Perc. Bowden. deputy sheriff. has a new paddle, strong and singing. alls ready to make the youngsters regret any errors they have committed
 The assurance that Douglas is to bS the training place of a large number of troops has been given in various ways during the last week It is known that bid for 2.5O0.0OO feet of lumber was asked Of 2 local firm. and it also is a matter of information that fund; have been set aside for building a cantOnment that will accommodate a. least 10000 men. This is nos hearsSy but fact On the heels of this there came yesterday to s. F. Fraser. gener al secretary of the Douglas Y. M. C.. A. a telegram from W. H. Day. in terstate secretary of the Y. M. c. A.. with headquarters at Fl Paso, to the effect that an army ~ buildin. would be cOnstructed at once.
 Francisco s Elias and associates have made arrangements to pass int Mexico from this port 1000 head Of cattle. and some O. them already have been sent across the line. These cat tie have been brought here from New Mexico from the ranch of Elias and partners. and will be placed on 8 ranch owned by them just south of Agua Prieta. where they will be fat tened for market There is a plenti ful supply of water and grass on the ranch.
 In the section of New Mexico from which the cattle came, there is prac- tically no feeding grass and no water 10 speak of. and the drought is SO SC were that cattlemen who do not ship their stock away stand 10 sustain S big loss, estimated at go per cent
 The cattle sent across the line here are. under a bond Of e0 per cent or their value to be returned 10 this within six months.
 Capt. John Keith Boles has arrived in Douglas from the PresidiO Of San Francisco to join the Eleventh field artillery. to which regiment he re gently has been assigned. Captain BoIes was in Douglas early in 1916 with the First cavalry as lieutenant, snd was sent from Douglas to the He returned from the islands about six months ago. and has been in San Francisco since that