Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

an unusually large hawk attacked a
young calf in his pasture.
Eleven men from all parts OF the
state completed their examinations for
admittance TO the bar at Phoenix.
Nineteen persons we're arrested at
Tucson on a charge of bootlegging,
and one as gambling joint operator.
Three persons were injured in the
free-for-all ten-mile professional race
at the Arizona State fair at Phoenix.
The trust companies in Arizona
have resources of 1885, ,O31.5i a gain
of 81 $1,9s5,6sO.35. or l9 per cent over
last year.
Actual construction of Verde, the
United Verde Extensions smelter
town in the valley. will probably be
under way by Jan. /.
Recent discoveries of oil in the
Chino valley have aroused great IN
terest and promise to put the state
into the class of oil producers.
The State Council of Defense has
figures showing that Arizona this year
will crop 1880 acres OF beans. most
of them of the pink and brown vari-
eties.
Shipping from the Arizona Copper
Queen on Copper creek, east of Mayer,
has started. and the first carload mar
keted 10 per cent copper and Sc in
gold.
The highest notch ever known in
ha hor
struck by the sale of Pima extra No.
l long staple Egyptian at 80 cents a
pound.
Byron Williams. young miner from
Pima, was shot and killed at Globe.
Lynn Marksbury an employe OF a cop
per mining company. is under sur
veillance.
Minnie Williams, colored, who was
arrested by Lieut.. Fred J. Wright at
Douglas. was found guilty by fed
eral jury at Tucson on the charge of
having sold opiates.
Because Of the presence of small
pox in Douglas. DR.. J. NJ. Leonard,
city health physician, advises every
one to clean up their premises and to
get vaccinated at once.
Northern Arizona is in the throes OF
an oil excitement, according to Ru-
dolph kuckler. member Of the state
tax commission. who has returned to
Phoenix from trip to Holbrook
Sheriff Earhart OF Santa Cruz coun-
~ and two deputies battled with au-
tomobile thieves near the entrance to
Nogales and thereby recovered a car
belonging to Harry Nixon, court re-
porter at Tucson.
Miners. drivers and trappers in the
Diamond Coal Company's mine at
Gallup went on strike. asking wage
increases OF ten cents ton for min
ers. $40 a day for laborers and IS
cents day for trappers.
Officials of Globe and ella county
are leaving no stones unturned in an
effort to unravel the mystery as to
the identity Of the assailant OF T. w.
Peterson. the Smith stage line chauf
feur. brutally assaulted at Miami 1t
was suggested that a guilty love af-
fair caused the assault
With the apprehension of Mrs Eva
Rafaelovich. a beautiful Servian wom-
an. who is being detained in Tucson.
federal officers believe they have un-
covered gigantic opium smuggling
conspiracy extending from Nogales to
Chicago, New York, and with other
ramifications throughout the country.
In 1916 the mining reports from
Arizona showed that the production
of this state, especially in copper. paid
over 5000, 100000 in dividends. while
the agricultural products Of the Salt
River and Yuma valleys paid over
S21 100000. These facts placed Ari-
zona well to the front as an agricul-
tural and mining state.
Delphis E. ChaQuette. % years Of
age, a private of Battery B. Tenth
Field Artillery. who. 1t is stated, was
shot by L. H. Robertson. a chauffeur.
died at Douglas. The body of the dead
soldier was taken to the undertaker's
parIors. and prepared for burial and
sent to the home of his father. Ma
poieon Chaquette, at Clyde. Kan.
where interment was made.
Weeping - II her heart would
break, with her fathers arms about
her fondly embracing his daughter.
while tears trickled down his fur
rowed face. were incidents Of the final
scene in the court Of Judge c. n.
Smith at Yuma In the case Of the
State Of Arizona W. Robert Gael, In
which the defendant was accused Of
having had illsgitimste relations with
his daughter.
A strike Of fifty per cent copper |
siaee with carbonate ores Of high |
value has been made by Paul Hin |
shaw in charge Of the work on the
Middleton properties in the Black
Range for C. C. Clark and B. G. Gran
vile. according to a report reaching
Tucson.
Applicants for work were more |
numerous in the Warren district dur |
ing the week than at any time since |
the early part Of last winter. In con-
sequence the mines have all made |
gains of desirable miners to their |