Tombstone epitaph., 1917-07-08
ARIZONA STATE NEWS

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 Cantaloupes are moving rapidly from the Mesa district.
 After an illness of many months, Frank NJ. Murphy. pioneer Arizonan, died fin Prescott.
 Official figures show Arizona went over its quota of 34,s14. by 2.11s. the total registration being 36.s32.
 Phoenix Knights of Columbus raised approximately s5,0O0 for the Liberty loan aside from individual subscrip- tions.
 The so-called murder mystery at Douglas has been solved by the iden- tification of the Mexican woman as Cuca Sosa.
 It is reported that work is soon to be started on the Tucson, Phoenix Tidewater Railroad extension .,f the Fl Paso & Southwestern.
 Petitions asking the Board of Su- pervisors to call an election for a bond issue covering good road con struction are being circulated in Tombstone.
 The sheriff's office at Tombstone re. ,eiyed word that E. c. Scarborough. who escaped from the state peniten- tiary at Florence, was captured at Engle. new Mexico, by state officers there.
 Despondency over i'll health was the cause of the self-inflicted gun shot wound which ended the life of Sam uel Sidebotham at the home of his brother, Thomas Sidebotham in North Clifton.
 The old Industrial School building at Benson was sold at public auction in front of the Court House in Tomb. stone. and was bid in by the Benson school trustees. The buildings and ground brought $500.
 The establishment of a new camp, on the Elk group of gold mines by the Arizona and California Mining Company. and the installation of an air compressor to drive three drills, marks the beginning of wider explor. ation at Prescott.
 Two thousand men, out of 1 300 em. ployed in copper mines of the Warren district, failed to appear at the mines June 2Sth as the result of the calling of a strike by the Metal Mine Work CTS Industrial Union, according to the operators.
 Word was received in Tombstone that Mrs. Fife Jean Jones. aged 22 years. wife of James J. Jones, was accidentally killed when a pistol was accidentally discharged at the family ranch five miles from Elgin, Santa Cruz county.
 Six thousand two hundred and six weight more automobiles are running about Arizona today than were burn ing gasoline at this time last year according to the records of Secretary of State Osborn. The 15,700th motor car license has been issued.
 Appropriation of $20O,OOO by the Ray Hercules Copper Company for the railroad devoted solely to the copper industry was a part of the wask's contribution to the states develop ment by the metal industry. An artillery duel in which neither side drew blood, was on the cards for Chandler, when Jose Barajos, who has been up for gambling. and Juar Medregal. or Little Bo Peep, who tends the sheep for the Chandler I'm provement Co.. met at the old swim ming pool. It seems that Bo Peer sought to make love to the pretty wife of Barajos in the latter's absence.
 Hoyt Ash. Lawrence Land and wil Eagle, three Tombstone boys, who passed the examination to enter thu navy about a month ago. received or ders from recruiting headquarters a Fl Paso to report for duty. Nogales will be host to more thar 200 county officials, members of va rious chamber of commerce bodies and newspapermen during the week begin ming July 23rd and preparations ars now being made by the Chamber ot Commerce to entertain the guests The occasion for the influx of visitors is the meeting ordered by the State of Arizona of all members of Boards of Supervisors. State Tax Commission and the State Board of Equalization. While doing some renovation to a stone house in the old Silver King camp. Mrs. Hoskins. wife of Walter Hoskins of Superior. accidentally un sealed an improvised vault built in the stone wall of the house. in which she found a box completely filled with high grade silver ore. and a package of coarse placer gold, which would weigh. perhaps, forty or fifty dollars Miners who examined the find placed . value of about $2.000 on the silver and $50 on the gold.
 The State Tax Commission com pleted the 1917 assessment of tele phone and telegraph companies oper ating in Arizona. The total valuation Is fixed at $2.ss3.5s7.41, as compared with $2,232.S7221 last year. The mum Der of wire miles assessed Is 40.7I2 as compared with 33.944 in 1916.
 Dr. c. H. Hunt, county physician a, Bisbee. stated that since June 18th there have been four new cases oi smallpox in Douglas. making a tota of fl cases since May Fist. There