Tombstone epitaph., 1917-04-29

Chandler has formed a rifle club.
 The Mesa Rifle Club has formed a drill squad.
 Great patriotic rallies were held at Globe and Miami.
 Many improvements are being made at Fort Huachuca.
 Bisbee school children hazed a dis loyal Mexican boy.
 A Red Cross chapter has been formed at Chandler
 A home guard company has been organized al Bisbee.
 Verde is the name of a ne~ town six miles from Jerome.
 A copper mines celebration day is being planned at Tucson.
 Five state convicts escaped from the county jail at Clifton.
 The rates on ore between Clarkdale and Globe have been reduced.
 Fourteen Warren district girls would act as Red Cross nurses.
 At Bisbee. twenty-three young men have enlisted in the U. S. navy.
 oil stocks bid fair to divide atten- tion with mining stocks in Jerome
 A permit has been asked to con- struct water works system at King. man.
 The Warren Defense League has started plans for a census of the dis trict.
 A woman hotel proprietor at Ajo has been jailed on a bootlegging charge.
 Sixty-five colored men at Globe pledged themselves to enlist in the U. S army.
 Governor Campbell has named a State Defense Board Of thirty-four members.
 A gang of I. w. w agitators at Gal lup were arrested and put to work on the chain gang
 Rich ore has been found on the Brown property at Needles Peaks in the Kingman district.
 Governor Campbell has been offered 8 company of Mormons to serve with the Arizona state guards.
 Four cowmen were arrested at Cliff ton and confined in the county jail on the charge of stealing cattle.
 Pima county sheriff has ordered firing upon any airplanes flying over city without identifying themselves.
 R. H. Stanton. Spanish-American war veteran, answered the last call and was buried in the Yuma ceme- tery.
 Representative Hayden has intro duced bill to make the appropriation for the federal building in Globe sl30, 600.
 Fl Zaribah Temple, Nobles of the sion at Douglas and initiated thirty four noyices.
 A pool hall owner at Bowie was fined slOO and sentenced to six months in the county jail for desc crating the American flag.
 Registrations of state enrolment headquarters at Tucson reached to- tai of more than 2.l50, including 1,147 married and 959 single men.
 The Warren District Commercial Club started a movement for higher efficiency in agricultural. mining and all other lines of endeayor in Arizona.
 James Hibbs. until recently foreman at the New Jersey mine at Chloride, left for the border to enter the ssrv- ice Of the United States army as civilian scout. He is GS years Of age.
 If the United States army can use a troop of 100 mounted Indian scouts, some of whom served with Crook and Lawton, it will be organized in the Verde valley
 Home building has hit a new rec ord in Bisbee, and it is stated that few mining districts can boast the proportionate number of home owners that the Warren district can.
 The Sanchez group of gold proper ties that have been worked by a Mex ican family for three generations, To- cated southeast of Salome, have been transferred by D. Wiggers to A. B. Richmond.
 Completion of the sulphuric acid plant of the Calumet X Arizona smell ter at Douglas has been reached, with the attending tryout. establishing ca pacity for the production Of 225 tons of acid day.
 George T. Bean, digger" boss, at the Miami Copper Company's mine. was instantly killed. Henry Dodsworth was probably fatally injured and Alex Burkhart was seriously injured when a charge of dynamite prematurely ex- ploded
 At Prescott, as elsewhere through out Arizona and the United States, the people stand solidly behind the President in the German-American war crisis and are ready to respond 10 any demand the exigencies of the hour nay call forth.
 Charles Goodwin, private in Com pany E. First Arizona infantry, shot