Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-04
ARIZONA STATE NEWS
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Prescott citizens want the business streets paved with cement.
 Elk in northern Arizona are report. ed as being a nuisance to farmers. Development work is to be started on the Carmelita mines at Salome. The famous Little Jessie gold mine near Prescott is to renew operations
 Preparations are being made for shipping high-grade ore from Greater vile.
 Smallpox has been reported at Douglas and Benson. and meningitis In Bisbee.
 Two arrests were made at Globe on warrant alleging irregularities in the road department.
 The House committee of the whole has reported the general appropriation bill carrying s6.532, 900.
 Approximately three hundred mining properties are at this time being op- erated in Yavapai county.
 The Mandan claims at Ajo have been sold 10 a group of miners who will develop them at once.
 Material has been taken from Par. ker for camp buildings for the Planet and Copper Zone mining properties.
 The Flagstaff lodge of Elks is ar ranging to handle the celebration again this year on July 3rd and 4th. It is reported that a good.sized vein showing excellent values was uncov cred on the Chloride X-Ray property. Eighty-one applications for stock homesteads were filed in the United States land office at Phoenix, aggre. gating 36.l52 acres.
 At a public sale of school lands in Paradise valley, one section brought | S13,050, and most of the land sold at from s20 to $50 an acre.
 Construction of 200 hollow-tile the hogback. just east of the Jerome city boundary. within sixty days.
 Work on cotton lands near Chan. dler was tied up by strike-the men ! for a nine instead of ten-hour day.
 Ralph Nelson, formely official al the Nogales postoffice, was indicted by federal grand jury in Tucson or a charge of embezzlement of United States funds.
 The mysterious disappearance oi Steven Hughes. who has been missing from his ranch one mile and a halt south of Tempe since last December is being investigated.
 A bill has been introduced by Sen ator Winsor to enable the state to loan money for the improvement of land that is not improved but is val ued at more than s1O an acre.
 Practically all the machinery to be used by the Calumet and Arizona Company in the development of the Gadsden group is now on the ground and is being rapidly installed
 Twenty per cent> copper ore has 500 and coo feet on the property oi the Jerome Wenden Copper Company south of Wenden in the Harcuvars.
 Mrs. Marsh of Santa Cruz county has introduced a lengthy bill tha, abolishes the State, Board of Control and substitutes Board of Public Welfare, constituted of the governor the state examiner and a third per son, who shall not hold any office ir the state and who shall be secretary and purchasing agent.
 The final payment on the Home stead mine at Walker has been made The production of the mine is report ed satisfactory.
 The annual meeting of the Arizons Masonic grand lodge at Phoeni, elected Charles Curtis Woolf. Tempe grand master; Edwin Alvin Hughes Tombstone, deputy grand master James Henry Barrett, Douglas, grand senior warden: Henry Gordon Gore Nogales, grand junior warden; Rick ner, Nickels Fredericks. Prescott grand treasurer; George James Ros kruge, Tucson, grand secretary; Amo Arthur Betts, Phoenix, grand lecturer
 As a result of the recent decision of the Supreme Court, which declared the old county classification law in valid, a bill has been introduced il the State Senate to divide the stat into five classes, based on valuation for purposes of taxation The nev classes will be: First class, Cochise second class, Gila, Maricopa ant Yavapai; third class, Greenlee, Pim; and Pinal; fourth class, Coconino, Mo have and Yuma; fifth class, Apache Graham, Navajo and Santa Cruz
 fingered because his demand fo something to eat met with refusal Leon Watson, a colored trooper be longing to the Tenth cavalry at Doug las, attempted to kill Mrs. Henr, Meyers, wife of a well known ranche st Moore's Spur, her three smal children and the child of a neighbo who was visiting at the Meyers home according to the report made to Doug ias peace officers.
 An election has been called for Marcl 20, at Jerome, to vote on a $40,00 bond proposition for constructini sewers.