Tombstone epitaph., 1917-01-14

The state Legislature convened on the sth.
 Arizona banks show large increase in deposits.
 Deputy sheriffs in Ray have orders to arrest everybody they find carrying e bottle of liquor.
 Machinery will be in operation at the Cobrita mine at Salome by the middle of the month.
 The sale of state lands is attracting many prospective buyers and land spectators to Arizona
 IL is estimated that there are from fifty to sixty thousand head of dairy stock in the Salt River valley.
 For the first time in several years the Cochise county hospital is filled with patients e2i refusing to receive any others.
 The new Arizona game law is much more restrictive than the old statute and is designed to restock the hills as of yore
 For s1.OOO, 900, the Holly Sugar Com pany has bought the sugar factory of the Southwestern Sugar and Land Company at Glendale.
 Churn drills operating on the prop erty of the Parker syndicate have struck high grade sulphide copper ore at depth of 15O feet
 William E. Maroney, county attor- ney, passed away at his home in King man, death being due to pneumonia and pulmonary troubles.
 Arizona oldest mining location has been found. It is in the posses sion of Postmaster Metcalf of King, man, and is dated May s, 1863.
 The Supreme Court in a decision rules that the operation of the pari- mutuel betting machine does not con stitute an offense under the Arizona statutes.
 Five feet or ore running better than 50 per cent lead and zinc has been struck in the drift of the Arizona Butte mine in the Cerbat range north of Kingman.
 It is proposed to utilize the great power afforded by Mooney Falls, of Cataract creek, for the working of nearby mines of the Arizona Lead and Zinc Company.
 Cochise county, and in mineral way the Warren district, is to a great ex. tent Cochise county, contributed up wards of s65.00O,VU0 in wealth to the mineral kingdom in 1916. J. R. Treat has put force of men to work clearing off 400 acres of his land just across the river from Flor ence, 300 of which will be planted to long staple cotton in the spring. Automobile owners will have to run on their old number plates for possi bly, month of the ney wear, because of the non-arrival of the new plates according to the secretary of state.
 All varieties of cotton can be grown under irrigation in the southern val. leys of the state, but. on account of the long season and higher p.ices the long staple varieties are at an advan. tage
 In spite of the fact that there are hundreds of square miles of un. developed coal lands in the state of Arizona, the people in Tombstone Douglas and Bisbee suffered for want of the fuel.
 Governor-elect Campbell took the oath of office on the goth ult. and went to the governors office. but Governor Hunt declined to surrender the office on the 1st. And it was re- ported that both had prepared mes sages to the Legislature. According to word from a betting commissioner in Phoenix no bets of | any kin! will be paid on the Hunt. Campbell race until the question has been threshed out through the courts and one or the other is legally de clared governor of the state. That a number of big mines will be developed in the Superiority Christ mas mineral belt, and that this dis trict, already one of the important ones of the state, will become one of the greatest in the Southwest is the conviction of William F. Gordon, min ing engineer.
 The continuation of a big series of holdups, burglaries and highway rob berries occurred in Phoenix when Deputy Sheriff Jim Murphy shot and probably fatally wounded Pete Salinas at the corner of Seventh and East Madison streets. The shooting was preceded by a spectacular pistol duel between | the officer and Salinas. Besides voting the regular quarter ly dividend, payable Feb. 1, the direc tors of the United Verde Extension. al . meeting in New York, appropriated | g, ,500.000 for the construction of { smelter on the ranch near Cotton wood. Ariz., recently purchased iron | c. V. Hopkins, and for the building o six miles of railroad track.
 A cave on the west 500-foot level O the Gold Ore mine at Goldroad ha.