Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-09-16
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Oct. is-2o.--Fifth Northern Ariz'

snake dance at the Indian reservation
north of Flagstaff
Eleanor. infant daughter of Ike
johnson OF Globe, was scalded to
death in a tub OF boiling water.
John 5. Merrill of Benson has been
appointed superintendent of the Pho
neers' Home at Prescott by Governor
/ Campbell
There was a Jail break In Mesa and
awaiting action OF the court and Off
GERS. made their escape.
Governor Campbell is being urged
I to grant a pardon 10 W. W. Kermeen,
now serving a life sentence in the
Z state prison at Florence
Fresh water fish may soon become
more popular than meat in Cochise
county. according TO NJ p. Cosby, dis
trict state game warden.
The death sentence imposed upon
William Faltin. January 25. 1913. will
be commuted ii was positively stated
by Gov. Thomas Z. Campbell
Mrs. Dolores Ocha was arrested at
Phoenix on charge OF shooting Mrs.
+. Alvarez while the latter was sleep
ing at her quarters at Scottsdale.
The weather bureau declares that
over the principal grazing districts in
Arizona forage is plentiful and stock
are generally in good condition.
Mining men who have seen samples
from the ledge cut west OF the Jerome
/ Nerde's Columbia shaft are agreed
that the copper content cannot be un-
/ der per cent.
Charles F. Willis. director of the
Arizora State Bureau OF Mines. is
making a trip covering practically the
entire state. arranging work OF the
bureau during the next year
With the lodging in jail of Enrique
Z. Espinola. Mexican OF CORTLAND.
it is believed that the murderer OF
John McClosky. the aged rancher OF
Courtland. has been apprehended.
W. +. Fairbanks Of Chandler took
TO the Mesa ginning plant the cotton
TO compose the second bale this sea
son and thus wins the second prize
I
c. w Chapman, Santa Fe brakeman
residing al Needles, was badly injured
when knocked from the top OF a
freight car at McConnico. His right
leg was broken and badly lacerated.
Forty more young men were en-
rolled in the draft army. with the prob
ability that at least a dozen more will
be added from Douglas. as the result
of examinations conducted at the Y.
". c. A. in Bisbee
Two paroles and two combinations
of sentence in favor of prisoners who
have faithfully performed road work
at the various road camps under the
state engineers department were is
sued by Gov Thomas f. Campbell.
At meeting OF the Loyalty League
of Globe II was decided that each
member is 10 adopt one OF the mem
bers of CHA county's men called into
/ the United States service by the Sc
lective draft as his Buddy Boy"
Congressman Carl Hayden appeared
before the war industries board in
Washington and urged that in fixing
price of copper, purchased by the gov
7 eminent, great care be taken not 10
reduce the wages paid TO miners.
According to reports at Yuma the
body of a woman was seen floating
I down the Salt river. Cowboys at Tor.
tilla flat are said to have first made
the discovery. The current was so
swift that ii was impossible to rescue
the body.
The track meet at Bisbee on Labor
day was one OF the most successful
ever held in the Warren district.
Caught with a powerful racing car
/ stripped down TO the wheels and with
at least ten cases Of whisky aboard,
some of it concealed in a false bot
tom, two women bootleggers were
rounded up at Stems Pass by Consta-
Bile whitley of San Simon
The Alpha Copper Mining Company
/ is one OF the home grown" enter
prises that seems to be making good,
with local capital and local manage
ment The property lies n few miles
I so1th vi iuSoou duu hdS bctu huOWu
/ for its silver ores since 1876. Its cop
per values also run all the way from
S per cent up.
A strike of lumber workers en-
! ployed in the camps Of four lumber
companies in the Flagstaff section re-
suited in the shutting down Of opera
tons by the companies affected. The
strikers said approximately 500 men
had quit. The companies affected are
the Arizona Lumber and Timber Com
pany. Greenlaw Lumber Company.
Flagstaff Lumber and Milling Com
pany and the Saginaw Lumber Com
/ pany.
Abundant water and feed In the
mountains, with the country washed
| clean and every outstanding cropping
and ledge brought forth In its clear
colors Of naturalization brings to the
prospector opportunity and lure such
as has not prevailed in many seasons
in the mountain country Of the state.
United States Senator Ashurst con-
ours with Gov. Campbell that fixing
the price of>copper would greatly les
sen the wages OF miners under the
sliding scale arrangement by which
% high wages have been paid Arisona
miners for the last two years.