Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-11
ARIZONA, STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Four men were arrested at Miami for playing poker
 The cattiemen's meeting at Globe was largely attended. Over s7,O00 has been raised to build the New Moose home at Miami. A bill establishing a training school for the feeble-minded was passed by the Senate.
 A number of mining deals of more than ordinary importance have been closed at Prescott
 The House concurred in the Senate amendment to the anti-cigarette bill and sent it to the governor.
 By vote of nearly two to one, the sewer bonds were carried at the spe- eiai election heid at Flagstaff.
 Governor Campbell vetoed a Sen ate bill exempting from taxation the Lowell observatory at Flagstaff.
 The camp of the Venture Hill Com pany, located about two miles south of Jerome, is a scene of much activity.
 Arizona's production of copper in 1916 reached 675,OO0,O00 pounds, rep resenting approximately a value of $l90, 100000.
 The Senate practically agreed upon compulsory military training in the normal and high schools. The bill carries an appropriation of sl0,000 an nually.
 More nrosecutions for violation of game laws took place in Arizona last year than ever before, according to Mrs. Maybelle Craig, acting game warden.
 A committee of twenty-five Tucson business men to take charge of ar engagements for the proposed histori- cal pageant in that city, has been an nounced
 All legislation in the lower House of the Legislature was blocked for a time when an effort to revive the gen eral appropriation bill failed by a vote of P to II.
 Word was received that the three train robbers, who held up the Golden
 
 convicted on all four counts in the Federal Court at Tucson.
 The Hayden bill to permit mining on Indian reservations, measure that will add about 20.OOO,0OO acres to the mineral lands of Arizona, seems in a fair way to become law.
 News of an important strike on the Andrew Jackson group reached Wick enburg when news was received that the miners had cut an eleven-foot vein of mixed sulphides and carbonates. The Senate passed the House red light" abatement bill but later recon sidered and sent it to the enrolling and expressing committee with in structions to attach a referendum clause.
 The opening up of high grade cop per ores, generally carrying good gold values, at so many places in the Harcuvar range. is attracting more than local attention and causing the investment of considerable outside capital, particularly from the older copper districts of the state, such as Globe, Jerome and Bisbee.
 In three places in the Patagonia mountains, on the west slope near Tres de Mayo, miners have big wul- fenite showing, and the ores carry both tungstic acid and gold. It is a six-foot lead opened by tunnel 800 feet long. One shaft is down eighty feet, and there is in the bottom a sixty foot drift on a sixteen inch ore streak that assays s70 gold per ton, with high percentage in tungstic acid.
 Maria Flores. charged with keeping keep on her good behavior for one year, with the alternative of going to jail for ninety days or paying fine of sl00.
 When Governor Campbell, who ar rived in Globe, was informed of the Associated Press dispatch regarding the treachery of Germany, he de clared that he placed service to his country ahead of service to his state, and that he would postpone his guber- material duties at Phoenix to organ ize for Arizona a troop of rough riders from among the cattlemen in conven- tion at Globe that would equal. if not excel, the original Rough Riders.
 At the annual dinner and election of officers of the Arizona Society. Sons of the American Revolution, held at Phoenix, Dwight B. Heard, Phoenix, was elected president; Clay Leonard, vice president; Lloyd B. Christy, Flagstaff. treasurer; Dr. Van Der veer. Phoenix. secretary; Judge Parker. Phoenix, registrar; Bishop J. W. Atwood, Phoenix, historian; Rev. J. R. Jenkins, Flagstaff. chap lain, and Dr. F. E. Shine of Bisbee. national trustee.
 Arizona has a population of 277,210 exclusive of Indians, according to the estimate of the State Tax Commis- sion as set forth in the third biennal report. Maricopa leads with 55.627. Apache is the smallest county with 4.13o. The estimated population of each of the fourteen counties follows: Apache. 4.130: Cochise. 55.136; Co conino, 9.54s; Gila, 25.450; Graham. 11,935: Greenlee, 1s.390; Maricopa. s5,627; Mohave, 7,5s9: Navajo, I0.55l; Pima, 2s,ss8; Pinal, 10.s27; Santa