Tombstone epitaph., 1917-06-17


 The mines at Jerome voted to re- turn to work
 The new cigarette law became ef- fective June 7th. Successful cabbage culture in north ern Arizona has been demonstrated.
 A half dozen new mines have re- gently been opened in iavapai coun- ty.
 Bishop Hunt, S4, died at his home in Snowflake. He located there in 1878.
 A chapter of the American Red Cross Society was organized in King man.
 Capt J. Bernard Nelson of the First Arizona Infantry, has been named state health officer. Twenty-Five recruits from Chloride left for Naco. where they will join the First Arizona Infantry. The Carlisle mine near Duncan has again been unwatered and the lower level of the mine is being cleaned out.
 According to unofficial returns, 40,- 900 registered in Arizona, while the | estimate for the state was only B. | S14.
 Phoenix has sent fifty.eight men to Fort Huachuca to receive training for the United States army since the first of May
 But for the labor trouble at Jerome, Arizona's copper output in May would have exceeded the highest production of any previous month.
 Men employed in the logging camp at Flagstaff went on strike when their l demands for a wage increase of fifty cents day were refused. Three hundred Russian colonists near Glendale, nine miles east of Phoenix declined to register on the | ground of religious scruples.
 Bisbee and the entire Warden dis 1 trict turned out en masse June 5th to | celebrate one of the greatest days in the history of the nation.
 The Longfellow Extension Copper | Company at Clifton is proceeding steadily with it's development work and is meeting with gratifying re- | suits.
 l Within the next few days eighty new laws. placed on the statute books by the Third State Legislature and ap- become effective | It Is illegal to bar brands on cattle being transferred from one person to the other. It Is the law that in sucn transactions the cattle shall be vented or counter branded | What promises to be one of the most important discoveries ever made in the Parker district was recently encountered on the estate of the Bill lie Mack Mining Company. Kingman and Chloride turned out in mass to give the twenty home boys who were leaving for Phoenix and later are to go to Naco to join the First Arizona a royal send off
 Inspiration Copper Company's sub scription of $1.OOO.O0O to the Liberty Loan so far tops the list of mining company subscriptions from Arizona. These total more than $3.000,000 so far announced
 Plans for a new county jail. to re- place the insanitary. insecure and overcrowded prison in the courthouse. are foreshadowed in a resolution in- troduced before the board of super visors at Tucson.
 Arizona copper companies have sub scribed for three million dollars worth of Liberty Loan bonds. After five hours deiiberation, jury in the Superior Court at Tucson brought in a verdict finding William Wilson. Ajo miner. guilty of man. slaughter in shooting and killing his partner. Albert Lee Coniey, beside lonely prospect hole at the Toyo mine in the hills twenty miles southeast of Ajo on March 27th.
 The largest number of sheep grazen on any single National Forest is 315.- 740. finding pasturage on the Hum boidt in Nevada, while the largest number of cattle, 75.s1S head. is found on the Tonto in Arizona. The value of the average annual meat product of these two National Forests is es- timated at s2,00e.000.
 United Verde Extension Mining Company. the copper sensation of 1916. and which produced over 3s.000,- 900 pounds of copper in the first 12 months of its active operation will again establish a new record in 1917 The output has climbed to approxi. mately 5,000.000 pounds a month, or at the rate of 60,OO0O00 pounds per annum.
 Verdict of guilty was brought in by jury in the Federal Court at Tucson against Barolo Micquerray, Mariana JacQuez, and Col. Miguel Santa Cruz. charged with conspiring to smuggle ammunition across the border to Villa chieftains in Sonora, in violation of the neutrality act.
 Things are humming these days at the Black Giant camp on the eastern side of Cunningham Pass in the liar | s-g