Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-09

IT'S SlIeelS. Inc ". a I. OOhti aSlihS
company was the successful and only
bidder
Fif.eenn fires in Phoenix in the
month of November resulted in a to-
tai loss of 1855, according TO the
monthly report of Fire Chief Wright
The average fire loss for the month
was approximately $40.
A fire that was almost a general
conflagration quickly consumed SIX or
seven business houses at Cottonwood.
in the Jerome district, and only for
the fact of streets intervening on two
sides and a concrete building on an
other, there would be little left of
the business part of the town.
The only bid for the county Jail
cells accompanied by a check reserved
by the board of supervisors of Puma
county was from the Pauly Jail Build
ing company. This COMPANY VIII build
"a tool proof cells for $50. Is. If
of tool proof s.eel they will cost So
S44 additional. If plumbing fixtures
are omitted there will be deducted
$3.50.
The PROPOSE ion to form a town
Incorporation at Sommerton, Yuma
county, was abandoned when the ques-
ton of required population was raised
in a public meeting. The law requires
a population of 500 before such an in
corporation can be formed. II is not
believed that Sommerton has that
many, though the new town is growing
rapidly.
r. H. McCorkle and W. S. Orr o.
Tucson, Southern Pacific trainmen.
were bound over to answer in the
United States district court on a
charge of stealing two barrels of
whisky by United States Commission
er Jones' Their bonds were fixed at
$250O, which they were unable to
give and so they were remanded 10
jail. Large quantities of shoes and
clothing with the tags. cut off were
found at Orr's residence.
Applications for the third officers
training camp to be organized at Fort
Bliss, or Fort Sam Houston. are being
filed now with the military department
of the University of Arizona by mem.
bers Of the student body left behind
or not in the university when the first
camp was instituted at the Preside
The second camp will be held from
January to April 3, 1918. Commits
stoned men from the camp will be
hold n fill x-1nannin- in, no NJ
the regular army, the national army
or the national guard.
An old time pioneer returned to
Tucson when First Glass Private Au-
brey B. Stacey, son of a former COM
mander at Fort Lowell when the lat
ter was an Indian post. came under
order to assist Corporal Murphey in
recruiting in this district Private
Stacey was one of the guard on the
first Southern Pacific train to pass
through Tucson in 1879. His father
and mother were massacred on the
San Carlos when the combined In
dams of that district rose under Vic
tor and slaughtered the inhabitants of
Fort Thomas.
1t is improbable that any Pima
Egyptian cottonseed will be allowed to
leave Salt River valley this season
Available in the valley will be onic
seed enough for the planting of 10000
acres. Already it is estimated that
100000 acres of cotton will be
cropped next season, indicating that
Yuma seed for fifth of the acreage
may be used. This estimate has been
made by C. Grant Jones. president ri
the Tempe Cotton exchange and spec
ial seed agent for the government. The
seed now is being contracted at SIS "a
ton. An abundance of seed of the Yu-
ma variety is on hand and now is be-
ing milled for oil and cattle feed.
Shackled together with one link of Il
trace chain and with Dolph Evans.
cattleman of Wenden, in the rear seat
holding 2 Winchester on them, Franz,
Parker and Sank Siler drove into
Phoenix Wednesday afternoon in =
car which they stole from Dr. =. {.
Norton Saturday night. The boys. VINO
claim they came here from Douglas on
a 0IOlOTCNCle, were CdpluTeu early
Monday morning near Vicksburg, ll6
miles southwest of Phoenix. by Evans
and his partner. who trailed them Tor
miles and surrounded their camp while
they slept. Both Parker and Siler
were heavily armed when taken pris-
Oner. Evans shackled his captiVes to-
gether at Wenden and made them
drive to Phoenix. holding gun on
them for the entire two days trip.
When the tire blew out Evans unlock
ed the trace chain fIom the fOOtrest
in the tonneau and, holding il, made
the two prisoners. still shackled TO-
gether, get out and change the tire.
Authorization for $4,000 worth OF
improvements in the plant of the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph company. on the northside OF
Tucson has been secured by Roy L.
Burgess, district manager This VIII
be a 1918 project and work will be be
gun as soon after the first OF the
year as the necessary material ar
rives. The improvements will con
sist of the replacing of the oil cable
on University boulevard and the re
moval of poles to alley wherever feas-
ible. so that the northside streets will
be practically free of telephone lines.