Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
ARIZONA STATE NEWS

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 Flagstaff people voted s6O,0OO bonds to construct sewers.
 Tucson is preparing to spend near ly a million on hotels during the year
 The si2.50O bridge across the Lit tie Colorado and Canon Diablo rivers near Leupp seems assured.
 Governor Campbell was among the prominent cattlemen who attended the convention at Globe.
 The first round of holes in the Bos- que drift on the $50 foot level of the Carter mine at Oatman broke into ore
 All the Senate and House bills for the building of bridges or approaches to bridges were passed by the House
 The town of Casa Grande has awarded a contract for municipal water, light and pover plant, the price being s25,O79.
 The appropriation and classifica- tion measures were the important bills considered at the closing ses- sion of the Legislature.
 The board of supervisors of Navajo county has called a bond election to pass on the proposition of issuing sl25,000 worth of road bonds.
 Refugio Carrillo was ground to death by the wheels of a Santa Fe freight train when he fell beneath a westbound train about seven miles from Winslow.
 A bill setting aside territories in Cochise and Santa Cruz counties to be known as the Huachuca State Game Preserve, passed the United States Senate.
 A franchise has been granted for the erection and operation of an cleo tric light plant for the town of Tomb, stone. The initial cost of the plant will be sl5.OOO.
 Wake T. Benge. aged 57, died at his ranch home, four miles north Of Douglas. in the Sulphur Springs Val ley. following an illness of eight days from pneumonia.
 In the army appropriation bill, which passed Congress. is s4O.OOO for the construction of cantonement buildings for the regular army troops to be maintained permanently in Yuma
 Two warrants were sworn out in the Bisbee City Court by Sanitary In spector Sheppard. charging property 0v fat1 ,VN1,- xrrff n the city ordinance requiring garbage can on every piece of property.
 A persistent rumor, that appears to have first emanated from the men who work underground" is current at Prescott to the effect that strike of high grade copper ore has been made in the Jerome Verde workings.
 Charged with having broken the seal on a car containing whiskey while en transit to San Francisco, and extracting forty cases of whiskey, P. E. Burke and Ed Fremont were ar rested at Douglas and placed in jail.
 An option deal which was closed at Prescott. made it probable that the Iron King group of mines, owned by the American Copper and Gold Com pany, will soon pass into hands that will revive this early-day holding.
 The largest shipment of beans re- corded in Arizona were received in Flagstaff from a little settlement eighteen miles south of Snowflake in Nzrafn fxtv av,1 pounds was the weight of the ship ment.
 William Fowler, old time resident of Cochise county and we'll known mining man holding valuable proper ties in the Huachuca mining district. and for several years a resident Of Tombstone. passed away at Bisbee from pneumonia.
 Without medical attention and without even a bed, Nicanora Guer- rero, wife of Bruno Guerrero of Flag staff, died in a shack in Mexican quarters on the southeast side of the track. after giving birth to twins, one Of whom died with her.
 Advance made in wages at Jerome in conformity with gain in the aver age price of copper during February will put the payroll above s7O0.0O0 for the month. There are now three pro ducing and twenty-two developing copper mines in the district.
 The Arizona Cattle Growers Asso- ciation. in the last session of the con vention held in Globe, elected the fol lowing officers: L. R. Harmon, presi. dent; E. H. Crabb, first vice presi- dent; Judge G. W. Shute, second vice president; D. W. Isaacson, third vice president: Fen S. Hildreth, treasurer.
 The Tom Reed. pioneer in the Kingman section of the big district known as Oatman, is the cause of ex- citement-the Tom Reed and Big Jim the former because of the discovery of picture ore" in the Aztec Center claim, and the Big Jim because a few more days will bring the coo cross cut into the huge ore body.
 Among the bills passed in the Sen. ate were: For the giving credit to the counties pro rata, of interest on the bond redemption fund; making appropriation for an artesian we'll in Apache county; combining the duties of city and county assessors. the work to be done by the county assessor A bill amending the law creating the board of pardons and paroles: a bill establishing a training school for the