Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-10-14

Tucson is to have a public market
Mesa is to have a modern telephon'
| service.
Vice President and Mrs. Marshal
are expected at Phoenix soon.
Plans for the addition to the state
capitol have been started.
The State Fair will be bigger ant
better this year than ever before.
An underground winery was discov
cred under the house of Mike Lem
ich. at Clarkdale.
| The high price Of silver is causing
many old producers in the Prescott
district to be revived.
Arizona is raising $4,000 as its quo
ia to purchase books and reading mat
ter tor the soldiers
New de, elopment work is beins
planned for a number Of properties
in the Oatman district.
W. o. Ruggles of Kingman has beer
named deputy grand exalted ruler OF
B. p. o. E. for Arizona.
The third Arizona contingent OF
drafted men entrained Oct. Bird, for
Camp Funston was composed OF 1855
men.
Fire consumed the hoist and com.
presser houses of the Mammoth De-
velopment Company mine at Nam.
moth.
Advices from Phoenix state that the
price Of wheat in Arizona will be
s2.l0. less the most advantageous
freight rate.
f. b. Bennett, inventor of the bar
side scraper dry gold placer machine.
arrived in Tucson to begin operations
in the Guijas placer field.
Fire totally destroyed 40 bales OF
long staple cotton and the warehouse
in which they were stored and threat.
ened the cotton gin at Mesa.
The National War Society, com
posed OF women who have some mem
Der of her immediate family in the
war. is to be organized in Arizona.
The heaviest calendar in the history
Of the State Supreme Court was
called by Chief Justice Franklin. EN-.
bracing seventeen criminal and As civ.
il cases.
A remarkable body of high grade
copper ore is being opened into by the
Big Ledge Copper Company at the
Butternut mine two miles northwest
Of Mayer.
More than sixteen cases Of prison
ers charged with selling liquor to sol
diers or operating houses Of i'll fame
near camps were filed in the Federal
Court at Tucson.
George H. Smalley Of Tucson. sec
rotary of the Arizona Council Of De
tense, has been appointed executive
secretary to Timothy A. Riordan, food
administrator for the state.
No section of the state is attract
ing more substantial interest from
those looking for silver values at thi:
time than is the outlying Bradshaw
Mountain mineral area near Wicken
burg.
Bisbee copper producers have an
nounced that they will pay the 25-cen
metal wage scale to all employees. not
withstanding the fact that producer
. will receive but 23h cents in New
; York.
Plans for the biggest and best Fai
In Northern Arizona are now under
way. By the opening day. Thursday
Oct 18th, they will be crystallized in
to the Fifth Annual Northern Arizon,
Fair at Prescott.
Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000,
for a Carnegie library at Yuma.
, Recognizing the tremendous impor
lance Of making the second Libert.
loan q success, Governor Campbell IL
sued a proclamation calling upon al
loyal Arizonans to put their shoulder
!. to the wheel.
Governor T. E. Campbell in a let
. ter to Secretary Of War Newton D
. Baker, recommends the establishment
/, Of q convalescent hospital for wound
ed or invalid soldiers returning from
: France at Whipple Barracks, nea
, Prescott.
: That the Mile Wide Copper Com
| pany's property. tributary to Tucson
, Is destined to become one Of Arizona
: principal producing mines within
! very short time. is the consensus o
, opinion among mining men who hav'
Investigated this property.
: An appeal from the decision o
Judge Frank Baxter of the Yum,
! county Superior Court, in which
, James T. Hodges was given a jude
: ment of S5.24s36 for the back salar
: les Of eight county employees unde
; the county classification law, ha
been taken by Yuma county TO tn
Supreme Court.
, With eighty Mexicans and Span
. iards under arrest in the county jai
: ut Clifton charged with melting riot
| Sheriff A. II. Slaughter Of Phoenix an
nounced that he believed he had tn
i situation well in hand following tn
: attempt Of $50 armed strikers u
, march from Morenci to Clifton deter
] mined to clean up on the whites.
The jury in the case of George 3
Smith, labor leader on trial at Glob
! on the charge Of rioting In conne<
ton with the recent troubles there
returned . verdict OF not guilty.