Tombstone epitaph., 1917-06-24

<thhAdl chaAc esssN \ at Prescott.
 Flagstaff will celebrate July Fourth. The new sheep sanitary board has appointed John Garret chief inspec | tor.
 The Mesa Rifle Club has outlined
 a big celebration for the Fourth of July.
 Cottonwood is soon to have the cleo,
 tric light and power service il has so long desired.
 Arizona has l5,70O motor cars ac. coTding 10 the records kept by Sid
 ney P. Osborn, secretary of state. Former Senator W. A. Clark has contributed 5000 toward purchasing
 silver service for the battleship Ar. izona.
 Sixty-seven hundred men between
 the ages of 2l and 30 registered for possible military service ill Cochise | county.
 A general strike at Fl Tigre mine, sixty-five miles southeast of Douglas,
 began June 10th. Five hundred em- ployes are affected.
 Satisfactory progress is being made by Ihe New La Paz Gold Mining
 Company in developing its mines in 1 northern Yuma county.
 Alexandra Marquez was found gull ty by the jury in the Superior Court al Flagstaff of a statutory offense against Natividad Hernandez, F years Of age
 Al meeting of the board of direc- tors Of the Mesa Egyptian Cotton Ex- change it was decided that their gin
 would have to be enlarged in order to
 take care of the big crop coming on.
 The A. $. & R Company has made
 an appropriation of approximately a quarter of million dollars for con struction work to be done in the coru-
 ing six months al the Hayden plant Attempts to reopen a tenderIoin sec tion in Tucson were nipped when Chief of Police Frank Bailey led a
 raid on Gay Alley" and neighboring streets which netted a total haul O. fifteen.
 No motive has been disclosed for the suicide Of Francis A Berton. a
 young miner. who ended his life by drinking a solution of potassium cy- anide al his home in Deception Gulch near Jerome.
 May shipments of ore from the United Verde Extension at Jerome to- tailed 7,G0O tons. 2,iOO tons less than the shipments for April. The April shipments were the heaviest in the history of the mine J. B. Cykler of Denver and Ignatius Rodriguez of Tucson were arrested al Nogales by Department of Justice rep resentatives. They are alleged to have attempted to evade registration
 under the selective draft bill. Apache Indians in large numbers may be secured 10 meet the labor | shortage in the Salt River Valley ac- cording to message received by the defense council from Ernest Seeker. | superintendent of the San Carlos res. 1 ervation.
 An ore shipment made from the
 Ranier Development Company l ground, in Cunningham Pass, adioin. ing the Black Giant. yielded returns | of twenty ounces of silver, three, | tenths of an ounce of gold and S9 per
 cent in copper.
 The adoption of new wage scale | which went into effect June l was the principal event in the Oatman dis | trict. The new scale is a novelty | in mining, as the wages to be paid | under it are based upon the price of | electrolytic copper
 Bisbee raised over s1,OO0 for the | Red Cross fund last week. An important deal was closed at
 Salome whereby a syndicate of coas! and Arizona capitalists have secured | a lease and bond on fifty-two claims
 in the Cottonwood Pass district con. l trolled by Doc" Crago and J. w. | Jackson and whereby immediate de
 velopment of the ground is contem.
 plated.
 l otHttHCtS iduSihS lEoih OHt year | and one day in the federal penitenri.
 ary on McNeil Island to 60 days in the | Pima County jail, were meted out by | Judge William II. Sawtelle in the | United States District Court to sey. | enteen defendants, convicted of viola. | tions of the Harrison drug act, the Mann act. the immigration laws or the neutrality act
 | Oliver Hart, employed as a cowboy | by Willard Saul, near Douglas, saved the life of a small boy at the Fl | Paso & Southwestern stock pens when | he snatched the child out of the way ! of maddened bull which was charg. | ing on him. Hart did not escape un' | hurt. the bulls horn piercing one finger and mashing two others against | corral fence.
 The Glory Hole at Salome is stated | to be looking better than at any time l since work was started, both the east | and west drifts from the end of No.
 2 tunnel being in good ore for unde, termined width, with indications and |