Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-07

AeAs No EtsSANAO-
 Walter ". Benson. city marshal of Douglas, is spending the week at Fl PasO and other Texas towns on bUsi- ness. He is expected to return the lat ter part of the week.
 Work was started yesterday on the improvements to be made on Twelfth street in Douglas. Curbing and gut tering are to be constructed as soon as the excavation work is finished.
 Clark c. Ford. immigration inspec- tor in the Douglas office. left last Sun day for Fort Worth. Texas. where he will visit sister about ten days. He then will return to Douglas and await the next draft call. Mr. Ford recently refused to request deferred classiica- tiOn in filling out his queStionnaire and is ready to enter the army as soon as Uncle sam says the word.
 A service flag. bearing two blue stars. has been received by J. A. Boyle. secretary of the chamber of commerce of Douglas. and hereafter will decorate one of the windows of that organiza- tion. The two stars represent two brothers of MT. Boyle. both first lieut. enants in the field ertillery-Lieut. Joseph F Boyle of the SSSth and N. H. Boyle of the SS9th Field Artilelry. both stationed at Camp Dodge. Iowa
 B. A. Taylor. proprIetOr of the Tay- Tor chain of general merchandise stores at GleesOn, Pearce. COurtland and Johnson. autOed to the county seat Tuesday on business. and. incl dentaily. to receive a cheek for S17. 5OO.00 from Agent W. A. Fowler for his recent fire loss at Johnson. Al though the check does not represent Mir TaylOr's loss by thousands of dOi- lars. it covers every dollar for which he was insured. and both Mir. TaylCr and Agent Fowler are highly pleased with the prompt and husiness-like manner in which the loss was handled by the insuring companies. It iS be- lieved that this is the largest fire loss ever paid by Tombstone agency.
 The anniversary of the ~PrOmulga- ton of the constitution Of Mexico was so loudly celebrated at Agua Prieta early yesterday morning that several Douglas people imagined raid was being made on the border. or that Villa was approaching Several heavy reports of dynamite explosions and number of vOlleys oi small arms ire aroused sleepers in the vicinity or the international boundary with start Many inquiries were made about the city yesterday, until it was realized that a holiday was being observed in the border Mexican town.
 John :. Williams. our last district attorney. under the Territory of Ari- zOna. and now of Casa Grande, was In Monday enroOte 10 the coming cotton field. Fl Dorado. Jack states that long staple Egyptian cot ton will soon be the main crop of the Casa Grande country and that either the country will have a government or private irrigation project rom the river or until that time water VIII be pumped. but at any rate cotton will continually spread over the valley as the main crop until over tvO hundred thousand acres are in the long staple lie states that the best bale oI cotton raised in the world was raised by young Triton. formerly ot St. David. up in the Casa Grande country.
 Sunday machines were coming ana going on the various roads leading iu and out of Tombstone. Foreman Schaemer al Charleston stated that seven machines passed over the -f.rlasf.,,, brif.., faf,re nioypn in inc morning and that this week five ma chimes daily had passed where his crew is working and he said that he