Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-04

| auction was held.
 About the StGte Phoenix: The 4hcol budget for
 Maricopa county next year amounts to S693, ,46O. This is exclusive .of the amounts to be raised for high schools and vocational training.
 Prescott: The city council of Pres
 colt proposes to raise additional rev
 enue by making a flat raise of 10 per
 cent in the assessed valuation of ali
 property. It is expected that the tuber-
 culosis hospital will add that much
 to all values of real estate.
 Yuma.-A 10 acre tract near Yuma
 has sold for the top price ever known
 here, $42O an acre, paid to c. c. Box,
 who bought the place nine years ago
 for S9,000 less than the S17 500 he has just received. The purchasers are new arrivals from the state of Iowa.
 AIiami.-JOe Chisholm arrived from Los Angeles Sunday morning. after a brief stay in Phoenix coming from there with Guy Gamble in the latter's big Cadillac. Joe says that while it is generally admitted that Los Angeles is somewhat larger than Miami. 1t is not nearly so busy and prosperous per square foot Mrs. Chisholm, formerly Miss Whitecotton, did not accompany yce from Los Angeles. but probably will come to Miami to visit her mother in week or so.
 Tucson Reuben Gross, several times before in trouble for the same cause, again is in the county jail, charged with shipping liquor into dry territory under a false label. He is said to have been shipping eases of eggs" from Red Bud Ranch" at LoTdsburg, N. M, to the Hillside Cop per company" at Tucson. One of I9 such shipments was opened and found to contain whisky.
 Prescott: The skeleton found last week on Jackass Flats, close to Pres colt, has been positively identified as that of D. Scott, a broken hip bone having made the identification certain. Scott disappeared from Prescott in 1912 and a reward of S250 was offered for information concerning him. Moth ing was discovered until the skeleton was found as stated.
 Phoenix.-W F. Case held in the county jail on a federal charge, for violation of. the Mann act, ran the ength of a corridor and butted his head against the steel bars of a win low at the end He was found with . hree gashes in his head. just above . he forehead, and is believed to have . suffered concussiOn of the brain.
 He had been arrested near Glendale . Or disturbance of the peace. Later . ! woman advised the sheriff that she . lad been brought into Arizona from California by Case, the man thereafter being turned over to the United states ] Case is believed afflicted . with religious mania.
 Tucson.-The hearing on the appli- ,atiOn of the Tucson Rapid Transit for permission to increase Is passenger rates, before the state commission, will be held It Tucson. the date Of the hearing TO la determined later. according to ad- Tices to The Star from Phoenix yes erday
 The hearing on the application was ,rieinally set for Thursday, August |, md it was to have been held at Phoe- lix but the hearing has been post ,Oned and transferred to Tucson.
 Protests had been made to the cor ,oration commission against holding he hearing at Phoenix. by the Tucson Trades Council and others A refer ,ndum petition is now being circu- ated against the council resolution . the cOmpanys petition to the commission for an increase ! n rates and against the grant by the ity of the use of the subway by the treet car company
 CIifton.-In order to- complete the ,lans and estimates of the Clifton road in Greenlee and .pache counties in the Apache Nation l forest the secretary or dSIlcu-luIef as approved the allotment of S120O rem Arizona's portion of the federal id road fund. according to informa- ion received by the district forester | Albuuueroue. \. M.
 To meet their allotted share of the ost of this work, Greenlee and Apache cunties have set aside 5000 and $20O espectively. These allotments are in ddition to others previously made by be parties interested in the project.
 Phoenix: DOna Fierro, the Phoenix Iexican accused of disloyalty utter nces. has been bound over to the uperior court His bond was fiXel t S15O0 which he was unable to fur ish. It is alleged that on May 27, then a detachment of draftees left 'hoenix. he made unpatriOtic remarks nd also menaced with a gun one of is drafted couDtrymen who protested I gainst what he had said-that any I Iexican who went to war with the mprican army was a fool and an en-