The Arizona copper camp., 1918-06-01


a Ray visitor this week.
]. H. Baker of San Francisco was
a Ray visitor this week.
Frank Hudson of Los Angeles is a
Ray visitor this week
]. ]. Alexander of Los Angeles was
Ray visitor this week
Jack Tebbits of Phoenix spent the
fore part of the week in Ray.
Mrs. Sarah Blake of Los Angeles is
in Ray this week visiting friends.
am using two gallons of Coca Cola
day at the Owl fountain Johnson.
Henry Krumb, churn driller of the
early days, was a Ray visitor Sunday.
Prescriptions receive our careful at
tention. Richerson & Donnell, Drug
gists. If
Antonio Villa has arrived in France
and his address is P. o. Box No. 1922
A m erican Expeditionary Forces,
France
The Ray Lodge No. SO plan to give
a dance at the Red Cross pavilion on
the 22nd of June Plans are already
being made. Music will be furnished
by the Ray Con archestra.
visitors in Ray who came over from
the ella Valley say that the entire
section is badly in need of rain The
irrigation supply in the Gila River is
much lower than usual Unless relief
comes the second cutting of alfalfa
will be very light and the third cut
ting will hardly be worth the while.
The first cutting of hay, however, was
up to normal.
An analytical repoI. upon. the min
eralization and the operation of the
Antelope Mining Company at Kelvin
has been ordered by w. Z. Hanney of
Kansas City on behalf of the stock
holders. The analysis will be made
by Alfred Roos of Tucson within the
coming week, and upon the report of
Mr.. Roos will depend the future oper-
ations of the property.
Mrs. ]. D. Bennett at Florence has
received a card from her husband an
nouncing his safe arrival in France.
The card is one of the form cards pre-
pared by the government and as a
consequence the details of the journey
over are lacking. 1t is satisfactory
to know, however, that Mr.. Bennett
is safe in France, this not only to Mrs.
Bennett, but to hundreds of friends of
her brave soldier husband.
1t is said a suit will be filed at Flor
ence in which Bently Williams, the
only remaining member of the John
S. Williams family, will seek to re-
cover damages from the Southern Pa
cific company for the death of the
other members of his family. 1t will
be recalled by readers that a train
struck an automobile in which the
Williams family were riding and all
who were in the machine were killed
instantly. The accident occurred just
out of Casa Grande.
Jerry Raildom returned to Ray this
morning from Bisbee where he had
been on business covering the past
ten days. Mr. Raildom was at Bisbee
the day the miners at the Junction
shaft of the G. & A. company rode
John Pfeaffle, a German miner, off the
work, using a seven foot piece of steel
for the rail. More than five hundred
men conducted the ceremony. Re-
fusal to subscribe to the Red Cross
campaign fund was the cause of the
treatment being doled out to the Of
fender Pfeaffle is a single man and
has no debts to pay. He previously
had subscribed to one thrift stamp a
month.
Ray pangu1ngue artists will be in
terested in the findings just made by
local court at Yuma. Owners of the
Plantation, resort where soft drinks
are served and a few card tables
operated, were hailed into court
charged with operating a gambling
game. The allegation of the district
attorney was that pan was similar to
poker and thus came under the ban
of the statute. The court saw things
differentaand so did the jury, and now
treys, fives and sevens are as popular
in Yuma as they ever were. The COS
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