Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-24
County Briefs

COIHLy 6TleIS
 Johnson & Ccok of Wilcox have
 contracted to ". T. Roche ot Les An
 seies 150e head cf ye.rling steers to
 be delivered in May.
 Mrs. Josephine Meade Davis, niece of the late William Kidder Meade, who came here to attend the burial, return
 ed to her home in Fl Paso this evening Five hundred and twenty-evsen re-
 crafts arrived on special trains last
 night and thi msOrning, according to local trainmen. They were distribut-
 ed among the cavalry and artillery
 regiments at Camp Harry J. Jones.
 There IS a campaign on to exterml-
 nate the prairie dogs in this section Of the valley, nearly 2000 quarts of poisoned barley being put out this week, which called for 32 sacks of bar icy. The orders were all taken by one
 party and the materials gathered at c. H. Wilson's place where County Agent c. R. Adamson mixed the poison 
 This afternoon a number of young people. mostly teachers, with their chaperons, autoed to Cochise Strong hold where they will spend the weeF-
 end at the Rockfellow ranch. On Sun day they will be joined by several oth-
 CTS who were unable to go today. They
 will eturn in time for school Monday
 T. N. McCauley, president of the
 Mascot Copper Company, or New Yor'A
 City; D. s. Stevenson, vice presiden; and treasurer, of Chicago; R. V. Dixon vice president of San Francisco; c. Rich and Mir. Johnson of San Francis
 co, and J. H. Hilbert of Rockrod. Ill.. directors, visited the camp the last of the week. A meeting of the board of directors was held and importaht business transacted
 Last night in Herring hall at the university the Tucson basketball girls easily defeated the team from Benson by a score of 63 tO S
 The Benson team was easily out- classed by the heavier and faster Tue son girls. Their guards were unable to hol1 down the two Tucson forward Miss Falvey and Miss Crowell. The former scored forty points, while the latter added the other twenty-three.
 Miss Barkley and Miss Servey hel l down the Benson forwards to but one field basket Miss Smith and Miss Ar g $ played all over the floor They aided materially in keeping the ball at their own goal.
 Frank (Fat) Coby and Lawrence Kelly of Douglas, were arrested here yeste. day afternoon by o. E. Patterson deputy sheriff of Apache, and Pc. ' Bowden, deputy sheriff, on charPes oi liquor Fifteen cases If whisAsy found in Coty's car and hid den m tie bushes in the f'TiTi.-aEua were confiscated.
 Both men drive for hire cars Each furnished bond. 3ott will lili"iv ,,l..ad guilty, ac ording to the officers Kelly officers aid has another ca-e on H similar c;arge against hI |
 Four thousand dollars worth of high grade mollybdenite and tungsten ore was recovered and three alleged snug glers were arrested yesterday after noon by Deputy Customs Collector (. A. Housel in Douglas. Charges alleg ing smuggling have been fileo in Unit ed States Commissioner II. C. Beaum- ler's court against c. P Osgood, J. T Hendricks and Jose Rinaido, Jr., of Agua Prieta, are citizens of the Inited ! States. Five men were arrested in with the smuggling charge nUI sr, saf rrrhf htrf two were released this morning An tonic Borbar was one of them. He was released but his ear was cOnfis cated. It is alleged tha. some of the ore was brought over iL BOrbar and some in Rinaldo's cars. The ore is supposed to have been stolen from Va rious mining properties in Mexico. Most of it came flom tho mining prop erty owned by George S Fast. It is supposed to have been stolen at vari- ous times since the Vhil raid.
 The middle of this week Bowie val ley was visited with another typical Bowie valley March ran, this IS the second good March rajn and one good one in February, and as the winter rain season generally extends through out March, it is more than probable we will have another good one. Tkis last rain now assures good moisture for the ground is wet deep and with the now nice sunshine days, the spring feed for cattle will cof1e "a hopping" and assure good spring range Many of the local farmers have a large acre. age planted and the rest busy seeding corn, potatoes. sOudan grass and all the sorghum varieties and spring gar den. All fruit is in bloom, and many of the early varieties such as apricOts almonds, plumbs. etc. have large fruit formed, and the 0ange. of any frost damage seems to be past. However, Bowie valley seems to be practically immune from fruit frOss danger, and only shows slight damage at very odd intervals, last year beirg the first year frost damaged any kind of fruit for ov- CT six years to the writer personal knowledge