Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-08
County Briefs

Wm. FOurr, the veteran cattleman of
 the Dragons, writes that his last son
 has gone to war and he hopes the boy
 will bring home the kaisers scalp on
 a tn platter. Here's hoping also.
 Several cases of measles have been
 reported amongst Courtland children
 but all are doing as well as can be ex-
 pected, and the youngsters will soon
 De up and about again.
 Dr. Stroud, of Gleeson, accompanied
 by Dewey Campbell, went to Clifton
 early in the week. Dewey expects to drive truck back which is to be used
 by the shannon company at Gleeson.
 G. l. Van Meter is building new we'll and putting a large pumping plant into his shallow water farm west of Elfrida, and preparing for extensive farming this season.
 Dr. A. w. Vanneman, of Douglas. has purchased considerable land ill the lower part of the Sulphur Springs val ley, has tractor, and is breaking new land preparatory to raising feed for his herd of dairy cattle.
 C. F. Fairley, of Los Angeles, rep representing Kellogg Switchboard and Telephone company, was in the Strong hold Thursday taking the order for phones for the new line, and the ex- pectation is to have the line in service in about two weeks.
 C. E. Bush, who formerly resided at ! Wilcox, but now at Rodeo, N NJ, has embarked in the cattle business in partnership with Mir. Keeling, his brother-in-law. They have recently purchased some fine cattle ranches east and south of San Simon and have quite a bunch of cattle
 The spring round-ups will all be over by the 18th of this month and most of | the cattle that are going to market and pasture will have been shipped Quite a number of cattle are being cut back on account of their poor condition, es- pecially in the yearling class.
 ! The ladies of the Tombstone Red Cross yesterday completed their quota of bandages allotted them by headuuar- teIs, a total of 49,0OO have been folded and most of them shipped during the month of May Work will not be re- sumed until the arrival of more gauge.
 E. L. Kennedy has returned to Doug las from Tombstone, where he has ! heen for the last six weeks taking inventory of the machinery and ma aterial of the Bunker Hill Mininy con- pany. Mir. Kennedy will go to Los Angeles to join his wife and daughter for several weeks vacation.
 C. B. Wilson, special agent for the New York Life Insurance company. and family win leave Tombstone to- day for Phoenix, where they expect 70 make their future home MT. Wilson having been transferred to a broader field with his company The many friends of the wilson's in Tombstone regret to see them leave the old camp.
 MT. and Mrs. J. s. McPherson. who have resided on their homestead, six miles west of Douglas on the state highway, sold their property to Arthur A. Lott, of Mississippi. They are leav- ing for Long Beach tonight where they will spend the summer, and where they will be joined by four of their grandchildren from Minneapolis, Minn.
 The Mule Shoe outfit has shipped to date about .2000 head. Last Friday 35S head were shipped from Bowie, contributed by people in that section Busenbark and people in the vicinity of Dos Cabezas shipped over 300 lately. i Archie Shaw and several in that vii cinity made shipment of several hundred head also Shipments will continue for some time yet.
 According to word received in Tombstone. the palatial residence of | MT. and Mrs. Henry Kinsley, former | residents of Tombstone, was totally de i stroyed by fire at Hermosa Beach Cal ! The Kinsleys formerly resided fin i Tombstone, when the T. c. NJ. Co., was l in full sway, leaving here when the 1 company closed the last time The news of their loss yill be met with regret here.
 MT. and Mrs. J. c. Brown of Doug las, are proud of their son. Corporal ! Brown, who was one of the detach- ! ment of the eighteenth infantry which | recently distinguished itself in captur- ing machine gun from the Germans. | as already told by the press of the . country. The corporal left here with | the Eighteenth infantry. A brother is | in france with the 66th engineers.
 John Kazal. Douglas marchant. has | bound over to the federal grand jury | at Tucson, under 5000 bond, which | he furnished. to answer a charge of | violating that portion of the espion- | age act which forbids the exportation | of certain articles to Mexico. These | goods consisted of several thousand | pounds of lard, some canned milk and | a few other articles. One feature of | the case is that the goods, in part, are | reported to have been shipped to Col | onia MOrelos to be used by a colony of | American war slackers said to have |