Tombstone epitaph., 1918-06-09
ARIZONA STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
 Nogales will celebrate July 4th.
 Tucson letter carriers have sold about 5000 worth of Thrift Stamps.
 The State Legislature has passed a bin to pay salaries of members.
 New Cornelia Copper Company at Ajo.. produced s.72s.0oO pounds of copper in April
 Ray Consolidated earned $6.60 a share in 1917. on a production of Ss.- 5S3.o00 pounds of copper.
 Whiskey is reported so scarce in Je- rome that the price of common boot leg has gone up to S7 a pint.
 Approximately 45o0 feet of lateral development has been done on the GOO foot level at Calumet & Jerome.
 Frank Cobie. bootlegger sentenced to serve a years sentence at the Doug las road camp. made his escape.
 The Ray Consolidated Copper Com pany reports fer the quarter ended March 3l nsS profits of 3l.o25.236.
 About sl5.ooo of machinery has been purchased and will be installed in the Blackberry mines at Dewey.
 At the Copper Age Group. the Ari- zona Ore Reduction Company of King man. is employing abou; fifty men.
 The gross value of Mesa's cante- loupe crop this season is expected to pass 1240.O00 from 1.200 acres of land
 Arizona has joined the list of west. ern range states in establishing a rec ord price on cattle in a sale made at &l6.25.
 The first shipment of bullion has been made from the Gold Ore mine at oatman. the result Of the first months run.
 Employees of the United Verde mine at Jerome have bought over $50.oo0 worth of Thrift Stamps and Baby bonds.
 Willie kehr, eight-year-old son of MT and Mrs. L. A Kehr. was suffo- cated at Jerome when the home burned.
 Arizona Consolidated Smelling Com. pany paid a per cent dividend June 1-the fourth dividend paid by the company.
 The work on the Black Diamond shaft at Walker is opening fine ore body, which is said to be richest at the lowest level.
 At Globe. J. J. Keegan. Democratic candidate for mayor, defeated Gene Middleton. Socialist candidate, by a vote of 715 to 359
 The presence Of smallpox in two Mexican homes in the rural district of Roosevelt, south of Phoenix, has TO suited in stoppage of traffic.
 Forty-five thousand dollars was the sum received by J. F. Brown, a ranch CT who owned 32O acres of land about ten miles east of Casa Grande.
 W. R. Ransdell of Tucson reports a big strike in the Narrasansett mine. encountering a body of ore that is said to run from nine ;o thirty per cent
 The Cochise county road commits sioners met in Tombstone and decided to advertise for the grading of the highway between Bisbee and Douglas.
 Announcement has been made that the first train from Holbrook on the Apache railway will arrive at Snow. flake July 24. which is the date of the founding Of the settlement.
 At Jerome, the scene of a dspc-ta tion of alleged members of the l. w. w, a citizens ticket hostile to the 1. W. w and radical sentiment was elected.
 A citizens non-partisan war till victory" ticket was elected at Bisbee. Patriotism and opposition to the In dustrial Workers of the World were the issues.
 The Warren district contributed over 3so,0O0 to the Red Cross fund.
 Nineteen damage suits. asking tudg- ments in the aggregate of S33.00o. were filed in the Superior Court of Yavapai county against the Hassayam- pa Alfalfa Farms Company.
 The homs economies division of the County Farm Bureau at Phoenix has completed arrangements for establish ing community canning and drying centsrs throughout Naricopa county.
 Development at the Dolphin at Pc land has been attended by . surprise in mineral determination. and from being classed in the gold column it has now advanced into . silver rating.
 An eastern report says that the long-contemplated project of extend ing the Bl Paso and Southwestern railroad from Tucson to Mesa and Clarksdals, bids fair to be carried out under the auspices of Col. D. c. Jack ling.
 4 jury In the Superior Court ct To0bstons brought in . verdict of guilty against Nrs- Ernie James Of Bisbee on . charge of assault with . deadly weapon Hn. James had been accused of shooting at Miss Mary Hughes.
 During the year ended Dec. 31. 1917, Ss,3S3.140 lbs. of copper were pro duced from the mines Of the Calumet C Arizona Copper Co. Development work for 1917 was Ss,161 lineal feet. 9aies of copper. gold, lead and silver realiDed S3 COO o99 .31. Total expendt-