Tombstone epitaph., 1918-03-03
ARIZONA STATE NEWS
paper Union News Service.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 COMING EVENTS. March l5-ls-Csttle Growers Associa ton meeting at Wilcox

ApIIi ,.
 The Dominion hotel at Globe was
 damaged by fire
 A local Council of Defense was or granized at Clifton
 The Miami Womans Club is plan
 ming a club house for girls.
 Mesa is to have four blocks of paved
 streets in the business center.
 There are twenty-two German alien
 enemies registered in Jerome. The chief of police at Tucson has
 ordered the red light" district closed. Land Commissioner w. A Moeui has announced himself a candidate for
 governor.
 The Casa Grande Valley farmers
 are preparing for a big cotton crop
 this season.
 The way that Arizona has responded 10 the call for manganese ores has been remarkable.
 Thieves entered the home of H. J. Tompkins in Douglas and stole $75o
 worth of diamonds and jewelry. T. T Blue. a miner at the Leviat han mine near Kingman. sustained brok-
 en leg when a timber fell on him. John j. Cummings, an oldtime min
 CT and freighter of Quartzite. com
 mitted suicide by shooting himself
 The Walkover mine. east of Hack.
 berry, has entered a great vein of ore, the body showing a width of l2 feet. The quarantine al Bisbee has been lifted and schools. theaters and othe. public places permitted to reopen. Fire destroyed the mining camp Of W. b. Heath and Mrs. Louise Schuttis
 fin Healey's Canon, eleven miles from
 Vail.
 Many subjects of interest were dis. cussed at the annual meeting of the
 Arizona Cattle Growers Association
 at Nogales.
 A letter from Howard Smith al
 Camp Kearny, Cal, brought the news to Kingman of his advancement 10 the
 rank of corporal.
 Every resident of the Globe Miami
 district is urged to be vaccinated
 either by their individual physicians
 or by county health officer.
 Nogales buried its first war dead.
 being the body of Raymond Barnes.
 who died at Camp Lewis. The serv- ices were conducted along military
 lines and were unusually impressive.
 Now that the Arizona Oil and Refin-
 jpg Compapv bae snuddad fr x,. S;rrt
 well in Chino valley. and the exten-
 sive drilling operations are under way,
 the eyes of the country are on the new oil fields.
 Twenty small boys are under sen
 tence for the robbery of . warehouse
 in Kingman of 250 bottles of near bear" secured by the cutting of hole
 just large enough to admit the small
 est of their number.
 Walter Travis, who admitted 'fram-
 ing up" holdup at Midland City that
 resulted in . fatal shooting. was sen
 fenced in the Superior Court of Gila county to from one to fourteen years in the state penitentiary. At the twenty fifth annual conclave
 of the Grand Commandery of Arizona
 Knights Templar at Tucson, Arthur s. Hulet, of Phoenix, was elected grand commander. and George J. Roskruge. of Tucson, grand recorder Plans for mutual protection and to assist the government in carrying on the war to a successful issue. were laid out at the eleventh annual confer ence of the Arisona Cattle Growers Association at Nogales. Within six months the Verde Tun- mel { Shelter railroad will be hand ling freight and local passengers be- tween Jerome and Clarkdale. accord ing to H. Dewitt Smith, superintend- ent of the United Verde mine. Of the 359 refineries in the United States twsnty-four are idle Most Of those not operating at present are in California. One hundred and eighteen new refineries are planned. It is e. timated that the output Of gasoline
 will be increased s per cent. this year.
 The lead content of ore mined in the United States in 1917 was about 64O,- 600 tons. as compared with 6z2, ,S67 tons in 1916. gain of 17.000 tons. The
 Joplin district gained 5000 tons, Cali
 fornia over 5000 tons, Idaho 1000 tons and Washington and Montana 2.00O tons each Former Patrolman Art Nelson was arraigned in the Justice Court at Tue
 son on a complaint charging conspir- acy to rob Charles Loeb, proprietor of Pastime Park. who was killed in the operation by Butch Sundeen and Bar ney Schiller, now serving life sen tences on their pleas of guilty. Consolidated Arizona Smelling Com: pany directors have declared an n. nual interest payment of per cent on
 the outstanding convertible income bonds, payable April IS. Vincent E. McDermott. known throughout the California oil fields q "ventura Mac" has joined forces with E. A. Edwards in the development oi the Chino Valley oil fields. Mrs. Carrie E. Fenchurch of Tue son, wife Of Edward J. Fenchurch, fell or jumped from the window of her room on the fifth floor of San Fran. slsco hotel and was instantly killed.