Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-16
County Briefs


 Sherih Guy Welch has notified Man ager Peterson of the Peterson Grocery company of Johnson, that Sl,440 has been recovered from the hOld-ups who robbed his store last week The rob bers are now confined in the county Jail awaiting the next term of the su- periCr court when they will be tried.
 Ulrich Reider has entered the list of automobile owners. He has for over twenty years made the trip from the Chiricahuas and Cottonwood by team, but the old method of lOcOmOtion is too slow and he now makes record time with the gasoline buggy.
 Engineer Cy Perkins is getting ready at the road camp 10 begin the erection of the big Luton arch bridge over Emerald Canyon just east of Tombstone. The grading crew is get ting well on toward the bridge site and traffic will soon be diverted that way and long before the bridge is com pleted.
 Postmaster Paul Smith of Tomb stone has returned home from Pasa- dena. Cal. where he accompanied the body of Mrs A. Adamson. which was cremated and the ashes thrown into the Pacific ocean. This was her last request and MT. Smith saw that it was carried out. She had no relatives in this country.
 Albert Phillips is in the Douglas iail charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. F. F. Williams and two other smeltermen are the com plaining witnesses. One hundred dol lars is the amount involved. It is as- serted that Phillips sold stock in an oil company with an expensive oil drilling outfit and thousands of acres of land which never existed.
 J. NJ. Mullen, an engineer at the C. & 4. smelter at Douglas, will leave this week for Washington, D. C., whera he will offer his services to the govern ment as an engineer. Mr. Mullen is long past the military service age, ani is now drawing a pension for servlce in the Spanish-American war. but he has a desire to serve his country now, and a commission has been offered him by military authorities in Wash ington.
 According to a letter received today hv James Mars in Tombstone, ron. Chas. Batchelder, himself and the bal ance cf the Tombstone boys are in New York waiting to be sent over there to get into the light Batchelder stated that himself and Allan Bene- dict. another Tombstone boy. were busy taking in the sights while in the big city. and expected to be shipped at any moment. They are probably on their way now.
 Harry Turner. livestock agent of the Southern Pacific, has been spending a few days at Wilcox straightenlng out the car shortage. He reported that 1.S00 car loads of cattle have been going out over the s. F., being loaded on the main line or along the branches. He says that the car shortage will now be remedied and shipments will no longer be held up on that account
 William R. Shardley. oi the Douglas Motor company. is in receipt of a nhotograph of his son, Sergeant Frank F Sbadley. who is in the army medl- cal corps; stationed at Roosevelt dam. The picture shows the young man tac- inc a washtub on which is posted a sign reading thus: "Wanted-a Wife. " Young Hadley looks to be strong and husky and he says that he Is pleased with his duties.
 The entire community or Pearce IS greatly grieved over the death from pneumonia of Edgar A. Collins. for merIv general manager of the Com r,onwealth mine. which occurred at his summer home in Ben LOmOnd, Cal He had returned from Siberia three weeks before with his family and eX- pected to resume his work there when conditions became more settled.
 Fifty heifers were collected by John son X Cook. cattlemen. They were sold 10 w. w. Roach of Los Angeles, who took twenty-five and T. J. Don ohue of South Omaha, who took the other twenty-five They paid $50 apiece for them. This is considerably over the market price and they Will each be the loser of at least $500, but they count the loss as donation toI the local Red Cross. Their generosity is appreciated by the people in this section.
 Miss Hele Brown. of Douglas, Is m the guest of Miss Elsle Toles. Miss Brown is a teacher in the public schools of that city. She says fiat while Tombstone has a better climate than Douglas. has better water. more country roads and many things that Douglas has not. yet she feels that Douglas ought 70 have the county seat You just cant please these Douglas people. no matter how hard you try. but we regret that we cant even give them little court house just for the reason that we have use for it here.
 Rchert Reeves, ST. brother of F. II Reeves. the Tombstone feed and fuel man. today received the good ,,..,,-s. tbat his som RO1nrt r Reeves