Tombstone epitaph., 1918-04-07
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Globe boys won flag for patriotic
work.
Douglas is to have si35.OoO canton
ment.
Tucson will have $4,000 public
market.
In three years Holbrook population
has doubled.
A new road is being built from Ajo
to Gunsight.
A new $4,000 NJ. f. church is to be
built at Gilbert.
The old King mine at Superior is
expected to open soon.
Recent Oatman gold strikes mean
much to Mohave county.
A county Council of Defense has
been organized at Nogales.
The Phoenix Elks lodge is planning
new 3l50,00O club house.
The Williams mine at Kingman is
shipping tungsten concentrates.
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need Of = copper miners strike.
The Tom Reed mine at Oatman Is
showing a wide vein Of rich ore
The Sisson gold property at Aguills
will start construction OF new mill.
Arizona gets $4,000 for. vocational
education under the ithHushes act.
Pima smel,er and Refining Com
pany to expend 3250.000 ON smelter.
An emergency hospital and sixty
new houses are being planned at Clark
dale.
Standard Oil Company TO erect sew
sral new buildings and tanks at
Chandler.
Scott White of Florence was nomi-
mated to be receiver Of public moneys
At Phoenix.
The New Cornelia Copper Company
has ordered plans for a new and mod
ern school building for the housing of
600 children at Ajo.
John Chuk was awarded damages in
the sum Of $2.750 in his personal in
jury suit against the Tres Metales Min
ing Company by . jury in Judge Stan
ford's Court in Maricopa county
George Philbro0k, an Arizonan, is
receiving much publicity for his dar-
ing act In jumping overheard from a
training ship off Of Tampa, Fla, and
rescuing a civilian from drowning
Governor Hunt Of Arizona and Gov
ernor Alexander Of Idaho, were early
in the field In the issuance of procla-
nations for enrolment week of the
United States Boys Working Reserve.
Arizona Indians get s330.Oo0 for
subsistence, $4,000 for Industrial
school. Indian irrigation projects re-
ceive 100000 and $4,000 for open
ing up for settlement unallotted lands.
In response to the call for shipbuild-
ers. 1.149 men Of Arizona are ready
to leave for the shipyards at a mo-
ment's notice. This number exceeds
the quota asked BY the government by
26l.
According to W. s. Dorman. who has
been interested in getting the owners
Of baled Egyptian cotton now held by
the growers OF the valley. the entire
1918 crop is to be shipped east on con-
signment.
The following postmasters have
been appointed in Arizona: John T.
Hunter at Hoterilla. Claude r. Moss
at Torera, Ora L. Ashurst at Chiri
cahua, and Mrs. Nora X. Lanahan at
Gadsden.
Answering the call Of her country,
Miss Irene Miller, a Phoenix girl, and
. graduate Of St. Joseph's hospital
training school for nurses. left for
Camp Kearny where she will receive
her assignment for service in the Red
Cross.
The city Of Tucson will grow its
own grain for its own stock, as the
result Of the backing Street Commits
ssoner Urquides received from the
city council in the purchase of plant
Or for milo maize.
Frank Lacey, the Mohave county
deputy sheriff who has been on trial
in the Yavapai County Superior Court
for the killing Of George Smith, an
0atman stage driver. was convicted on
a charge Of manslaughter.
Judge Prosper p. Parker. one Of the
most prominent Masons in Arizona.
an honored member Of the J. W. Owen
Post, G. A. r., and for about eight
years a justice Of the peace in the
Phoenix precinct, died at Bisbee.
Several hundred thousand head of
sheep are being sheared in the Salt
River valley. q large proportion held
on the alfalfa and early grain fields.
though the grass 10 starting on the
plains. favored BY the late rains.
Refusing longer to be made the in
nocent tool to further the sale Of
stock or securities Of various enter
prisss in Arizona. the state corpora
ton commission took drastic action to
prevent such schemes IN future.
President Wilson recently issued
an order that 100000 babies must be
saved during 1918. The saving Of
ehid's life 10 just ~ much q war
measure a. the conserving Of food
stusfs." Arisona's quota Of babies to
Be saved this year amounts to 233.
The name Of Tucson will be intro
duced into the American Military hos
pital In Paris as the result OF the work
of Mn Harry 1anda In rns~Su~ aHo0