Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-22

! tsmber 23 on a charge of forgery, has been bound over to the superior court at Los Angeles under bail of S2.000.
 Everett is alleged to have receiptsd tor and subsequently forged the sig nature on two back pay checks of fellow employe of the Yuma division Following his arrest he had a pre-
 liminary hearing in Los Angeles be- fore Justice Henshaw, October 10. the case being continued until October 16 He is in the. Los Angeles county jail in default of bail.
 Phoenix: A suicidal threat was
 made yesterday by J. R. Holmes, who declared he would take his life if the court cOmpels him to give up his
 home. You can put me in jail or do anythink you like with me, but if you compel me to give up my home I will commit suicide" said Hughes to
 Judge Stanford. The man declared
 that he had lost Sl50.00O during his residence in Phoenix and that he had experienced all the trouble he could endure. Hughes appeared in court on citation for contempt because of his
 failure to v2cate the house in com pliance with the order of the court. the proceedings developing from a foreclosure action.
 Phoenix PeTley J. Burns. whose trial on the charge of violation of the espionage act took place in the fed eTal court yesterday afternoon and his morning. has been found guilty of the charge and sentenced to two
 ears in LeavenwOrth federal prison
 by Judge Sawtelle The indictment against Burns charged him with say ing that the American soldiers were lot of damned thieves" that the food restrictions imposed by the United
 States food administration were un- necessary, that the American soldiers
 were sent to Europe to steal and that every one of them that went over was only a thief. and that the manufac- ture of clothing for the soldiers and of aircraft was only so much graft
 Mesa: The first drilling rig for the
 wells to be sunk for the Water Users association arrived in Mesa yester- . day. The rig is the property of Clam pitt X Moss of Los Angeles and is
 in charge of l.. D. Barber. who will direct the drilling of the wells in the valley. Clampitt & Moss has the con tract for drilling 60 wells to be put
 down for the Water Users associa- tiOn in an effort to drain the subsoil of this district. prevent the rising of this water and the waterlogging of the valuable land of the valley and also
 to augment the supply of water for irrigation purposes. For the payment Of this work bonds recently were
 voted by both the city and the dis trict
 Superior: There is deep interest locally in the national legislation de- signed to secure a larger supply of
 manganese for war and industrial
 uses. for the assertion often has been made that in this district lie the larg-
 est deposits Of manganese known in the Southwest Much rich manga
 nese ore has been shipped. but the bulk of the ore runs below 30 per cent and must be concentrated to be avail able commercially. even with consid- eration of the late decrease in man ganese freight rates eastward The
 Magmatic and adjoining mines have great manganese bodies that average
 above IS per cent. developed in the
 course of sinking for copper. Remark
 ably high grade silver ore is coming from Fortuna mine. taken from an east crosscut from the main tunnel
 that has cut two feet of paystreak.