Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-15

Robert Nelson, an emplOye of the Rival Mining company north of Dun- can. died suddenly while on his way to Duncan with Manager G. c. Pid- geon. Nelson was about 42 years of age and a native of Illinois. He was unmarried, and leaves a sister in Cal ifornia.
 T. F.. Parish, state historian. has an- nounced that volumes , and of the official history of Arizona that is be- ing written by him will be off the presses and ready for distribution be- tween June 15 and 20 Volumes : and s he expects to follow in about six weeks from the issuance of 3 and 6.
 Two alleged deserters, held by the sheriffs office at Globe, were started on their way to Fort Sill. Oklahoma, in charge of guard of men from the 35th infantry. They were arrested on April "A on suspicion and were later identified as former members of the 10th engineers and were drafted from Miami. Oklahoma.
 Amos w Cole, Jr., only son of Cor poTation Commissioner Cole. has en- listed in the marine corps and has left Phoenix for Mare Island, Cal. The boy has just reached his 21st birthday, and did not wait to be drafted. but has volunteered his services to Uncle Sam. A son-in-law of A. w. Cole, $. H. Kin red, is at San Diego, a member of the aviation corps.
 Andrew Stapp. aged 14. son of $. D. Stapp of the P. j. Lorden ranch, about seven miles from Yuma, was terribly burned by the explosion of a
 fve-callon can of distillate. The boys body and limbs were covered with burns and his clothing burned from his body His condition is serious at the Yuma hospital The accident was caused by the burning of a stack of straw near which the distillate had been left. Young Stapp was working to put out the fire and was within few feet of the distillate when it eN- ploded. covering him with sheet or blazing oil.
 Donald E. Stone of Mexico. N. r., d member of the La Fayette flying squadron. mentioned as missing. in Monday nights dispatches, the fear being expressed that he had been made prisoner by the Germans. is well known in Tucson, where he lived for two years. Stone left there in May, 1916. to go tO New York. where he volunteered for service in France with the American ambulance unit was accepted and sailed almost immediate iy. The last news his Tucson friends | eceived from him came in December of last year At that time he had been wounded while serving as an driver at the front, had spent many weeks in a Paris hospital, and was upon the verge of becoming a licensed aviator.
 w. A. Parish, formerly city manager of Phoenix, is now engaged as en- gineer in the construction of a canal from Hamlin's Head. about opposite to Yuma. into the Imperial valley. Parish has been engaged on the work since it's inception, and from intorma- ton contained in d letter to a friend in Phoenix it would indicate that he has considerable job ahead of him. In his letter Parish states that he is to break down 1900 yards of rock 10 be dumped into the Colo Iado river Thousands of tons of rock have already been dumped into th3 river. and it is presumed that the object of this is Co raise the waters Of the Colorado Co give a flow into the canal. which Is Co be great irrigation project
 Wal McCann, charged with the mur.