Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-30

lcIldl lOWeTl0R or the interest rate on |
 crop season advances of cash.
 State Senator Fred Colter has pur-
 chased the Barringer residence at the |
 southwest corner of Central avenue |
 and Mckinley street, in Phoenix. The |
 price paid is given as approximately
 S20,OO0. Senator Golfer took posses
 sion of the place yesterday and will |
 shortly be joined by Mrs. Golfer, who
 is now at their home at Colter. Apache
 county.
 One man is dead and another badly |
 injured as the result of a rear-end !
 collision of two freight trains on the
 Hassayampa bridge of the Santa Fe
 railroad. James Stewart, the conduc-
 tor in charge of the freight train
 southward bound, was crushed about
 the chest and body, and died at Date
 Creek as he was being taken to Pres
 colt The other. a cattleman, who
 was sleeping in the cabOOse of the
 and shoulder broken.
 How two young Phoenix boys. mom-
 beTs of prominent families, burglar
 ized one of the leading department
 stores of Phoenix of merchandise
 valued at more than SS0O,- using a
 paper mail sack and automobile to cart away their loot, was disclos ed
 in confessions which police say, the
 boys made after their arrests this morning. The boys are being held at police headquarters. Botl young men
 have admitted their guilt, officers de- clare, and have implicated at least one other prominent young man of this city who is now on the coast.
 Thomas Croaff of the employment service of the department of labor in Arizona, has received a telegram from Washington, stating that the senate appropriations committee reports a bill providing S7,500,000 for the use of this department Croaff says that part of this money will be used in Arizona for the mobilization of labor, as it is the plan of the department of labor to take over the entire distribution of i labor during the period of the war. This will include taking labor from industries and placing it in essential branches of industry.
 Ng Yee Lun, Yuma Chinese store keeper, has been murdered under cir | of unusual atrocity. pre- sumably for the sake of the money In his possession, about $500. Some per { son secured admittance to the store after the usual closing time. knocked the Chinese down with a club or pistol. and then strangled him to death by ] means of a wire twisted around his i reck, probably with a stick used to { make the tournequet more effective { The body was found under sacking by | a Chinese cook who had been room ing with Lun. There appears to be no clues concerning the identity of the { murderer. It is believed to have beel 1 someone personally known to the { who otherwise would no. $ have admitted him to the locked store ( room
 Arizona had 37,000 acres of grain last year. These were prin- cipally milo maize, but a considerable quantity of feterita, kaffir. hegari. ! iorsO and shallu were also grown. r. Is ceded that large increase in the acreage to be devoted to the grain sorghum should result this season S due to several reasons including the T cse of these grains as wheat substf a tutes. and the greater need for these $ crops for silage and stock food. Tho . college of the University of Arizona has estimated that our in s creased grain sorghum acreage in- { lnn ninu drxr for nd | iricts should easily reach 15 per cent c which would give for 1918 total of i2.550 acres devoted to these crops
 Idle rumors with no foundation" /" ? With these words Governor Hunt. yes O -erday set at rest and officially dis O missed the report that has been gain n Ing circulation to the effect that there would be no Arizona state fair this ! year. For several days this rumOr has 1 been persistent. coming from no one ( knows just whereas reports some ? times debut going the rounds n-ver- .heless. In some way the war was mixed up in the reasons given for abandoning the state fair, but no one V seemed to know just how it could be O Secretary Boyce is busily engaged in seeing that all Of the revenues of the C lair are collected and placed to ;he e credit of the fair before July 1, as all ' money so placed for this years fair Money so credited after June 30 is ap- [ piled to the fair on the following year. O
 Man to man, there is no cOmpart i ing the fighting qualities of the Amer V can with the Hun. The American has a t on the German a thousand ways V These statements were made yester- p lay by Lieut.. Edward M. Hodges, who t las just returned tO Nogales after e nine months participation with the t American forces on the French battle b 'ront The lieutenant was in the front inc trenches during the German of- 'ensive which began March 21. and is wearing the French Cross of War him for bravery. Lieutenant Hodges is we'll known in Nogales, hay q ng been stationed there with the old l .2th infantry for three years. Ills \ amily lives there and he Is passing ! few days visiting them. The neu- a enant returned to the states June |. having been assigned back on a spe-