Tombstone epitaph., 1918-06-16


 Mesa officers, in a night raid. round ed up three slackers.
 A municipal flag pole has been raised in Casa Grande.
 D. C. Warren, for 23 years a resi- dent of Phoenix. died at his homo. Tom Nieuex of Globe. Frank Mar tinex of Hayden and Francisco Lopez are in the Gila jail, charged with vio- lating the registration law.
 Two California railroad men and two women travelling with them as wives" were taken into custody at Tucson for violating the Mann act. In the record time Of t*o minutes and thirty-five seconds. the federal jury convicted Thomas Martinez. Mex ican. of violating the espionage act at Tucson.
 Said to be the first soldier son of Arizona in the present war. baby boy has been born to MT. and Mrs. Charles T. Jennings. formerly of Tempe. The Warren district bid S3.5o5 for the two pounds of wool from the White House. and through resolutions adopt ed at Bisbee, asked to deal direct with Washington.
 Five thousand seven hundred more motor vehicle licenses have been is- sued in Arizona up to the present day of this year than had been issued by the corresponding day Of last year.
 It is expected that within the next fortnight 2.Oo0 additional troops will be Quartered at Nogales announce ment being made that the 35th infan- try Is 10 be recruited to full strength. Information has reached Douglas to the effect that the Mexican govern ment has decided to expend the sum of $50.000 each month in an attempt 10 colonize the Yaqui river delta again.
 Whether Tom P. Harte. Douglas at- ! torney. committed suicide or was mur- dered. was left an open question by the coroner's jury at Tombstone. The verdict was that death was due 10 a gunshot wound.
 August Sanberg. a Swedish subject | and former chief chemist for the ! Phelps Dodge corporation at Douglas. | charged with seditious utterances, ! was found guilty by jury in the | United States District Court at Tue I son on five out of six counts in the in | dictment.
 The cases of the 2l men indicted by the federal grand jury at Tucson in | connection with the deportation from ! Bisbee last July 12 Of 1,ls6 striking l copper miners and their sympathizers were put over until fall when they were called by United States District Judge Wm. H. Sawtelle.
 More than 1000 persons were made ! homeless st Jerome by fire of un- i determined origin which swept thru the Mexican district and destroyed | more than hundred homes and sev | eral large rooming houses. One Mex ican was burned so badly. il was said, i he would die.
 Ira Spears was dismissed as 8 dep uty sheriff by Sheriff Miles of Pima county, after a jury in the Superior Court had returned judgment of S5,- 700 against him in favor of Miss Helen Dufficy, who charged that Spires had | promised to marry her and under such promise had obtained improper rela- tions.
 l Accepting the recommendation of the judiciary committee that action on the part of the Legislature submitting to a referendum an amendment to the constitution restoring capital punish ment is not within the call for the special session, the Senate killed both the bill introduced by Senator Camp bell and the joint resolution intro duced by Senator Roberts.
 Complete returns for the month of April broke all records of productic. by the United Eastern Mining Com pany at Oatnan. During the month a total of 1915 tons of ore were treated. having a total value of S1s7.4s995. A percentage of extraction was obtained of 3S66S, and net profits of $l26, ,462.6 were realized.
 Norman Carmichael. general manag CT of the Arizona Copper Company at Clifton, remembering the horrors | trict during the strike of 1915 when hundreds of citizens of that dis trict were driven from their homes by the strikers. has written an open letter tot Governor Hunt criticiz- ing the statements in the executives message to the Legislature.
 The Ray Consolidated Copper Go. reports for the quarter ended March 3l,- 1918, net profits of $l,025.236 against $2.547,5 ,541 in the preceding quarter. The gross production of cop per contained in concentrates was 20,- 522,55s pounds. an average monthly production of 6,s4o.s53 pounds, against 21,O7I,S74 pounds in the previous quarter, on an average monthly pro duction of 7.023.95S pounds.
 The Senate disposed ot the so-called Americanization bill by indefinitely postponing 1t on the ground that no one could foresee what a burden of expense it would put upon the state. This bill was framed by the Depart meut of education and provided for