Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-23

came to Yuma a few years ago, leas- ing large Texas holdings in order to be near his five sons, who had bought land in this valley. Burial will be at his old home, San Anvelo, Texas, to which point the body has been taken by several members of the family
 City funds of Phoenix to the amount Cf ysS,0O0 are now invested in Lib erty loan bonds. Through action by the city commission S10,000 in sink ing funds were released for the pur- chase of the new securities of the government. City Treasurer J. c. C. H. Boon lost no time in visiting the Liberty loan headquarters and there securing 10 1000 bonds which now Tepose in the vaults in the city hall building
 Geronimo Mendoza was instantly killed end his partner. Jose Morales. was tadly injured when a unknown as- saiial.t entered their shack" located near Gadsden. Yuma county. Sunday evening and assaulted them with a blunt instrument Though badly in- jured. Morales was able to crawl to the roadway after the assault and ac- quaint the authorities with the affair. The officers are now working on the case
 The Phoenix city commission has taken steps to prevent out of the state labor contractors from doing business in .he capital city. The commission has passed an ordinance. which takes the emergency clause, which puts a license fee of $500 a quarter on all employment agents who solicit labor for out of Arizona parties. The ordi- nance was prompted by the effort of severel people to take several hundred Mexican laborars to Alaska for the summer.
 Lieutenant H. l.. Linney of Prescott arrived in France. according to cable received by Mrs. Linney. The young officer who was speaker of the house of the first state legislature, is at- tacheG Co the field artillery service and received his assignment as one of fir teen officers to an overseas detail. He will enter a French artillery station for special instruction in the school of fire and in due time will be in action. He was recently stationed at Fort Still Okla. where he was ordered after re- ceiving his commission. He was member of the second officers train ing camp at Leon.
 The full resources of the University of Arizona has been offered the gov ernment for the technical training of men secured under the selective draft. especially with reference 10 the col lege of engineering. A representative of the training commission will be here very soon to investigate details. The university agrees to furnish trade and technical instruction to assigned men of the army. wOrkroom and classroom space. services of compe- tent instructors. one Co each 70 men detailed, administrative supervision and grounds and facilities for mill tsry training and tactics.
 In the recent campaign for books for soldiers and sailors which was conducted by the American Library in Arizona during the week. March IS to %, about 1000 books were collected. One thouband of these books were collected by Miss Estelle Lutrell. librarian of the Uni versity O. Arizona and Mrs. J. B. Breathitt of the Carnegie library of Tucson The bonds will be distrib- uted in part to the camp libraries in Arizona and in part to camps recon mende.l by the American Library as sociati0n headquarters al Washing ton.