Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-30

Phoenix: H. E. Easterda- has
 asked that a receiver be appointed for
 the Ray-Kelyin Mining company, and
 that W. E. Cogdell, it's president, be
 male to render an accounting.
 Phoenix. Capt. Louis Lowenthal. former secretary to the governor, and
 who Is continuing to act in that ca
 pacity. appeared at his dss> in the executive office this morning in the
 full uniform of a captain of infantry
 The former secretary is assigned to duty here in connection with the
 draft. No one has been named by the governor to succeed him as sec retary.
 Phoenix: Miss Lucie Powers, who is connected with the internal reve- nue office, has obtained a leave of absence from her position and left for Globe this morning in response to a call for nurses to asSist in com batting the influenza epidemic there. The situation at Globe is serious and the Red Cross has asked fer vOlun- teers to help in nursing the large number of sufferers.
 Phoenix: Claude Fisher. Phoenix contractor. has just been commits stoned by the government to install a big water main at Portsmouth, Va, for supplying the navy yard of that place The main will bs 30 mlles long and constructed throughout of l6-inch Kraft iron. Fisher has already done similar work for the government at Camp KeaTny and Camp rody He left today for Portsmouth with organ ization and equipment. .f
 Phoenix: w A. Barr, state dairy commissioner, left Saturday night for Kansas City, having received a wire to the effect that Mrs Barr. who has been visiting her parents there, was in a serious condition. Barr returned from Kansas City short time ago. and soon after his return received wore that Mrs. Barr had taken the in- fluenza. Later he heard that she was able to sit up. Saturday he was nOti- fled of her relapse and left at once to join her.
 Phoenix: Wiley F. Jones today re- ceived a telegram from Mrs. Aggie C. Jones, widow of his brother. in forming him that her son. Leslie. had been killed in an automobile accident in Chicago. No other details were contained in the telegram. Attorney General J7nes stated today that the young nan had been called to the colOrs and expected to ieav, shortly for France. Two other nephews of the attorney general lave been killed
 Phoenix: George Smalley. eXecu- tive secretary of the food administra- ton, mad H. O. Morrison. federal food are leaving at once foi Yuma, where they will make an in. vestiSation of the cotton seed situa ton in the entire county, and will also make a report on the claims made by cotton growers there that the gin. ners are not giving them a fair deal. They allege that the ginners are mak- ing a large and unfair discount for l dirt in the cotton.
 Noealcs: A federal building to cost approximately a quarter of a million dollars win be erected at No gales. This information was received | here this morning by William Schuck- mann. and also by Bracey Surtis, | president of the First National bank. The money for the erection of the | new building is now available, it is re- ported. The house of representatives authorized the expenditure of Sl2O,0O0 | for the building and S15.OOO for the site on which the building is to Do located It is expected the site will be chosen within the next few days. lt is planned to locate several govern