Tombstone epitaph., 1918-03-10
ARIZONA STATE NEWS

March l5-16-cattle Growers Associa-
 ton meeting al Wilcox.
 There was big patriotic parade al Tucson on Washington's birthday.
 Rumors of a strike for a seven-hour s6-day. have reached Governor Hunt.
 Two carloads of ore are ready for ! Shipnent from the Puzzle Group a; Chloride.
 The work on the state highway be- tween Nogales and Tucson is nearly completed.
 Pete White has GU; into big vein on the Roadside mine in the Union Pass section.
 O. A. Turner, for many years a res ident of Monave county. passed away Tn Baltimore. Md.
 News Of the death. at a camp in Georgia. of capt. Zimmerman. was re- ceiyed in Nogaies.
 Governor Hunt asked the withdraw al of troops from the Globe Miami and Ray mining districts.
 Maricopa county will hold a special election to vote on proposition to issue s2.000, 900 bonds for good roads.
 ]. W. Prisk, operating the Home Pastime mine at Mineral Park. has a carload Of rich ore ready for ship ment.
 Every man who has teen sent from the United States to do overseas duty has been supplied with full Red Cross outfit.
 According to reports made by F.. J. Carrillo. 13,500 acres will be planted to long staple cotton south of chand- Ter this spring.
 The price paid for the old iaeger Canon Copper property, recently taken over by the shannon Copper Company, is given at sI25.0o0
 Destruction of he ballots used as evidence in the recent goyernorship contest case took place outside the city limits at Phoenix.
 More than $3o0.o0o worth of war savings certificates and thrift stamps have been sold in Arizona since the big drive was opened.
 Congressman Carl Hayden has in troduced bill in the House, providing for the opening of thousands of acres of unoccupied coal lands in the Indian reservations in Arizona.
 Sheriff Miles thoroughbred blood hounds were sent from Tucson and put on the trail of the outlaws at the point where the Powers gang discard ed their horses near Fucker gulch.
 New Cornelia Copper Co. com menced production in June. and made an output of approximately 20,0O0, ,O00 pounds of copper in 1917. of a gross value of approximately $.,75o,000.
 James G. Golfer, father of Fred T. Colter, of Globe, state senator and democratic national committeeman. has been elected vice president of the Pioneers Historical Society at Pres colt.
 Joseph L. Wiley and Ramon Salazar. former Pima county officers, convict ed Of implication in the shooting to death of Mrs. Mary Bates. will go free. as the result Of a decision handed down by the Supreme Court.
 The reported discovery of potash near Jerome is important, owing to the fact that potash has been one of the war minerals for which it has been difficult to find a substitute and new deposits of which are rare.
 The memory of George Washington. of Abraham Lincoln and of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. the negro poet, were honored at the Tucson colored school, named in honor of Dunbar. when a large audience attended the school warming.
 United Eastern made a gold output in 1917 of . gross value of $1 ,s64 ,22S. Approximately 95 per cent of values in ore mined was recovered.
 In the case of ]. D. Kenney, appel iant, vs. Bank of Miami, appellee, the Supreme Court of Arizona held valid the resolution of the board of super visors of Gila county disincorporating the town of Miami. Judgment was re- versed and the case remanded for a new trial.
 Tom Sisson and the Powers broth CTS are holed up in some small cave near the head of Turkey creek, in the opinion of officers in charge of the hunt according to a Bowie report. Cat tie are plentiful in that part of the country and it is believed that they have killed beef and are hiding out
 Posses in the Chircahuas engaged in the chase to apprehend John and Thomas Powers and Thomas Sisson, sought for the killing of three Graham county officers February 10, reported last week that Apache trailers with Sheriff Harry Wheeler, of Cochisa county. have picked up . fresh trail. Picked men under Sheriff Wheeler and Sheriff Rye Niles of Pima coun- ty. are following the trail.
 At the NogaIes meeting of the Ari- sona Cattle Growers' Association, c. 2. MulIen. of Yavapai county, was elected president; E. H. Crabb of Co oonino county. vice-president; Fen g. Hildreth of Phoeuiy. treasurer, and Sam B. Bradner Of Phoenix. secretary. Phoenix was selected as the place for holding the annual conveuflon in Feb ruary of next year
 The management of the Gold Ore at Oatman says the crosscut encoun-