The Coconino sun., 1918-05-31

An ordinance is under consideration in Phoenix creating police reserve organization.
 Twenty business men of Holbrook have organized a stock company and will drill for oil near that town. 1 -x
 This years graduating class of the Douglas school left $250 worth of Liberty Bonds to that institution. | k The increased business of the King man postoffice has necessitated the in stalling of an automatic canceling ma chine.
 The Boston store at Cottonwood was recently burglarized and goods valued at more than $1,000 were taken.
 Petitions are being circulated in Pima county, praying for bond cleo tion to vote on $125,000 issue of bonds to build roads out of Tucson. The 35th Infantry, now stationed at Nogales, is to be recruited to full war strength. This means that about 2,OO0 more troops will be quartered there.
 A postoffice has been established at Peach Springs, and k. H. Carpenter, a merchant of that place, has been ap- pointed postmaster. It is fourth class office.
 Bowie, Cochise county, farmers have signed up to raise stated num- Der of acres of castor beans. The oil will be used by the government for aeroplanes.
 Since the first of January the mem- bers of the Kingman chapter of the Red Cross have turned in 5000 pieces of knitted goods, hospital supplies and other needful articles. | x-
 The citizens of Camp Verde have voted bonds in the sum of S6,000 for the purpose of erecting a new public school building. Not a dissenting vote was cast against the proposition. l. | Cut down on meat and wheat pro- duets and use more milk, butter and cheese is the dietry advice handed out by the federal food administration for Arizona for hot weather considera- tion.
 1 Prof. Byron Cummings has been elected to succeed Dr. A. F.. Douglass, as dean of the college of arts, letters and science at the University of Ari- zone. Dr. Douglass resigned to be- come head of the new astronomical observatory.
 Twenty-eight hundred men and women on foot followed the body of George Powell, the labor leader, to the grave at Clifton. The funeral process sion was mile and quarter long. Powell was one of the most popular labor leaders in the state. He was killed recently at Duncan.
 M. E. Alexander, recently employed in the Ryan drug store at Miami, has been arrested on an embezzlement | charge. His trunk was found to con- tain hundreds of dollars worth of | fancy articles and drugs, which he had stolen from the Ryan store while at work there.
 After an illness of only a little more than twenty-four hours, Edward Leroy Mansfield, assistant postmaster of Jerome since the twelfth day of last December, died Sunday evening at the United Verde hospital. Spinal meningitis, with which MT. Mansfield was stricken Saturday night, was the immediate cause of death. This di- sease was brought on by an affection of the ear with which deceased had been suffering for some time.
 In a saloon at Deming, N. M., where he was employed as bartender, the Cochise county draft board located a former cattleman of the Chiricahuas, who had claimed deferred classifica- tion on the ground that he was en- gagged in an occupation necessary to the government in the prosecution of the war"
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 WAS FORECAST BY EDISON |