Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1918-02-17
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

w. g. Gilmore resigned as referee
in bankruptcy for Cochise county.
The Elks lodge in Phoenix is plan
ming new home to cost Sl50,000.
Capt Russell White Of Tempe has
been appointed commander of the
Battleship Arizona.
J. w Brown Of ST. Johns has been
appointed a member of the State
Board OF Education
Governor Hunt appointed Geo. E.
Cornelius of Winslow a member Of the
State Board OF Education.
A bill authorizing the appointment
Of an additional Judge for Arizona was
passed by the U. s. Senate.
A report from Somerton states that
thieves took $500 worth Of cotton from
widow. living near there.
Lola B. Tomlinson has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Bowie and
Paul b. Smith at Tombstone
John Wingfield. aged 95. died at his
home at Camp Verde. where he had
lived for about thirty-five years.
w. r. Weems OF Winslow raised
three tons OF beans on his ranch ad-
| joining the government reserve.
AT Silver Bell damage Of $500 was
done by the burning of a residence oc-
| cupied by W. H. Buchanan and fam
| lily.
Governor Hunt has named Mrs.
Bette White OF Douglas a member of
the board of regents Of the State Uni
versity.
Actual construction work on the Ell
Zaribah temple ON the lot adjoining
the School of Music in Phoenix has
been started.
Sam Bill was badly beaten up by
Chris Tomich and Jerry Korich. as he
was on his way home from work In
Upper Lowell.
At a meeting in Bisbee, arrange
ments were made to raise $1,000 900
in the Warren district in the war
thrift campaign.
stantly killed at Steeplerock when he
| fell from horse he was riding and
received broken neck
| Harold Gribble left Benson for
Brooklyn, n. Y. where he has posi-
ton in the shipbuilding department of
the Brooklyn navy yard.
Arizona is well to the front as
stock growing state. There is approx
imately 100000 sheep and 1000. 900
head of cattle in the state
Douglas school children are show
ing their patriotism by purchasing
thrift stamps Already they have
bought $500 and are still buying them.
Harry Lee. yardmaster for the Ari-
IONA Eastern railway. aged a.. was
killed in the Globe yards when struck
by a car shunted by a switching crew.
Thos A. Flynn. United States dis
trict attorney for Arizona, and Joseph
p. Dillon, United States marshal. have
been re-appointed by President VII
son.
Word was received In Phoenix OF
| the safe arrival in France Of Judge
Frank o. Smith, who resigned from
the bench for war service across the
sea.
The Buckeye Irrigation Company is
spending 100000 on a submerged
dam across the channel of the ella
river just below that streams juno
ton with the Aqua FRA. A new dredge
has been purchased and is being used
| In ru;dopipU tho u,otaruay for an
tire length of twenty-four miles
Roosevelt will have a new hotel.
Since January 81. $500 worth of
war stamps have been taken by the
| 1,250 employees of the United Verde
mine and mechanical department at
Jerome.
Prof. d. Lopez was elected
| chairman Of the Central Arizona chap
| ter Of the American Red Cross at the
meeting of the board Of directors held
at Phoenix.
The Indian appropriation bill which
has passed the House. authorizes the
expenditure Of over 100000 for the
| benefit Of the red skinned wards of
the government in Arizona
The Wickenburg branch of the Cen
| trail bank Of Phoenix was robbed by
lone bandit just before the hour of
closing. The robber took what money
was on the counter, between $1,000
and $500. and escaped in an auto
| With the station and crosscut 1t
the 1.00O-foot level OF the Iron Cap
shaft at Globe more than twenty feet
in bornite ore and nothing as yet to
Indicate near approach to the foot
wall of the vein. the Iron Cap Com
pany IL already assured of an ore body
Of great size and unusual richness.
John Fields. colored. found guilty Of
first degree murder by a jury at Bis
bee, has been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment at the Arizona state peni-
Tertiary by Judge Stanford. Fields
shot and killed his bride last October
after domestic troubles. His case was
based on self-defense.
Another Of the historical figures Of
the southwest passed away at Tucson
when Andrew Cronly. once mayor Of
Tucson in the early SOS, passed. Mr.
Cronly was SO years old. Although
born in New YORK on Dec. :. 1855, his
life was spent in the west.