The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-05-31
COUNTY DO|NGS
 THE PAST WEEK

Assembling tnlS morning the BOdru of Supervisors will sit as board of equalization for the purpose of equal izing the taxes of Greenlee county. As the law provides the Board will be ! in session as such until June 10th for the purpose of passing upon all rem ditions. At the expiration of the ten days the body will adjourn until the first Monday in July, when it will again meet to determine if the rendi. tions placed by the board on Green lee property shall remain as so fixed by the board. In the mean time property owners will have been noti- fled to appear before the board to show cause why their renditions may not be raised or lowered, as the case may be.
 Miguil Munoz, the Mexican who was recently brought to Clifton from Port Huron, Michigan, by Sheriff Slaughter, charged with the murder of the Morenci Mexican in 1916, and who was tried in the May term of the | Superior Court and convicted of manslaughter, was conveyed to the
 penitentiary at Florence by Deputy W. V. McCarty last Friday, who re- turned from that city Tuesday night. Munoz was given a sentence of from
 eight to ten years, and seemed pleas
 ed with the verdict, and desirous of beginning his prison term at the ! earliest possible moment.
 The Sheriff's force has been more
 or less occupied with the lunatics the
 past week. Sunday Sheriff Slaughter
 was notified of the queer actions of Bert Wagoner, a member of the local
 carpenters union, and accompanied
 by Jailer Smith they went out to the tent house occupied by Wagoner on Hills Addition and took him into GUS !, tody Up to the time of his arrest the demented man seemed rather tractf-
 ble, but after he was placed in jah he became almost unmana geable, and Jailer. Smith had his hands full in mana ging the prisoner. Wagoner was
 taken to Duncan Monday, where Judge McAIlister came and tried the [ demented man for lunacy, rendering verdict to that effect. Judge Laine | being out of town at the time, hence the request was made to Judge Nc
 AlllSlSI lOI hilil tO lly IlC ScSC. " oS- oner claims to have a sister, a Mrs. Bert Logan, living in Denver, and a brother, Edward Wagoner, living at
 Shawneetown, III. After Judge Nc Allister adjudged Wagoner a lunatic he was conveyed to the asylum at Phoenix Tuesday by MT. George
 Gamble Deputy John Young ac- companied them as far as Lordsburg.
 The second lunatic that commanded the attention of the officers was a man by the name of Fred Isbell, who | was taken up at Metcalf Monday and brought to Clifton and lodged in jail.
 His actions indicated that something was wrong with his mind, and it de | veloped that he was a paroled patient from the asylum, having been con-
 mitted as a criminl patient from the
 capital city some years ago. It is
 stated that Isbell and a brother were
 convicted some time in the past for
 murder, but their sentence was com
 muted to commitment to the asylum | from which institution he was re-
 gently paroled, and his wanderings
 brought him to Metcalf, where he was | IL 10 lCPOl tOU Iie1S IhS streak of insanity is prominent in
 the unfortunate mans family, hence
 his commitment to the asylum. Is !. bell is still in jail awaiting trans Iportation to the asylum. The sheriff's a department at once notified the asy lum officials of his arrest, who in
 structed that he be returned to PhOe r nix, but request was made for the advancement of money to convey hin . to the state institution before takins him there.
 The deserters mentioned as having A been apprehended last week were ! conveyed to Camp Cody and delivered
 to the military authorities last Tues \ day by Deputy Sheriff Alex Arnstt |s of Metcalf. They were Maritime San b chez and Genrosa Gomez. Sanche, ' was arrested at Stafford and brough here, while Gomez was taken il
 charge at Metcalf by Deputy Arnett ' Both were deserters from the Green h lee draft
 Deputy John Young, who arrested the soldier kept in jail here some tim D ago, who admitted that he was a de
 serter from Camp Cody, was calle' = to Deming May. 18th as a witness il
 the cuort martial trial of the alleeet N deserter. He was discovered by MT | Muss Cosper near his home, wh | phoned to the sheriff's office and hi | Il arrest followed When arrested h. gave his name as Riley Davis.
 Realty Transfers.
 The following instruments hav | been filed in the Recorders office tn
 past week of recent real estate tran
 sections:
 George. B. and Hattie Allen to Al
 chic Gilliland, 20 acres in section 34
 twp. S-S., range 32-E.. G. & s. R. E 2 M ooncidaro tiop e1 5OO