Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-28


 containing tungsten, mOlybdenum and i gold is being taken down by force of miners on tho Black Bess property. | Phoenix.-The Arizona corporation commission today entered an order permitting the WinslOY Telephone company to sell and the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph com pany to purchase the telephone system of WinsloW. There was no opposition to the transfer
 Yuma.-The Winterhaven Egyptian Cotton exchange has addressed the council of national defense, asking that American growers of long staple be assured a market for their product and preference over foreign growers. About 1900 bales of Yuma Egyptian cotton remain at the Winterhaven gin unsold.
 Phoenix.-Estab blishing a record for the earliest bale of cotton to be picked
 fin the Salt River valley. G. A. Majors yesterday brought load of cotton into ! Phoenix The bale was picked from volunteer cotton and will be followed by mere loads from some that was
 grown from seed, which is beginning to open. NabOrs' ranch is situated
 near Ingleside on the north side of the Arizona canal. on land only re- gently put under cultivation.
 Tucscn.- Smith Holloway. age IS, arrested by Policeman Wilson as he steped from the Phoenix train early Thursday morning. was taken back to Phoenix last evening by Deputy Sher- | fir ONeal of that city to answer Co a ! charge of criminally assaulting the D. ! year-old daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jack
 Lantrip of Avondale, near Phoenix. i Holloway's companion. with when he was enroute to San Angelo. Texas, was released, there being no charge
 against him.
 Phoenix--A sudden attack of heart
 trouble has caused the death of Ben iamin c. Webster. managing owner Of
 the big Maricopa creamery in this city.
 He had been a resident of Phoenix about nine years, coming from Be- atrice. Neb. where he had been con
 aected with a large creamery. Here he secured control of the Mariccpa plant. soon raising it to a production
 of over 1000 0O0 pounds of butter a
 year. A few months ago he completed
 the addition of a large milk evaporat-
 ing plant, now operating at capacity.
 He was at work only a few hours be-
 fore his death. His wife and son were absent. visiting a married daughter in
 Los Angeles.
 Ncgales. Benjamin J. Jones. who
 has been acting as county food and
 administrator fer Leslie C. Hardy was on Thursday appointed to take charge
 of the food administration work ID
 Santa Cruz county. Mir Hardy has been seriously i'll for some time and it was because of this that he was
 forced to resign. In selecting Mir Jcnes to fill the place the federal food administratcr for Arizona expresses
 confideuce in having found the right man for the position, which, on ac
 count of border conditions, is regard ed as one of the most difficult 10 m of any like post within the state.
 Pbrenix.-Prof. Irish of the Normal
 school was a visitor at the capitol to day In the absence of Prof. Matthews : who has not returned from attendance of the sessions of the National kdu F lcationaI association. Prof. Irish is act = ing principal of the school. The ' Tempe institution will suffer no fal of in attendance this session on ae ! count of the war. but. on the contrary ! if is expected that the attendance VII
 he increased. Last session there were
 42O pupils. and this year indications 2 are that there will be more. Work l' progressing on the new dcrmitory fol
 bovs. which will be a structure alons
 modern lines. It will accommodate $ seventy pupils. and is arranged Witt s sleeping porch for every four stu dents.
 - Phoenix-.Twice as many murder n were committed in Maricopa count! l. during the eighteen months pericd . ending June 30. 1918. than in any cor = responding length of time since state }. hood. according to records on file il II inc office of Sheriff W. H. Wilky 2 Likewise, MaricOpa has had more mui r. ders since the abOlishment or oaplta
 punishment than any other two cOun
 ties ir the state combined, Sheriff WI r ky pointed out Up to and includin' r. June 30 a total of twenty-five murder ? had been committed in this count! e since January 1, 1917. The percentag d of apprehensions has bene exceptional e lv large. however. only two or th' d twentv-fve murderers having so Ia s escaped arrest. Of the twenty-th Ire e persons arersted for murder durinl h this eighteen-month period. twenty-tW ;t are either serving time at the stat c prison or are being held in the count e iail awaiting tc be taken to Florence T Pima-The force in the sheriiIs ol 10 flee has just received a new stock Q e. booze. The shipment came to Soi'
 knoxville station and was transterre
 to the sherin's booze vault. This D. the first booze, in a large quantity n that has come into the sherin's o1io l- for scme time. The booze, four case e in all. was being shipped in two trunk L. as baggage to Miami by train Tn .e owner of the baggage, however, - " gsrTru1owwfllo He q