The Coconino sun., 1919-01-31
Ne,Us of Interest Gathered Here and There i1 the State
shooting Scrape Near Winslow.

Shooting Scrape Near WinslOw. Yesterday morning a Bascho in the employ of Art Miller, cattleman, had some trouble over the trespassihg of some cattle on the Perkins ranch with "Slim" Charles, who has charge of the ranch, and following some words the Batcho enforced his argument with a f45-gun, inflicting dangerous wound in the arm of Perkins. The bullet en- tered the forearm above the wrist, and came out at the elbow, fracturing the bones. Charles was brought to town for emergency treatment and will be taken to the hospital at AL buuuerque. Constable Gardner ar rested the assailant and lodged him in jail awaiting his preliminary hear ing.-Winslow Mail.
 Couldn't Live--COuldn't Die!
 TUCSON.-"They won't let me live and they won't let me die!" was the auerulous complaint of Jesse Curtis, an aged newsdealer, when shaken from a stupor caused by the taking of laudanum, with suicidal intent. Curtis is we'll known character here and according to officers has a repu- tation for argumentiveness. Whether his complaint at being jerked back from eternity is final one remains to be seen, though it was thought that lie would survive the effects of the drug.
 Two prospectors operating a placer mine in California, were dismayed one day not long ago to find the spring dried up from which they obtained water. However, holes drilled near by started the, water flowing again, and to increase the flow they bored into the hillside twenty feet, says the February Popular Mechanics Maga- zine. This gave them enough water to resume operations. On returning to work the next morning, what was their astonishment to find a two-inch stream of crude oil flowing from the bore. A dam was hastily built to conserve the oil until pipes could be laid to a nearby town.
 Will Try to Make Hunt Refund. An attempt to force ex-Governor Hunt to reimburse the state council of defense for money expended from the fund of that organization to de- fray the expenses of the gubernatorial party to the governors convention and the labor conference at Laredo, Texas. is to be launched in the legis- lature, it is rumored.
 From an authorative source it has been learned that a resolution with this object in view is now in the course of preparation. The instru- ment will make its appearance in the senate, according to popular report but no surmise is made as to the prob able indentity of the sponsor.
 In the persons of J. N. Greene, a negro, known by the alias "Ping Pong" and Ethel Warren, said to bs his wife, federal officers believe they have arrested at last, the fixing pins of the drug ring in Phoenix. Tn: couple was taken into custody al Greene's home in the lower part ot ' Phoenix by deputy United States mar
 shals. In the house, after carefu . search, various kinds of "dope" wer : discovered, the larger part of whlcl |. was morphine. Greene wore S1 ,00 !, diamond ring, carried considerabl 5 quantity of other valuable jewelry an ? about $500 in cash.
 = PRESCOTT.--Back pay checks to . talling several thousand dollars hay 2 been issued by the board of super . visors to a number of county officials
 this action having been in keepin
 with the recent supreme court decis f ion to the effect that the officials i :, question had been entitled to the ir ], crease in pay as ordered by the legis = lative session of 1917.