Arizona republican., 1920-09-02
ABOUT THE STATE

the gun was exploded. Whether the trigger was pulled by Mrs. Ochoa or girl who was standing by her side, could not be determined. The full blast of the shot went into the crowd of playing children, killing little r year-old Matilde and so badly wound ing little Modesto Quintero that he was rushed to the Yuma hospital. At first 1t was thought that he would die also but the hospital announced late last night that it seemed that the little fellow would becover.-Morning Sun.
 Leads Strenuous Life
 MAMIE. w. Hardy, Junior, the six year old son of Dr. and Mrs. Hardy, tripped on a root while running at the Burch playgrounds yesterday collision with Mother Earth. A few days ago he was doing the tight wire walking act on his mothers clothes line, when the wire broke. In the tumble the young man sus- tained a sprained back Things his young life until he fell and cut his upper lip open on a rock. After that nothing happened until he broke his nose yesterday. De- spite the adventures of a strenuous week, the young man was able to en- ter school this morning.-Silver Belt.
 To Discuss Housing Problem TUCSON-To decide upon building program that will bring relief to the housing situation. meeting will be held at the chamber of commerce at z: Is this evening, and attended by rep resentatives of the banks. the real ] estate dealers. the lumber dealers, the building exchange. Albert Steinfeld company W. J. Corbett company and the Tucson Gas Electris and Power company.
 The meeting has been called as a result of an effort orA the part of the chamber of commerc&in relieving the 1 shortage of houses . the city. The greatest immediate neE4. according to 1 the chamber of commerce is for houses that are available for renting. It had been pointed out by the cham 1 Der of commerce that there are only | very few houses in the city for rent furnished or unfurnished. and that the situation sh is becoming more acute as the winter season apnroa ehes.-CitiZen
 Cotton To Be Staple l JEROME-Short staple cotton may be one of the leading crops of tho 1 Verde valley as early as next season Though the recent hailstorm bad ramaged the experimental fields l Of long staple down around Camp | Verde, there are several patches of short staple farther up the river that are flourishing and give every prom 1 1se of producing heavily.
 ID. C. George. state plant pathol-
 
 week predicts that short staple will | do just as we'll in this section as in i the Gila valley. Graham county l where thousands Of acres are plant ed to that crop this year Climate conditions are about the same and the soil is little richer along the l Verde.-Verde Copper News.
 Fire House Almost Completed
 MESA-With the installation today of the sliding posts for the Mesa fire hot
 pletion. and there will remain little of the actual construction to be done It 1 is expected that the posts will have been placed and ready for use by this evening
 Two posts are being installed. the one from the roof to the sleeping floor on the second story, and the second 1 from the second to the ground floor Samuels & Son are installing these inn provements.
 Notice of the shipping of the new siren for the fire house was received by city officials this morning. and the whistle will be installed as soon as it is received. It will be placed on the roof of the fire house and will be oper- ated by electricity. When an alarm is turned in the fire chief will press a l button which will operate the siren. Two minutes after the apparatus leaves the fire house the siren auto matically ceases blowing-Tribune. Shows Self Poor Loser ] BISBEE-W Moore, a Lowell bar i Der. was arrested yesterday on a com plaint sworn to by Fred Reams who 1 charges that Moore gave him a check 1 for S240 on the Bank of Lowell with | out having funds in the bank to make i 1t good. In making the complaint | Reams says that Moore has been running a poker game at Warren and that Moore gave him the check in l payment of chips he had won in this l game. According to Reams other men | have received bad checks from Moore under similar circumstances but have refrained from bringing charges for | fear of leaving themselves open to the | charge of gambling.
 The case will come up for trial in the local justice court.-Daily Review.
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