The Coconino sun., 1922-02-10
BRIEF STATE NEWS

the burden of the banks of Navajo
 and Apache counties which have made
 loans to cattlemen. New loans on cat
 tie are not permitted, but will be pos
 sible for the banks to extend the over
 due notes of stockmen and the gener-
 al financial condition in those counties
 should be much improveG.
 Drilling for the giant meteor be-
 lieved to lie buried in the earth at
 Coon mountain, eighteen miles south
 west of Winslow, is being prosecuted
 steadily by the United States Mining
 and Smelling company. A hole has
 already been drilled over 1000 feet
 and it is declared that meteoric frag- ments have been encountered. Geol-
 ogists now believe that the meteor
 went of at an angle after it entered
 the earth and drilling is proceeding
 on that theory. If the meteor itself
 is of the same composition as the me- teorites that have been found scattered over the region, it is rich in platinum and other valuable metals.
 Without going to Agua Prieta, traf- l licking with bootleggers or laying one's self open to arrest for violation of the liquor law, man in Douglas can enjoy full-fledged jag. Here is the recipe, according to former waitress: Eat a piece of rasin pie and a cake of yeast, drink pint of water, and then pull your chair up to hot stove. In ten minutes, to test the kick, get up and try to walk around the chair.
 According to the waitress, who has worked both in Douglas and Bisbee numerous patrons eat their raisin pie and yeast on Saturday nights just like they used to rush the can at the cor ner saloon. And up to date, not one of them have been arrested for hav- ing liquor on his hip, and the restau- rants which sell raisin pie are not looked upon with suspicion.
 Prospectors bring story of rich gold discovery near Old King of Arizona mine; report uncovering large vein carrying enormous values in free gold; many people leave for scene of reported find.
 An old landmark of central Ari- zona was destroyed by fire when the old adobe, which was the original building marking the townsite of Bum- blebee, and had been there for nearly 50 years, was suddenly enveloped in flames soon after the fire had been built to heat the building for school. The old building, which has been in almost constant use all these years, having survived as station, postoffice, and residence, was last year turned | into a school house for the needs of l Bumblebee's children.
 Mrs. John Mason Ross, wife of i John Mason Ross, member of the legal | firm of Ellinwood and Ross, attorneys | for the Phelps-Dodge interests in | Arizona, died at the Copper Queen hospital at Douglas last week. Death | was due to pneumonia, and came after | an illness of six days.
 Four persons are dead as a result | of collision between an Arizona Eastern passenger train and an au- tomobile at Websters' crossing, near Globe, Saturday afternoon The dead:
 c. J. Hatch of Ashurst, Ariz., died of injuries received.
 Mrs. c. J. Hatch, his wife, of Ash urst.
 Mrs. E. T. Bryce of Ashurst, died of injuries received.
 Andrew Brown of Fort Thomas, Arizona, instantly killed.
 An increase of thirteen in the num- Der of United States district judges was agreed upon this week by the senate judicial committee as means of relieving the congestion in the na- tion's federal courts. Arizona is ex- pected to get one of these judgeships.
 R. A. Lockett of Ash Fork filed a bill of sale with the Yavapai county recorder in which he has disposed of 225 head of cattle and several burros ranging in Yavapai and Coconino counties to the Chino Valley Land and Cattle company.
 Five chambers of commerce of Maricopa county this week passed requesting the board of to retain the county high- way commission and to rename the present commissioners.
 J. c. Woods, clerk of the Yayapai county court, suffered a severe attack of paralysis Saturday night and is now Tn the hospital under the care of phv- sicians. "A pAy-
 Biggest distilling outfit siezed in White Tank mountains 43 miles west of Phoenix last week. Three h~ copper stills on rock furnace in the tunnel of an old mine shaft. with Iot of mash. Capacity 50 gallons a dav Didn't find owners or any liquor.
 Clarence Woodbury, Secretary to the state real estate department. asked Q resign on February 16 because he wrote How to secure passage of zeal estate license law" for the Ma ional Real Estate Journal. Article to be reflection on the in- egrity of the governor and the legis- ature.