The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

P'OO'OOO COIIIoCl 10 DIV dI ueu 1OE COII-
struction of 1O-mile unit of Prescott
Whitespur highway.
There will be a special term of Fed
eral Court, presided over by Judge
Phillips, in Albuquerque on February
-.
Large demonstrating smelter Illus
trating Kuenzel method of refining
and smelling to be erected in Palag-
mia.
Wolves and coyotes are increasing
in the Paradise district in the Chiri-
cahua mountains, according to G. B.
Scholefield, forest service official of
that region.
Ivan Jeffrey and Leslie Smith are in
Jail in Yuma on charges of burglary
preferred by Sheriff Campbell. Their
arrest followed the robbery of the
White Service Station of Somerton.
The veterans of the Spanish-Amer-
lean War; residing In Tucson, and in
that locality, are organizing a camp of
veterans to be known as the Ben Dan
iels Camp, United Spanish-American
Veterans.
Amid dignified and impressive cere-
mOny, Bishop Daniel J. Gercke was in
stalled as head of the Tucson Catholic
diocese of Arizona. Great thrOngs
crowded into the spacious ST. Angus
tine cathedral in Tucson to witness
the ceremony.
Appointment of Pat J. Sheehy as
deputy United States marshal at Tue
son was announced last week by
United States Marshal George A.
Mauk. The appointment of Mr.. Sheehy
was effective Dec 1, and was made
to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of George N. Sayre, former dep
uty United States marshal at Tucson
For the first time in many years,
due to the vaccination campaigns
waged since last winter by both the
city and county health physicians,
there is not a single case of smallpox
in Tucson at this time, according to
DR.. A. G. Schnabel, city health ply
Sician. This time last year there were
sixty-two cases of smallpox in the city
pest house.
Phoenix will be the future headquar-
ters of the Arizona chapter of the
American Mining Congress, according
to an announcement of G. NJ ColvO-
coresses, governor of the Arizona
chapter at Phoenix. The present head
quarters of the chapter is in Bisbee,
but because Of the more central lOca-
zion of this city, the delegates decided
to remove it to Phoenix about Jan
uary l.
With the tile floor containing the
great seal of the state laid in colOred
tile on the ground floor of the state
the front of the building to the drives
on either side, the next step, state Off
cials declare, in the improvement of
the building will be the stone steps
According to state officials, the steps
are to be put in place as soon as funds
are available for that purpose.
Announcement was made in Phoenix
recently by the Arizona Citrus Grow
ers' Company of the shipment of the
first large consignment of Arizona
grapefruit, consisting of 200 boxes, to
an European port. The grapefruit was
sold to a firm in England by the San
Francisco agents of the Phoenix COM
pany. Although Arizona grapefruit
has gained an enviable reputation in
the markets of the Pacific coast, ac-
cOrding to officials of the company
this is the first time that sale has
been made to an European firm.
The death of Gilbert Neal was
caused by officers in the discharge of
their duty, while jim Casey was killed
from gunshOt fired by Ricardo Con
zales, known as Chapo, the coroner's
jury decided at the inquest at Globe
into the double killing which resulted
from an Apache Indian tulapai party
near Wheatfields. Justice Hechtman
gave the Indian witnesses severe
lecture, through an interpreter, re-
Iyarding their tulapai drinking.
]. d. Tinsley and A. NJ. Hove of
Amarillo, Texas, have recently been
in conference with Director Monroe
and President Kent of the Agricultural
College regarding plans for an agri-
cultural train to be run over the Santa
Fe lines in New Mexico early next
year Tentative plans are to stress
the "Cow, Sow and Hen" idea. 1t is
not the expectation of either the San
ia Fe officials or the officers of the
State college to stimulate especially
the farmers of the state to 90 into the
production of dairy products, pork or
poultry products in a large commercial
way, but rather to make the average
farm in the state more self support
ing. In other words, they will preach
the gospel of Giving at home"
Blake Bayes, connected with n
Phoenix automobile agency, was fa-