The Winslow mail., 1923-12-14
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

| ASuWOEUH Is lne pOSIludSleF ana the
new office is in his store.
DepOsitors in the defunct Bank and
Trust Co., will get % per cent divi-
dend within the near future, accord
ing to Charles NJ ROBBERS, receiver
Removal of japanese land owners
| and tenants in Arizona following the
opinion of the United States Supreme
Court sustaining the alien land act,
will be urged by the Maricopa county
farm bureau.
The PrescOtt-Whitespar highway,
one of the largest projects of the for
est highway system in Arizona, is of
ficially under way, according to a re-
port made by e. S. Wheeler, district
engineer of the bureau of public roads.
J. O. Creager, dean of the division
of education of the University of Ari-
zona, was elected president of the Ari-
zona State Teachers Association at
Tucson. w. r. Hull of Clarkdale was
elected secretary and John Branigan
of HOlbrOok treasurer.
lings," small four-page newspaper
published by pupils of the Sixth grade
of the Lower Miami schools, appeared
last week. The profit from the ven
ture will be used to buy books for the
Sixth Grade Reading Club.
Announcement has been made by
the Arizona Corporation Commission
of reductions in freight and refrigera-
ton charges in the state that are eX-
pected to have approximately $4,000
a year to shippers. The cuts were
voluntary on the part of the railroads.
James SaccO, a Los Angeles pugilist,
was held in Jail in Bisbee on a charge
of reckless driving filed by deputy
sheriffs who investigated a collision
between a car driven by Sacco and
smaller car driven by Charles Harmon,
a rancher. The collision occurred on
the Bisbee-Tombstone highway.
The death of Balde Burk in hos
pital in Phoenix as the result of
wounds inflicted several weeks ago in
knife duel at Wickenburg, Ariz.,
caused the filing of a charge of muir
der against Ed Carter, who has been
held in the county jail in Phoenix on
a charge of assault with intent to
commit murder
What is said to be the highest pre-
MUM ever offered at any bond sale
held in the state of Arizona was re-
corded when the board of supervisors
of Maricopa county sold 100000
bond issue of the Osborn school dis
trict to the Commerce and Trust
Company of Kansas City, Mo, for
$66,395.
1t has been definitely decided to i'm
mediately sink a three-compartment
working shaft to a depth of 1,500 feet
in the Verde Central mine, near
Jerome, according to instructions re-
ceived by the management from the
directors of the Calumet and Arizona
through Thomas Collins one of the
directors who returned to the mine
after an extended conference with the
other members of the board held in
Bisbee.
DR. Charles Roberts, Phoenix chiro-
practor, charged with murder for the
Staying of Wayman p Edwards, |
wealthy Amarillo, Texas, rancher, in
Phoenix, Nov. II, was released from
custody following the dismissal of the |
murder charge upon motion of county |
attorney A. G. Cunningham, ''On ac-
count of insufficient evidence" Ed |
wards was shot to death and Roberts |
surrendered to the authorities assert |
ing he shot the Texan in self defense,
according to the police.
Work on the remodeling of the Mis-
sion theater is going ahead rapidly and |
when all completed this play house
will be one of the finest on the circuit. |
The walls of the interior will be in |
gray with cream ceiling and the en-
tire woodwork will be in white enamel |
The work is being carried out at con
siderable expense and this city VIII |
soon boast of one of the finest movie |
shows in the Southwest.
shot and killed as a result of an In
dian liquor celebration at an Indian
hut about twelve miles north of |
Miami. A half-breed Mexican, known
among the Indians as ChapO (Shorty), |
is alleged to have blown the top of the
head off Jim Casey, a young Indian,
with a shotgun. Gilbert Neal. who is
said to be on parole from the Arizona
penitentiary for the killing of an In
dian woman near the Roosevelt dam
several years ago, was killed by depu-
ty sheriffs after Neal had shot twice
and missed Deputy Sheriff Charles
Byrne of Miami, who was only fifteen
feet away. Neal was found in some
bushes near the hut and when told to
get up by Byrne, came up firing with
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