The Winslow mail., 1923-04-27
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

American life, will be in Arizona from
May to Z, inclusive.
Mrs. NJ. Larkin colored was instant
" killed and Anton Bonar, Mexican of
Jerome, was fatally injured, receiving
a fractured skull and several broken
ribs when the Buick car in which they
were riding went over the hill near
Jerome.
Sheriff James Mcdonald Of Tomb
stone received a letter from the Cali
fOrnia state Identification bureau at
Sacramento containing the record of
E. V. Allen, who was recently sent to
the state penitentiary at Florence by
Judge Lockwood to serve out ten
year suspended sentence.
The third battalion Of the 25th in
fantry which completed it's firing
tests on the rifle range near Nogales
made score of 99.62 per cent in the
qualification tests, one of the highest
averages ever recorded, according to
Nogales officers. OF 262 men In the
battalion only one failed to qualify.
Luis Mercy, shift boss for the
Verde Copper Mining Company, at
Prescott, met instantaneous death
when caught and crushed between the
belt and shaft on the crushing plant at
HopeWell tunnel. The belt had slipped
off several times when Mercy vOlun-
teered to fix it, according to witnesses
at the inquest.
A resolution memorialiZing the state
legislature to pass laws which would
require that marriage certificates is
sued in Arizona show date, place and
cause of divorce, If either Of the con-
tracing parties had ever been di-
vorced, was adopted at the convoca-
ton of the Episcopal church of
Arizona at Phoenix.
There is much improvement in bust
ness conditions in the state over
year ago according to members of the
state tax commission who returned to
Phoenix from a ten days tax inSpec-
ton trip through the southeastern
part of the state. Since the middle
of March, the commission has inspect
ed taxable properties in Santa Cruz,
Yuma, Mohave, Pima, Cochise, Green
lee, Graham and ella counties.
NJ. ]. Knight, national bank examin-
er, who has been in charge Of the
First National Bank, which on Friday,
February %, closed it's doors an
nounced recently that the comptroller
of currency at Washington, D. c., act
ing upon the recommendation Of Mr..
Knight, had named a temporary re-
ceiver for the First National Bank,
who is expected to arrive in Clifton
the latter part Of this week to assume
his duties.
A career to which had fallen the
leading role in dramatic murder trials
Of two states ended when Paul V. Had
ley was hanged at the Arizona state
prison for the murder of Mrs. Anna
G. Johnson. The condemned man, con-
victed of Staying the aged woman
after she and her husband had given
him a ride in their automobile over
the Arizona desert west of Tucson, met
his fate without flinching and held to
the last his claim of innocence.
Arizona's fight against illiteracy is
showing results, according to word re-
ceived at Tucson by Dean f. G. Lock
wood, of the University of Arizona,
member of the Arizona illiteracy COM
mission, from the office of the COM
missioner of Indian affairs at Wash
ington. The commission is determined
in cooperation with the federal gov
eminent, to remove the stigma now at
tached to the state because Of its high
percentage of illlteracy, which is due,
chiefly, to the low educational status
Of its Indian population, according to
Dean Lockwood.
Wayne Hubs, state treasurer has
received from the county treasurer or
Yavapai county, the estate Of Ed d.
Hurley, who died in that county, and
whose estate escheats to the state be-
cause no heirs have been found. The
estate amounts to S463.31 in cash,
shares in various mining companies
The estate will revert to the general
fund in accordance with the state law.
Exhibits and statistical data for use
In the general investigation by the
Interstate commerce commission of the
wool situation In the intermOuntain
states, has been prepared by the state
corporation commission. A series of
five hearings have been scheduled by
the commission in the matter, the last
of which will be held in Phoenix on
May IA. The hearings begin in Bill
ings, Mont, on April 26.
Judge NJ. T. Dooling, sitting for
Judge William H. Sawtelle in the
United States District Court at Tucson
dismissed an indictment against G. NJ.
lander of Phoenix, charging him with
conspiracy to use the mails to defraud.
Judge Dooling in dismissing the action
said that he did so on the ground that
the government had not presented suf-
ficient evidence to warrant cOntinu-
ance of the case against Zander.
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