The Winslow mail., 1923-07-06
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

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The New Cornelia Company at Ajo,
Ariz., is employing about 800 Papago
Indians, who are notably efficient in
open cuts.
Emmett McDaniels and Al Parker,
short term convicts who escaped from
the state penitentiary at Florence
several weeks ago, were arrested by Of
ficers in Deming n. NJ
G. M. Zander, former state tax COM
missioner, has assumed the office of
superintendent of equipment for the
State highway Department, succeeding
Paul ]. Harrison of Globe.
The establishment of summer
school for eX-service men in Prescott,
has been announced by Charles P
Laughlin, contact representative of the
United States Veterans Bureau.
Three electric pumps are to be
placed on the 2,30O-foot level of the
Junction shaft of the Calumet and Ari-
zona Mining Company, near Bisbee, to
deliver a total of $500 gallons per min
ute.
B. H. Rouw, San Francisco travelling
man, who for five days has held the
center of interest in the Leighton
Mount mystery, admitted at Clifton
that his story of the burial of a body
on an Evanston pier the night Mount,
Northwestern University student,
disappeared, was false"
Work on the new mill at the Palmer
according to advices received in No
gales, and will be completed by the
middle of July. Milling capacity is be-
ing increased to 200 tons per day and
a large amount of modern milling ma
chinery is being installed.
According to E. G. Mettler, forest
ranger at COchise, the forest in the
Dragon section is very dry and cattle
are showing the effects of the short
age of water which is becoming an
alarming state in some localities and
will be the cause of big death loss to
stockmen unless remedied Immediately.
Abe Reid, charged with assault with
attempt to commit murder for the
shooting of Mrs. Cherry Moler of Ell
Paso, was acquitted by Superior
Court jury at Stafford. Mrs. Moler was
shot April Z, at a ranch house near
here during a dispute over the posses
sion of the property. Reid was acting
in his capacity as peace officer.
According to advices received at
Tucson, Rev. Mgr. Daniel J. Gercke of
Philadelphia has been selected by the
pope to succeed the late Rt. Rev. Hen
ry GranjOn, as bishop of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Tucsan. Bishop
| Hercke, until coming to Arizona, was
rector of SS. Peter and Paul cathedral
at Philadelphia. He is 40 years old
and a native of that city.
Following a shooting affray at the
Forty nine mine, twelve miles south OF
Pantano, the sheriff's office was noti-
fled that Jose Solano, a miner, was
| killed by a gunshot wound. Rafael
| Chavez was arrested by the authOri-
ties at Pantano. While few details of
the shooting could be learned by the
county authorities, the sheriff's office
stated that Chavez, also a miner, is
charged with the Staying OF Solano.
Plans Of the Western Chemicals, In
corporated, to work the sodium sui
phate deposit just below Camp Verde,
held in allegiance for two years because
of slack demand for the product, are
fast rounding into shape. The COM
pany is Immediately to put in a wash
ing plant and it will ship 250 tons of
95 per cent pure sulphate daily from
Clemenceau. 1t will travel by rail to
San Pedro and thence by water to the
Atlantic seaboard.
The copper output of the United
Verde Extension Mining Company for
the first quarter Of 1923 was: Janu-
ary. 3,OS3, 800 pounds; February, 81
22O,3O6 pounds; March, 3,621,0
pounds.
Every student in the University of
Arizona residing in this state during
the coming year will be given an OPP
portunity to obtain one of the sou
scholarships awarded annually, as a
| consequence of a ruling recently is
sued from Attorney General John w.
Murphy by the office of President G.
H. Marvin. A former ruling of the
university authorities had restricted
the scholarship to high school gradu-
ates and for the freshman year.
Superior Judge Stephen S. Abrey of
Pfnal county declared he would file
charges of assault and attempted kid
naping against ]. D. Bennett, clerk of
the court, as a result of a clash in
which he claims Bennett attempted to
pull him into an automobile and then
| assaulted" him. In a statement Ben
nett admitted that he slapped the
Judge with his open hand when the
! two met on the street in Florence, but
denied that he made any attempt 10
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