The Winslow mail., 1923-03-23
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

| L h G DardaneIleS Amalgamated
Mines Company is the name of the
new company which has taken over
the Dardanelles Mines Company at
| Chloride.
1t has been officially announced that
the rights and concessions of the Rich
! ardsOn Construction Company in the
Yaqui River delta in Sonora, Mexico,
has been reorganized by the Mexican
| government.
A fractured skull, internal injuries
and a fractured right leg were incurred
| by Dewey Knowlin, a Bisbee brake
man, when thrown to the ground as a
runaway car upon which he was riding
collided with a dinkey engine.
The contract for the construction of
the new eleven-story Luhrs building in
| Phoenix has been awarded to Jay j.
| Garfield, a Tucson contractor, it was
announced by George Luhrs, Jr. The
bids were opened privately.
The knife alleged to have been used
| by Ysabel Ochoa in killing Angel PARA
was found by Tombstone officers near
where Ochoa was captured by Fred
Bennett directly after the killing The
knife had long, three-inch blade, on
which were found blood stains. 1t is
knife similar to that used by cattle
| men.
Work on a dam on the Virginia river
in northwestern Arizona is soon to be
commenced that will provide water for
| the irrigation of 10000 acres of Ari-
zona land, 10000 acres of Utah land
and 100000 acres of Nevada land, ac-
cording to plans just made known.
| The dam will be constructed on the
Virgin river at a point near Littlefield
Sheriff Jim Cappell and United
States Marshal Henry Levy recently
! returned to Yuma, after an unsuccess-
| full days search in Sonora, Mexico, for
| five men seen crossing the Sonora des-
| ert on foot and suspected of being the
men wanted in Los Angeles for re-
cent bank robbery in which bank
messenger was killed and 100000 in
securities stolen. i.
Appointed by the governor, Jos. F.
Pomeroy, formerly first lieutenant of
Battery E, 158th Field Artillery, Ari-
zona National Guard, has succeeded
Donald H. Miery, former captain Oh
| the organization. Mr.. Biery's resigna-
| ton took effect during this month and
was due to strenuous business matters
| claiming his attention at the present
| time.
That COchise county will assist the
| farmers of the county in the extensive
sugar beet tests to be conducted by an
expert who recently arrived from Cal
| ifornia, was the decision of the board
| Of supervisors in session, when dele
CATION of farmers and business men
| from all parts of the county appeared
| before the board and asked that they
| lend aid to the project.
"Unless you are compelled to travel,
stay off the highways and roads of
the county" That is the admOnition
given by the board of supervisors of
Yavapai county, and Maj W. w. Midg-
| lev, chairman, who is most emphatic
on the subject. by the right kind of
cooperation on the part of the citi-
zens of Yavapai county, our roads will
not be torn up"
Maricopa county organizations, in
Guiding the board of supervisors, the
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
ciation, the KiWanis Club and mem
bers of the State Legislature, are solid
lv back of the Black Canon Highway
| Association in it's move to bring about
completion of the Black canon road be-
| tween Prescott and Phoenix.
The house of the Arizona Legislature
concurred in senate amendments to the
bill designed to prevent depredations
of masked bands and the measure was
sent to Governor Hunt. Under the
provisions of the bill, it is declared
misdemeanor for masked persons to
assemble except in regular indoor lodge
rooms, and offenseS which ordinarily
are classed as misdemeanOrs become
felonies if committed by masked or
disguised persons. A member of such
an organization is also guilty of law
violation.
The Colorado river compact failed
of ratification after one of the most
bitter and dramatic conflicts in the
history of Arizona legislatures. The
compact, allocating the waters of the
river basin among the seven basin
states, was signed at Santa Fe, n NJ,
Dec. % Opponents of ratification
based their fight on the power phases
of the river question, declaring that
under the treaty as drawn other states
would have the right to come into Ari-
zona and build power dams for their
own benefit. In the debates, which oc-
cupied many days of the session, the
irrigation phases of the compact were
rarely mentioned.
Pearl Borders, colored, known to the
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