The Winslow mail., 1923-10-05
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

| n COLIlH1Ile0 from Blnal county was
| present at the meeting of the Yuma
Chamber of Commerce in the interest
of the proposed road from Casa
Grande to ella Bend which is known
as the S. P. cutoff because it follows
the line of the Southern Pacific rail
road.
A cave-in in the Arizona Binghamp-
ton Copper Companys mine at Stod-
| dard uncovered a rich ore body. The
cave-in closed down the mine for
| day and when Workmen returned to
clear out the tunnel, it was discovered
that rich ore body had been accident
ally discovered.
The case of S. B. Brown, president
| Of the defunct Williams bank, will
come up for argument on the fall cal
endar. He is appealing from the judg
| ment of the lower court under which
he was sentenced to serve from three
and half to five years for receiving
deposits in an insolvent bank.
Charged with using war bonds be-
longing to the Mckee estate, of which
| he was administrator as collateral to
cover marginal stock operations with
a Bisbee firm, Chas. A. Mcdonald,
president of the defunct Citizens Bank
and Trust Company, has been arrested
| His bail, $4,000, was furnished.
| approval of compensating grants"
Of 5,568 acres of public lands in the
stateo Montana and 1866 acres to
Arizona was announced recently by
| the Interior Department at Washing
ton. The tracts will replace sections
| lost by states through federal allot-
| ments to Indian reservations national
forests and similar prospects. The
areas granted in Arizona are scattered
| throughout the state.
Arizona will be given opportunity to
| furnish at least half of the flour to be
used during the next year by Indian
| schools and agencies in the state. This
| is the assurance given the Arizona In
| dustrial Congress by the United States
Department Of the Interior and the In
| dian service, after the state organiZa-
ton had enlisted the cooperation Of
| federal agencies in increasing the use
| Of Arizona flour in the state.
Plunging over an embankment when
| their automobile overturned while
| making a turn in the road, Mrs. w. t.
Brown and her 12-year-Old son were
killed and Mr.. Brown was injured
probably fatally, according to word re-
| ceived by Sheriff Mahoney at King
| man, from Littlefield, Ariz. The acci-
dent occurred on the Arrowhead trail
at a point between Mesquite, New, and
Littlefield. The Browns were said to
be tourists from Ohio.
Rounding a curve two miles west of
| Hot Springs Junction, forty miles
| north of Phoenix, the locomotive Uf the
| crack California Limited of the Santa
Fe, careened and tOppled over. Three
coaches crashed into it. Four were
killed. c.. J. Timm, Needles, Calf,
engineer; E. NJ Tuttle Needles
Calf, fireman; George Coleman, Chi
cago, barber; G. Elliott, Chicago, por-
| ter. The wrecked train carried 128
passengers and left Chicago bound for
Los Angeles. None of the passengers
was hurt.
An indictment charging embezzle-
| ment of $4,000 was returned by the
MaricOpa county grand jury against W..
J. Kingsbury, president of the Farm
ers and Merchants Bank of Tempe,
Ariz., and Viola G. Kingsbury, his wife
| and assistant cashier of the institu-
ton. The true bill was returned in
| open court to Superior Judge M. t.
| Phelps. The Kingsburys are charged
with wilfully and unlawfully appropri-
ating funds of the bank for their per-
sOnal credit and that no security was
offered in the transfer.
Deported from Tucson some time
ago, Miguel Yanez and Manual Nor
emo, MeXicans, were caught again in
Bisbee, and jailed on charges alleging
violation of the immigration laws.
Lieut.. John A. MacReady, joint hold
er of the cross continent aviation rec
| ord, escaped with q few scratches
when an airplane he was plotting
crashed in landing at HOlbrook, Lieu
tenant MacReady left San Diego some
time ago on a Photographic trip
through Arizona and planned to take
pictures of the petrified forest and
painted desert near HOlbrook. He had
| planned to continue his trip eastward.
The plane was badly damaged.
r. W. Birdseye of the United States
geological survey said in Kingman he
had determined that boat similar to
the one sighted floating upside down
in the rapids of the Colorado near
KOtherine mine had broken from its
mOorings in the Grand canon. Mr..
Birdseye, who is a cousin of Col. c. H.
Birdseye, commander of the eXpedi-
ton, expressed the opinion that it was
this boat which flOated down the
stream and which previously was be-
lieved to belong to the exploring par
ty now charting the Colorado river.
A federal warrant for $154,577.75
was received by the state treasurer at
Phoenix, representing % per Cent of