The Winslow mail., 1923-03-16
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS


to a statement given out by ]. l.. B.
Alexander.
Notwithstanding that the State
Highway Department was bankrupt,
money is now available, and the 138
or more men on the Wickenburg high
way are at work again.
Cattlemen of the Cherry creek dis
trict are beginning to build drift
fences to control their herds, accord
ing to Robert Munro deputy superyis-
or of the Prescott forest.
NJ. E. Musgrave, predatory animal
Inspector for the U. S. Biological Sur
vey in charge of exterminating activi-
ties in Arizona, is preparing to take q
pack of dogs into the BabOquivari
mountains to hunt down lion that
has been mOlesting stock.
The American Legion has taken a
decisive stand against the Orme bill,
which would re-establish the practice
of leasing lands to Jananese and other
Orientals. This practice was abolished
by law which had the backing of all
eX-service men.
Arizona is more than ever overrun
this year with automobile tramps.
Some of the pick up cars, which al
ready are wrecks, and then proceed to
start across the continent, living off
the country as they travel, little better
chine, than was the old fashioned
tramp.
Phoenix recently entertained a rec
ord crowd of stOckmen at the annual
convention Of the Arizona Cattle Grow
ers' Association. 1t was one of the
most important meetings ever held in
the Southwest. Business was the
watchwOrd Of the convention, although
there was no lack of entertainment for
the visitors.
Delinquent tax suits against seven
ty residents of Gila county have been
filed by the county attorney with the
clerk of the Superior Court. The de-
PENDANTS are allowed by law a period
of twenty days in which to answer and
it is expected the matters will come
er that time.
The body Of Ronald Carnell, Is, Mi
ami high school student missing since
JAN 81, was found by a wood chopper
in a brush thicket in a side canon
about a mile from that city. The body
was identified by school notebook
found in pocket. The body was bad
ly decomposed but there were no
marks of violence found.
Under direction of the corporation
commission there has been modifica-
tion of the agreement entered into be-
tween the Southern Pacific and it's
subsidiary, the Arizona Eastern, the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa F6 and its
Santa Fe for construction of the Union
depot, on which work is well advanced
in the southwestern part or Phoenix.
w. G. Gilmore, widely known attor
ney; Fred Bennett, Tombstone cattle
man, and DR.. r. H. Hougart, physi-
clan of Tombstone, are under arrest
under an Indictment returned against
them by a federal grand jury in Tue
son several days ago following an in
vestigation of the temporary closing,
more than year ago, of the First Ma
tional Bank of Tombstone.
Assistant County Attorney George
r. Lewis, Deputy Sheriff Billy Rudd,
DR.. Felix Manning, county health of
op6 DJ.ioct oO11ptv iptornro-
ter, were called to Williams in connec-
tion with a criminal charge that had
been brought against Jesus ArrallO, of
Anita. He waived preliminary hearing
before Justice of the Peace Scotty
McDougal and was brought to Flag
staff and lodged in county Jail
The jury in the case of the State VS..
G. Pelon Ybarra, charged with forging
the name of Mrs. S. Gallen to a check
on the First National Bank of Tomb
stone, after being out a short time, re-
turned verdict of not guilty.
Governor Hunt recently sent to the
Senate of the Arizona Legislature let
ters announcing that he had appointed
Theodore Marsh of NOgales to be mem
bers of the board of regents of the
University of Arizona to take the
places now held by Dwight B. Heard
of Phoenix and Nose Drachman of
Tucson, whose appointment to fill the
vacancy, the governor declared, had
not received legislative confirmation.
In order that the vital statistics of
the state may be as comprehensive
and as nearly correct as it is possible
to make them, the state board of
health under the direction of Dr. f. T.
Fahlen, state superintendent of public
health is inaugurating campaign to
urge upon the citizens of the state the
vital necessity and the Importance of
such records and to enlist their coop
GRAFTON in seeing that every birth and
every death in the state is reported to
the proper authorities
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