The Winslow mail., 1923-05-18
BRIEF
ARIZONA
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banks at Phoenix and left for Los An
geles to accept position as bank ex-
aminer for the district Of southern
California for the state Oe California.
He will have his headquarters in Los
Angeles.
The State Bank of Patagonia, in
Santa Cruz county, failed to open for
business a few days ago, according to
q report to A. T. HammOns, state
No details Of the closing were given
In the report. Mr.. Hammons sent In
Structions to State Bank Examiner
Dodson, at Wilcox, to proceed to
Patagonia, and take charge Of the
bank.
Kenneth Mort of Bisbee again
proved to be the star Of the state in
terscholastic track and field meet at
Tucson, The opening day Of the car
nival, Mort smashed the state mile
record by more than six seconds. The
next day it was his own half mile
mark that fell. His time for the $50
yards Of cinders was minutes As
seconds. His old mark was minutes
o 2-5 seconds.
G.. c.. Norton, we'll known Prescott
attorney, shot and instantly killed
Garland Smith a sheep grower of
Kirkland, Ariz. The shooting occurred
in Norton's office and the attorney
Immediately afterward notified the
sheriff's office of his act. Norton
told the authorities he shot Smith af
ter the latter had threatened his life
during dispute over an attempt to
collect a promissory note.
H E. Garrett, former Miami auto
man, was found guilty on a charge Of
robbery in the Superior Court at
Phoenix. He was charged with the
theft of an automobile, a watch and
$40 In cash According to the testt-
mony brought in the trial Garrett en-
gagged a taxicab driven by B. L.
Haverstad and when he reached the
outskirts Of the city drew gun and
forced the driver to give up his valu-
Ables and automobile.
The $1,8OO,OOO bond issue of the
Salt River Waterusers' Association.
authorized for the construction Of the
Mormon Flat dam project as an aux
Hilary to the Roosevelt dam power
generating system, was Over-sub-
scribed by between $150,000 and $780,
900 within SO hours after it had been
placed on the market in Los Angeles,
according to an announcement made
in Phoenix by F. A Reed, president Of
the Waterusers Association.
A decrease in production of 1,080,000
pounds for April as compared with
March was reported by the Copper
Queen smelter at Douglas. The G.
and A. increased its output slightly.
The figures for both shelters are: c..
OIL, 100000; G. and A.-,0OOO00.
The production for March was 1885,
900 and 3,75O,OOO respectively. The
decrease at the Copper Queen was
due to operating conditions and not
entirely because of a slump In the
market.
A verdict of $3.50 was awarded by
a jury to Henry G. Doe, against the
Tucson Gas, Electric Light and Power
Company. The amount sued for was
$3.50 A like amount had been
asked by Doe against A. r. Bushman
the photographer, who was jointly
named as defendant with the Tucson
Gas Company. The damages asked
were for the death of Henry G. Doe,
Jr., who died from an excessive cleo
trio shock, it was charged, more than
two years ago while working in the
Buchanan studio.
An expedition, headed by Samuel
Hubbard well-known California bust
nessman, returned to Grand Canon
from exploration of a hitherto mac
cessible part of the Grand canon and
announced that they had found the
body of prehistoric man which may
indicate that the Grand cafiOn was
once q center of a hitherto unknown
race on the North American continent.
Thirty-siX Arizona men, including
both proponents and opponents of the
Colorado river compact and numerous
members Of the State Legislature,
were invited by Gov Hunt to attend
the conference held in Phoenix for
the discussion Of the Colorado river
situation, according to an announce
ment made public last night. The
conference was closed to the public
Involving property exceeding in
value $1,500,000 Judge W. R. Cham
bers of Stafford handed down an opn-
ion wholly favorable to the plaintiff
in the case of Thomas A. Harrison,
who also represented the minority
stockholders of the Continental Com
mission Company VS.. the Continental
Commission Company, the Seventy
Nine Mining Company, 7. D. Love ct
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