The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

foot coal vein at 1,100 feet.
Construction of the last of five
bridges on the Apache Trail have been
completed. The bridge, however, will
not be open to traffic for about two
weeks.
Members of the NOgales Woman's
Club have launched a campaign to
raise funds to establish a public Ii
brary No building is contemplated at
present.
Two army officers will be stationed
at Tucson to maintain the govern
ment aerial landing field Through
the efforts of civic bodies, the gov
ernment agreed to make the Tucson
landing field an official governmental
station
Liquor seized in Phoenix and other
parts of Arizona during the last year
went up in smoke at the city dumps
on the banks of the Salt River at
Phoenix when prohibition agents
emptied more than 500 gallons and
then fired the liquor, and more than
100 stills.
Belief that construction work on a
standard width highway between
Buckeye and Hassayampa will begin
shortly after the first of the new year
was expressed by members of the
Buckeye committee who have been
fighting the laying of the proposed
nine-fOot road between the cOmmun-
tiles
J. Ross Ekin, former superintendent
of Glacier National Park, Montana,
has been appointed to succeed Colonel
W. w. Crosby as superintendent of
the Grand Canyon National Park, ac-
cording to advices received in Flag
staff. Mr.. Crosby resigned recently
and his resignation was accepted. The
date Mr.. Ekin will assume the super
intendency is not known.
A party of ten MeXicans two of
them children under four years, was
brought to the hospital at Prescott re-
Gently. The party was on its way to
the county seat where the elders eX-
pected to get work, and their machine
overturned near the summit of Copper
DdSlu I'LL. AL IlIC occupants WClC
; more or less injured, but it is not
thought that any are seriously hurt.
. Continuation of the high values in
; the ore recently cut in the 1919 level
of the Verde Central mine, in Jerome,
is keeping that property in the lime
; light of the whole mining world and
. inquiries from all parts of the globe
are being received by the mine Off
) cials daily concerning the progress of
the development Every effort is be-
; ing bent toward extending the cross
. cut and determining the width OF the
; ore body.
; One of the most peculiar wills was
. filed for probate in the Superior Court
; at Phoenix recently, being that of Tim
Morris, a lonely old carpenter, who
was found dead by a milkman at his
; house Nov. 30-a will written on the
. last page of time book. There is
; no legal phrasing whatever in the will.
It states in plain English in effect that
. he leaves all his real and personal
; property to his sister, Mrs. E. G. Slade
. Of Rosston, Okla.
Two miners were buried under thir-
ty-five tons of muck while working
in the shaft of the Lexington Arizona
mine at Oatman, when the debris
! caved in from the collar of the incline
shaft. The work of digging through
about ten feet of the debris to reach
the bodies of the men. Officials gave
the names of the two as Martin Hahn
; and Joe Brauner They were drilling
at the bottom of the 270-foot shaft at
the time of the cave-in.
The jury in the United States Dis
: trict Court at Tucson in the trial of
: M. NJ Bludworth, former cashier of
the First National Bank at Tomb
: stone, Ariz., returned verdict of
: guilty on seventeen counts of the in
dictment and not guilty on ten counts.
The trial of the case had been in
progress in Tucson before United
States District Judge William H. Saw
telle for some days. BludwOrth was
charged with embezzlement of money
from the bank.
Breaking down the barriers which
for years have prevented main line
railroad construction into Phoenix and
the Salt River valley, the Arizona Cor
poration Commission issued an order
,, cancelling that certain lease held by
the Arizona Eastern Railroad Com
pany under which it has maintained
| control of the parallel right of way
of the old Phoenix and Eastern be-
tween Phoenix and Mesa The COM
: mission held that the existing lease
arrangement is in the nature of
monopoly, preventing the construction
Of other lines and that its continuance
, is against public policy and the devel-
Dpment of the district served.