The Winslow mail., 1923-06-29
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS


A. George DAVIS, 40 years old, was
taken to a Phoenix hospital recently
suffering from a bullet wound in the
groin, and Mrs. Olive DAVIS, %, his
wife, was placed under arrest charged
with the shooting.
G. E. WisWel, of the Cananea Cattle
Company recently spent several days
in Nogales and while there consum-
mated a deal with former Governor
Francisco Elias for 1000 head OF
| stock cattle to be placed on the hold.
ings of the Cananea Company in and
near Cananea.
The jury trying Harry Garrison Hall
on a charge of murder for the kill
ing of George johnson in gun duel
at Cottonwood, near Jerome, was dis
missed by Superior Judge Sweeney at
Prescott after it had failed to report
an agreement after more than forty
eight hours of deliberatiOn.
William Nelson, custodian of the
petrified forest, south east of Hol-
brook, has been instructed to enforce
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tional parks. 1t has been found that
few of the thousands of tourists who
pass through the park on the Old
Trails highway fail to carry away
large quantities Of the petrified wood.
While the forest is large the supply
of good specimens of the wood near
the highway already has materially
diminished. Cars now may be looked
into to see that nothing more than
specimens of the wood are taken
away.
Five railroads are ordered to make
reductions of 16 per cent in freight
charges on grains and grain products
between Arizona points in decision
handed down by the State Corpora
ton Commission. The roads named
in the order are the Arizona Eastern,
Ell Paso and Southwestern, AtchisOn,
Topeka and Santa Fe, Southern Pa
cific and Tucson, COrnelia and Gila
Bend The rate changes are to be ef-
fective by July 10. The order was
issued as a result of complaint
brought before the commission by the
Arizona Grain Growers Association
and various milling companies Of the
Salt River valley and Tucson. The
plaintiffs alleged that rates on intra-
state shipments of grain and grain
products were less favorable than on
interstate shipments and asked an ad-
justment.
That the minimum wage law now in
effect and which is being attacked in
the Federal Courts at Tucson by No
gales merchants does not apply to do
nestle servants, is the consensus of
opinion of some attorneys. They base
their decision on the wording Of the
bill passed at the last session, which
reads in part: ''NO person, persons,
firm or corporation tranSacting buSi-
ness within the state of Arizona shall
employ any female in any store, of
flee, shop, restaurant, dining room,
hotel, rooming house, laundry or
manufacturing establishment at a
weekly wage or less than sixteen
{$16) dollars per week." AS servants
is not mentioned in the list of en-
| ployeeS who come under the law, it
cannot be construed by any court that
their employer must pay them the
minimum wage of SIG week, some
attorneys say. Because of the Su-
preme Court decision Of April 8, 1923,
in passing upon the minimum wage of
the District of Columbia, the profess
sion is practically unanimously agreed
that the Arizona law also is unconsti-
tutional one attorney said recently.
After celebrating fourteen hours, q
jury in Superior Court at Prescott
found c.. C. Norton, well known local
attorney guilty of manslaughter for
the killing of Garland Smith, Kirk
land cattleman. The shooting, the
convicted man testified at the trial,
followed a quarrel over the collection
of notes.
No longer will the quarterly periods
be available to automobile owners ac-
quiring licenses in the latter months
of the year at Tombstone. From now
on they will be required to pay the
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is made during the first six months of
the year, or half the amount, if the
license is secured at any time be-
tween July l and the end of the year.
With the arrest of Clyde Andrews,
II, an employee in the grocery wrap
ping department, police and fire de-
partment officials believe that they
have captured the person responsible
for four fires in the warehouse of the
| Phelps Dodge Mercantile Company at
Bisbee. Young Andrews was arrested
shortly after the fourth fire in twen-
ty-fOur hours was discovered in the
warehouse.
G. NJ. Willard of Cottonwood was
appointed state game warden by Gov
ernor Hunt to fill the vacancy caused