The Winslow mail., 1923-11-16
BRIEF
ARIZONA
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zOna under the direction Of Miss Mary
Tierny.
Cleve Miller and Dewitt Cosper, hunt
ers, killed five black bears in the
mountains near Clifton, the bruins av
eraging 800 pounds each
Demand for Arizona lumber is in
creasing in the East. More than fifty
carloads per week are being shipped
over the Apache railroad now.
Prescott school teachers have been
warned against giving orders for mag
azineS to two men who are travelling
in Ford car, bearing California IL
cense- Police say they are imposters.
The NOgales Rotary Club is boosting
for road signs to be placed on all high
ways entering NOgales. They have pc
titioned the Chamber of Commerce to
have publicity signs erected as soon as
possible.
Mrs. Frank Rose, wife of the prin-
cipal of the high school at N0gales,
killed James Stokes, negro, at her
home when Stokes was peering through
her window, according to her own
statement to the police who answered
an emergency call to the Rose home.
G. A. McDonaly, president of the de-
funct BiSbee Citizens Bank, pleaded
guilty on charge Of receiving funds
after he had knowledge that the bank
was insolvent. Judge Darnell of Pima
county, who presided, deferred SEN
tence until Nov. is.
Several Kickapoo Indians, who mi
grated into the Yaqui valley, Mexico,
after leaving Oklahoma, where oil was
discovered on their lands, were in
Douglas recently, getting their govern
ment allotment, which is paid them
through the production of their lands.
Fire of undetermined origin did $780,
O00 damage to warehouse and con-
:ents on the Indian school area at Yuma
For fifteen minutes the fire department
hesitated about answering the call be-
cause the blaze was without the city
limits. After the law had been found
that all government owned buildings
Should be saved from fire, If pOSSi-
ble," it was finally decided to let the
department go. Then it was too late.
The Arizona State Fish Hatchery at
Springerville, on the headwaters of the
Little Colorado river, will be placed in
operation next spring, according to a
definite announcement by G. NJ. Will
lard, state game warden. The hatch
cry has been completed with the ex-
ception of installation of $50 feet of
piping and connections, Mr.. Willard
stated. The concrete filter tank and
the two holding tanks each forty-eight
feet long, are in place, and with the
placing of the pipeline which will be
undertaken shortly the plant will be
in readiness for the spring hatch of
rainbow trout. Brook trout hatchings
will be undertaken in the fall of next
year. The hatchery was constructed
at a cost of approximately $500, ac-
cording to Mr.. Willard.
Four candidates from the University
of Arizona for the Rhodes scholarship
were recently selected at Tucson by
the local selection committee. The
members chosen were Lawrence Howe,
w. o. Jennings, Leon KOtosgi and Will
liam H. Kelley, according to Dean
Frank H. Lockwood, head of the state
and local selection committees. Later
in the year the meeting of the state
committee will be held and one of the
number selected by the local committee
will be chosen for the scholarship.
Rhodes scholarships are tenable for
three years at Oxford University, Eng
land Arizona at present has three
students there. They are Franklin
Walker, Bradford Trenham and Robert
Nugent. Mr.. Walker has almost COM
pleted his work and will soon return,
while Nugent will soon take up his
studies there.
Fire was discovered in the domestic
science building of the grammar school
at Jerome, causing damage estimated
at $1,000 before being extinguished.
Bill E. McNellis, former Wyoming
champion roper, left his job in the
mines at BiSbee to seek prize money IN
roping contests to be staged at the
State Fair at Phoenix.
Jack Angus, manual training instruc-
tor in the Miami public schools and
former vice president of the State Fed
Grafton of Labor, was killed instantly,
and eight other persons were hurt
slightly when two automobiles over
turned after a collision on the Tucson
road, fifteen miles south of Florence.
Mr.. Angus neck was broken. Mrs. An
gus, wife of the man killed, was the
most seriously injured of the surviv-
ors, sustaining broken rib, severe
bruises and serious shock. Sonny An
gus, son of the couple, was skinned
and bruised. The three were riding in
the same car, the son driving. Occu-
pants of the other car were the SIX
members of the family of Mr.. and Mrs
Gordon Jackson, who were travelling
in a small touring car from their home
in Oklahoma to California. All were