The Winslow mail., 1923-11-02
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

IN PRESCOTT, attended by more than 2OO,
aid was pledged to the Boy Scouts
List Arizona among the |1eading cot
ton states" More than 5000 bales of
cotton have been ginled thus far this
year, reports show.
Teachers from all parts of the coun-
try are applying for positions in Ari-
zona. Applications come in at a rate
of about 100 per week.
The Arizona State Federation of
Labor at it's twelfth annual convention
in Phoenix passed unanimously a res
olution condemning in strong terms the
Ku KluX Klan.
The Sulphate of soda mill at Camp
Verde is making remarkable progress
toward completion and the machinery
is being placed practically as soon as
it can be delivered
Appealed from Justice Court in
Tombstone, the case against Bias Nal
dOnadO, charged with driving car
while intoxicated, failed to convict,
and jury freed the defendant.
The state fish hatchery near Spring
erville is now completed and ready for
operation, according to letter written
to G. NJ. Willard, state game warden.
The hatchery is at present in charge
of the fish culturist.
The sessions of the synod of Arizona
of the Presbyterian church closed at
| the Community church in Miami with
popular meeting addressed by Rev.
Weston Jones of San Francisco.
"Glimpses Of Arizona" was the subject
of popular lecture by w. D. Hime
baugh.
Scientists hope to learn more about
the peoples of prehistoric times who
| occupied the cliff dwellings and who
built fortified homes in the rocks of
Beaver creek, as a result of eXplora-
tons now under way at the Monte
yuma castle, near Camp Verde, it has
been announced.
A report showing that there was due
and unpaid as of Sept. q, 1928, to-
tai of $219, 164 on the principal and
$110,942.03 in interest on the farm
loans made by the state, was made to
by Wayne Hubbs, state treasurer. In
addition to receiving the report, the
board took up a number of routine
matters.
With the race track at the Arizona
State Fair grounds in fast shape, and
with the first strings of the racing
contingent on their way to Arizona,
the 1923 State Fair and racing pro-
gram starting Nov. II, are rapidly
nearing the point where all that is
needed to open the biggest event of
it's kind ever held in the state is the
starters bell and the sprung barrier.
The second quarterly appOrtionment
of state school funds to the fourteen
counties in the state has been made by
c.. O. Case, state superintendent of
public instruction, it was announced,
and notices of the amounts have been
sent to each county school superin-
tendent A total of $401, ,5SS.56 was
apportioned in the second apportion-
ment, as compared to total of $685.
46433 in the first quarterly appOrtiOn-
ment made in July, 1923.
During the third week of October
the Apache Railway Company deliv-
cred twenty single-deck cars of sheep
to the Santa Fe at HolbrOOk. The ship
ment was made in the name of George
SaWday, and they are consigned to
Temecult Calf The Santa Fe shipped
aside from the above, fifty-three sin
gle-deck and one dOuble-deck cars to
Nebraska points during the week. The
shipments were made by Marty &
Leavitt There promises to be many
large shipments Of sheep and stock YET
this season, as there are already 62l
cars engaged in HolbrOOk. There are
100 for the Apache railway and 369
for the Santa Fe yet to be heard from.
Mrs. Bertha BischOfshausen, wait
ress of Miami and Globe, was freed in
the Gila County Superior Court on
charge of having shot and killed her
husband at Globe last March %, as he
was on the Apache limited taking away
| their son which the court had granted
to the father. Mrs. BischOfshausen
went on the train to bid her baby son
goodbye anu sue SdIu IleI HuSDdilu at
| tempted to take a revolver away from
her and she did not know whether he
| or she pulled the trigger which caused
| the shot that killed her husband. She
said she carried the gun because her
husband was threatening her life.
With the approval of the governor,
| Senator Fred T. Golfer, president of
| the Arizona Highline Reclamation AS
| sociation, for and on behalf of the
state of Arizona, completed filings for
water and power made with the state
water commissioner on the Colorado
river for 10000 second feet of water
| for the Arizona Highline canal the
| Spencer Diversion dam, capacity 15,-
| 100000 acre feet; the Glen Canon dam,
situated at the upper end of the Grand
| Canon, 100000 acre feet of storage
water, all for 100000 acres of land
/ coming under the Arizona Highline ca