The Winslow mail., 1923-07-27
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

DOuSldS ana other southwestern
cities.
Plans for developing three recrea-
tlonal areas in the Chiricahua forest
reserve were outlined by H G.. Calk-
ins, United States forest supervisor,
upon the latter's return to Tucson
from an extended trip into the Chiri
cahua district, southeast of Tucson.
That there has not been a man-made
fire in either the Catalinas of Chirica-
hua forest reserves since the first of
the year was the information brought
back to Tucson by Forest Supervisor
II. G. Calkins upon his return to the
office of the United States forest ser
vice after an extended inspection trip
through the two ranges.
Fifty thousand dollars in addition
to the funds now available to the dis
trict school board is necessary to COM
plete the three new school buildings
now under construction in Miami. Tax
payers of the district will decide whe-
ther or not the extensive building pro-
gram of the board is carried out with
out delay, when they go to the Miami
high school building on Friday, Aug. 3,
and vote on $4,000 bond issue.
A petrified specimen believed to be
part of the backbone of a prehistoric
mammoth or dinosaur with fragments
of the ribs still attached was brought
to Yuma from the Mohawk district in
eastern Yuma county and placed on
display. The bones were found in san
dy soil but portions of quartz adher-
ing to the bone are believed to indi-
cate that the remains have been under
pressure for centuries.
Election of officers by the Arizona
Wool Growers Association and the ac-
ton of the Arizona Cattle Growers
Association in voting to incorporate
were the outstanding features of the
closing sessions at Flagstaff Of the
midsummer meetings of the organ
tZationS. The wool growers elected A.
A. Johns of Prescott president for the
ensuing year. The Cattle Growers
Association does not elect officers at
the summer meeting.
Adjt Gen. Charles w. Harris issued
an order for the annual encampment
of the Arizona National Guard. I'm
der the terms of the order the infan-
try will entrain Aug. for Fort Hua-
chuca, where camp will continue until
Aug 20. Artillery units will entrain
Aug. 16 for Fort Bliss, Tex, where
they will be in camp until Sept. /.
Three hundred seventy-seven officers
and men will attend the infantry camp,
while $50 will go to Fort Bliss
Joe Lauterborn and R. E. Sorenson,
who escaped from the state peniten-
tiary at Florence by scaling the east
wall by means of a rope made of bed
clothes, were captured by prison of
ficers. LOutermOrn was discovered
hiding in a cottonwood tree near Flor
ence, where he had taken refuge after
injuring his foot in leaping from the
wall. An examination showed several
of his toes were broken. SOrenson was
captured at Pichaco, thirty miles south
of Florence.
The hay dealers of the Gila valley
are displaying a lively interest in the
report that the Southern Pacific and
auxiliary lines in this territory were
contemplating the withdrawal of the
arrangements at present existing for
the weighing of hay for shipment
from this valley under the rules of the
Transcontinental Weight Bureau AssO-
citation. A mass meeting was held in
Stafford to protest against the proposed
withdrawal of the the present arrange
ment whereby bonded weighman GER
titles the weights of carload ship
ments.
From information secured after the
trial and sentencing of Letha Jordan
for the stabbing of Josie Mcconnell a
charge of murder was filed against
George Parker, negro companion of
the girl on the night of the killing, by
the county attorneys office at Tucson.
The arrest of Parker who had been a
witness at the recent trial Of the Jor-
dan girl, occurred in Phoenix.
Twenty-four guests escaped to the
street in their night clothes when the
COuSI6SS IOlCl, 1TeSCOUI largest
frame structure, built forty-five years
ago, was destroyed by fire of undeter-
mined origin recently. The hotel was
the scene of many pioneer functions
and housed numerous political gather
ings in Arizona's territorial and early
statehood days. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Rehearing of the intrastate grain
and cereal rate case was denied in an
order handed down by the Arizona cor
pOration commission at Phoenix on the
application of the rail companies for
rehearng of the case. In it's original
order in the case, the commission OBJ
tanned a 16 per cent reduction in all
intrastate freight rates applying to the
movement of grains and grain prod
ucts within the state.
A resolution opposing the five mil
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