The Winslow mail., 1923-04-20
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS


ArizOna's copper output for 1922 to-
tailed 418,00O,0O0 pounds.
Judge w. c. Jack has been appoint
ed as assistant county attorney at
Douglas.
Milton Hall had his right hand blown
off when a blast exploded in a well in
which he was working. His body was
peppered with small rocks, but he is
expected to recover.
Work on the old La Abundancia
mine shaft will be started at once, ac
cOrding to c. H. James, well known
mining engineer of Nogales. The mine
is situated some thirty miles southwest
of NOgales.
The big pumping plant of the Signal
Mines Company at Kingman has been
in commission the past several weeks
and is working to the satisfaction of
all. The plant was guaranteed to de-
liver fifty gallons of water per minute
at the mine.
That one of the biggest gold strikes
in the history of the state has been
made about ten miles south of Wick
enburg, at what is known as the Mo-
hawk strike, was the statement of A
r. CavaneSS of Phoenix on his return
to Phoenix after locating three claims
adjacent to the vein which comprises
the strike.
The toughest little man in Miami
has been found, as three members of
the Miami police force who bear visi-
BILE signs Of having engaged in ply
steal combat, stand ready to testify.
He is Jose BlancO, erStWhile resident
of Turkeyshoot canon and now an oc-
cupant of a padded cell in the county
Jail at Miami, pending an examination
as to his sanity.
Probably the richest strike of cop
per ore ever made in Arizona was
made recently in drift out of the No.
shaft of the Miami Copper Company,
if repeated stories of the strike and
scores of samples of the ore being eX-
hibited around Miami are to be given
credence. Numerous workmen are
carrying pocket-piece samples of the
rich ore, and are relating stories of
the extent of the find.
Ysabel, s years old, and Soledad, 5,
the children of Mr.. and Mrs Estevan
Mendosa, residing at Humboldt, near
Prescott, were burned to death in
fire which destroyed the Mendosa
home in the absence of the parents.
The children were locked in the house
when the mother went to a dance, she
told officers. The fire is thought to
have resulted from an overturned
lighted lamp.
Opposition to the grouping of the
railroads in southern Arizona into one
system as is proposed under a plan
submitted to the Interstate Commerce
Commission under the Esch-Cummins
act of 1920 was expressed in Los An
geles at the hearing to be conducted
before Commissioner Hall and two eX
aminers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission by D. f. Johnson of the
Arizona corporation commission and
f. A. Jones and Rollin Johnson, Phoe-
nix traffic experts.
1t will be of interest to all cattle
men of the state to learn that the scab
infested areas in central Apache coun-
ty have again been strictly placed I'M
der quarantine through a proclamation
issued by Governor Hunt. This extend
ed quarantine area includes over fifty
townships in the center of Apache
county and any one is forbidden to
move either non-infected cattle into or
infected cattle out of this area except
by written authorization of the sani-
tary board or the state veterinarian
until such time as all cattle within this
area have been dipped and declared
free from scabies by the state veter-
marian or sanitary board.
Ora L. Mckee who plead guilty to
a charge of assault with intent to COM
nit robbery in connection with an al
legged attempted hOldup of the Glen
dale Bank of Commerce at Glendale,
northwest of Phoenix, March 8, was
sentenced to serve a term of six years
in the state penitentiary at Florence
by Judge Phelps of Superior Court.
The Arizona Federation of WOmen's
Clubs has outgrOwn it's old constitu-
ton. The federation in a long work
ing session of it's annual convention
at Prescott brought it's fundamental
law up to date by passing upon clause
by clause a new constitution embody-
ing articles that permit the expansion
of work and activities undertaken by
the federation.
Receipts from the collection of auto
mobile license fees in the state were
greater by S21, 1865 for the first threS
months of this year than they were
for the same period last year, accord
ing to a report issued in Phoenix by
James H. Kerby, secretary of state.
The report shows that the total auto
mobile fees for January, February and
March of this year were $204,036.75 as
compared to total collection of $751;
OOO for tho same DpriOd in 1872.