The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

1aVapai County Chamber of Commerce
winch are to be issued to all members
IN good standing are made of copper,
IN Keeping with one of the biggest in
dustr1es of the county, and contain a
notice to solicitors.
word was received in Flagstaff re-
Gently of an accident at Lees Ferry,
north of Flagstaff, on the Colorado
river, in which six Boy Scouts of Min
neapolis, Mimi, travelling with ]. j.
kovarig and J. NJ. RouSek of Moose
Jaw, Sask., Canada, were swept from
a ferry boat in the middle OF the river
and rescued by Ferryman Clark and l.
G. Cockroft after heroic work in a
small canoe.
The second shipment of ore in the
past thirty days was made by the BO-
nanza mine at Tombstone by Wootton,
Hilton & Jacobson, lessons. The ship
ment was 4,200 ounces and represent
ed an eight-day run through a small
mill they have recently installed. A
previous shipment Of 5000 ounces was
made and within the next few days an
other shipment will be sent out, ap-
proximating the first shipment.
Wandering gypsies do not find Globe
and Miami easy places to camp at. Mi
ami's new municipal camping ground,
which will soon be completed, will be
barred to gypsies, as well as peddlers.
The Globe auto camp ground has also
the same rule in effect, so dark
skinned travellers will find no welcome
at the districts camping grounds The
auto camp at Miami, located in Davis
canon, will be ready for occupancy
Aug. l.
A short piece of wire, stretched a
few inches above a grass plot in front
of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam V. Whitmore on Sixth avenue
was the primary cause of the city of
Tucson in company with the Whitmore
family facing suit for $40, ,407 10 in the
Superior Court. The suit filed by Will
liam 3. Dolan, Tucson barber, alleged
that he was tripped by the wire and
fell, receiving broken arm and elbow.
The accident occurred during the night
of Dec. IL, 1922.
Purses totaling $24,050, the largest
amount ever offered at a race meet in
Arizona, will De competed for by run
ming and harness horses in the siX-day
program during State Fair week, Nov.
II TO II, according to an announce
ment in Phoenix by Joseph z. Dillon,
secretary of the State Fair commits
sion. Purses for the entire twenty-five
day race meet, which extends nineteen
days after the fair closes, will total
ing the meet on a par with other big
western programs.
A plain gold ring with date and
name inscribed in it, submitted as evil
dence in East Phoenix Justice Court,
brought about the dismissal of charges
against Alfonso G. Romo, Mexican the
atrical manager, accused of kidnapping
Maria Gonzalez. ROmO was arrested in
Miami on charges brought by relatives
of the girl who was also taken into
custody Placed on the witness stand
Maria declared she was 21 years old
and accompanied ROmo and his wife to
Miami of her own free will.
The state live stock sanitary board
has decided to enforce that section of
the Arizona statutes which requires
all persons who carry on the business
of butchering or slaughtering of cattle
or swine in the state to keep record
of all live stock purchased or slaugh-
tered by them, with full description
of the brands of the same, and to re-
port once each month to the live stock
inspector of their district, according to
an announcement made in Phoenix by
Charles L. Francis secretary to the
live stock sanitary board.
Rail companies operating in Arizona
were granted until July 81, to put into
effect reduced freight rates on intra-
state shipments of grains and grain
products through an order issued in
Phoenix by the corporation commits
sion and signed by d. L. Johnson, act
ing chairman and Loren Waugh, COM
missioner. The original order of the
commission issued early in June re-
quired the rail companies to put into
effect Is per cent reduction in rates
on intrastate shipments of grains and
grain products, on or before July 10.
The opinion that the water supply
of the Colorado river may not be suf-
ficient to reclaim the lands which may
be found commercially feasible of de-
velopment' is advanced in a report
made public in Phoenix by E. G. La
Rue, United States geological survey
engineer and chairman of the Arizona
engineering commission. The commits
sion, headed by Mr.. La Rue, who was
loaned to the state by the government
service, has been engaged for nearly a
year in an attempt to determine how
much land in Arizona and California