The Winslow mail., 1924-01-25
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

tuce, causing considerable damage
and loss.
The new five thousand-ton cOncen-
traitor of the New Cornelia Copper
Company at Ajo is in operation with
the starting of the first unit Work
on this plant was begun in October,
1922.
Little Opal Seaward, 1-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Seaward
of Idlewild, was drowned when she
fell into tub of water in which her
mother had just finished washing
clothes.
Arizona viii not assist the officials
of Riverside county, Calf, in making
a survey of the feasibility of building
bridge over the Colorado river at
Ehrenburg, Ariz., Gov. George w. p.
Hunt announced.
Thirty-nine cliff dwellings in six
groups, several in an excellent state
of preservation, have been discovered
in the wonderland of Rocks in the
Chiricahua mountains, within two
miles of the PARKWAY ranch, near Bis
bee.
The Superior telephone exchange
has been hooked up and is ready for
operation. The inclement weather of
the past two weeks delayed the form
al opening about ten days. The ex-
change opened with about 115 sub
scriberS.
Nogales, Sonora, is being circular
lied by members of the city police
and other municipal officers with
pamphlets giving in detail the recent
legislation endorsed by Gov. Elejo
Bay, prohibiting marriages between
Mexican women and Chinese.
Construction of a north and south
state highway from Douglas, on the
southern border of COchise county,
north to Stafford, in Graham county,
has been started, according to an an
nouncement made from the office of
the State Highway Department in
Phoenix and confirmed by the state
engineer, F. r. Goodman.
Peace officers refusing to carry out
judgments of court martial are in dam
ger of running afoul of the state law,
according to Col. Charles H. Harris,
adjutant general, speaking in refer
ence to the alleged refusal of County
Jailer John COnOrS to imprisOn Pri-
vate Chester L. Willis of Mesa, sen
fenced by a National Guard court
io1 10 IN ioi1
Frank A. Vanderstrom, former
sales manager for Arthur Mcintosh
and Company of Chicago, was ar
rested at Phoenix on a Chicago police
warrant charging embezzlement of
$4,000. He admitted his identity, po
lice said but declared there must be
a mistake regarding the charge PO-
lice said he wasa with another man
and two women, who were travelling
to California by automobile.
Livestock men and carriers were
instructed to file before March
their briefs concerning rates on cat
tie shipments from Arizona to Cali
fornia at the closing session of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
hearing in Phoenix to probe the rates.
The hearing was closed by Examiner
Jewell after a two day hearing, when
the complainant cattle dealers intro
duced' evidence alleging that the rates
were excessive and discriminatory
while the railroad representatives
consumed the major portion of the
last day of the hearing offering re-
buttal testimony The complaint in
the case was filed by the Arizona Cat
tie Growers Association.
Tom Powers and Willis Woods, con-
victed murderers sentenced to life
terms in the state penitentiary at
florence, who escaped from the prison
several weeks ago, were captured by
officers at San Diego, Calir.
Private Clark II. Altman, 10, Ari-
iona National Guardsman and truck
driver of Mesa, was taken to the
county jail by Constable Pickens OF
the Mesa precinct with commitment
signed by a summary court officer OF
the National Guard which said Alt
man was guilty as charged, for being
absent from drill on three occasions.
With an increase of 1904 4,4S5.5S in
checking accounts in three banks in
the Bisbee district during last Decem-
Der over the checking accounts in
four banks of the district in Decem-
ber, 1922, or a gain of % per cent,
the increasing prosperity is substan-
TALLY Indicated, according to figures
compiled by the Bisbee Chamber OF
Commerce. Nearly four million dol
lars, $3,947, ,61924, was deposited in
local banks in the form of checking
accounts last month, not including the
pay rolls of the Copper Queen and the
Calumet and Arizona Mining Com
panies.
Everett B. johnson has assumed du-