The Winslow mail., 1924-02-01
BRIEF
ARIZONA
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Fire starting from a defective flue
just beneath the roof of the Elks the
ater and club building in Phoenix
Iithreatened the entire building.
AS a means OF safeguarding them
selves against "hot check" artists and
establishing a credit reference system,
Yuma merchants will soon form into
Credit association
Farmers and stOckmen are suing the
two smelteys of Clarkdale, claiming
losses because of smelter smoke, and
ask an injunction which if granted,
would cause both smelters to shut
down and throw hundreds out of en-
ployment. The suits aggregate $31 1000,
or about two days total payroll.
Notice that he had started construc-
tion Of an irrigation dam on the Virgin
| river in the extreme northwestern part
of the state near Littlefield has been
| filed with the state water department
by M. B. Dudley, according to an an
| nouncement made in Phoenix by Yer
non Vaughn, state land commissioner
and ex-officio water commissioner.
Announcement is made by the agri-
| cultural extension service OF the ap-
| pointment of L. G. BOggs as extension
| poultry husbandman, effective Jan. 16.
Mr.. BOggs is a graduate of the College
of Agriculture in the state of Wash
| ington. In addition he has had exper-
ience on a practical dairy and poultry
farm followed by several months of
| work in the Washington Cooperative
| Egg and Poultry Association at Seat
| tie
Contracts for the construction of
| the first floor, walls and roof of
| new library building, four tennis courts
| and a new baseball field, all on the
University of Arizona campus at Tue
son, were awarded after bids were
| opened at a meeting of the board Of
regents. The contract for actual con-
structiOn work on the library building
was awarded Clinton Campbell of
Phoenix. c. A. Smith of Tucson was
| awarded the plumbing contract.
Arizona will ratify the Colorado riv-
| er compact next year without changes
or alterations, declared Thomas e.
| Campbell, former governor OF that
state, who is in Salt Lake City as
| chairman of the reclamation fact-find-
| ing committee. In a speech before
| a Salt Lake City business mems club,
Mr.. Campbell said: Until the compact
| is ratified, there can be no progress
made in the development of power pro
| hn 10 Of re.
tributaries. This is my opinion of the
matter"
The water users of the Salt River,
| Arizona, reclamation project are for
the Smith McNary bill dealing with
| irrigation of arid lands, which is now
pending in Congress, according to T.
| A. Reed, who testified at Salt Lake
City before the fact-finding committee.
| Charges that the engineering depart
| ment of the reclamation service was
inefficient" were made by the Ari-
Zona man. He added that it was be-
| cause of that "that most of the kicks
were made"
Three children were burned to death
| in their home near Prescott when they
were entrapped in a room by smoke
emitted from a small stove which was
| accidentally overturned and caused
fire which destroyed the home The
dead are Iris, 4; Norman, 3, and Don,
1, who were the children Of O. A. Des-
pain of Walker, Ariz. When the fire
broke out Mrs. Despair rushed into
the house and rescued two other chill
dren. She was badly burned about the
head face and arms in repeated at
tempts to re-enter the burning house
to save the ill-fated three. The moth
er is in critical condition in a Pres
colt hospital.
Thomas Power and Willis Woods,
murderers sentenced to life terms and
who escaped from the Arizona penlten-
tiary at Florence, Dec % last, were
removed to Florence from San Diego
in custody of prison guard. The two
men were captured by San Diego po-
licemen one week ago while eating
dinner The two are said to have made
their escape While acting as TRUSTEES.
A survey of the cotton planted in the
Salt River valley during the past year
has been started by members of the
agronOmy staff of the University of
Arizona, according to the announce
ment of Prof r. S. Hawkins, head of
that section of the work. Professors
l. A. Briggs and S. 2. Clark started
the work, and Professor Hawkins and
Byron Schowers will make the trip
next week.
What is alleged to be the most fla
grant evidence of radicalism ever
found in the district, according to De
partment of Justice officials, was un-
earthed with the arrest in Globe of
Grato Marietti an Italian, at his room
on North Broad street. Aside from lit
erature and red hot postal cards, post
ers were taken from Marietti's walls.
it is alleged, showing the radicaI idea
of world domination.
Il am against the pact-that