Arizona state miner., 1925-05-16

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Moody Motor Bus Company. The city
attorney has filed a complaint in the
matter disputing the authority of the
State Corporation Commission to issue
such permit or license. It is gen
orally inferred that the Central Ari-
zona Light & Power company is back
Of the move, and is seeking to &C.
Quire the franchise Of the defunct
street railway, so as to rehabilitate
it and run it as an adjunct for dis
semination of electrical energy What
ever the outcome, showing of the
matter will be aired by this new con
test.
Now that it is definitely settled that
Yuma is to be on a government air
plane mail route with landing field
already selected, Phoenix has awak-
ened to the necessity for some similar
move. This is already foreshadowed
by a donation of a tract of land by
Attorney G. F. Ainsworth at the end
of North Central Avenue near the
canal for an aviation field and landing
place for airplanes carrying the u.
S. mails.
This issue Of the Wickenburg Ari-
zona State Miner is chOck-a-block full
Of advertising It's circulation is grow
ing and the paper is paying better
than at any time in it's history. Out
side advertising supports it and the
local business firms are not called
upon for hardly any expense in con-
nection with the keeping up Of the
paper. Wickenburg and Tempe are
two towns in Arizona that are well
advertised as trif1ing cost.
r. E. t., Peoria.-Yes, Governor
Hunt vetoed the certified copy of
the concurrent resolutions which rat
flied the Colorado Compact with cer-
tain reservations, passed by the last
legislature. Now people are wonder
ing if the time limit for this action
by the governor was exceeded.
The steamboat raised from the Mis-
sissippi, which was supposed to have
contained the bodies of over a score
of drowned excursionists, revealed
only two corpses in decayed condi-
ton.
The mother of II children, Mary
Ann Ellsworth of Showlow, 80 years
of age, passed away recently. She
was pioneer Mormon lady who came
to Arizona in 1880, coming here from
Utah. She was one of the early Nor
mons who pushed handcarts across
the continent in 1856 from Nauvou.
Illinois.
The James Russell School, on the
west side of First Avenue and just
north of Yavapai is to cost over $14O,-
900. 1t will have 20 rooms, according
to the contract-another illustration
of the growth of Phoenix schools.
A recent concensus of press COM
ment on changing the name of Salt
River Valley, says the Phoenix Mes
senger, shows that the Phoenix Cham
ber of Commerce pulled bonehead.
Underground water is to be used
by Buckeye irrigation company to
irrigate lands near that town. There
is in that region an abundance of
water that seems to have formed an
underground reservoir by the sink of
the Hassayampa river in that local
ity.
Quiet measures are being inaugu-
rated to form an irrigation district
in the vicinity of Wickenburg- feas-
ible project that will mean produc-
ton from it's rich alluvial soils in
addition to it's mines. When the
Wickenburg mines are all worked
out, the soil may be counted on to
support large population or con-
tented farmers and horticulturists
who have not yet begun operations.
Dora Petty, former Phoenix
saleswoman, has sued Rev. R. Glenn
Edwards of the Yuma Christian
church for defamation of character
and wants $20,O0O In September
last she tried to collect $1,000 on u
note in her favor made by the pastor
in 1921 by attaching his auto.
Pastor Leon Myers, alleged Cyclops
Of the Anaheim (Calif) Ku KIuxers,
was flogged by William Knott for
attacking him in sermon. No ar
rests, no fiery cross and no riotous
disturbances.
A picnic on a Mississippi river
steamboat last week cost the lives of
q persons.
A desert land turtle found 25 years
ago in Yuma county near White
Tanks had markings on it's back dat
ing back to 1848. Fred Nottbush Of
Yuma kept it in his yard for many
years and then it disappeared. Re-
Gently it was found back again in
the vicinity of White Tanks and was
recognized by the markings on it's
back.
A new process of chromium plating
metal has been perfected by DR.. Colin
G. Fink of Columbia University
The new plating is said to give a
harder wearing surface than nickel
plate or any other known alloy. 1t