Arizona state miner. [volume] (Wickenburg, Ariz.) 1919-1927, 1927-04-30

DOUGLAS-A woman believed to
be Mrs Samuel Berger, about As, at
tempted suicide in local hotel by
taking poison. A note left ny the
woman and addressed to the coroner
read, "a simple case of suicide; no
friends, no funds, no one to call on"
BISBEE = Electrocution from
medical blanket" attached to- light
ing sockets was blamed for the death
4 of John Andrich, pioneer miner of
this district. The mans body was
found wrapped in dampened blanket
through which electric Lighting cur
rent was passing.
GLOBE Eugene F. Aeschliman, 60,
died at his home in Globe Saturday
The deceased was a prominent mu-
sian of this section, devoting the
greater part of his time to band work.
KINGMAN = Approximately $4,000
pounds of mohair, the last of the sea-
sons clip, left Kingman loading sta
ton Forty-eight and one-half cents
pound was received. This price was
| slightly lower than that paid last year
TUCSON--After two months of
freedom, Frank Steel, negro parole
violator from the state penitentiary
at Florence, gave himself up to the
authorities here. Steel had been a
! trusty at the prison and had been
sent out TO a ranch near there to work
| as a cook.
NOGALES- Frank Davis was seri-
ously injured when the automobile
he was driving turned over five miles
north of here on the Nogales- Pata-
gonna highway. He was enroute to
his home in Bisbee.
HOENIX-United States Marshal
George A. Mauk, left here Saturday
/ for the federal penitentiary at Mcneil
| Island, Washington, with eight federal
prisoners recently sentenced. Among
Ehe prisoners were several notorious
bootleggers.
! KINGMAN - Two unidentified
/ youths were killed when the car in
which they were riding was struck
| by a passenger train on grade cross
i ing.
PRESCOTT-A small tornado, the
/ first in the history of the city, struck
a small garage, completely demolish-
/ ing it.
| GLOBE-Dr. Leonard Wood, who
died suddenly at his home here Fri
day from an attack of bronchial pneu-
monia, was buried Saturday afternoon.
He was a native of Michigan and was
born in 1889 He was specialist on
the treatment of eye, ear, nose and
throat.
| YUMA-W. H. Canvaness aged TO-
years, a resident of Yuma for more
than 20 years, died here following an
illness of more than three years. He
came to Arizona in 1854 from Ar
kansas.
TUCSON-Urey Ford, special mer-
chants policeman and former member
of the Tucson police force, was kill
ed and James T. Parker is in the
county Jail facing a charge of murder
as result of the tragic shooting of
the former by the latter.
NOGALES-Thre bridges on the
Nogales- Cananea branch of the
Southern Pacific of Mexico in the
northern section of Sonora, Mexico,
have been burned according to an
announcement by the officials of the
railroad.
DOUGLAS-The remains of J. ].
Wheeler 78-year-old pioneer Arizona
cattleman, who died in Tucson early
last week, were buried at Apache
Saturday morning. Wheeler came to
Arizona sc years ago and was widely
known throughout the southern sec
ton of the state.
PHOENIX-Work is expected to
start within ten days on the 100000
theatre to be erected by Richards and
Nance on Second avenue and Adams
street in this city. The theatre will
have a seating capacity of two thou
sand.
PHOENIX-The stock holders of
the Phoenix Country Club, it is an
nounced will start work at once on the
construction of a modern swimming
pool with locker rooms, estimated to
cost $4,000.
GOVERNOR SIGNS BILLS
Six bills passed by the legislature
in it's closing sessions this week have
been signed by Governor Hunt and
transmitted to Secretary OF State
Kerby. The measures signed were:
senate bill Al, providing for the Verde
river bridge: senate bill So, amending