Drafted men list leaving Cochise county for Camp Funston
A long list details drafted men drawn by the Cochise county local board who will depart for Camp Funston between the 23rd and 28th of the month. The roster includes names and birthplaces such as Crumby Burtle R Hartford Arkansas Walter J Smith Los Angeles Alma D Goodman Casa Grande John Monroy Stege California and many others across Arizona California New Mexico and Texas, with serial numbers and destinations like Los Angeles Douglas Bisbee Santa Fe and San Pedro.
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Cochise County
Camp Funston
Crumby
Burtle
Hartford
Arkansas
Smith
Walter J
Los Angeles
Goodman
Alma D
Casa Grande
Monroy
John
Tim
Miami
Arnold
Jake Frazier
Tucson
Milan Lake
San Pedro
Cal
Metz
Edward
Cantrall
Curlee
Arthur Ray
Calif
Dixon
Raymond Allen
Tecson
Landgren
Andy
Jerome
Anderson
Milton
Neweport
Vaiv
Vasquec
Antonio
Douglas
Delile
Joe
Albuquerque
No M
Murchison
Albert Henry
Deve
Arizona Senate Session Call Expected In Days
SESSION CALL PHOENIX April 15 The special session of the Arizona state legislature will be issued in a few days Governor Hunt said He will decide on the date and issue the call within three or four days The agenda includes prohibition universal suffrage and the enfranchisement of Arizona soldiers serving in camps at home and abroad
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Arizona
Hunt
Washington
War Department
France
Prisoners at Clifton Road Camp Stirred by Guards
At the state road camp nine miles from Clifton about one hundred prisoners refused work amid reports of fights. Captain McCullough and associates, brought from Bisbee, commanded the guards. Labor agitators and IWW detainees were reportedly released, triggering discontent and appeals for fair treatment. Clifton merchant Dick Franz aided in attempting to settle the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
State Road
Clifton
LW. W
McCullough
Bisbee
Road Camp
Hunt
Dick Franz
W. W
Stockades
Letters From The Front From Tombstone
Letters from trainees and front lines recount travel in Britain and France in 1915. Corporal BE Acre writes from France about Glasgow Edinburgh and Paris plans while noting battlefield damage and a French widow in a ruined farmhouse. The dispatch confirms Acre’s death in France after writing the letter, as Captain W G Mellgren sends a personal update from the front and mentions the ongoing war’s sound of big guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priend
America
Glasgow
Edinburgh
London
England
Edinburgh Castle
Holywood Palace
St. Geles Cathedral
John Knox
Paris
Versailles
Nice
France
B. E
Canadian Light By
EL P
Cattle Buyers Caught Between Two Regulations in Tucson
April 16 report from Tucson notes U.S. and Mexican actions nearly halting cattle exports. U.S. ports closed to all four days weekly while Mexican authorities require twenty days notice to enter, effectively blocking buyers and delaying shipments for at least twenty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
Mexico
United States
Catte
Pioneer Captain Dean visits Phoenix for Army appointment
Captain Jack R. Dean, an Arizona pioneer, toured Phoenix seeking a U S army post. The veteran scout traced early Arizona history from Quail Springs to Tomble Stone, worked with Buckskin Frank and Frank Leslie, and helped pursue Geronimo before the surrender at Skeleton Canyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Jack R. Dean
Arizona
Dean
United States Army
Nevada
Quail Springs
Stone's Ferry
Tucson
Tomble Stone
Tom Jones
Geronimo
Frank Leslie
Buckskin Frank
Lawton
Leslie
Tops
General Miles
Skeleton Canyon
Nps Burnet Ceachant
Crawford
Jine
Mexico
Marion P. Maus
Tom Horn
Maus
Johnnie Dean
Draft Call Boosts Choose of 49,834 Men for May Mobilization
Washington April 15. Provost Marshal General announces a new draft call for 49,834 registrants. Mobilization orders set training at eleven forts and recruiting barracks with deployment to Fort McDowell Fort Logan Fort Sam Houston and Vancouver Barracks. State quotas show Pennsylvania 3776 New York 8342 Michigan 2502 Missouri 2165 Wisconsin 2133 Ohio 060 Nevada Delaware Wyoming least, other states listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
War “Department
Baker
Europe
District of Columbia
General Crowder
Mituote
Pennsylvania
el York
Michigan
Missouri
Wisconsin
Ohio
Nevada
Delaware
Wyoming
Arizona
California
Colorado
Idaho
Iowa
Kan- Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Washington
Fort McDowell
Cal
Fort Logan
Cole
Fort Sam Houston
Vancouver Barracks
Sail
Old Time Citizen W D Allen Leaves Benson for New Venture
W D Allen, a longtime Benson resident, leaves for New Mexico to take charge of Green Land and Cattle Company. He has sold most local interests, retaining his home, and will devote his time to the new venture on the Gila river headwaters near Silver City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson Benson
Benson
W. D. Allen
New Mexico
Green Land and Cattle Company
Fanch and Enetie
Eas
Change in Draft Plan Brings Relief for Arizona
Phoenix April 16 The change in draft quotas based on Class 1 numbers rather than state population eases worry in Arizona where small population and counties with few young men created pressure. Officials say the rule prevents injustice by balancing calls with available local manpower statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pyyn Rumnizona
Phoenix
Congress
Arizona
Prairie dogs to be exterminated countywide campaign
April 16. Coconino County Farm Improvements Association has bought large quantities of poisoned gas from carbon bisulphide and gas bombs. Members launch a general campaign for extermination of prairie dogs, the rodents being slaughtered by thousands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coconino County Farm Improvements Association
Despondent Florida man commits suicide in Bisbee
E H Hillyear, a health seeker from Florida, ended his life at his Bisbee home near Camelback late Wednesday night. Officers were notified by family. a coroner's inquest the next day returned a verdict of death by gunshot wound self-inflicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bisbee
M1 Health
E. H. Hillyear
Florida
Camelback
Phoenix
Atwood Leaves To Attend Good Roads Convention
April 15 brief notes state engineer B M Atwood has left for Little Rock Arkansas to attend a United States Good Roads association convention promoting a national Bankheld National highway. The road aims to pass through Arizona on its coast to coast route with J A Rountree, secretary, having visited Phoenix to discuss routes through the state.
Drafted Is Prob Phoenix Draft Class 1 Rates Share
April 18 reporting shows Arizona under state's draft classifications far below national averages. Ten counties have fully classified their registrants, with 12,038 placed in Class 5, 4,069 in Class 1. County rates vary, Coconino leads at 54 percent Class 1, while Yavapai posts 40? percent, Cochise remains low. The provost marshal general orders reexamination of county records to align with national standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
France
Flanders
Picardy
Phoenix
Arizona
Adjutant General
War Department
Maraha
Office of the Adjutant General
Office of Adjutant General
Coconino County
Oratam
Cochise
Graham
Pinai
Clase
Cochise County
Greenlee
Pinal
Bill to boost US mineral production and price control
Washington D C April 17 The bill favorably reported aims to expand mining of essential ores and metals to lessen imports. It would empower the government to conserve supply control distribution and fix prices for such materials with war and interior department approval. Representative Pester introduced the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope Yeatman
War Industries Board
Hoover
Wevesvrey
Washington, D. C
United States
Pester
Patriotic judge fines two men for red cross remarks
A justice of the peace in Johnson fined two men $25 each for interfering with and uttering disparaging remarks about the Red Cross society. The mining camp is rarely heard from and remains on the map despite its small profile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the Peace
Johnson
Red Cross Society
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Ben
Georgia
Nelson
Axel
Marquetta, Mich
Hanverson Thas. A. Chica L
Grane
Woul
Meehan
Douglax
Gray
Geo
Seth
Armendariz
Felix
McRee
Arthur F
Lowell
Siebotham
Wiiland Masters
West
Sir Archie
Benl
Wm. Bisbee
Westfield
Leo
Longmont Colorado
Newper
Ben Edward
Adcock
Forest
Madisonville
Kentucky
Firestone
Henry Leroy
Albin
Harrison L
Boston
Charles F
San Franccisco
Portella
Jos
Globe
Polling
Efert G
Salt Lake City
Wain
Jerry Prederick
Pearce
Hong
Wong Dow
Holbrook
Thos
Jefferson
San Angelo
Lagos
Juan
Pirtteville
Webb
Lloyd Felix
Warren
Joyce
Roy
Norfolk
Stefanof
Elia
Bingham Canyon
Morrison
Homer Foster Gonzales
Bet
Dominick
Costello
Martin Cecil
Tomb
Stone
Harris
Walter Kelly
McAllist
Kuhn
Jas
McAllister
Kennedy
Ambrose
Light
Fackeon
Carlisle
San Francisco
Hopeon
Bert
Cope
Ceram
Foss
Okio
Gabriely
Mija Lake
Jenkins
Wallace
Gormas
J. J
Data
Sam Francisco
Coker
Soumson
Sterling
Wells
Vallejo
Ercal
Chas
Portage
Penn
Soos Gibbons
Scratch
Billy
Butte
Mont
Sandry
W. B
Patagonia
Goldberg
Peter
Heimer
Ragin, Jr
L. A
Jeana O'Donnell
Nell
San Simon
McLendon
Irs
Rock
John Jos
Florence
Freeman
W. F. Bisbee
Peccherino
Anton
Short
Kelton
Arizz
Kelley
R. E
Carshere
Lana
Wintour
Martinez, C
Tombetene
Jobmeon
D. G
Martiees
Tombstone
Milett
A. J
Cocntée
Lowstl
Cai
F. McAndrews
W. G. Meligren
BE. Acre
John Rock
Acre
BA Acre
Bruce E. Acre
Southern Pacific
13Th
Canadian Light Railway Operating Company
British Expeditionary Forces
Suuikerm Pacifie Onnce
Cnt
Canada
Canadian Expeditionary Forces
Mac
O. K
W. G. Mellgren
Engineers Rc, AE. F
Adérets Jas
A. Lamb
Arisoan
Isits Phoenix
NEW Deere
Benson Lumber & Commercial Co
Benson, Arizona
Illinois
Hous Mines
Foster
Efyil Fe
Spain
Southwest
Brazil
Louisiana
New Meico
Uthwest Mines
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