Ramhead Highway Meet At Hot Springs 1920 Report
A noisy Road meeting at Hot Springs Arkansas on April 15 1920 drew 1500 delegates including Governor Graugh of Arkansas Governor Russell of Mississippi and Phoenix leader Thomas B Marshall. Arizona Oklahoma and Texas figures attended amid disputes over Bankhead Highway policy with L W W controversies and mixed public interest. Next gathering slated for Greensboro North Carolina.
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Graugh
Arkansas
Russel
Mississippi
Hot Springs
Bankhead Route 15 fix discussed at Hot Springs convention
Arizona delegates and officials at the United States Good Roads association convention in Hot Springs Ark discussed turning over 10,000,000 acres of land by the federal government to Arizona for road development. They presented figures showing large areas yet unrelinquished, underscoring Arizona’s need for stronger tax authority to finance improved highways.
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Douglas
W. MM. Adminnon
State
Chamber of Commerce and Mines
United States Good Rests
Hot Springs
Ark
Bbme
Golden State Limited
U. S. Phoenix
United States
Arizona
States Good Roads Association
Arama
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
Arto
Indiana
Ariona
Betts Condition Raises Concern In Arizona Route Fight
Phoenix April 19 considered concern extends to Amos A Betts chairman of the Arizona committee now home ill for a week with mysterious illness. Doctors remain unable to identify whether the ailment is smallpox typhoid fever influenza or pneumonia and whether it relates to the Borderland route to Tombstone or the Pathfinders proposed path.
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Phoenix
Amos A
Mankheld
Betts
Ari#oma commmovaite
Adamson
Resporation Commission
Torday
Promaine Anton
Besson
Vall
Meeting Planned On Irrigation In San Pedro Valley
A May meeting in St David will discuss launching an irrigation project for 20000 acres in the San Pedro valley. Governor Campbell and other dignitaries plus residents from Benson St David Pomerene Douglas and Bisbee back reclamation plans. The effort traces to a 17 year old Charleston site survey and may use the same dam site.
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San Pedro
St. David
Thomas E. Campbell
Benson
St David
Pomerene
Douglas
Bisbee
Charleston
Congress
League of the Southwest
Andrew Kimball
Arizona Commission of Agriculture and Horticulture
Leroy Lancaster
Postal Exchange With Sonora Resumes Mail Service
Douglas April 20 Sunday night Postmaster M C Hawkins received a telegram directing him to notice that the postal department had rescinded its order for the diversion of all mail addressed to Sonora offices to Juarez. Beginning yesterday morning mail service was resumed with Sonora and it is not expected there will be any further interruption. A force of 400 more Yaqui Indians are gathering at Agua Prieta, swelling the garrison there to about 2600 soldiers, with 2000 expected by week's end.
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Douglas
M C. Hawkins
Sonora
Juarez
Hawkins
Agua Prieta
United States
Gardon
Death summons judge from life of usefulness
J J Chat ham former Nogales mayor and Santa Cruz County official dies this afternoon at 12. His career spans The Star and The Citizen in Tucson, editor of Tombstone Epitaph, and founder of Nogales Daily Reserve and Nogales Sunday Herald.
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Nogales
J. J. Chatham
Santa Cruz
Chatham
Arizona
The
Star
Citizen
Tucson
Tombstone
Golt
Cognac Flavored Cream Report In Local Party
A local matron hosted a party where it was announced that ice cream would be flavored with at least a quart of cognac. The cream was prepared per plan, but the refreshments hour was interrupted by an outsider who learned of the flavor.
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Afiz
Plas
French given $1 damages in jury verdict
Phoenix April 21 Thomas A French former secretary of the Arizona penitentiary was awarded $1 damages by a jury in the $50 000 libel suit brought against the Arizona Gazette The verdict followed about two hours deliberation and is described as a compromise verdict The suit stemmed from a February report alleging alleged disloyalty and pro Germanism by French which he denied Victor Louis Stings a life prisoner for murder testified for the defense
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Phoenix
Thomas A. French
Arite
Arizona Gasette
Tve Hoare
Zona
French
Rej
United States
Victor Louis Stings
Round World Derby 18 Likely To Make Control At Tucson
A letter to Governor Campbell from RM Sterrett of the National Airlines Association indicates Tucson may be a stopping point on the aerial derby route. He says the Aero Club of America may recommend a southern U S route to be used with the derby and notes early field completion will influence activities across the state.
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Phoenix
Tucson
Campbell
RM. Sterrett
National Airlines Association
Aero Club of America
United States
Boy 13 Charged With Store Robbery In Tucson
Miguel Allis, 13, was taken into custody by Officers Comacho and Brown on a charge of burglarizing the Lee Lokst store at 211 East Congress Street.
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Tucson
Miguel Allis
Comacho and
Brown Totay
Lee Lokst
Congress Street
Hurley Sentence Sought Before Springer Trial
Phoenix April 21 County Attorney Laney seeks to have Henry Hurley sentenced before the preliminary hearing of W E Springer. Hurley was convicted of cement theft after the trial of Springer, a former road foreman for the state, and the hearing was postponed from Monday to Saturday. The delay aimed at obtaining a suspended sentence and possibly improving Hurley’s position if Springer testifies.
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Hurley
Wo Ie ‘Barnum
Wnt
Springer
Apache man arraigned on statutory rape charge in Miami
Selby Rourke, an Apache from the White Mountain agency, arraigned before U S Commissioner J P Hechtman on statutory rape charges and pleaded not guilty. He is held on $200 bond and referred to U S district court. Oliver Storer, another Apache from the same agency, was arraigned on rape charges by the same commissioner after being brought in by U S Deputy Marshal Frank Haynes.
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Miami
Selby Rourke
White Mountain
U. S
J.P. Hechtman
U.S. District Court
Oliver Storer
U.S
Frank Haynes
Investigation of Beavers Shipment to Denver
Phoenix April 21 an investigation into alleged illegal shipment of beaver skins from a Phoenix man to Denver is under way by state game warden Joe Prochucka. The case centers on how Mariotto Jonas Tirothers acquired the beavers with a seizure ordered in Denver and the express company to be scrutinized.
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Phoenix
Joe ¥. Prochucka
Denver
Colo
AE. Mariotto Jonas Tirothers
Ity Sun
Prochaska
Mariott
Beavers
Express Company
Rail chief pressed to route No 4 through Douglas again
Delegation met El Paso and Southwestern president T M Schumacher in a private car to press for sending the eastbound Golden State Limited No 4 through Douglas. Schumacher said the train would return to the Southern Pacific route prewar timing, aiming before next fall, with a fallback plan to divert another train via Douglas if needed.
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T. M. Schumacher
el Paso and Southwestern Railroad
Douglas
Golden State Limited
Southern Pacific
Tecson
Delegates Meet in Tucson for Odd Fellows and Rebekah Gathering
Six hundred delegates to the combined state convention of Odd Fellows and Rebekah in Tucson assembled at 9 am at the IOOF temple on Sixth Avenue. They were welcomed to the city as communities from across the state were represented. LV. Russell led the march into the judge hall followed by Mere L. M. Dickerman, president of the Rebekah assembly.
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Tucson
Daughters of Rebekah
Nurse Quarters at Nogales Burn in Arizona
Fire destroyed nurse quarters at Camp Stephen D. Little in Nogales Arizona today. The local fire department aided army authorities in saving the base hospital as the blaze burned the quarters.
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Nogales
Ariz
Stephen D. Little
Defective flue causes fire at 17th Street home
A small blaze Saturday night at a residence occupied by J D Young on Seventeenth Street caused by a defective flue. Firemen responded quickly and confined the fire, with total damage estimated around $10. The dwelling is owned by OA Ash.
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C. F
17Th Street
Douglas
J.D. Young
Seventeenth Street
Hai
Jamal
OA [Ash
Flux mine finds rich ore at Pareronia
Developments at the Flux mine at Pareronia progress well. A cross cut from the station toward the wing started and had advanced about 15 feet in ore. The drift face remains in ore and represents the largest and best grade strike yet at the mine.
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Pareronia
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