Five Yuma Boys Stray In Desert Night Hunt
Five Yuma youths vanished after a hunting trip Sunday. They lacked food and warm clothing, wandered desert routes toward the Gila and Wellton, spent a freezing night, and staggered back two days later. Two younger boys walked home, while the others were traced to Yuma. Names: William Tindale, Billie Arnold, John Richard Roberts, Holy Cresswell, Tommy Cacaness.
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Yuma
Hanting
Gila
Wellton
Montain
William Tindale
Billie Arnold
John Richard Roberts
Holy Cresswell
Tommy Cacaness
Bill for Burial of Mothers of Men in Military Service
Phoenix dispatch outlines a proposed amendment to the Eddy bill allowing an indigent veteran to have an honorable burial at county expense if relatives cannot pay. The measure, adopted in committee, would require burial costs not to exceed five dollars and proper grave marking with service rank and name. It also mentions benefits for widows, noting the bill’s current omissions and Gibson’s push for correction.
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Phoenix
United States Army
Navy
Gibson
Board of Supervisors
County Officials Seek Back Salaries In Arizona County
County attorney L M Laney former assessor J T Bone and ex school superintendent A H Fulton have filed claims for back pay. Clerk Standage limited details citing a Supreme Court ruling and no board action yet. Treasures records list about 900 for Laney 750 for Webb 450 for Bone and 1350 for Fatton.
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Phoenix
Jan
Board of Supervisors
L. M. Laney
J. T. Bone
A. H. Fulton
Clarence Standage
Supreme Court
Laney
Webb
Bone
Fatton
Man Files Writ to Force State Auditor Over Salary Warrant
In Phoenix on January 23 a mandamus petition seeks to compel State Auditor Jesse J. Roger to issue a salary warrant to Ivy, Inspector of Aviaries, claiming the auditor rejected his salary and related claims. Ivy, appointed July 7, 1913 by Governor Hunt, says his demands include $458.22 in salary and $489.23 in other items since January 1917, supported by governor endorsement, while the auditor allegedly delayed.
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Phoenix
Jesse J. Roger
J.P. Dey
Ivy
Althoweh
Hunt
Peter H. Henson
Althou Roval
Ble
E. Marke
Powers Leads California Syndicate In Tombstone Property Takeover
John V. Powers of San Francisco arrived in Tombstone representing a California syndicate to take over properties in the Charleston district. The focus is the five claims of Loa Wook ery at Charleston known as the Ome Disaplings properties featuring silver lead and uranium ore. Assays show promising results though not yet paying. several carloads of ore have already shipped for returns. Powers, an old acquaintance of W. H. Schary of the Prospector force, spent hours reconciling past days with local mining figures.
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John V. Powers
San Francisco
California
Tombstone
Charleston
Loa
Wookery
Powers
W. H. Sehary
Prospector
Gold County
Arizona Movie Men Organize For Mutual Benefit
Phoenix editors report moving picture men from across the state gathering in Phoenix for mutual aid and to press for reopening after influenza era shutdowns. Globe and Miami managers threaten prompt court action to restore operations following a mandamus case, with many theaters near bankruptcy as rents accrue.
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Arizona
Movie Men
Phoenix
Moving Picture Nen
Globe and Miami
Phoenix Movie Men
May Be Fraud In Ibee Oil Co
In Bisbee on January 23 suspicions raised by about one stockholder group of the United China Oil and Refining Co now defunct. Dr J P Teater presided a city hall meeting and said the Arizona Corporation Commission would be asked to investigate and pursue possible criminal mobility against those involved.
State House News Adopts Sympathy For Phoenix Ace
Jan 28 Phoenix lawmakers act under suspension to pass a sympathy resolution for Prick Luke’s parents. Major measures include $70 to fund northern Arizona fair, tax-levy for epidemic expenses, and reforms to legal fees and the state fund distribution for counties. Also debated are burial aid for indigent soldiers and widows, and school attendance provisions.
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Phoenix
Prick Luke
Arizona
County Boards of Supervisors
Mit
Captain Mellgren Discharged Returns From War To Tombstone
Captain Mellgren, after a year of hard service at the front, arrived back in Tombstone from Los Angeles with his family. He previously served with the British then the American forces, bringing back trophies of war now on display at Cochise County State Bank. He recalls incidents around items such as a German Luger pistol and an officer’s helmet, and hopes not to return to active duty, planning to resume mining interests.
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Meleren
Tombstone
Los Angeles
Mellgren
Cochise County Sta Bank
Melleryn
France
Purchase of Lower California Declared Impossible
El Paso. Jan 23. Senor Sebastian Carranza nephew of President Carranza said such a purchase would be impossible under the Mexican constitution and not supported by the Mexican people during a dinner for Gen. Jesus Agustin Castro. Castro, guest of Gen. James J. Hornbrook, spoke amid a cavalry review at Fort Bliss of the Fighting Seventh Cavalry before Carranza departed for Juarez and Chihuahua City.
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EL Paso
Tex
Lower California
Sibastian Carranza
Carranza
Jesus Agustin Castro
James J Hornbrook
Fort Bliss
Seventh Cavalry
University Club
Juarez
Chihuahua City
Twin Buttes Extension to Begin Drilling Soon
The Tucson Citizen reports Tombstone investors back the Twin Buttes Extension Mining Company. B F Holland, representing the firm, aimed to start drilling immediately on their property adjoining Magnate. RV Saunders leads the company with Alford Roos as consulting engineer after a geological survey.
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B. F. Holland
Twin Buttes Extension Mining Company
Tombstone
RV. Saunders
Alford Roos
Arizona Cattle Growers Call for February Convention
The Arizona Cattle Growers association in Phoenix issued a call for its annual convention set for February 1, 12 and 12 in the city. Attendance of stockmen and land officials is urged as topics of vital importance will be discussed. Expected speakers include Hon. Tullman, land office commissioner, plus forest service and state land department officials. Forty members of the executive committee met last week to arrange the event.
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Jan
Arizona Cattle Growers Association
Phoenix
Tullman
Department of the Iterior
Washington, DC
Forest Service
State Land Department
General S Executive Committee
Joe Salazar Listed as Killed in Action
Tucson reports Joe Salazar killed in action. A message forwarded by Kitt Brow indicates Salazar, employed by Brow for seventeen years, was missing earlier and now confirmed dead. A prominent member of Tucson’s Mexican heritage, he was known as a reliable, upright young man aged 22. His sister Mrs. Gonzales, with whom he lived at 293 North Main Street, resides there.
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Tucson
Joe Salazar
Kitt Brow
Kitt Bros
Gonzales
North Main Street
Ion and
Ashurst Bill Passed for Private Water Conduits in Arizona
The Senate approved a bill by Senator Ashurst of Arizona granting private enterprises a 50 year right of way over national forest public lands and government reservations for constructing pipelines and other water conduits to livestock in Arizona. It now goes to the House for action.
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Washingivs
Senate
Ashurst
Arizona
Privat Enterprises
National Forest
State to Sell 75 000 Acres of Land Soon
State plans to auction about 75 000 acres across Yuma and nearby counties after nearing completion of selections under the enabling act and related grants. Lands include school and University lands along with Indian reservations. total allotted acres and remaining unleased portions are noted by the land commissioner.
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STATE
Juithis
Yuma
Frec Nationalands Ander
McAdoo to Visit His Ranch Near Phoenix
W G McAdoo and his wife plan a winter visit to Phoenix before season's end. He owns a northeast Phoenix farm once for orange growing now yielding cotton and alfalfa profits. The couple, currently in Santa Barbara, has long wintered in the area.
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McAdoo
Phoenix
W. G McAdoo
Santa Barbara
Trowbridge Report Publicized by State Committee
Major Stephen Trowbridge details months of refugee hunger in Jerusalem while assisting the Near East relief drive. He cites bread and water scarcity, a soup kitchen, and starving families including Sudanese women left by Turkish evacuees, urging aid for a $45 million campaign and ongoing relief efforts.
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Phoenix
Jan
Jerusalem
Stephen Trowbridg
State Committee
Betref
Near East
Thowbridge
Prownline
Dus Gate
Mostem
Aed
Bagdad
Foch Sends Brief Thanks To Scott For War Service
Bisbee Arizona January 22 C T Scott southwestern representative of the International Typographical Union carries a souvenir from the world war a post card from Marshal Foch signed by the famed commander in chief A prompt reply from Foch's headquarters in Paris expresses thanks and bears the words Remerciements signed La Marechal Foch Commandant en Chef des Armées Alliées.
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Bisbee
Ariz
C. T. Scott
Southwestern
International Topographical Union
Marshal Foch
Fghter
Scott
France
Monsieur C. D. Scott
International Typographical Union
Qgabinet du
Arechal Foch
la Marechal Foch
Unclaimed whisky case in dry territory court
William Hicks appeared in Judge Pratt's court on importing whisky into a dry region. Twenty four pints of Cedar Brook were entered as evidence but no claimant emerged. Hicks was released as the charge did not hold. The superior court ordered the whiskey be given to district physicians for medicine.
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GLOBE
William Hicks
Pratt
Cedar Brook
Hicks
Shute
Nogales Chamber Elects Officers Unanimously Reelects President
In Nogales on January 23 Bracey Curtis was unanimously reelected president of the Nogales Chamber of Commerce at the new board meeting. H. M. Clagett was chosen first vice president, J. W. Edwards second vice president, and J. A. Lagarra reelected treasurer with no other nominations.
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Nogales
Bracey Curtis
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Ibee Oil CO
Lower
Twin Buttes
Imperial Palace
Berlin
Kaiser
Holland
Congress
Cochise County
Trowbridge
Foch
Yank
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