Silver Mines May Revive Tombstone Camp
Tombstone aims to regain prominence as a major silver center. Rudolph Kuchler and Van Zander of the Arizona tax commission report 16 to 18 old mines in Tombstone district are being leased and worked. They note development work in the copper district keeps 65 percent of normal employment, focusing on preparation for larger future production and retaining skilled miners.
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Tombstone
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Rudolph Kuchler
The
Tax Commission
van Zander
Commission
Cochise
Greenlee
Mr. Kuebler
Mr. Kuchler
Shannon
Nuan
Arrest Two Boys as Catile Thieves
Deputies Evag Wison and Gilbert Blanes captured two youths identified as Garfield Bakwell aged 17 and Henry Lane 14, accused of stealing buggies four horses two saddles breaking into a Seventh Avenue store for guns and revolvers stealing bicycles and robbing autos. Authorities say the pair have attacked curves in Laveen country and were camping south of For near the river bank when arrested. Bagwell has prior offenses and is said to influence younger children to run away from home.
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Phorsin. Apris
Evag Wison
Gilbert Blanes
Sheriffs Office
Garfield Bakwell
Henry Lane
Seventh Avenue
Laveen
Bagwell
Tad
Burwell
Jake Hensley
Not Many Cochise Boys in 158th Infantry Testh Now
The 158th infantry organized as an Arizona unit was split in France, serving as replacements and absorbing men from other states. On demobilization at Fort Bliss, few Arizona soldiers will remain, with several hundred from New Mexico. A special train will take them home after muster out.
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158Th
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New Mexico
New York
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Douglas
Benjamin Gregory
William He Wright
Josiah Laake
Charles Cunningham
Charles E Philbrick
Cury
Jack Vestry
Phoenix man named Arizona secretary of Atepiran
A Phoenix man, Lieut Cole E Power, is named among state secretaries for the Atepiran veterans organization. The group plans state caucuses to elect delegates to a national caucus in St Louis on May 9 and 10. Delegates will total twice each state's congressional representation with equal alternates.
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New York
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Veterans Association For Men of the Army and the Navy
St Louis
Lieut
Cole E. Power
Oil seekers rush to lease state land in Arizona
Prospectors in Holbrook and St. Johns area lease 20 full sections of state land, bringing total leased lands to about 180 sections and state revenue to 180. Two year prospecting licenses cost 100 per section. Fred T Colter reports seven or eight wells already started with contracts suggesting up to 100 rigs by year end. Drilling faces geological obstacles but optimism remains high among lessees and investors.
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Holbrook and
St. Johns
State Land Department
Fred T Colter
Huerta Wins Election for Sonora Governor in Closed Race
Adolfo de la Huerta won the Sonora governor election in a Sunday vote, with about 32,000 ballots cast and a reported plurality near 600 over Gen. Ygnacio Pesquiera. Partial returns from Sabinosa district suggest a larger margin. de la Huerta supports prohibition like the current governor Gen. Elias Calles, while three rivals favored open state.
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Conrado Gaxtols
Aguel S. Samaniego
Sabusripa
de la Huerta
P. Elias Calles
Woman from El Paso Named in Mann Act Case
Phoenix April 30 G P Wheelis formerly a Mexican border guard in the immigration service was arrested today on a federal warrant charging him with violation of the Mann Act He is held pending arraignment before United States Commissioner Heneke Wheelis
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Phoenix
Apri
G. P. Wheel
Great San Pedro Valley Road Boost Prompts County Meeting
Benson booster A G Smith urges Cochise county residents to back a county wide good roads plan. He says roads will unlock mineral wealth and farm output, create jobs, attract 2,500 new workers, and help flood Las Pedro valley with irrigation potential. He touts Porterl and Bankhead highway alignment and Roosevelt reservoir as benefits.
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Benson
San Pedro
Las Pedro
Missing historical volumes sought by Arizona library
Phoenix April 29 state library librarian Don Cronin requests four rare territorial governors reports from 1881 1882 1889 and 1890 to complete state records. He notes these books were never in the state library and asks collectors statewide to send any copies to the library.
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Aril
Iriary
Don Cronin
Secretary of the Interior
Cronin
State loan sought for Agua Fria Bridge project
Phoenix April 2 The Maricopa county board of supervisors formally requested a 320060 loan from the state institutions commission for a bridge over the Agua Fria on the road to Wickenburg They aim to raise 20000 from the general fund 20000 from federal funds and 20000 through state engineer s office federal aid The move precedes June 13 when Senate Bill 9 restricts further state county bridge loans The board notes high water blocks river passage for months at the proposed site
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Commission of State Institutions
Maricopa County
Ana Frio
Wickenburg
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State Engineer’s
Arizona Red Cross chapters to meet in Phoenix
Delegates from ten Arizona Red Cross chapters will convene in Phoenix on May 3 for a general conference with Pacific division officials. The meeting outlines future peace program work parallel to wartime effort, with speakers A. B. Dohrmann and George Filner among others. Attending chapters include Apache Navajo, Central Arizona, Coconino, Mohave County, Verde Williams, Yavapai, Globe, Miami and Yuma.
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George Filner
Arizona
American Red Cross
Red Aes
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Have County
Verte
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Yavapai
Globe
Miami
Yuma
Arizona Weekly Industrial Review Highlights State Gains
State Board of education to advertise for new school books. Attorney general’s office has acked a probe. Tempe-Mexa road to be paved. 1918 alfalfa crop valued at 13.5 million. Holbrook oil boom adds about 20 million to state treasury. Bisbee 1700 unemployed in county. Phoenix carpenters wage set at 6.50 daily. State tax commission reports mining wealth half of assessed value. Range conditions show improvement across the state.
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Attorney General's Office
LW. W. Activi
Phoenix
Arizona
Holbrook
Bisbee
St Ree
Chandler
Bease
State Tax Commission
Out State
Eien
May Day at Eckerman school in a fairyland display
More than one hundred parents and friends gathered at Eckerman school to witness May Day by third and fourth graders. The program featured a Spring arrival recitation, The Magic Cloth fairy play, a flag drill, May Queen crowning, and a Bavarian May Day drill with summer defeating winter.
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Eckerman School
Bereneice Chadwick
Francisca Yburra
Hazel Featherman
Seay
Mexican section hand killed near Willcox by freight train
Chief Deputy Henshaw reports a Mexican worker Juan Losano was killed late yesterday afternoon about four miles north of Willcox on the U P railroad. He had left a job at Jovetocdk to fetch blankets and did not see an approaching train. Identification found only a Morenci- issued name tag. authorities seek the writer of a letter and possible relatives.
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Gebree Henshaw
Willcox
U. P
Juan Losano
Jovetocdk
Antis
Morenci
Henshaw
State Timber Sale Authorized Near Flagstaff
The land board at Phoenix authorized Commissioner W A Moyer to sell 19 million feet of Arizona soft pine from six sections near Flagstaff. Timber prices will range from 1.89 to 4.90 per thousand feet, sold under state supervision with 7 percent cut and 30 percent left for reforestation. Acting Governor Sims chaired the meeting. Governor Campbell and H S Ross were absent.
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Land Board
W. A. Moyer
Flagstaff
State University
Arizona
Sims
Campbell
H. 8
Ross
Man Ends Life After Giving Up Fight in Tucson
In Tucson on April 20 Maren Kimbro a Western Texas cattleman faced the need to start anew at 37 and chose suicide. He used a 45 Colt gun and was found Wednesday morning in a Park View hotel room with a bullet wound in his head. Funeral plans to be announced.
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Maren Kimbro
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Uud
Park View
Parker Mortuary
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