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t»irVIIle-be(Special to Silver Belt)and Confederate forces onApril 5,Governor!18***** Th*s was **le on^ engagementof the Civil War fought within Arizona. In the fight lietween members of the California column and a detachment of sixteen men of the Confederate forces under Lieut. Jack Swilling, Lieut. James Barrett and two of ids men were killed. The monument marks the graves of the three Cnion soldierskilled in that fight and is Isdug erected under the direction of the Arizona Plumper's Historical Society.. PHOENIX, April 12 —| Hunt and party left Phoenix last night 'on a ihnv-day trip to the sites of the old missions established in Arizona by est Father Kino. The governor will lie to* accompanied on the trip by Dean F. C.I»r. FockwtMMl nf [hi* I niversity of Arizona ;on. Major Geo. 11. Kelly, state historian; on. A. F. Martinez, Mexican consul at id- Phoenix; William iKdbrldge. wcretary he 4*1 tin* state prison at Florence; I). C.*a«'Pettis, stati* game warden, and George It. Huge of Buckeye, tor. The ,rU» is being made to further j acquaint the gowrnor with the prole elr loins to 1*4* worked out in connection die with the linking up of the old missions j'• in Arizona and Sonora by a passible I road. Governor Fauto Topete ofSonora is co4»pcrating in the inove-| ineiit which contemplates a loop highway in Arizona and Sonora connectingtbe svveral old missions established by Gun Nelson, clniinant of the light Father Kino in the two states during ' heavyweight mat title of the world isi\y the 17th century.er- j The old Spanish missions in South-a 4*rn Arizona and northern Sonora offer \n a strong ap|M*a^ to the interest of tourists, Put tin* lack of suitable roads I makes the trip S4» difficult that few • |persons have visited them, it is to ln-I Mitigate the |Msdhilitie* of roads con-uiHting the missioiis so that they mayhiIn the district from Plioenix and issues a challenge to Shorty Henderson,Pete Brown to* any one else in the mat game.Nelson lias liecn trying for the heavy weight title during some recent matches in Phoenix. He lieat “Sailor Jack l.iwvis i*f Williams in a one fall tjirn hour time limit mated). He wrestled Ik* readily visited by tourists as well George KoLtonaros, who is claimant of as residents «»f the southwest, and in-, the heavyweight title of Greece. Kot-spired the present trip of tin* governor i sonarog beat Nekton olie fall in a twoand Ids partybour time limit match in one hour andGovernor Hunt and Major Kelly will forty five minutes, arrive at Picuclio Pas* on Sunday to i Nelson states that be i anxious to attend tin* dedication of a monument *.«.»• tin* wrestling game in full swing I erected at the site of the battle of here and is willing to do Ids bit to get l'icacbo Puss fought between I'nloti ! things going.
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Arizona Silver Belt
Miami, Arizona, US
Thu, Apr 12, 1928
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