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;i&A3IRa&i nmmmamm miibi ihhhihiiiiiiiii miiHiiiiiMi,i, I'lllliWWIIHliiliaillillllliWiiilii iiTSiiBBaBiiWKgBigWBSKi:-r P ,ar, .T7-rt'- - JTi iiiT-1T-"ii nr p--llir 1 . 1) T;n - ir) 1 rirn- II mi i fl m 1 H'l.illlnpnirini nfffflWKff fflfr-'.1""-' ' r- Ml m ii.ihiiiwiii...i amii.w iii.imi n pnniwwiwwwim1 MjmWFWWEgBEBEsgim WWW dhc Coconino Sun Vol. XX. FLAGSTAFF. DECEMBER 12 1903. Ko. 50 STOCK CASES. Stockmen Have an Innlnl In the Justice of the Peace Court In William Last Week. The Williams News gives the follow ing account of a number of cases in the local court: Wednesday was the day set for the hearing of the charge against John Morgan for having his brand on a colt belonging to Sanford Rowe. Morgan had given ball in the amount of $100, C. B. Holloway being his surety. He failed to put in an ap pearance on the day set and the judge gave his bondsman till Saturday to produce Morgan or forfeit the bond. Blv vs Wolf. This was a suit instituted by Mr. Bly to recover a horse in the poosses slon of Mr. C. M. Wolf. Bly claimed Jto have raised a colt till it was be tween two and three years old, that he branded it CU (U inside the C) on left thigh and that he had last seen it about three years ago. Wolf showed that he had come into possession of the horse in August when he purchas ed the ranch and stock of George Douglas. The testimony showed that Herb Woods had bought the horse of John Fogleson over three years ago. He soon sold it to Ed Fox, who sold the horse back to Woods. The latter Jatcr sold it to Mr. Douglas from whom it passed to Mr. Wolf. Testi mony was brought to show that the horse in Wolf's possession was the samo ono lost by Mr. Bly. His wit nesses gave a description of the horse ita possession of Mr. Wolf, except there being a circle X and 7 on his horse. It is intimated that the C U could have been changed to a circle X by a few strokes of the iron. The defense cited the law stating that when an unrecorded brand was placed on a horse it was contrary to law and not proof of ownership. The jury, however! after consider ing the case carefully decided that as Mr. Bly had established his claim io the horse by thorough identification by natural marks, other than the brand, he was entitled to his property, and gave a verdict in his favor. It now remains for Mr. Wolf to recover from Mr. Douglas. E. M. Doe represented Mr. Bly and X. N. Steeves, Mr. Wolf. Thk Greeley Case. Tuesday morning eleven head of "dogies" were sold according to law. Al Strickland purchased nine and J. 'C. Phelan two of them. J. A. Greely had replevincd three head but they were sold under a counter bond by In spector Holden as above. Greely brought suit to recover and the case was tried yesterday afternoon. Attorney Steeves represented Mr. Holden and J. E. Jones wirs attorney for Mr. Greeley. The jury rendered a verdict that Mr. Holden was justi fied in his action of seizing and selling the cattle, but Greeley wants to test the law further and gave notice of an appeal. Dates In Arizona. Prof. R. H. Forbes, director of the Arizona Experiment Station, returned from Washington Wednesday. He went to the capital to represent Ari zona at the meeting of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, and to con sult with Prof. O. T. Swingle, explor er for the Department of Agriculture, in reference to the date palm orchard at Tempo. Prof. Forbes read a paper before the convention of Association of Land Grant Colleges, dealing with the soils of Arizona and containing the results of a personal research. The experiment in raising dales, which is the only one of its kind being car ried on in the United States, will be continued on an enlarged scale and additional date palms will be imported from Africa by Prof. Swingle for the date palm orchard at Tempe. TWO BAD MEN. Alvord and Styles to be Tried at Tomb stone on last Monday. Burt Alvord, who is charged with interfering with the United States malls in Cochise county, but who has been In the county jail at Phoenix for the past three months, was taken to Tombstone Sunday night by Deputy United States Marshals Foster and Porterle. Federal court convened at Tombstono Monday, and Alvord and Billy Stiles are to be tried for inter fering with the mails. Both men are well known desperadoes, and it is pro bable that the case will go hard with them. Stiles has been in the Pima county jail, while Alvord was in the Maricopa jail to prevent a possible attempt to release them from the bastile at Tomb stone. They have many friends who would not stop at anything to secure their release. Foreigners In Arizona. It is of interest to note that the foreign population of Arizona was distributed by counties as follows: Apache, 100; Cochise, 2,739; Coconino, 815; Gila, 801; Graham, 3,982; Mari copa. 2,K12; Mohave, 395; Navajo, 302; Pima, 4,418; Pinal, 1,452; Santa Cruz, 2,158; Yavapai, 3.193; Yuma, 922. Although the population of Arizona is American by a large majority, there is a decided sprinkling of foreigners in addition to the Mexicans which is approximately, 30,000. According to the census, Ireland had 1,159 represen tatives here in 1900. Italy had C98; Japan, 284; Norway, 123; the Pacific Islands, 37; Poland, 22; Portugal, 18; Roumania, 1; Russia, 107; Scotland, 399; South America, 24; Spain, 51; Sweden, 342; Switzerland, 499; Turkey, 28; Wales, 130; the West Indies, 13; born at sea, 26. And there were 1,298 Chinese. They Talk Arizona. A Redewill, of the Redewill Music Company, has just returned from an extended trip in the east. He visited Washington, Baltimore, New York and Buffalo. He tells amazing stories of the interest shown in Arizona. At one time eighteen people were at the hotel to ask questions of the gentle man from Arizona. They knew all about the $1,000,000 sugar beet plant, the roads that were built and the Tonto Basin reservoir. All seemed to have their eyes on the west watching for the great returns soon to be rea lized from the greatest of irrigation projects. Enterprise. Carder Thanks. I desire to thank the party that found and returned the note book to Geo. Barnard. F. B. Barnard, 1-t Camp No. 1. WINSLOW OH. FIELDS. Plan Proposed for the erlairizaUon of Hi Comoany. C. White Mortimer, of Los Angeles, is attempting to organize a big oil company to develop the oil fields near Winslow. He reports from two pounds of shale he extracted drops of oil. This is the plan of organization which he is promulgating: 1. That a corporation to be known as the Arizona Co-Operative Oil Com pany, Ltd., be formed with a capital stock of $1,000,000, divided into 1,000, 000 shares of a par value of -$1.00 each. 2. That the company acquire ten thousand acres of the said 14,800 acres paying therefor thirty shares of stock for each acre, and giving to each shareholder the right to purchase thirty shares of stock for each acre he transfers to the company at the price of 5 cents a share, and that the re remaining 400,000 shares (less 50,000 dealt with below) be held as treasury stock, and if necessary for develop ment work sold at not less than ten cents per share. 3. That the money realized from sales of shares shall be paid to a bank to be selected by the directors, upon the following conditions, to-wit: That it shall be paid out on the order of the president and secretary for develop ment work only, and that if the funds received be not sufficient to warrant the directors in commencing work, all moneys subscribed shall be repaid to the shareholder subscribing without any deduction whatever. 4. That all the officers of the com pany shall give their services grat uitously until the company is on a dividend paying basis. The under signed to pay the salary of the secre tary. 5. That fifty thousand shares be al lotted to the undersigned to cover traveling expenses, costs of formation of company, printing, advertising printing circulars, secretary's salary and other necessary disbursements. Elect Officers. The annual election of officers of El Zarihab Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Arizona, took place Monday night resulting in the selection of the follow ing: Illustrious Potentate, R. N. Fredericks, of Prescott; Chief Rabban, F. A. Shaw, of Phoenix; Assistant Rabban, V L. Clark; High Priest and Prophet, N. A. Marford; Oriental Guide and SelimMtchelson; treasurer, George H. N. Luhrs; recorder, George W, Vlckers; Representative to the Imperial Council, George W. Vlckers. The installation of the new officers will take place the first Monday in January. Black Warrior Mine. , James A. Fleming, president of the Black Warrior copper mining com pany, arrived here yesterday morning from a business trip to the east, taken since his last trip to Globe. Mr. Fleming was, interrogated as to the truth of the report that the sale of the Black Warrior for $2,500,000 was pen ding, and that there was nothing in it or at least he had not been approached on the subject. He said he was look ing for that party himself. While the Black Warrior is in his estimation, a very valuable mine, there would be but little time spent in preliminaries if he could find a man with that much money in his pocket who wanted to buy it. Mr. Fleming says the Black Warrior is now running with, only a small force, as the leaching plant can not be worked to advantage till the in stallation of another blast furnace. The leacher is all right and the blast furnace now in use is all right, but it is too small. Since the placing of the present furnace the ore has changed to a higher grade and to work it prof itably will require greater furnace capacity, as the ore now being taken out has to be sorted and a larger per centage than formerly must go to the smeltering plant instead of the leacher. Journal-Miner. ARIZONA SCHOOL TEACHERS. Territorial Association Meets In Phoenix December 28. The teachers' association of the ter ritory will meet in Phoenix, December 28 and 29. The officers are: A. N. Taylor, Flagstaff normal school, president; L. W. Gains, Tombstone, secretary; Miss Marguerite Williams, Phoenix, treasurer. All the prominent teachers of Ari zona will be present, including the presidents and faculties of the various territorial Institutions, and most of the county and city superintendents. Among the interesting features will be an address by Supt. Greenwood of Kansas City. An evening reception by the Woman's club is also talked of. The meetings will probably be held in the high school buildings. This association meeting will follow closely after the Maricopa county teachers' institute, which will be held here Dec. 21 to 22 inclusive, and for which the programme is already pre pared. The general plan for the con duct of the institute has already been outlined and will include actual dem onstrations of classes at work, the methods of Instruction, to be comment ed on later by members of the institute. The programme will also include some excellent music and literary numbers. The teachers generally are taking great Interest In the institute and pre dict that it will be a very profitable session. Republican. Murder and Suicide. On Wednesday morning, in Will iams, between 8 and 9 o'clock, John Spires wentto the home of Mrs. S. Per kins and knocked at the door. His knock was answered by Lena, the 15 year old daughter of Mrs. Perkin. Spires handed her a note to give to her mother, and as she turned to de liver the note Spires caught hold of her and thrust a dagger into her abdo men, he then using tho dagger on him self. They both died that night from their wounds. Jealousy is supposed to have been the motive which caused Spires to commit this rash act. Plead Guilty. In the district court at Tombstone, Burt Alvord, the noted outlaw, late Tuesday afternoon entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him, with one Wm. Stiles, of attempting to rob the United States mails at Cochise in this county, in September, 1899. He was sentenced to serve two years In the penitentiary at Yuma. Five other indictments against him were dis missed on motion of the United States attorney. The cases against Stiles are net for December 10. i?" '""" WSnsth2rC ... ,. , t,. . 7 .u.-i ,. .,.i. .A. J ;JiiaiiMMtai j.tWSfci3 MmiWHIiiwwhwOTi