Tombstone Weekly Epitaph from Tombstone, Arizona • Page 3

-tr SUNDAY. MAY 29. 1921 TOMBSTONE EPITAPH PAGE THREE -J- If If I TO DECIDE WHETHER DRY LAW NULLIFIED PREVIOUS MEASURES PHOKNIX, Mav 22- Whether the national prohibition amendment has nullified Jhi- sections of tlio Internal revenue an which tiave to do with the Illegal manufacture of Intoxicants or whether those? sections art- still In lull effect and may be Invoked In the prosenntion of violators of the national prohibition amendment. Is to lie decided the supreme court of the United States, according to word received esterilay by Thomas Klvnn. United States attorney.

Notl-I Ik.it inn to this effect was made l' the clerk of the circuit court of ap-i peals for the ninth district. San Fran-1 tlsco. in the case ot James I- Brooks. ltrookswas convicted at Tucson on April 15. 1920.

on charge of hav ing Molateil the internal revenue laws. There were four counts in the indict-mem, as follows: Setting np a still without registering it. I'arrjiug on business of a distiller without chins bond. mash for the production of -spirits in a building other than a slul authorized distillery spirit- from the 1 without being an authorized distiller. llrooks was found guilt.v o.i the four counts and was sentenced to serve a year and a da at the federal penitentiar) at Leavenworth, Kansas, and to pav a fine of $2,100.

The aclS'PHELPS DODGE MERC. CO. alleged In the case against him were PURCHASES OPEN FIELD FOR committed about seven days after the national prohibition amendment went) into effect, and after his conviction the defendant, through his counsel, sued out a writ of error to the circuit ourt of appeals asking for a reversal of the judgment and conviction on the ground that the national prohibition act repealed the internal revenue laws under whicli he had been indicted and ouvicted The government, on the other hand, contended that the prohibition act does not repeal the internal revenue sections invedved ill the llrooks indictmen: The various I'nited States courts, both circuit courts of appeals and district courts, have rendered from time to time divergent opinions as to 'whether the national prohibition act provides the exclusive remedy for violations formerlv denounced by the internal revenue laws The circuit court of appeals therefore has certified thelpoultrv and fresh meat also go to emestions of law involved directly to th United Sates supreme court to ectire a final and authoritative sion on the question. So far as the United States attor- ney is advised, this Is the first case to lie presented to the supreme court for a settl cnt cf this much disc u-, ed question, and the decision will be looked forward to with much inter est, as it will determine the procedure in all future cases of like character. The penalties under the prohibition law- are less severe than those provided by the former Internal revenue laws, and for the first offenders no greater than a Jail sentence can be imposed for the sale and manufacture -of intoxicating liquor illegally, while for possession and transportation, fines atone can be Imposed for the first offenses.

The questions which the circuit court of appeals certified to the supreme court are four in number, three of which refer to offenses allleged in 'the lircoks indictment and. the fourth being as follows: "In case It shall be decided the supreme court that the sections of the revised statutes above named and the offenses therein defined have been nealecl bv virtue of the provisions otl the said national prohibition act, should the United States circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit set aside the Judgment and sentence imposed In (aid cause by the United States district court for the district of Arizona and remand said cause to said court, with instructions to entr Judgment and impose sentence upon the plaintiff In error in accordance with the said national prohibition acL" I D. B. HEARD TO EUROPE FOR BIG COTTON' MEET PHOKNIX. May 22.

As one of the American delegates to the Second World's Cotton conference, to be held at Liverpool and Manchester, England. to 22. Dwlght R. In anew size package 10 for 10 cts Heard will leave this evening for New York, where with other American dele- gates, about 250 in number, he and his partv will sail on the Adriatic June 1 AGRICULTURE IN COCHISE The purchases made. by the Phelps I -i Dodge Companv in thelreceivcd at the executive office from (state of Arizona in the ear 1S20i Coventor Campbell vesterdav amounted to JITy.bTJoJ, which givs some idea of the importance of thehis secrttarv Henri lleboleguv.

stated mining on a legitimate home market to the agricultural indus-j that the Colorado River Basin arried forward than it try in this state. These purchases would be introduced bv Senator Hur-'a" slnce dajs were distributed over all of lh pro, sum or New- Mexico aud that he had' reconstruction and revival of due lug sections of southern Arizona I every hope of its eariv enactment. I thls ni' ot tnt' state has and were consumed mainly in Among others those who are lending'110' takcn a --opv. but there zona although the Phelps Dodge Mer-j assistance to the passage of the billj1- stt'Jll' "lJ investment of cantile companv operates two stores 'is Senator Halph Cameron. mone5 Claims that have In New Mexico as well as supplv ins to the message on file at the state neId for a generation the districts ot Morenci.

Douglas and house. or transferred Old Iiisbce in this state The produce of! The governor is appearing before records are being gone over, titles are Arizona farms, ranches and dairies committees dallj In the interests straightened up and options are that has in this wav found a market reclamation of the west Ills pro-i1'1 ma" bi- mining in-includes such crops as hay, barley, I gram is outlined in his wire to Mr. t-'ri'sts wheat, oranges, fniits and xegetables. whicli follows Southern Nevada is gradually com- The cotton industry is represented byj "Covernors delegation appeared nortl1 "P-rators who made gooi cotton seed meal and the dairy dustry bv canned milk ISutter, I swell the total The Jlst. therefore, includes practical! everv class of'lng before bouse committee on Irriga-ithL" deci-'goods produced in Arizona in a form'tioii and have engagement tomorrow ead for the ultimate consumer.

Purchases from Duncan Vallev i amounted to and from theleverv manner possible Senator 'SalT River Valle.v to $41,701 ou, and shii ments ranging betweeii these two'CoIorad figures came from the Sulphur Spring. Clla and San Pedro tallevs. In addi etlon to the produce assigned to some particular valle, other purchases made in the state amounted to more than $22,000,000. Shipments In carload lots original- ing tn Arizona totalled loS cars, which Is approximate one-sixth ot all the carload shipments bought by the Phelps Dodge Mercantile company during the ear. Nevertheless, the local shipments in less than carload lots had an aggregate value greater than the total value of all the carload pur-! chases.

Among the articles handled in carload lots, hay is the bulkiest and has a value of between and $4Co per car, white canned milk is valued at more than $1,000 the carload. Tho above figures for a single company may give some Idea of the market that is open for the products of re-(Arizona farm and ranch lands. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS TICKETS FOR HOMESICK DOUCI.AS, May 21. There was no I and cables Coppola sajs that he pre-tise of Francisco Hernandez stealing sented himself at the Ronlllas home. two shirts to grt in Jail because he vvas hungry, according to Herberto It.

Moguel, vico consul for the Mexican government here, who declares his office was prepared to handle cases of povcrt and distress among Mexicans Mn the Douglas vicinity. Any Mexican out of empIoment may apply at the consul office and get transportation to any part of Mexico and those without food will lie provided for. Kingman 12 mines underging de-i velopmeat in new camp of Katherine. iucky IvstrikeJ sCIGARETTE MANY smokers prefer it. They'll find that this compact package often Lucky Strike Cigarettes will just suit them.

Try them dealers now carry both sizes: 10 for 10 cts; 20 for 20 cts. It's Toasted (HARDING PROMISES COOPERATION IN COLORADO PROJECT I'llOKMX, May 23 Omperation of idustry. President Harding In the Colorado, With the rehabilitation of the Com- Kiver project and the general recla-j s'tk 'hcr sections in this mineral- inution program was assured the jernor's delegation, according to onl Coventor Campbell in his wire to In-'fore president vesterdav. Received assurances his co-operation general Jeelamation, also Colorado Rivsr lkisln coinpaict Appeared this morn I morning before similar senate com-1 mlltee Senator Cameron assisting In New Mexico will Introduce River Rasln bill and have sum of (every hope of its early enactment." CHARGES WIFE'S AFFECTIONS ALIENATED I TUCSON. May 21- Suit for $210,000 was file-el In the superior court es- tevdav by Ciuseppe Coppola, through his attorney.

Frank IJ Curley. against Mr. and Mrs. Iguacio Iionlllas. The young Italian, who was formerly an I Tnere is no 'PPins.

however. In attache of the Italian "mc-back on mining, it is not charges the former Mexican ambas- i sailor and candidate for the presidency of Mexico, as well as his wife, with alienating the affections of his wife, I Maria Coppola. Mrs. Coppolla Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

fionlllas. The suit is the outcome of many at- tempts on the part of Copiolla to see and communicate with his wife, who he charged vvas being restrained against tier will in the home of her parents. Upon his arrival In America, where he had come from his native Italy to ascertain the cause of his wife's con- I tinned neglect to answer his letters where she was staving, only to be In formed that he could not see elthcr his wife or his jear old child. PAMCHO VILLA MAY LIVE IN TORREON; TO BUY RANCH TORRKON, Coahulla. May 21.

It Is stated In the local papers that Pancho Villa shortly Is to make his residence in Torreon. It is understood that lie Is, negotiating for too Qainta San Joaquin, with the object jof bringing his family here. This property is owned by Attorney Juan 'CastUlas. 'SILVERS ATTRACTING GREAT ATTENTION, At the present time western Is the center of attraction In a mining vvaj. 'I he closing of the great copper miues over the United States and this country lurnishes 60 per cent of the world's copper has to a consider- I'llOKMX, 23 Nccessit of able decree curtailed tile output of products is -being emphasized to the gold and silver, both metals being of the state Clarence product of copper mining.

Frem Dan. state dair.v commissioner, who appearances copper mining and smelt- believes that the success of the buv-i ig will not resume for many months! home incitement rests with them. The western end of this state holds tie record of previous metal mining. Virginia Clt, (iold Hill and Silver City have been the Ophlr of modern i history and thtlr storv is rltten on'j in the first chapter. Mining men from over the entire country are quietly taking interests ini land about Virginia Citv.

Ihe reason I for this is cheaper extraction of tal- lues, a freo milling product and close proximity to markets Nc-tada has two prominent produc 'tions for the rest of the union, metals! has a8 it, background the trade at-' land sunk raising it is only in a home- movement. limited vvav. a horticultural sta'e Kmpsasis is being placte' on grading weather and climatic conditions, to-j rcam umi rejection of an cream jgether with high aliunde in many wa contaminated, by the local sections, preventing such in a This taker. bv menial sense The cattle and sheep' lle creameries will have the effect Jt men to a large degree depend on their shutting off milk that Is not jure and success from the mines and their pro- ducts A slump In mining means similar effect on the stock raising in gov-'il "lust necessity receive attention The counties adjoining thei omstoc I. already feel the Influx of new blood, and withal concerted effort on 'art )f thc vvestern Nevada i'" secnon see me pus 'he vvestern end of the art eiuieiij acuuirmB state-, and are ground The proven great depth the work.

Dr An-! ''is leilges of the western section 'h'" stjl" has much to do with Jrlml!) problems present ,1... cl.li. t. rln ltd ia places ior investment Western Nevada should make an. ISur-ic''fort lo tn" revival.

were dug out and taken aMa Th? oId crou'' 'feved had emptied the shell and the tlf. itockefeller foun-jthe the extracted were expended in fore-, Ign lands and great cities. With the' Camubell has named revival of mining in western Nevada efforts should be made to have the product expended in the state from which it has been taken and this will lead to the upbuilding of many other industries and upbuilding of home sections alone in the air, but the concrete facts are being shown. This end or the state is to produce the big end of the metal reserve and while it is being extracted it Is hoped that the present generation will plan better than the old. While Nevada Is enriching the world she should receive some recompense for her gifts to man.

Carsan Appeal. TYPHUS DISCOVERED AMONG NAVAJO TRIBE EI. PASO, May 21. A special to the VTimes from Santa Fe, N. sas Di rector K.

Waller of the United States public health service reports CO j'" rases of tphus among the Na aJo inuians. mere nave oeea in 'deaths. Including those of Doctors Da vis and Crtffln. Indian service ph si-1 clans. The remaining victims are In-' (Hans.

Six hundred telegrams hate sent out to co'inty health officers In New Mexico. Arizona, Colorado and Utah, warning them to watch for symptoms and to prevent the spread of the disease. Dr. Joseph Callagher, United States health service surgeon and hphusj specialist. Is on the grotnd and every effort Is being made to prevent th spread of the disa.ise among the In elians HICH STANDARD OF PRODUCTS URGED ON FARMERS OF STATE i The obligation is with the farmer, JIr j)aIla jpSterda "If the peo- pie are convinced that farmers are cooperating by producing clean products thev will not consider the purchase of shii peel In products." Air.

Dana is ambitious to make Ari zona articles surpass the coast staiMl-1 ard in the making and is urging the co-operation of the people in the suik 1((rt jjr, i)aua )la two deputies in the local field who are constantly at work In the effort that sweet and will Impress the farmers mth the fact that it pays to be clean, jnik to be used for butter must get to the creamery in good shape, ac-1 cording to wholesale butter purchasers who declare that theer is still a big demand here for shipped in butter, phis sane situation exists in other Urn of the state. It Is understood Uhat Globe and are using prac ticallv nothing but California butter, whlle the northern part of the state -v hen Stacev was named vice presi-N receiving its butler supply from dent All ofticers were elected unani-Kansas I mous! i It was decided to hold a Fourth of ONE YEAR REQUIRED July celebration in Douglas, and A J. FOR MENTAL SURVEY I McKlmion. William Alberts and C. PHOKNIX.

Mav 20 It will require 'o Neil appointed as a committee' to one tear In which to make a survey of Arizona by the national committee for mental hvgiene The time was placed esterday by Dr A Anderson, associate medical director, in a letter to Con Cronin, state law librarian, whose co-operation and help was asked by Dr Anderson The survey, whiih vvas rectuested fjftli state legislature and Campbell, will begin earlv- tne autmnn the vear it will rites, an intensive- study of menta defects will be made At the end of the investigation re-full iirepared reiiort ill be made as ar I advisable The surjev wi prominent nwn anil women zhrough-1 out the state to cooperate with cDr.jt Anderson In his work. CIVIL ENGINEER FINDS COUNTY LINE IS WRONGjchia, who despite has name hasn't but PHOKNIX. May 17 O. C. Thomp-'ne wife, was having martial dlfficul- son.

a civil engineer emploed by "tenia an.l he decided to give Maricopa county board of supervisors hi-s wife mate a sound thrashing to determine the correct location of. His neighbors In Pirtleville. hearing the dividing line lietwc-en Maricopa, rumblings of famllv strite. called and Yavapai counties. reiKirted to theia board that the- tine was one and one-! Solomon Is In Jan aud cited for etghth miles south.of where it should before Constable Dw.ve-r.

i Mr Thnmi.son renorted that the I Solomon also look a swat at his sis monument erected by Yavapai county in lMil, to mark the dividing line be tween the two counties, was not lo-' Is contrary to ring eticpiette. urted at the spot where he believed it' should be. according to calcnlatlons'THREATENS CITY COUNCIL made by him from observations of the! WITH LEGAL ACTION sun and north star. Mr. Thompson, DOUCI.AS.

May 21. Declaring that now Is In Prescott. county seat of Ya- the- city councils proposal to tax the t-apal county, securing further infor-i water department "is unnatural, tin-matlon regarding the line. I Just and Illegal." David Benshimol. In If Mr.

Thompson's claims are letter to the city fathers, read at a rect. the Atchison, Topeka and Santa JFe railroad has been pajlng taxes on about worm ot property lo.eouns muess Yatapal county which should have called. been paid to Maricopa. MRS. MARY WILLARD, VERDE PIONEER, IS, DEAD KLACSTAFF, May 23.

Less than a month under SS years old. Mrs. Mary Wlllard, for 3" years a resident ot Cottonwood, died'at her home in tint tince sbifrtlv before noon Monday. A general falling of her powers, brought on by old age. was the cause of Mrs.

Wlllanjs death. SUES FOR J2.000 IN MINING DIFFICULTY Wi'llam Klackburn of Courlland lias brought suit In tlio superior co irt here against Iiaptlsta Correct!) of Iilsbce for damages in the sum of $2,000. The complaint alleges that the defendant Corretto set oral jears ago secured a temporary injunction against the plaintiff to pretent him from operating the "ISlack Beaut." a placer claim In the Warren distr'tt. by claiming "'at he held the ground under a min- lug claim named the "Tarrott." That the temporary injunction was dismissed for want of prosecution last October lly virtue of the Injunction he was pi evented from shipping the iSlag that was oil the ground In dis-jsaid the editor of the Arizona Minim; and thereby suffered a loss ot' Journal, in the course of a compre is an allegation i The slag was put on the ground In dispute bj the railroid compan as ballast when th eold railroad line ranjmeiit of production in others "Thee around the foothills from Don I.uls to Nam Junction and then to Lewis Springs It contains a fair value in copper GCORGE BUXTON IS RE- ELECTED CHAMBER mEAD DOUCI.AS. May 21 Ceorge S.

I P.utton was re-elected president, AI bert Stacey was elected vice presi- jdeiit. I. Simms. treasurer, and Kly I Martin reappointed secretary at a meeting of the directors of the Doug I fr two months after the armistice las Chamber of Commerce and Miii--Sl'ad ''een signed, and then gradually i last night Stacey was elected to the curtailed vice presidenc.v after (5 Dowell re- fused to accept the )ositlon beeause 'of his newlv admired duties with the 'water eommiss.on htace) was treas i urer and Sims elected to that office confer with a similar committee from the American legion ROBBERS ARRESTED IIKNSON. Ariz, May 19 With theiln Lalirorcla and elsewhere because arrest of Harland I).

Clark. James K. Kelly. Albert Parker, Antone Almond! and Clde Uratt at various points of the Southern Pacific line i-ijvvere free and that it onlv rewired the past month by Special Agent lly minute to gi one. and OClcers Sik and Klatherwick of the S.

police, and Ralph Cavin. of the department of justice, railroad au- thorities are of the opinion that one of IN STATE PRISON the most daring and active gings of, PRKSCOTT Mav 21 Mr Am-bo car thieves has been dissolved Irene Hopkins was sentenced todav to The arrest of these men at various a minimum of five tears and a maxJ-dates and in different places along mum of 14 ears in the stale prison at thu Southern Pacific line between Yu-j Florence, after having been Inj'i ma and Deming. was accompanied by guilty Frida afternoon of the chare- recover of goods valued at about whicli had ben pilfered from box cars ET NOT THY ANGER GAIN THY GOAT, SOLOMON; WOMAN IS UN-UNDERSTANDABLE! 21. Solomon Mo- ter in law, it is said, she making objection at being hit while down, which 'special meeting held last night, I thre-atencd to take the matter to the. the resolution was rc-i Renshimol In his letter safcl that the plan was not good business, and that the proposal to give the city water at cost at an estimated figure of four cents was unjust.

With the overhead expense included, he said, the water would cost the department 10 cents. ilSenshimoI also accused the city of owing the water department $15,000, on old water bills, which he said, wis about the extent of the city's assistance to the water department. PROSPERITY TO RETURN IN SIX MONTHS. CLAIM DOUOLAS. Ma -That the cop-lie situation will be practically cleared up.

and both production and markets well on their way to normal within six months, is the prediction ot Charles F. Willis, editor of the Arizona Mining Journal, who is here on a visit from I'hoenlx While the cupper situation is difficult to analvze. Mr. Willis bases his pn diction on a reduction of costs to the producer, an increase in the price of the metal and an earlv adjustmert of supply anil demand "The present condition of the cop- per market dates to the war period." hensive survey of the situation which has led to the closing down of many of the larger mines, and the curtail- price w-as then 23 cents and practically all copper mined was going for government use with tun result that many substitutes for copper were used by manufacturers "At the sudden stopping of the tne tlrst incentive of the copper people teas to close down entirelv and stop the production of copper, hut In order that the labor situation might disturbed the companies kept a "I production of their peak lodes URGES OWNERS GET AUTOS REGISTERED BEFORE TOURS PHOKNIX. Mav 21 -John P.e-J-monil.

assi-tant seen tar of state, to dav declared that if motorists intending to leave the state in their ears would secure a certificate of registration before leaving Arizona, it might save them much trouble and inconvenience later His announcement was prompted, he said, bv the large number of telegrams the secrelarv of state's office is receiving ever tlaY I. irom motorists no are uelng Uetaln-t i they failed to secure such certificate before leaving Arizona Mr Redmond said the certificates. MRS. HOPKINS IS SENTENCED 5 TO 14 YEARS 'of throwing caustic chemical on the person of I.ucile Callagher she was seated at breakfast in the Connor hotel of Jerome on the morn-Jlng of March 31 When Judge James Jeickes. of Maricopa, asked her in the superior court this afternoon if she had an ing to sat before he-r sen- i tence vvas made, Mrs.

Hopkins said "I don't know what I could sa. Then Is nothing to say except that I am Innocent. I have dope to wrong." and when the Judge read Iter sentence she said, with an untroubled expression on her face: "Thank you CROWN KING MAN RACING DEATH TO BEDSIDE OF WIFE May 23. A high leered sheriff's automobiles Deput R. X.

Price at the wheel, sped nortward last night to Rumble-bee, Ariz in a race for life. At Rumblebee he was to meet T. II Anderson, a miner of Crown King, and bring him to the bedside of his ife at the Sisters' ho- VH.LW... not been determined at an early ho.tr I this morning ENDLESS CO. ENDS PHOKNIX, May 21.

An order the Kndless Chain Saw company, an Arizona corporation, was issued jesterday by Judge Stanford after a hearing on their petition for ths dissolution. The petition was filed on April 23 by Ned Crelghton after the stockho'ders of the company had passed a resolution on March 11, 1921, for the action All assets have been distributed and all claims settled, according to the evidence offered yesterday. lltU.