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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



STATE NEWS. 



ARIZONA. 



Like many other states Arizona had her 

 share of snow during January. The latter 

 part of the month there was ten inches of 

 snow in the Tonto basin; this means 

 plenty of water for irrigating purposes. 

 On January 13 much loss of life and 

 property was caused by a tornado that 

 swept over a portion of the statp, Forty- 

 three persons met death at Fort Smith and 

 vicinity, while 300 others were injured 

 more less seriously. 



A fire occurred recently in the Sante 

 Fe tunnel, seven miles west of Williams, 

 and two men died from injuries received. 

 A force of 700 men were employed for al- 

 most a week clearing away the ruins and a 

 deep cut is to be made to take the place of 

 the tunnel. 



An event occurred at a Prescott saloon 

 that caused quite a sensation among the 

 crowd gathered there. A veiled woman 

 walked in one evening and laid a baby on 

 the bar before the amazed bar-tender. 

 A note pinned to its clothing explained that 

 the baby's mother was dying and that as 

 its father had spent the money that should 

 support the child in drink at the saloon, 

 it was thought the proper place to leave 

 the baby. About forty men were anxious 

 to take the pretty stranger, but the pro- 

 bate judge finally captured the prize and 

 assured the unsuccessful men that he 

 would invest the $300 he won in the 

 "game" that evening for the child's benefit. 

 This story is worthy of Indiana or Ken- 

 tucky. 



According to an Arizon exchange "The 

 governor of Kentucky sent his message to 

 the newspapers and then forgot to send it 

 to the legislature. That governor could be 

 elected senator in Arizona." 



the town were destroyed, among them the 

 post office. The loss is conservatively es- 

 timated at $50,000, with no insurance 

 whatever. 



The California Advocate, published, at 

 San Francisco and Escondido, begun the 

 New Year by becoming a weekly instead 

 of a monthly. 



The Covina Argus very truthfully says: 

 ''The Kentucky woman who wants to be 

 nominated for president by the Prohibi- 

 tionists should first take the precaution to 

 establish a residence in some other state. 



At the annual meeting of the stockhold- 

 ers of the Azusa Water Development and 

 Irrigation Company, at Covina, January 

 11, it was decided to make the same rates 

 for uses of water iii Covina as in Azusa. 

 that is $2.50 for a run of 100 inches for 

 twelve hours and at the close of the year 

 the users will be assessed to make up a 

 deficit, if any there be. 



The second week in December Riverside 

 shipped 165 cars of oranges, or 47,762 

 boxes. 



CALIFORNIA. 



A disastrous fire occurred on the 19th of 

 January at the mining camp of Randsburg. 

 Thirty buildings in the business part of 



COLORADO. 



The many friends of ex-Senator Tabor, 

 the one-time mining king who invested so 

 much money to, build up the city of Den- 

 ver, will be pleased to hear that he has 

 been appointed post^ master. He is in 

 straightened circumstances and the ap- 

 pointment will be very acceptable. 



A western paper says: "Ten days ago 

 fourteen of the big department stores of 

 Denver, controlling nearly 50 per cent of 

 the advertising support of the Denver pa- 

 pers, ordered their advertisements out un- 

 less a 30 per cent reduction in rates were 

 made them. The managers of the news- 

 papers decided that if they could be arbi- 

 trarily dealt with in that way in a matter 

 of business, eventually the department 

 combine, feeling its power, would dictate 

 the editorial utterances and hold a censor- 

 ship over the press that would make the 

 columns of those papers nothing more than 

 a reflex of "business methods." This 



