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Last week Maricopa County police put together bits of evidence indicating that Willie had recently been acting scared. He would not go out nights. He checked and rechecked the locks on his house. He even put the house up for sale. There was only the certainty that Willie left his pickup outside his house when he went to bed, an omission that led him to his sorry state on the morrow, lying mangled on his back minus a leg and a hand, staring emptily upwards at an orange tree full of fruit turning gold...
...Today it ranks seventh among causes of U.S. deaths, second among infectious diseases. - From Arizona, long a Mecca of the tubercular, comes similar evidence. The State Superintendent of Public Health, Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, reported last month that among non-Indians in Maricopa County (around Phoenix) are 11,820 suspected cases; 2,610 of them are active, and of these, only 220 are victims who went west for "the cure." Arizona has the worst TB death rate in the U.S., more than three times the national average...
...state of high excitement, two 17-year-old boys walked into the courthouse of Maricopa County, Arizona. Having served time at the state's "rehabilitation" school at Fort Grant, both had some hair-raising tales to tell. The man they asked to see was Charles C. Bernstein, who presided in the juvenile division of superior court. If anyone would listen to them, the "kids' judge" would...
Dutson, according to a Maricopa County prosecutor, not only has married eight wives (plus an earlier one who divorced him in the 1920s for starting out to get others), but has had them all toiling cheerfully for years to support him. Sheriff's officers arrested six of them on a charge of "notorious cohabitation" last week. Four (plus ten children) were working happily together on a ten-acre farm near the town of Mesa. One (with eight children) was toiling on another farm, and a sixth was hard at work running a store and gas station. The two other...
From John Hamilton John Janson soon received the $1,000 grand first prize. The Republican bigwigs were particularly pleased to have him win because a few weeks ago he had made stump speeches supporting his father, Harold J. Janson, as a candidate for Judge of Maricopa County on the Democratic ticket. Father Harold lost in the primary...