The Benson signal., 1915-07-10
LITTNE ARIZONA ITe

important Happenings Occurr
the State Mentioned Brie
Western Newspaper Union News serv
Miami is to h ave a new $3.50
tel.
Many new bul lildings are goi
at Inspiration
Prescott's Fro(ntier Days celebr
was largely attic elded
The home Of w. C. Peterson of
son was destroyed by fire.
The Superior and Boston at Mid Il!
will open up all lower mine levels.
A large number, of Montenegril
have left the Bisb Zee mines for thV
European battlefields.
About 1000 head of horses were<
purchased at Bisbe'e for the BRITISH
army, the prices ranging from SIS to
$1O0.
Ore is being packed out from the
Bland mine, in Alto gulch, owned by
William Powers, T. M. Hecht and
Frank Reichert
After "a hours vigilance and effort
of the city and county officers, Feliz
Lopez, murderer of Rosendo Lugo,
was arrested at Douglas and lodged
in Jail.
Signifying Arizona's supremacy as
the great copper-producing state of
the Union, ali automobiles in the
state will carry copper-colOred tags
during 1915
One of the ancient treasure houses
of the Mexicans has been rediscov-
cred forty-five miles south and west
of Ajo and but four miles from the
Mexican line.
Acting Governor Osborn appointed
Frank H. Lyman as extra judge Of
the Superior Court of Maricopa coun-
ty to fill the office created by an act
of the Legislature
Engineers who have been making
an expert examination of the water
table in the East Chandler district for
the Water Users Association, have
made favorable report.
The Sterling Borax Company, which
y,
finished the ore platform along the
spur track recently put in for them
by the s. P, at Patagonia.
Sheriff Harry C. Wheeler of Tomb
stone received a report Of killing,
which took place several miles south
of Herford, in which a man named
John Clinton was shot by parties un-
known.
At Tombstone John Nugent and
Thomas Camp, both of Douglas,
pleaded guilty to bootlegging and
were sentenced to serve ninety days
at hard labor, as we'll as pay fine of
$25 each.
A. w. Clapp, we'll known mining
man, has taken options on the Char
coal Canon group of mines at Cerbat,
| owned J. p. Ryan and John Boyle.
| These claims are on the south side or
| the Cerbat canon and run into Char
coal Canon.
While sitting on his front door
step at Douglas, cuddling his little
| baby in his arms, ROsendO LucO was
crept upon from a corner of his home
| and given a knife thrust in the neck,
| which caused his death, the jugular
| vein being severed
With the new slaughter house,
| which is now in the course of con-
| StructiOn for E. A. TOvrea and Com
| pany near the old one at Don Luis,
Bisbee can boast of having the only
| government inspected abatcir in New
| Mexico or Arizona.
The Miami Copper Company pro-
duced approximately 100000 pounds
of copper during May. This was the
| largest yield yet turned out by the
company in a single month, and COM
pares with 3,O34,634 pounds in April
and 2,937,00O pounds in March.
Mascot, both the city and the mine,
long in the embryo, has arrived. With
the completion of the railroad into the
new town of Mascot, which was cele-
brated on June Is, it can be truly
said that another producing copper
camp has been opened to Arizona and
the world
The new intermOuntain freight
rates made recently by the western
railroads will go into effect July 6,
according to news received by Phoe-
nix railroad traffic officials.
Appointments for the Arizona State
Bureau of Mines for it's first year
have been announced by the board of
regents of the University of Arizona.
The Bureau of Mines was authorized
by the last session of the Legislature
and the work started with the fiscal
year on July 1st.
While carrying on an ordinary con-
versation with her husband, Mrs.
Katherine Kelsey, aged 49 years, of