The Benson signal., 1915-09-18
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

"A LucdCIACdl COLupduy is UcluS OI-
ganized in Douglas.
The Shriners convention will be
held in Douglas in October
Two or three patrols of Boy Scouts
will be organized at Nogales.
Bisbee is already preparing to enter
tain the Arizona Elks next April.
Nothern Arizona's third annual fair
will be held in Prescott on Oct. q, %
and %.
The City Council of Flagstaff is
preparing to pave the principal
streets.
Douglas is to have two fine new
school buildings, the cost to be about
$4,000.
Mrs. M. Sanford, formerly of Globe,
was among the victims of the Calves
ton flood
Major Luis Block denies that he and
Col. Aguirre attempted to kidnap
Federico Macias at Douglas.
City Treasurer Brooks of Tucson
has received $4,000 for the city
bonds recently sold to Denver firm.
The interstate convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association
will be held at Ell Paso from Nov. II
to IA.
The Calumet & Jerome is now work
ing in ore carrying silica and iron on
the 500-fOot level, which looks very
| promising.
A passenger named Travis com
mitted suicide by hanging himself to
tree in Winslow while delayed there
by washouts.s
Miss Rebecca McCue, school
teacher about As years of age, was
found dead in her room in Mesa
lodging house.
Only careful drivers who are com
petent to handle machine will be
permitted to carry cards in the Globe
Chauffeurs' Union hereafter.
Travellers to the Moqui snake dance
this year were not as numerous as
usual though there were a goodly num-
ber that went from Flagstaff.
Ed. Mingle of Chloride reports that
the company owning the New Jersey
mine has financed the property and
work is now progressing on it.
Minnie Williams, a negress, was ar
rested at Douglas on the charge OF
securing $50 from Mexican citizen
of Nacozari, named Francisco Ybanez
Haff & Colwell, we'll known Oatman
engineers, have just completed patent
survey of sixteen mining claims for
| the Jerome Oatman Mining Company
The development of a group OF
claims, formerly known as the Bob
Tail' and surrounding property will
be started by the Pandora Copper
| Company.
Substantial financial and publicity
support is to be given the mining in
| terests of the Tom Reed-Gold Road
Mining district by the San Francisco
Stock Excanhge.
Word has been received of the
death of Mrs. Reece Webster, wife of
prominent Clifton citizen, who died
from injuries received in an automo,
| bile wreck near Deming
Seven persons were injured, some
of them severely, when an automobile
| hurtled from an embankment on the
Miami highway and, turning over sew.
eral times, fell twelve feet.
The ArizGn9 cities are paving their
streets and installing high class
street lighting systems, while the
counties are voting bonds by the hun
dreds of thousands for good roads.
Changes in the plans for the new
| addition to the Pioneers Home at
Prescott were approved by the board
| of control and the contract mailed to
the construction company. Work on
the new building will begin at once.
While out hunting near Globe, Sal.
cador Yeberra, Mexican youth about
IA years of age, was shot in the right
arm by the accidental discharge of a
| 12-gauge shotgun in the hands OF
Louis Depolia, lad of the same age
The Lone Star Consolidated Copper
| Company, located in the Lone Star
mining district about ten miles north.
east of Stafford, has received a car
load of machinery which is now being
| put into place, preparatory to exten
sive development work in the prop
erty of the company.
During the hearing of the petition
| for a writ of habeas corpus, made in
behalf of Cal Cox, accused of the mur.
der of Jack Clinton, the widow of the
| slain man attacked the accused in the
court room and had to be removed
| forcibly, from the ENHANCEMENT by Of
ficers of the sheriff's office.
The county tax rate on the $10O val
uation in the various counties, follows
in order: Chochise, SLOT; Maricopa
$1.12; Yavapai, $1.15; Greenlee, SLIT;
Pinal, $1.2S; Yuma, $1.3O; Santa Cruz
$1.35; Navajo, $1.47; ella, $1.48; Mo
have, $3.50; Pima, $1.55 Coconino
! S1 e5. Graham 81 70. Anache 81 80