The Benson signal., 1915-11-20
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


zona Cattle Growers Association at
Prescott
Miami has an epidemic of typhoid
fever.
Fire destroyed store at Kelton.
Loss $4,000.
A Mormon church is being organ
lied at Miami.
Miami has put on campaign of
you must clean up"
The Indian school at Phoenix has
an enrolment of 712.
The Mint mines of Copper Basin
are to resume operations.
Jose Espaiza, miner, was killed
by an explosion in the Miami mine.
Forty thousand pounds of dates
were grown in Arizona this season.
1t is stated that the Phoenix alfalfa
mill will soon be in operation again.
Copper production in the Bisbee
district continues to show remarka BILE
gains.
The Douglas Carpenters organized
a union with thirty-two members
present.
A great copper mine is predicted in
the Red Mountain belt in the Pata-
gonia district.
Mrs. L. e. Wightman of Globe has
been elected grand chief of the Py-
THAN Sisters.
The state organization of CONNER
cial Clubs will be effected at Phoenix
during fair week.
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall
officially opened the Arizona State
Fair at Tucson.
Fourteen thousand seven hundred
bushels of grain were threshed in the
Snowflake section this fall
Joe V. Prochaska of Miami has been
appointed district deputy grand ex-
alted ruler of the Elks lodge.
The first carload of 'silver-lead ore
from the Crescent Consolidated prop
erty at Radium was shipped to Ell
Paso.
Over 600 cars of live stock valued
at over $1,OO0,0O0, have been shipped
from Seligman in the last three
months.
Bisbee Elks received an invitation
from the Douglas lodge to attend the
ground breaking ceremonies for the
Douglas home.
The Portland-Arizona copper hold
| ings in Copper Basin near Jerome
were acquired by D. M. Locey and as
sociates of st. Louis.
An order was made in the Superior
Court at Tombstone for the drawing
of fifty trial jurors to report for duty
on Monday, Nov. %.
Despite the almost constant down
pour of rain the Southern Arizona
| State Fair at Tucson closed it's gates
on a record-breaking attendance.
For alleged injuries, Abelardo
Balderamos, of Prescott, has brought
suit for $4,000 against the Console
dated Smelling Company of Humboldt
Roman Hubbell, son of Senator j.
Lorenzo Hubbell, has purchased a
flying machine to transport mail from
Gallup to their trading post at Oraibi
The United Verde Extension mine
for the six months from March to
September last, have aggregated $341,
265 with shipment of only thirty-five
tons per day.
A bond and lease has been taken
from Arthur Webster of Phoenix ON
the Meridian group of mining claims
situated in Hassayampa mining dis
trict, Yavapai county.
Capital has been subscribed and Of
ficers elected for a new bank at Oat
man.
DR.. L. D. Ricketts, of Bisbee is the
most distinguished citizen of Arizona
according to a committee of twelve
named by Governor Hunt to choose
citizen qualified to receive special
honOrs at the San Francisco expOsi
tion.
The sale of near beer" was held
| to be a violation of Arizona's recent
ly adopted prohibition law by the
State Supreme Court in a decision
which construed the law to bar the
sale in Arizona of any beverage con
tanning alcohol.
President Woodrow Wilson's wed
ding is to take place about Dec. 20
according to information which
reached Phoenix from Scottsdale
where Vice President and Mrs
Thomas R. Marshall are spending a
vacation at their winter home.
1t is stated at Prescott that several
men interested in the development
Of tungsten mine in Yavapai county
have received the news that ship
ment of huhnerite ore weighing $500
pounds, brought $7,S75 at Pittsburg
or at the rate of $45 per unit.
Seventy-five tons of copper ore are
being freighted daily from the Com
mercial mines in the Copper Basin