The Benson signal., 1915-12-11

Dec, 17-1S.-State Poultry Show, Tue
son.
Jan. 5-7.-Annual Show. Poultry and
Pet Stock Association at Mesa.
Jan. 1012.-Annual Convention Ari-
zona Cattle Growers Association at
Prescott.
A half interest in the Bar F brand
of cattle at Globe brought about $780,
900.
The hospital board has been Sc
lected by Copper Queen miners at Bis
bee
Warden Sims of the Florence peni-
tentiary, refused to execute William
Faltin on the 26th ult.
Eastern investors are negotiating
for the White Spar mine owned by Ed
Block in the Copper Basin.
Mrs. Elizabeth McGill, wife of
rancher near Benson, was run down
and killed by freight train at Tomb
stone
The stories of returning state fair
visitors that booze ran free and open
during the state fair just past and that
people who did not attend missed a
Mrs. Nicolasa Lopez of Lowell,
known as the queen of the SNUG
glers'" was given sentence of sixty
days in the Pima county Jail and a
fine of $10O.
splendid chance to have fine spree,
are denied emphatically by E. NJ
Tardy, farm superintendent at Indian
Oasis, who had charge of the Indian
exhibit at Phoenix.
For several weeks the completion
of the plant of the Grey Eagle Reduc-
tion Company at Mayer has been i'm
possible, owing to delay in the de-
livery of the big engine.
The Arizona corporation commits.
sions order requiring the Phoenix
Railway Company to double track it's
line serving the capitol was upheld
by the U. S. Supreme Court.
A verdict of murder in the second
degree was returned by jury at
Tombstone against Norman Messen
ger of Douglas, who, while in drunk
en- frenzy, shot and killed John Will
hanson.
Walter Hill of Phoenix, an active
dry worker when the state adopted
prohibition, was convicted in the Su.
perior Court of selling hard cider and
was fined $500 and ordered to serve
fifteen days in Jail. M
A shorter hunting season, reduc
tion of the bag limit and an increase
in the license fees are among the pro
visions of a new game law for which
initiation petitions will shortly be
placed in circulation
High praise is given Arizona or
anges by DIR. c. A. Meserve, state
chemist, under whose supervision a
series of experiments are being con-
Quoted on the acid content of the
orange and grapefruit.
The old Pfau copper mines of
Cherry Creek district, now under the
ownership of Arthur L. Garford, the
millionaire manufacturer of Elyria,
Ohio, are again active, after sus
pension of over ten years.
Because the trustees of the Fowler
school district refused to call an elec-
tion on the question of reinstating a
teacher who was discharged because
she married, mandamus proceedings
have been commenced in the Superior
Court
One new strike and the probable
closing of deal for a group of tung-
past week in Eureka district. The
new strike of tungsten ore (hubnerite)
was made by Clifford Koontz and
Lester Johnson, two young cattle men
of the Camp Wood section.
Hon. Frank Pinkley, who for the
past fourteen years has been cnstod-
ion of the Casa Grande Ruins, and
who recently rendered his resigna-
ior in order to devote more of his time
to his trading post, has been sue
ceeded by H. Bates of Phoenix.
A sentence of life Imprisonment was
passed on Jesse Love.ess, negro sol
dier convicted of rape committed on
the Fort Huachuca reservation, by
Judge Sawtelle at Tucson, in the Unit
ed States Court. The penalty for such
an offense is death, but the jury re-
commended a life sentence instead.
Probably the most novel method of
importing liquor into Arizona has just
come to light with the seizure of tin
piano at Morenci. Several days ago
a piano box weighing 1,400 pounds ar
rived at the Miami freight office. The
box remained unclaimed for few
days and the suspicion of the sheriff
was aroused. An investigation dis
closed the fact that the box contained
over $4,000 worth of whiskey, the bot
to" hoing tightly sealed in a large
tin case.
Turkey Creek district, according to
reports made at Phoenix by J. E. Swi-
thn ioo ic in