The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

Fire did $1,S00 damage to resi-
dence in Nogales.
Henry C. Page committed suicide
by shooting himself at Phoenix.
The miners strike at Ray which be-
gan three weeks ago, has been set
tied.
Six hundred acres of timber were
destroyed by fire in Schultz pass, Co
conino county.
The Maricopa county fair at Mesa
this year was bigger and better than
any of it's predecessors.
Ralph ]. Holmes, aged 25, died sud
denly while bathing in the pool at the
Y. M. c. A. at Bisbee.
Aug IL is the date for the special
election in Gila county to pass on
$500,000 bond issue for roads.
The assessed valuation of railroad
property in Arizona for city and town
assessment for 1915 is $5,255,716.83
Albert Flickenshier, German farm
ha4d, respondent from i'll health,
committed suicide by jumping into
creek near Flagstaff.
Sam Bradner, secretary of the Ari-
zona Livestock Sanitary Board, has
appointed Mrs. Okla Noonan of Gila
Bend, as inspector for that district
Tony Friberg of the Bisbee lodge
is the biggest Elk in the southwest
He stands six feet eleven and half
inches in height and is proportionate-
ly broad
George M Cummings, prospector
and miner, committed suicide by blow
ing off the top of his head with a
shotgun, at his house, about two miles
west of Courtland
Johnny Frederick of Camp Verde
won the annual bronco riding contest
at the Prescott frontiers day celebra-
tion, getting $500 in cash and dia-
mond studded medal
| The Sterling Borax Company, which
is operating the Flux group under
| lease and bond from Col. r. r. Rich
| ardson, began the shipment of con-
centrates from the new mill at Pata-
gonia.
Before Judge w. A.HFowler of Tomb
stone, Cal Cox, charged with being
| implicated in the killing of Jack Clin-
| ton at Herford short time ago, was
held to answer in the Superior Court
without bail.
Felix Lopez, charged with the MUIR
der of Rosendo Lugo in Douglas, June
| "a, was convicted of murder in the
| first degree by jury in the Superior
Court at Tombstone and sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
Bisbee has secured the largest and
most important meeting of miners
and mining men that will be held in
Arizona this year. This is the an
nual meeting of the Southwestern
Mine Safety Association.
Miami Copper Co. had quick assets
| of $1,686,824 on June Is. This COM
bined with the we'll sold up condition
of the company at good prices caused
the directors to increase the dividend
rate from So to So a year.
| The curators of the state library at
Phoenix named Mark Dunbar, a news
paperman, as librarian Dunbar will
bring custer proceedings against Con
P Cronin, appointed by the Legisla-
ture, who refuses to give up the posi-
ton.
M. J. Nolan, who has been post
master at Columbia, in Yavapai coun-
ty for several years, was found three
miles south of Frog Tanks, lying 100
| feet from the roadside with his throat
cut and the head almost severed from
the body.
Alex Vasil, frequent visitor to Bis
bee Police Courts during the past few
years, has landed in the county jail
| charged with serious OffenSe--that
of contributing to the deliquency OF
a minor girl Vasil was arrested and
taken to Tombstone.
Cunningham Harrington of Phoenix
was accidentally shot at Ray.
/
! Taking the ground that the repeal
ing clauses of the general appropria-
tion bill were not properly within the
terms of the governors call, and not
legally enacted, Attorney General
Wiley E. Jones, in an opinion sustains
the governors veto of those sections
of the appropriation bill which were
disapproved.
/ The assessed valuation of the pro-
| ducing mines of Arizona was an
nounced by the State Tax Commits
sion as $121,225,8 ,83374, an increase of
| $11,00O,000, or 10 per cent over the
| 1914 assessment improvements and
mining machinery are valued at al
most $34,OOO,O00, or an increase of ap-
proximately $3,5O0,000 over last year,
Prosperity in large punches is the
dose for Bisbee and the Warren dis
trict. There is so much of it about
that many of those seeking employ
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