The Benson signal., 1915-08-28
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
Important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

son in December.
There is a move on foot to hold a
county fair at Wilcox.
The new school building at Tomb
stone is about completed.
The Yuma postoffice is now located
in more commOdious quarters.
A bachelor girls dance" was given
by the postoffice girls at Bisbee.
A fine program has been arranged
for Labor Day observance at Tucson.
Fire destroyed several business
houses in the new town of Gadsden.
The State Board of Control will sell
the old Industrial School building at
Benson.
The Ruby Copper Company is work
ing two shifts at the Lee shaft in the
Patagonia district.
All Protestant churches in Flagstaff
will be consolidated into one strong
congregation if present plans are car
ried out.
The drowning of Joseph Birken-
meier, Jr, at Roosevelt Lake, records
the first fatality of this sort since the
dam was completed.
1t is stated that the Sulphur
Springs Valley bank, which was re-
Gently closed, will be reorganized and
reopened for business.
Favorable reports are coming from
the ore tests now being prosecuted at
thte Bunker Hill test mill on the hill
in the Tombstone district.
Mariana de Sarcantos, a Mexican,
aged 35 years, employed at the Inspi-
ration mine, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed at Lower Miami
during thunder storm.
George Giragi, aged 61 years, pi-
oneer of Arizona and resident of
Cochise county for twenty-five years,
passed away at his ranch home six
miles northwest of Dugulas.
Mrs. Michael G. Cuniff, widow of
the late president of the first Arizona
Senate, was married at Landaff, N.
H., to former Congressman Raymond
B. Stevens of New Hampshire.
All the blank forms necessary for
the making of applications to pur-
chase for lease state lands have been
prepared and may now be obtained at
the office of the state land department
in Phoenix.
The swapping of wives among the
Indians on the Salt River reservation
is going to stop-according to Agent
Coe, who sent in two of his charges,
Ramon Johnson and Jose Juan Lew
is, charged with adultery.
The appeals of Perez, Chavez, Pc.
ralta and Rodriguez, the four Mexican
murderers under sentence of death at
Florence, have been filed in the State
Supreme Court, the appeal being from
the Judgment of the Superior Court
of Pinal county.
Several persons were slightly in
jured, many buildings were damaged
and most of the electric light wires
were put out of commission, plung-
ing the city in darkness when wind,
rain and electrical storm struck the
city of Tucson.
The last chapter of the ill-fated First
National Bank of Bisbee which closed
it's doors in 1907 leaving many people
in Bisbee sorry but much wiser, was
written when James l.. Allison, M.
Newman and Thomas Blair brought in
the final assets of the defunct insti-
tuition for $495, from the special mas
ter in the sale. This closes the affairs
of the First National.
With but three days remaining of
the three-year period fixed by act of
Congress the state land department
filed it's selections of 1000 acres at
Fort Grant, one of the most import
ant grants ever made to the state
The fifty-five buildings at the old mill
tary post, now used as state indus
trial school, and valued conservatively
at $4,000, are included with the land
Articles of incorporation of the
Crown Point Mining and Milling Com
pany have been filed at the office of
the Arizona corporation commission.
Tombstone is preparing to have
big time Labor Day, Sept 6, when the
city will entertain the Cochise County
Cattlemen's Association. The day
will be replete with cowgirl, cowboy,
running horse races and all kinds of
athletic sports, as we'll as an abun-
dance of music, and will wind up with
a grand ball at which the grand march
will be led by the cowboy and cow
girl who win their respective races.
One of the largest and most i'm
portant mining deals in recent years
has just been consummated at Jerome
The United Verde Extension interests
have acquired at Jerome the Hooker
and Ewing interests, the Mountain
View, the Bouquet, the Parker, the
Lippey, the Stifel and the Johnson
groups BY these acquisitions the
United Verde Extension interests ac-
Quire thirty properties, some having
dow