The Benson signal., 1915-08-21
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

Ill LIE ARIZONA IL EWSs
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Superior is a busy mining camp.
Ray is organizing a militia COM
pany.
A weed cleanup campaign is on at
Douglas.
Tombstone is to have another new
school building.
Cochise mines have been unusually
active the past month.
A store at Stafford was robbed of
$500 worth of merchandise.
Homesteading in the McNeal basin
is nearly thing of the past.
Hold-up artists entered and robbed
Douglas store of $39 in cash.
Cowboy sports will be feature of
the Labor day celebration at Tomb
stone.
Sixty prisoners from Florence are
working on the Bisbee-Tombstone
highway.
Albert Teitlin, of Douglas, won the
$3.50 scholarship in the University of
Arizona
Reports from Kentucky state that
United States Senator Mark Smith
is very low.
A petition is being signed at San
Sucion asking that a five-cent bounty
be placed on jackrabbits.
Is is reported that Charles Edward
Adams has perfected plans to open
up the Hercules mine at Ray.
The Arizona National Guard will be
encamped in Garden Canon, near
Fort Huachuca, for two weeks.
A shipment of 1000 pounds of
onions, by parcel post, was recently
made from Tucson to Bisbee.
Nebraska Queen, the mammoth
horse at Riverside park, Phoenix is
dead as the result of snake bite.
Gold shipments from the Tom Reed
Gold Road mine at Oatman in July
had an aggregate value of $165,00O.
Bank Examiner Reuben r. R. Cook
declares that national banks in the
southwest are unusually prosperous.
Extensive plans are being made for
the Northern Arizona fair which will
be held at Prescott Oct 21, % and
%.
1t is stated that 1000 tons of ore
will be shipped from the United East
ern mine this month, worth $50 per
ton.
The bids received for erecting a
high school building at Florence were
rejected by the board and new bids
asked.
Chandler has a new power broom
factory which will be equipped With
broom-sewer that will turn out forty
five dozen brooms in eight hours.
The session laws enacted by the
second State Legislature in the regu.
lar and first and second special ses
sions have been printed and being dis
tributed
More than half million dollars the
month, is the present earning rate OF
mine employees alone in the Warren
district. They never before drew as
large a total.
It is reported that a number of new
game wardens will be sworn in for
temporary service in obtaining in.
formation about illegal shooting OF
quail. The season opens Oct. Is.
One of the features of the work of
the College of Mines and Engineering
of the University of Arizona is it's EN-.
ployment bureau, which has been very
successful during the past summer.
After years of idleness, the old
Crook mine in Crook canon is being
unwatered and put in shape for future
production, and the outlook for this
rich mine of the long ago is bright.
Miss Ethel Thomas of Globe was
fatally burned and Earl Kerr received
injuries which will probably disfigure
him for life, when they were pinned
underneath burning automobile that
turned turtle in the Pinal mountains.
Work of constructing the women's S
department of the Pioneer Home will
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