The Benson signal., 1915-10-23
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Dec 1S20.-State Poultry Show, Tue
son.
Miami has new postoffice quarters.
A $4,000 alfalfa mill will be erected
at Gilbert
Many investors are visiting the Pa
tagonia mining district.
The demand for residence houses
continues at Tombstone
A new $4,000 high school building
is being erected at Miami.
The affairs of the defunct bank at
Wilcox are to be adjusted
At Tombstone, A. A. Faust was
found guilty of manslaughter.
Work is being rushed on the new
high school building at Florence.
Soldiers at Douglas are now being
paid from there instead of at Ell
Paso.
The Bisbee mines are regularly ad-
ding their huge quota to the worlds
ore bin.
Burglars made a good haul from the
residence of Mark c. O'Neil in
Douglas.
Fire in Keystone cailon at Miami
destroyed two small frame houses
with their contents.
Miss Diana Vaughan came from
Wales to Douglas, where she was mar
ried to Alfred Estabrook.
Pantalona Garcia shot his wife at
their home near Warrior siding, but
did not dangerously injure her.
Bootleggers began work on the new
road being built by the county be-
tween Douglas and Pirtleville.
M. Martinez and A. A. Baker of
Miami report having shot the first
deer in that immediate vicinity.
The Tom Reed-Gold Road mining
district at Oatman is attracting many
miners, who are making rich discov-
cries.
Alma Kirby, one of the best-known
pioneers of Gila county, died at his
ranch on Pinto creek, known as Kirby
station.
Filomeno Silva, who lives on the
was bitten by rattlesnake while cut
ting corn.
Punch boards and other similar de-
vices have been ordered out of eX-
istence at Flagstaff on the ground that
they are gambling devices.
Vice President Marshall and wife
arrived in Phoenix on the way to visit
Mrs. Marshalls parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. e. Kimsey of Scottsdale.
Navajo Indians up in the northeast
corner of Arizona are enjoying a
great era of prosperity, according to
E. L. Graves of the Indian Shop.
A conference of operators and min
ers was agreed upon, after the Clifton
Morenci operators, who went to Texas,
had refused to confer with federation
officials
An application by Ralph Cameron
for a patent for the Golden Eagle
lode mining claims, filed on July 20
was rejected by the United States
Land Office at Washington.
Former State Senator Charles Rob
erts of Dos Cabezas was named by
Governor Hunt for member of the
State Fair Commission, to succeed
James II. Henderson of Bisbee, re-.
signed.
Walter Foster, a former resident of
Douglas, is in the county Jail at Tomb
stone awaiting trial on the charge of
failure to support his wife and two
minor children, who are Douglas resi-
dents.
Governor Hunt amended the live
stock quarantine so domesticated
mules and horses can be brought into
Arizona from New Mexico. The quar-
antine is still in effect against other
live stock.
Attorneys for William Faltin, SEN
fenced to hang Nov. 26 for the murder
of Carl Peterson at Phoenix two years
ago, have filed motion for rehearing
Of the appeal. The Supreme Court re-
Gently sustained the judgment of the
lower court.
Declaring that Governor Hunt, by in
flammatory utterances and open sug-
gestions of jailing them if they did not
reach agreement with strikers had put
them in peril, the mine managers of
the Clifton Morenci district addressed
a letter to Governor Hunt reiterating
their determination not to confer with
the strikers until out-of-tOwn repre-
sentatives of the Western Federation
Cf Miners were removed from the dis
Iict. They also declare they will not
operate their properties under the aus
rices of the federation and will not
return to the district until the gov
ernC1 assures them that they will be
safe there
Father Barrette at Miami announced
to his congregations that the bishop