The Benson signal., 1915-09-04
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

The tax rate In B1Sbee Will be about
1921.
Nogales has a new 110-horse-power
fire engine.
The tax rate at Clifton has been
| fixed at $117
summated at Jerome
| The new high school building at
Florence will cost $43,865.
The state fair will be held in Phoe-
nix about the middle of November.
The funeral of Frank Giragi was
held at the Catholic church in Doug
las.
Constable Lancaster of Stafford ar,
rested two men on a bootlegging
charge.
The Naco road paving cost the city
of Bisbee approximately $3.50, or 96c
per square yard.
Governor Hunt visited and reviewed
the First Arizona regiment in camp
at Garden Canon.
Both surface and tunnel work con-
tinue steadily at the Big Pine mines,
Hassayampa district
The $4,000 union high school dis
trict bonds sold for $7S,4S5, Mesa
bank being the purchaser
The Clifton City Council is consid-
ering the matter of building bridge
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Five cents in candy was all the
negro wearing the uniform of sol
dier got when he held up a store in
Douglas.
A contract has been let for plant
to be installed at the Crown King
mine in the Prescott district to work
the tailings dump.
Juan Ramirez, supposed to have
been stealing a ride on the Ell Paso
& Southwestern train, was killed near
the round house in Tucson.
Martin T. Walsh died suddenly from
pneumonia and pleurisy at Tombstone.
Two prisoners at Tucson shook
their shackles and escaped.
Manuel Lopez, a Mexican aged
about sc years, was crushed to death
in one of the ore bins of the Inspir-
alton concentrator at Miami.
Mariana de Sarcantos, Mexican
aged 35 years, employed at the Inspir-
alton mine, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed at Lower Miami
Perhaps the most portentous min
ing news in the Globe district is that
Needle Company of the Prospector's
group.
The Mogollon mining companies
have adopted a new plan to keep the
tailings out of the Frisco river
fumes being used to carry off the
tailings.
A heavy transfer of Jerome mining
property was completed when the sale
of the Brookshire and Treadwell hold
ings was effected for the sum of ST.
100000
Prescott stockholders of the Verde
Valley Oil Company have revived that
concern, and the sinking of the COM
panys we'll near Camp Verde has been
resumed.
At the Old Dominion smelter in
Globe production is being maintained
at the rate of fifty tons per day, or
100000 pounds per month. Three
furnaces are running.
Bert Purnell of Tombstone Canon
and Albert Des Saulles of Opera
Drive were badly burned by an ex-
plosion of hot oil in the Lowell shaft
in the Bisbee district.
The remarkable and almost un-
heard of thing of railroad applying
for permission to reduce it's freight
rates, has just occurred by the filing
of such an application with the cor
poration commission by the Arizona
and Eastern and Southern Pacific
railroads
Drag-nets and dynamite failed to
bring up the body of Ted Bertomier,
the Miami boy who was drowned
while swimming near the hotel land
ing at Roosevelt.
Frank Wilson, Bisbee transfer
man, has entered suit against Sheriff
Wheeler for $10,250 for false impris.
onment, because of his arrest by dep
uties of the sheriff between Lowell
and Warren, because he was. trans
porting trunks which were found to
contain liquor
A violent wind and rain storm
swept the California-Arizona border
Thursday, extending as far west as the
San Bernardino mountains. Telegraph
communication was interrupted, sew
eral high-tension power lines were
burned out and a few small wash
outs were reported.
Announcements and complete de-
tails of the short course for miners to
be given this next year by the Col
lege of Mines and Engineering of the
University of Arizona are heinp sent