The Benson signal., 1915-08-14
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

Harness races will be feature OF
the Arizona State Fair this year.
Miami is said to be undergoing at
the present time the greatest resi-.
dence famine in it's history.
r. G. Layton of Thatcher was ap'
pointed member of the State Fair
| Commission by Governor Hunt.
The zinc property in the Middle
Pass-the Dragoons-is highly praised
| by recent visitors to the mines.
| Deputy Sheriff Car at Gila has ar.
rested a Mexican suspected of having
cut and beat an Austrian at Estrella.
The Tonto Basin oil fields, forty
| miles from Globe, are attracting at
| tention throughout the United States.
The Salt River Valley Canning
Company is now busily engaged in
canning peaches raised in the Mesa
section.
The American and Mexico Mining
and Developing Company is the latest
corporation to be formed by. Bisbee
interests.
Sheriff Harry c. Wheeler and Dep.
, negro on the train at Lewis Springs.
finding concealed in his trunk two
grips of whisky.
1t costs $37.56 to educate each child
in the Douglas public schools, accord.
ing to report rendered by the school
board for the fiscal year of 1914-15.
ending June 30
The Salt River valley cantaloupe
shipping season is practically over
there being only few cars left tC
ship out. So far $40 carloads have
been shipped east.
The Guggenheims are reported tC
have become interested in the Nc
Cracker silver mine in Mohave coun
ty and are to erect a 500-ton mill fol
the treatment of ores.
From information coming from rail
road sources it is reported that the
work on the Tucson, Cornelia and Gila
Bend railroad will be started about
the first of September.
A mortgage or trust deed for SIG,
100000, given by the Ell Paso & South.
western Railroad Company to the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company.
was filed at Tombstone.
The Arizona Engineers Association
was organized at meeting at Flag
staff, attended by the county engi
Nd n i<r ifx,
of the counties of the state.
Unless some untoward circum.
| stance occurs, there will be more quail
| and deer in the mountains this fall
than ever before in the history of Co.
| chise county, according to o. F. Hicks.
| deputy game warden.
Struck by a northbound Santa Fe
| passenger train, Uncle Billy William,
sons burro, said to be the largest
burro in Arizona, was killed in front
| of the experimental station, three
| miles west of Phoenix.
Officials of the Shannon Copper
| Company have denied the report that
| dividends are not to be resumed be.
| fore the $198,O00 worth of bonds
| against the Shannon Railway Com
pany have been retired.
The Pinkley bill, which would sub,
| stitute life imprisonment for the death
penalty in cases of murder in the first
| degree, was initiated and will be sub.
mitted to the people at the general
election in November, 1916.
Company G, Arizona National Guard
with a full company strength of sixty.
five men, left Douglas for the state
| instruction camp at Garden canon,
near Fort Huachuca, Aug 8. The en-
campment will last until Aug. 10.
Thirteen orphans are being cared
for at branches of the Arizona Chill
dren's Home Association at Bisbee
| and Warren.
The Billy Sunday mine is the latest
addition to the producing mines of
southern Arizona. 1t is located in the
Santa Rita mountains, forty miles
southeast of Tucson, and is owned and
| operated by Glenn Allen and his
father.
An attempt was made to blow up
the reservoir of the Miami water sys
tem The reservoir is new, built of
concrete and has just been completed
Unknown persons placed a charge of
dynamite in the water, causing dam
age to the extent of $4,000. The explo,
sion tore large hole in the bottom
of the reservoir.
Acting on the recommendation oi
the Livestock Sanitary Board, Gov
ernor Hunt issued a quarantine proc
lamation, admitting shipments of live
stock from all the territory west of she
Mississippi, with the exception of the
counties of Sumner Crowley, Sedg
wick and Butler in Kansas. The i'm
portation of cattle from the state o1
Sonora, Mexico, is strictly prohibited
Miss Ethel Thomas and a young
man named Kerr were burned to death