The Benson signal., 1915-09-25
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
Important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

datiOnS in the Globe schools
Fife hundred and fifty gallons of
whiskey was seized at Clifton.
A cottage occupied by Sam Vosco-
witch of Globe was destroyed by fire.
Miss Rebecca McCune, As, a Phoe-
nix school teacher, committed sui
eide.
Mr.. and Mrs Erastus Wakefield of
Stafford celebrated their golden we'd
ding.
Frank Moreno, one of the prisoners
at the camp at Tombstone, made his
escape.
The Pinal county supervisors have
let contracts for bridges at Kelvin
and Winkelman.
John Anderson, Chandler rancher,
reports clearing over $4,000 on $50
steers in seven months.
Gila county is to have another $780,
600 bond issue election and the voting
is likely to take place Oct. 19.
Entries for the race events at the
state fair at Phoenix Nov Is to 20
will close on the night of Oct. /.
William Long of Phoenix shipped
10000 pounds of honey to eastern
markets from the Salt river valley.
Discoveries of quicksilver in the
Mazatal range not far from Roosevelt
is attracting attention of mining men.
About $3,O0O,OOO will be expended
for good roads in Arizona next year.
according to State Engineer Lamar
Cobb.
Cultivation of the garbanzo, or
chick pea profitable crop in Sonora,
is urged on Arizona farmers by Prof
Morse.
E. D. Felts, Miami ball player, was
burned in an explosion of oxygen and
acetylene gases at the international
smelter
Phoenix won second place in the
national competition for the outdoor
inter-club shooting championship of
the United States
Cal Cox, who is charged with the
murder of Jack Clinton, near Here
ford two months ago, was released on
giving a $4,000 bond.
The state game warden has handed
down ruling that the provisions of
the United States game laws will be
strictly enforced in Arizona
The annual meeting of the Cochise
county teachers institute will be held
in Douglas during the latter part of
October or the first part of Novem
ber.
Deputy Sheriff Percy Bowden re-
turned to Tombstone from Douglas
bringing back the fifteen cases OF
whiskey taken from the bootleggerS
captured there
Charged with introducing liquor into
the state of Arizona, Andrew j. Nc.
Duffie of Company C, Eighteenth in
fantry, was arrested a short distance
east of Apache.
Nancy Stevens, aged seven years.
daughter of William Stevens, the In.
dian bakekr at the Sacaton school.
was bitten by a rattlesnake and dieC
several hours later.
Liquor can be introduced into Ari
zone for personal use, according to the
Interpretation that was placed by
Globe attorneys on a decision made
by Judge w. G. Shute in the Superior
Court
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 re
markably successful during the past
summer.
Information comes from the Pan.
anna exposition that the band of the
First Infantry, Arizona National
Guard, is making record and rep
utation out there, playing beside the
best bands in the country.
The Shannon Copper Company of
Globe produced about $4,000 pounds
of copper in August, for which it re-
ceived 1894 cents per pound.
Five thousand miners employed by
the Detroit Copper Company at Mo.
renci and the Shannon Copper Com
pany at Clifton struck. They demand
ed the Bisbee wage scale of $4.10 for
muckers and $4.35 for miners
A ton of Hubnerite will be sent to
the Northern Arizona fair by William
Corners of Prescott, who recently ex.
tracted ton of ore that averages sew
enty per cent tungstic acid. He will
also have an exhibit of bismuth ore.
The number of inquiries that have
been received relative to the short
course for miners to be given by the
College of Mines and Engineering Of
the University of Arizona has proved
that there is great demand for SUCH
work.
The Cochise county cattlemen at
their meeting held at Tombstone
passed resolutions against permits for
cattle to pass from Mexico into, Ari-
zona, and favoring larger land-hold-