The Benson signal., 1915-12-04
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
lestern Newspaper Union News Service.


Pet Stock Association at Mesa
Jan. 1O-12.-Annual Convention Ari-
zona Cattle Growers Association at
ella county voted $500 bonds for
road construction.
Two Mexicans were arrested at
Florence on the charge of cattle steal
ing.
An effort is being made in Greenlee
county to recall CountytAttoraey e. E.
Wall.
The Arizona Live Stock Board has
refused to lift the ban on Mexican
cattle.
Tungsten has been found in the
Miami district, and shipment of S31
pounds brought $53S.
Twelve business houses in Lowell
were destroyed by fire, causing loss
estimated at 100000
The body of Mrs. Leah Kerby was
found in ditch near her ranch home
in the vicinity of Pima.
]. J. Jackson, aged 53 years, en-
ployed in the Commonwe; h mine at
Pearce, was accidentally killed.
Between $4,000 and 10000 acres of
land will be thrown open for settle,
ment and entry early next year near
Yuma.
Governor Hunt has appointed w. H.
Robinson a member of the Arizona
mic nf Ay,.io
culture
Development work in the Oatman
district continues active among all the
companies, many having increased
their working forces.
AS rapidly as the material can be
secured and the work accomplished,
three pretentious business blocks will
be erected in Oatman
Joe Crosse and A. Murillo report
a good copper strike on the Black
Bird group of claims near the Gibson
mine in the Bellevue district.
DR.. L. d. Ricketts, of Bisbee was
honored as the most distinguished
citizen of Arizona at exercises held at
the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Secretary of Labor Wilson, of Presi-
dent Wilson's cabinet, has ordered
full and complete investigation of the
troubles insClifton and Morenci.
Pursuant to the recommendation of
the State Pardon and Parole Board,
Governor Hunt granted reprievn to
w. w. Kermeen until Dec 10th.
r. E. Steele of Mesa killed a seven
foot mountain lioness and captured
her two cubs near Fish Creek station.
His bounty claim amounts to $3.50.
Bids for the construction of a new
dam and canal system to replace the
Woodruff dam near Springerville,
washed out last spring, will be called
for.
In January, 1914, the Arizona Farm
improvement Association was organ
lied at the Farmers Short Course
with forty members. Today it has
400 members.
Petitions are being signed by nu-
merous friends of L. A. Brown of Bis
bee, who agreed to be "the goat" in
testing the prohibition law in Arizona,
asking his pardon.
At a meeting of the Miami Miners
union it was decided to continue the
work that has been carried OH in the
past in support of the strike at Cliff
ton, Morenci and Metcalf.
That asbestos mining is becoming
genuine business in Gila county was
demonstrated by the fact that car
load of fine asbestos was shipped from
the property of the Arizona Asbestos
Association.
Within two hours after the deal for
the Lafayette placer holdings on Lynx
creek had been closed by G. S. Israel
of Prescott the latter entered into a
contract for constructing a big water
storage dam.
One of the most important deals
that has been made in the Wallapai
district in some time was consummat-
ed by the taking over of the Bethel
and Silver mines by c. B. Bell of
Douglas and associates.
One of the longest sentences inn
posed in any Arizona court was given
Felix Samienago,' AZ, by Judge Bax-
ter of Yuma county, when the Mexican
was sent to the state prison for fifty
years for a statutory offense.
o. T. James and J. A. Stocker took
another gold bar into Kingman, the
result of seventy-two hour run Of
their two-stamp Tonopah mill in the
secret Pass district. The bar weighed
fifty-four ounces and tOtalled $50.
State Game Warden G. M Willard,
after making trip to the northern
part of the state, reports that there
are forty-three little elk calves on the
range this season. The total mum ber
in the band is about 125 of all ages
A gold rush of larger proportions
than anything seen in the southwest
sine Sylvanite was put on the map