The Benson signal., 1915-07-31
LITTLE ARIZONA ITEMS.
important Happenings Occurring Over
the State Mentioned Briefly.

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good prices.
Stafford is now the county seat of
Graham county.
A pool hall at Mesa was entered and
small sum of money taken.
The Phoenix chief of police has or
dered that gambling must cease in
that city.
A good roads meeting was held in
connection with the tax conference at
Flagstaff.
Four cars of watermelons and ZIG
cars of cantaloupes have already been
shipped from Mesa.
Louis Stevens, charged with selling
liquor, was found guilty in the Super
ior court at Tombstone.
Governor Hunt was at Flagstaff at
the dedication of the monument OF
pioneer women of the state
Contrary to first reports, the I'M
perial valley suffered comparatively
little from its recent earthquake.
The friends of ]. o. Maxwell of Tue
son, fear that he has been killed by
the broncho Yaquis in valley.
The state game warden is conduct
ing a campaign of education to pre-
vent the killing of useful birds.
Over 6,10O automobile and GAO mo-
torcycle licenses have been issued this
year by the secretary of state.
In the State Industrial school at
Fort Grant there are now seventy in
mates, sixty-five boys and five girls.
The work of timbering the old shaft
of the Black Range mine at Kingman
is now completed and sinking is to
be resumed.
Avado Purizich, % years of age,
died at the o. D. hospital at Globe as
result of becoming overheated from
his labors under ground
The new canning factory estab-
lished at Mesa, is now in successful
operation, working up the surplus
fruit and vegetables produced in that
section.
1t is learned at Prescott that the
Richinbar mines will soon start work,
and that preparations will soon. be
made for the retimbering of the 100
foot shaft.
Gold bullion shipments from the
Tom Reed-Gold Road Mining District
for the six months period ending
June 3Oth, had total value of nearly
$1,OOO,OO0.
Shipments of mica from the claims
of DR.. H. Vance Clymer and DR.. Leon
Jacobs, ten miles south of Wellton, in
the Mohawk mountains, are to be
made to Los Angeles.
Crosscuts driven into virgin terri
tory from the 200-foot level OF the
famous old Harqua Hala mine at
Salome have opened immense ore
bodies running high in gold.
A serious accident, resulting in the
death of Gabriel Liutz, Spaniard
aged SO, occurred at the Black War
rior mine Luiz was unmarried, and
had no relatives in this country.
H. G. Kane, a stranger from Los
Angeles. was shot and killed by Mrs
Julia Elliott, who, with her husband
lives on 4 homestead on Mineral
creek about seven miles from Ray.
Cotton experts of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture have been in the
valley roguing Egyptian cotton fields
to provide the Egyptian Cotton Grow
ers' Association with pure seed fo1
in 1916.
DR.. H. H. Braxton of Phoenix, was
appointed a member of the State
Board of Dental Examiners by Gov.
Hunt. Orr. Braxton succeeds Mrs.
JEANNE Lynch of Ray, who resigned
recently.
Following a coroner's inquest be-
fore Judge Smith of Warren, Con
stable John Newell of Naco was ex-
onorated of blame for the killing OF
C. B. Mendoza, said to be a resident
of Pirtleville.
The Arizona mines in 1914 yielded
gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc val
ued at $59,956,O29, against $70,S75,O27
in 1913, decrease of $10,918,99S, as
reported by Victor G. Heikes, of the
United States Geological Survey.
The first mill run of the Juniper
Flats Gold Mining Company at Bis
bee was made and the results are ex-
ceedingly indicative of the most won
derful returns for those behind the
big gold enterprise on the hill.
What is believed to have been the
back bone of a gigantic smuggling and
bottlelegging gang, operating in Bis
bee, Courtland Gleeson, was broken
when Martin Olivas was killed and
two other Mexicans were arrested at
NacO
The following officers were elected
at the annual meeting of the Arizona
Wool Growers Association held at
Flagstaff: President, H. j. Gray;
vice president, E. A. Sawyer; secre-