The Benson signal., 1916-02-12
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Il SLOck exchange has been organ
lied at Oatman
Douglas is to have a big military
celebation Feb. 1928
Ten new banks were organized in
Arizona during 1915.
Mrs. Eva Johnson has been reap
pointed postmistress at Garces.
George B. Ayers went to Kingman
from Goldroad with a bar of bullion
weighing $4,000.
Over 200 head of high-grade Hol-
stems are being distributed among
Tempe dairymen.
Cowboy sports and dance will be
features at celebration at Gleason
on Washington's birthday.
The Shannon Copper Company is
making arrangements to open it's
properties at Gleason.
Over 100000 sheep will be sheared
in the Salt River valley this season
according to sheep owners
Gila county's $35O,OOO bond issue
for county highway system has
been sold at a premium of $20,1O0.
Fl. A. Lowdermilk received his com
mission as postmaster for Wilcox
and took charge of the office Feb. 1.
Joe Japue of Bowie cashed an Ari-
zona Eastern check the other day for
a Mexican laborer that was issued in
1912.
DR.. R. B. Won KleinSmid, president
OF the University of Arizona, got the
100000, for the school of mines
building
James Bradley, of Bisbee, at
tempted suicide at Ell Paso, Tex, af-
ter filing a telegram to Bisbee
friends.
Edgar A. Brown, former rate expert
for the state corporation commission
is dead as the result of sudden illness
incurred at Gallup, N. M.
The board of control of Arizona has
approved a contract with the Child
of the orphans of the state.
Passenger fares on the Magma Ari.
zona railroad will be reduced thirty
per cent according to tariffs filed with
the corporation commission.
A new record for enrolment for
state institutions has been set by the
Tempe Normal, which opened the
1916 term with over 400 students:
Nine claims in the Seneca mining
district have been purchased by the
Billy Mack Mining Company and ac.
tive development work will be com
menced
Governor Hunt has started work on
his country place, just out of Phoenix
The structure will be an eight-rootn,
two story brick, costing about $780,
The Big Slope rooming house and
former saloon at Gleason is no more
The recent SHOW storm was more
than the roof could stand and it cave1
in.
The Two Peaks Mining Company
will drive the tunnel from the base of
the mountains, near Turner, to strike
the ledge at a depth of about 600
feet.
Carefully guarding the fact that he
was being brought to the state insane
aslum, state authorities took VIM
Faltin from the state prison at Flor
ence and took him to Phoenix.
Nine hundred feet of the south ap
proach to the state highway bridge
over Gila river at Florence was swept
away during the recent flood, accord.
ing to a report received at the state
engineers office.
On the 300-foot level of the Tom
Reed mine at Oatman a wonderful
body of ore has been opened Sam
pies taken across three-foot breast
gave results above $1,75O gold.
The national movement for pre-
paredness has struck Arizona and re-
suits are already apparent. One new
company has already been added to
the national guard and several others
are being organized.
Mrs. Jane Newman, a pioneer re-
sident of Arizona and known to thou
sands as Grandma Newman" died at
Phoenix after a short illness. Mrs
Newman, who came to Arizona in
1859, was IS years old.
The proclamation of Carranza de-
claring Villa and others of his follow.
ers to be beyond the pale of law and
authorizing any citizen of Mexico to
arrest and execute the bandit leader
has been received in Bisbee
That George Wingfield, the Nevada
mining millionaire, and Charles
Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel Com.
pany are contemplating the develop
ment of the vast tungsten deposits
in the Tiptop district is indicated by
recent developments in relation to
properties along Tule creek.
Mining operations in the Crown
King country, tributary to Prescott