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Archie Theroux, of Land, has
been stopping in town for two or
three days.
Chas. Powell has accepted a
posi- ion in the new Moss Phar-
macy.
Get your stationery from us, cor.
respondeuce cards, e;c, etc Moss
Pharmacy.
A band of native Hawaiians will
give a musical entertainment at
the Auditorium Friday evening,
July 28th.
Mrs. Max Treu went to Tucson
Thursday afternoon for visit.
expecting to be away for about
two weeks.
Talcum powder, regular 25c size,
15c Glycerine soap SC cake, reg
ular 1oc size. Come in and look it
over. Murry's Variety Store.
Jack Delaye, who has been a
guest Of ]. B Castleman for some
time, has gone to Prescott for the
remainder of the summer. He was
joined at Tucson by his mother.
Gustaf Larson lett Monday
morning for Ajo, and expects to
be absent for several months. He
will engage in carpenter work at
the new mining camp Of the Calu'
met and Arizona company.
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PUBLIC AUCTION SALE
State School Land
STATE LAND DEPARTMENT
Phoenix. Arizona. July 10. 1916.

Phoenix Arizona. July 10. 1916.
In conformity with the provisions of the
Public Land Code of the State of Arizona.
approved June 26. 1915, notice is hereby
given that the State Of Arizona will on
Tuesday September l9. 1916. at 10 a. m.
at the County Court House. Tombstone.
Arizona. sell at public auction the follow
ing designated school land. No improve
ments attach to said land.
All Sec. 81, T. 10 S.. r. p E.. $40 acres
more or less. appraised at $l92OOO
No bid for less than the appraised valu-
atoms will be considered. The right to
reject any and all bids is reserved. Full
information concerning the conditions Of
sale may be obtained from the State Land
Department Phoenix. Arizona.
STATE LAND DEPARTMENT.
By w. A. Moeur.
State Land Commissioner.
MFirst pub. July IS, 1916.
Last pub, Sept. l6. 1916.
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One darn fool boy down in Rusk

One darn fool boy down in Rusk
county, who had no more sense
than to follow the governments
scientific instructions in farming,
grew $50 bushels of corn on an
acre of GROUND last year. Lots and
lots of the good old practical farm
ers who followed their own meth
ods grew as much as IS bushels =
Bonham (Texas) News.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Oi7l3i
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land ONCE at Phoenix, Arizona
July Z, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that Levi Nelson,
Of St David, Arizona. who on April 4. 1912.
made Homestead Entry No 0l7lal. for Lots
and and EM NWA. Section 81, Township
II S., Range 81 E., 6. s. S. R, Meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make final proof, to eStah-
lish claim to the land above described, before
H. G. Brown, U. s. Commissioner. at Benson,
Arizona, on the 26th day of August, 19ld
Claimant names as witnesses; AbEam j, BUS
by, william G. Goodman, Of st. David, Ari-
zona, Heber Martin, Of Benson Arizona, and
Charles r. Plumb, of st. David Arizona.
THOMAS F. WEEDIN, Register.
First publication. July 15 1916.
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M, Kejia has got in new lot OF
dry goods, and gives an invitation
to ell to come in and examine his
stock.
Remember l can save you money
on gasoline, distillate and lubri
eating oils, both wholesale and re-
tail. CT. Moss.
The Benson Lumber e. Com
mercial Co. keep always ON hand
big stock of lumber, hardware
and builders supplies.
The Benson Lumber and Com
mercial Company carry full stock
of paints and oils. and can supply
your wants in this line.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
02O669
02O669
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

O2O669
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona,
July 7, 1915
Notice is hereby given that Benjamin A.
Walker. of Dragon, Arizona, who. on Jan. 4,
1918, made Homestead Entry No. O2O669 for
So Section Is, Township IL S., Range % E.,
Gila and Salt River Meridian, has filed
notice Of intention to make final Three Year
Proof, to establish claim to the land above
described, before H. G. Brown, U. S. S.CommiS-
sioner, at Benson, Arizona, on the Goth day OF
August, 1916.
Claimant names as witnesses: Sam Bar
row, Roy Fourr, William Fourr and Mrs. M. P.
Barrow, all of Dragon, Arizona,
THOMAS F. WEEDIN. Register.
First publication July Is, 1916
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State of Arizona, lsa
County Of Cochise DO
I'm. W. Smith, Cashier OF the above named
bank do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best OF my knowledge and
belief NJ. w. SMITH. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this sth
day OF July, 1916.
A. HINES,
Notary Public.
My commission expires April 18th, 1890.
(SEAL) Correct-Attest:
A. G. SMITH,
CHAS. f. GOETZ,
LEOPOLD MAIER
Directors.
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NOTICE
To Whom 1t Nav Concern:

Notice is hereby given to any and all intend.
Section 10 or the N. w. n of the S. w n. of Sec.
II Of Township II South Range 20 East, Glla
and Salt River Meridian, in CochiSe county,
State of Arizona. That the sale and transfer Of
all any part OF said property is restricted by.
and must be made in accordance with an agree
ment and option entered into between Juan
Cruz and j. NJ Castaneda on the 18th Cay OF
March, 1900; which said instrument is Of reCOrd
in the office of the County Recorder of Cochise
county, State OF Arizona.
Dated Benson, October 25th, 1912
M +. CASTANEDA,
Administrator of Estate of j. M. CaStaneda.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

02SO34
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR;
United States Land Office at Phoenix Arizona.
July z, 1916,
Notice is hereby given that Roy o. Fourr'
of Dragon, arizona, who, on May 4, 1914, made
Homestead Entry No. O25O34 for M NEA,
NWA and VIZ SWA. Section 90. Township
l6 S., Range % E., Gila and Salt River meridian,
has filed notice Of intention to make final
Three Year Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before H. G. Brown,
Z. S. Commissioner at Benson, Arizona on
the Goth day Of August, 1916.
Claimant names as Witnesses S. G. Barrow,
b. A. Walker, OF Dragon, Arizona w. j. Ben
nett of Benson, Arizona, and F. S. Bennett, OF
Tombstone Arizona
THOMAS F. WEEDIN. Register.
First publication July l5. 1915.
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State of Arizona. County of Cochise.

State of Arizona. County of Cochise.
This instrument was acknowledged be-
fore me this 18th day of June, 1916. by
A. C. Smith as the President and by NJ.
w. Smith as the Cashier of the Bank of
Benson, a corporation. and known to me
to be the persons whose names are sub
scribed to the foregoing instrument. and
who stated to me that they executed the
same on behalf of said corporation for the
purpose and consideration therein ex-
pressed.
Given under my hand and seal of office.
H. P. MERRILL,
[Seal] Notary Public.
My commission expires March End, 1920.
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ARIZONA CORPORATION COMM.
By F. A. JONES. Chairman.
State of Arizona. County of Cochise.

|. Owen E. Murphy, County Recorder in
and for the county aforesaid, do hereby
certify that the within instrument was filed
for record at 4:3O o'clock p. M, ON this
18th day of June. 1916. and duly recorded
in Book No. J of Incorporation Records of
Cochise County, Arizona, at pages l3-4-5.
Witness my hand and official seal the day
and year first above written.
OWEN E. MURPHY,
County Recorder.
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The Moons Eclipse

The Moons Eclipse
The eclipse of the moon last
night began at 8:1o:o3 o'clock,
if a statement from Washington is
correct, and continued until the
moon left the shadow of the earth
at 1I;12:o5. Four-6fths of the
moons surface was covered at the
period of greatest eclipse.
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Skreue dores and wire screens
to protect you against flies, mos
quitos and flying insects. Benson
Lumber & Commercial Co.
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IF your horses teeth are bad they
cannot eat properly. Have them
attended to. See o E. GllIett, who
is a graduate veterinary dentist, St.
David, or leave word with Signal.
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For Sale One body for Ford
touring car ia first class condition.
Geo. Holloway.
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FOR SALE

Three-room adobe house. lot l50x $50
feet in Walkers Addition Owens place).
Cash or easy terms. Mary r. Titus.
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FOR SALE

Frame house. four rooms. lot IS $50
feet Gold May place). Cash or easy terms.
Mary F. Titus.
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Apply Signal Office.
I.E P. Smith, of Tucson, was
in town Thursday.
Mrs s. Long, of Land is a vis-
itor in town today.
F. G. Fenner, a pioneer of Bis
bee, was in town Wednesday.
Mrs. ]. w. Gull and daughter,
Miss Dorothy, have gone to Tue
son for a months visit.
E. c. Garrett, of El Paso, Texas,
formerly clerk for the Southwest
Lumber Company at this place,
was in town Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Nussbaumer
and B. Burnstein, Of Tombstone,
were visitors in town last Sunday,
coming over by automobile.
For Sale-One good frame house
and enough barbed wire fence to
enclose twenty acres. Make, me an
offer. T.. E. Weigand, Benson.
Mrs. c. E. Flynn, of Bisbee, is
here for a visit to her sister, Mrs
Gribble, arriving Sunday. She ex.
poets to remain through the sum
mer.
Mrs, J. A. Gumm is visiting
San Rernardino, Cal, and will go
from there to Los Angeles to visit
friends before returning home
about the 1st of September.
The Southern Pacific bridgemen,
under Foreman Fischer, whose car
has been on siding here for about
a week, have been making some re-
pairs to the station platform.
Frank Kempf, who has been
running as fireman on the Tucson
division of the Espee, has recently
been promoted to engineer. His
friends here are glad to know OF
his promotion.
Thirty-three auto trucks passed
through on Southern. Pacific train
Thursday en- route to the army base
at Nogales. Fifty-four men accom-
panied the trucks, as chauffeurs,
mechanicians, etc.
Mrs. Sam Wilson and daughter,
Miss Marguerite left Wednesday
for Carrizo Springs. Texas, their
old home, for visit to relatives.
They expect to be away until the
first of September.
Harold Holcomb and his mother
Mrs. E, B. Holcomb, left Saturday
for a visit to Los Angeles, San
Francisco, San Diego and other
points on the coast. They expect
to be away for two or three weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Huddle-
ston, Miss Grace Boettger, D. l,
Robinson and Walter Burrows
were visitors in town last week
from Tucson. They were guesUs
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.
Keen.
Mrs. K. B. Thompson will en-
tertain with an afternoon tea .or
Wednesday. July 10Th, from 4 till
7 p. N. and wishes to extend a
cordial invitation to friends anc
visitors. Mrs. r. l.. Thompson
will be the guest of honor.
An old time resident in the per
son of Engineer Ben Cheek hal
been spending a week in town late
ly revisiting his former home. Mr.
Cheek worked for the Southern
Pacific out of Benson for a long
time and is we'll known here.
Miss Lottie Johnson, of Sar
Diego, Cal, is stopping over il
town for few days visiting Mrs
G. F. Moss and Mrs. H. P. Mer-
rill. Miss Johnson is en- route t
her old home in Milwaukee, Wis
consin, where she and the Benson
ladies referred to were girl friend
and schoolmates together.
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AMENDMENT OF THE ARTICLES OF
INCORPORATION OF the BANK OF
BENSON
State of Arizona. Office of the Arizona
Corporation Commission,
United States of America
State of Arizona ss'

The Arizona Corporation Commission
does hereby certify that the annexed is a
true and complete transcript of the Amend
ment to Articles of Incorporation of Bank
of Benson. which was filed in the office of
said Arizona Corporation Commission on
the l5th day of June. A. D. 1916. at 200
clock p. m. as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof. the Arizona Cor
poration Commission by its Chairman. has
hereunto set its hand and affixed it's official
seal Done at the city of Phoenix. the
capital, this 18th day of June. A. D. 1916.
ARIZONA CORPORATION COMM.
(Seall F. A. JONES. Chairman.
Attest:
w NJ C.1nakor Cacrekarv
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LOCAL ITEMS
Announcement

| hereby announce myself can
didate for r. election to the office
of Justice OF the Peace, subject 70
the action Of the primaries.
Respectfully,
WIN. X. SHlLLIAM
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
BANK OF BENSON
At Benson. in the State Of Arizona, at the close
of business June 30 1916.
RESOURCES

of business June 80, 1916.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $50. .243S0
Due from Directors ..................., 10000
OVerdraftS ....!. ...,................. 0,2l
State, County and Municipal Bonds.... 6,96S1S
Other Bonds, Stocks. Securities ETC. $4,000
Banking House, Furnitureand Fixtures 6,44l.S5
real ESCaVe ........., ...... .........''. O0OW
Current Expenses and taxes paid. 2,29l.72
Specie. N,O43W
Legal Tender and Blk Notes. E. 10000
Other cash items. S................ 402.28
Due from State and Nat. Banks,
approved Reserve Agents -. 18, ,537.4i .
25O8s.76
Total $SI.l7O.O2.
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in ............ $12, 10000
Undivided Profits. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. L65O.4
Individual Deposits subject to
check ............'' 1910. o9,o44'So
Time Certificates of Deposit ....1,7S60O
Certlhed ChecKS ................. 4UU
Cashiers checks outstanding .... 398.03
e7Olaes
Total .$Sl,l7O.Oz
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Filed in the Office of the Arizona Corpo-
ration Commission this 18th day of June.
A. D. 1916. at ZOO p. M. at request of M.
w. Smith, whose postofice address is Ben
son, Arizona.
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[Seall

My Commission expires March Ind, 1910
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First publication. July 10, 1916.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-04

General Pershing's brief and soldierly account
of what happened at Guerrero shows that there is
no lack of mettle skill in our troops on the Mex
lean trial. About four hundred in number Col
onel Dodd's cavalry column struck Villas command
OF five hundred men and routed them in a ten-mile
running fight At least thirty of the bandits were
killed. while two of their machine guns and
large number of horses saddles and arms were cap
tured. The American casualties were only four
wounded.
This achievement is doubly remarkable for the
fact that in order to reach Guerrero. where Villas
band had encamped, the Americans marched fifty
five miles in seventeen hours. ignoring the strain
of this extraordinary drive they dashed immeditely
into action and carried the fight for five hours.
That is record of swiftness and courage and hard
HOOD and efficiency which the army can be
Justly gratifed and the country justly proud.
Colonel George A. Dodd, who commanded the
American column, is sixty-four years old. He has
sustained his reputation of the hardest riders
in the service and like Joffre and Won Hindenburg
and the Grand Duke Nicholas has proved that at
sxty-odd soldiers blood may have all the iron of
lusty youth. Colonel Dodd won distinction
during the Spanish-American war in the Philip
pines, where his hot pursuit of Aguinaldo was
largely responsible for that savage chieftains
capture.
The victory at Guerrero goes far toward con-
summating the task of the punitive expedition. As
General Pershing sums it up:
with Villa permanently disabled. Lopez
wounded and Hernandez dead, the blow adj
Ininistered is a serious one"
Apparently. the only remaining work is to chase
down small and scattered bands of outlaws who
are now leaderless. The expedition has been con-
Quoted admirably at every stage and in every de-
tail. It has demonstrated that our army as far as
IL goes, is efficient through rank and fle although
grieyously stinted in many of its needs and
aspirations.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-04
Merchant Ships and
Nation al Defense.

The interests OF national defense no less than
those of national commerce are involved in the
need for an American merchant marine The pre-
paredness of the navy and the army alike demands
that these fighting machines be supplemented and
reinforced with adequate facilities of supply and
transportation The lack of railroad service has
proved a serious handicap in our present Mexican
task. The lack of auxiliary ship service would
prove still heavier handicap to the navy in time
OF war. Authorities estimate that four hundred
additional merchant vessels having a gross
tonnage of 1,172,OOO would be required to give the
navy it's maximum usefulness and efficiency. and
that if every merchant vessel now available were
pressed into this service half million or more tons
would remain to be provided.
So great shortage could not be met In a
month or in a year. So important a phase of ma
tional preparedness should not be neglected until
the hour of iron emergency 1t is matter of re-.
cord that during the Spanish-American war the
United States spent some twenty-one million dol
lars auxiliary craft, which subsequently it was com
PEELED to dispose of at loss of eighty per cent The
only safe and and economical way to solve this
problem is TO begin upon the development of
adequate merchant fleet that will be at the Gov
ernment's command in case of naval or military
need.
England's great merchant marine has been in
some respects, the mainstay of her operations in
the present war. Without that invaluable auxilia-
~. she never would have been able to gather her
fighting resources from the ends of the earthA she
never would have been able to send troops o. Sa-
loniki and Egypt to place in France an army
reckoned at two million men; she never could have
supplied her needs at home, much less those
of her soldiers in the field.
BY aiding the development of a merchant ma
rine, the United States Government will safeguard
not only the future of the country's commerce but
also the counry's most vital nterests-its freedom
and honor. In dealing with the broad question OF
preparedness Congress should not fail to act on
this essential particular. ..... ....
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-04

OF England's aviaters in the field, one hundred
and fifty have been killed. hundred and fits
wounded and one hundred and three are missing
These losses heavy for the aeronautic service are
ascribed by complaining member of Parliament
to sending up aviators in aeroplanes which are
hopelessly outclassed by German machines"
Whether the criticism be valid i'll advised il
is worth noting from the American point of view
that of the eight aeropanes which accompanied
General Pershing's forces into Mexico two were
wrecked and four others disabled shortly after the
expedition under way. That does not speak
we'll for the stanchness of our army's flying
machines.
One of the aviators with the expedition made a
continuous fight OF FIVE hundred miles in seven
hours through hazardous currents of mountain air
"a remarkable performance. Our men are the
match OF any But the equipment behind
them is too often inefficient or inadequate; and
there are not enough men. That is the weakness
of our national defense. a weakness which the pre-
paredness measures before Congress are de-
signed 20 remedy. -.--...-- ...
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-04
An Admirable CrichtOn
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE


r REMEMBER once dropping into a theater in
London to see play. / had never heard
of it, and was not expecting much. simply
sought evenings diversion. And l saw that
most ingenious, amazing, and fascinating dramas
Barrie's Admirable Crichton'
The play is familiar to many, as it has had
long runs both in England and the United States
1t depicts shpwrecked family, stranded on an
uninhab ited island. There they discover that the
real leader, the real brain, the man who can do
things is the butler Crichton; the rest are help-
less. Face to face with the exigencies OF nature,
up against the realities instead of the conventional
tiles of life, the servant becomes the chief 1t Is ne
that orders, the others obey. OF course when they
are rescued and get back to England, the butler
drops back into his slot of cringng servility, and
the NUTS again lord it.
Barre's idea is being illustrated on the
stern stage of English national destiny. England
is in peril fighting for her existence. The English
army has been the home and nest of snobocracy'
No one was supposed to be an officer VINO was not
gentleman" by which term, of course, was
meant one who in some way related to title
who dressed for dinner, shot pheasants, and knew
how to gamble and drink brandy and soda with que
restraint.
Tommy Atkins himself recognized this and
acquiesced in it. The stronghold of snobdom is
always in the lower classes 1t was well-nlSh I'M
possible for a soldier to rise from the rank OF prl-
vate to be officer, simply because what was
required not so much courage, intelligence ana
efficiency as being gentleman" as above Defined
having good blood and being at least distant
cousin to Lady Fitzfraggle
And now news from the mperilled island IN
forms us that the majestic Kitchener is being
deity sheved by the astute Mr.. Asquith, and that
the real head of the English fighting forces is one
Robertson
Said Robertson began life an under foot
man He not even a butler. He seems 10
have just plugged along and made good. AND
when everything goes to smash, and England is
visited by the Day of Judgment primeval chaos,
and the modern scientific Atas, it is the ex-toot-
man who comes to the front, even as 1t was the
Illinois Railsptter and the Galena Tanner that
were upturned by the pillow of war in America, as
it was the Corsican nobody that was thrust to the
dictator's seat of France by the Revolution ana
as it was Crichton the butler who was made boss
and governor of the squire and his proud family
on the wild island of Barries fancy.
When the is will class-worshlpplng
England drop back into her ancient and honorable
snobbery?
copyright, 1915, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-04

Georgfa's cooperative system of marketing its
peach crop has aroused nationwide interest Saws
the New York Evening Post:
The forty-hve hundred carloads of peaches
which Georgia sold last year had to compete
with twenty-five thousand carloads sent to
market from Alabama, Texas, Arkansas Mis-
sissipPi and Oklahoma. Yet Georgia was the
only one OF these States whose growers made
money The secret is supposed to lie in the
Georgia Fruit Exchange. 1t sold the peaches
at price that enabled il TO declare dividend
OF ten per cent. IL is hardly surprising that
ninety per cent of Georgia's peach growers are
expected to be members of the Exchange this
year In 1912 it began by selling in eighty
six cities; three years later it had introduced
the Georgia peach into three'times that num-
Der. The selling season is short, lasting only
eight or ten weeks. but the Exchange is busy
all the year in planning for that crucial period
The interests of the consumer in this combi-
nation appear in the fact that the products
sold in this way are likely to be better in
quality
Efficient marketing is basic need of agricuI-
tural success The main source Of unreasonably low
prices to the producer and unreasonabIy high prices
to the lies very often in the lack of fore
sight and supervision in putting products on sale
The cooperative and busnesslike methods that
have done so much for Georgia's peach industry
can be applied with equally profitable results in
marketing food crops. Especially is this true OF
truck farming. By establishing an agency to look
after their common interests and to keep them &C.
curateIy advised concerning market conditions
producers can avoid many errors. save many
wassS- and gain innumerabIe advantages.