The Benson signal., 1916-09-09


nix.
Sid Fontaine committed suicide at
Bisbee by shooting himself.
A council of the Knights of Colum-
bus has been organized in Douglas.
The contract for bridge over Mini
eral Creek at Ray has been let TOT
$11,995.
The Florence Chamber OF Com
merce is taking steps to secure d
creamery.
Work has been started on the new
highway between Douglas and the Z.
& A. smelter.
The first bale of cotton picked IN
the Salt River Valley this year solu
in Phoenix at 3Oc.
At Tombstone the jury in the case
of Jeff Dunagan, charged with selling
iouor brought in verdict of guilty
miner who was killed while WORK
ing in the Old Dominion NINE neaH
Globe. was identified as VIM. McDOn-
aid said to be a labor agitator CT
BiSbee.
The final move by which the Little
Jessie gold mines of Chaparral are 10
be revived in short time, mas oeen
closed, in the unwatering OF the ola
workings to the 350-foot level.
Latest reports from the oil fields
of Oklahoma would appear to lndlca'e
that the property of the Arlzona-oA'
lahoma Oil and Gas Company hau
chosen land which is in the middle ol
a belt Of great promise.
Charley" Genung, as he was more
familiarly known from one end TO tne
other of Arizona, has passed over tne
last trail of life's long journey, Ms
death taking place at the old nome
stead in Peoples Valley
The entire force of about 175 men
at the Tennessee mine at Chlorlue
was called out on strike because I'll
the refusal of the management 10
grant an increase of SO cents per dav
to the firemen and cage men.
Extensive exploitation of the Tlger
Gold group in the Bradshaw noun
tains will be under way within the
next few days, following the taklrg
over by eastern capitalists OF the
lease on the Tiger Gold Company
The Superior Court at Nogales has
refused a reduction Of bail from $lo'
600 to $4,000 in the case of Thomas
Johns. a former deputy sheriff O:
Pima county, charged with the muir
der of Mrs. J. S. Bates at Tucson.
General Manager w. S. Humbert
OF the Green Monster Mining Cor:-
pany, is authority for the statement
that the corporation is the owner or
the largest mineral-bearing estate In
the famous Jerome copper district
AS development of the sixty-foot ore
body recently cross-cut by diamond
drill on the 7OO-foot level at the Ma5'
colt progresses, it is becoming very
apparent that the Wilcox company d!s
covered an ore body of good proper
tions.
Several hundred dollars worth OF
opium, pipes and other accessories
and a considerable quantity of stolen
government property were captuceH
in a raid in resort on Seventh street,
lust off the restricted district In
Douglas.
Despondent because her parents re
fused to permit her to marry the man
she loved, 16-year-old Nellie Garcia
shot herself in the left breast at
Twin Buttes. She was taken to st.
Mary's Hospital in Tucson, where the
doctor who attended her, pronounced
her injuries not serious.
That the Bureau of immigration
would open an office in Arizona with
in thirty days for the purpose OF CO.
operating with state and city agencies
for the bringing of the man and job"
together, was the statement made by
A. Caminetti, commissioner general
of immigration, at the regular weekly
meeting of the Tucson Luncheon
Club.
Plans for the automobile race from
Douglas to Phoenix, via the Border
land route as a feature of the Ar1zOnt
State Fair, seems to have struck an
other popular chord, according to Sec
retary Coll of the Douglas Chamber
o. Commerce.
Besides the immense showing of gill
yer in the Monte Cristo and the COM
paratively free gold ores of the old
Interior and many other groups in the
extreme southwest corner of Yava-
pal, that section seems destined to
furnish metals which are used in the
manufacture of steel.
With an assessed valuation totallinS
over $486,0O0,00O the State Board o.
Equalization has fixed the Arizona
state tax rate for 1916 at 40 cents on