The Benson signal., 1916-10-28

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Catholic church at Globe.
The Pullman Company's taxes in
Arizona will be $13,729.
Prisoners were assigned to clean up
the streets of Tombstone. q.
Captain Tod, Yuma man, is recov-
ering from the bite of centipede.
A rooster attacked and seriously
wounded an 18-months'-old child at
Douglas.
Prof. E. P. Taylor is the new direc-
tor of the agricultural extension work
at Tucson.
Fred Ruhan, of Jerome, is reported
to have been buncoed out OF $4,000
in Los Angeles.
The Mountain States Telephone
Company is to build a new line from
Ell Paso to Benson.
Salvador Cruz confessed at Tucson
that he robbed P. G. Brena of a val
liable diamond ring.
All records in cotton sales were
broken when Fred c. Weeks of Mesa
sold six bales for $1,000.
A fine lot of horses have been en-
tered for the races at the state fail
at Phoenix on Nov. 1918.
Six convicted bootleggers, serving
sentences in Cochise for their crime,
escaped from the county road camp.
Ramon Morales, a Mexican miner
of Tombstone, was shot and killed
while returning to his home from
work.
On the plea of self-defense, Russell
Johnson was exonerated at Phoenix
for the killing of Eugene Caruthers at
Gila Bend.
Ore carrying values around the
$1OO mark is reported by Bovard &
Reynolds on their property ten miles
south of Globe.
Yavapal county is entering upon a
period of mining prosperity that prom.
ises to surpass the stirring scenes OF
decade ago.
Sever holland, negro, died at the
Arizona hospital at Tucson from bull
let wounds received in a brawl near
the negro club
The Parker Consolidated Mining
Company will commence development
work on it's property adjoining the
Billy Mack mine.
A fact not very we'll known to the
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tional forests of Arizona contain ex.
tensive stands of cypress.
An epidemic resembling malaria at.
tended by a high mortality rate, is
reported at Douglas, to be prevalent
in Northeastern Sonora.
The Geronimo Mining Company, re-
Gently formed to take over a large
copper property near Geronimo, has
started development work.
The government October crop re.
port places the corn yield in Arizona
at $4,000 bushels; all wheat, 1,16O,.
600; oats, 33S,OOO; barley, 100000;
potatoes 1O1,OOO; hay, 616,O0O tons
Assay returns from a high grade
strike made on the 30O-foot level of
the keystone mine at Chloride showed
values of 226 ounces in silver, 4-10
ounces in gold, or about $3.50 per ton.
A gift of 100000 for an observatory
and a thirty -six-inch telescope was an
nounced at meeting of the board of
regents of the University of Arizona,
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cret.
Hon. G.. w. Shute will resign his
position as judge of the superior court
in Gila county and enter upon private
practice of law at Globe on Dec. 1.
Private Herbert James, Company D,
Fifth New Jersey Infantry, has been
arrested pending complete investiga-
ton of the discharge of his rifle
while he and several comrades were
standing around campfire at Here
ford, fifty miles west of Douglas. Pri-
vate George Back and Private John
e. Main have flesh wounds in the
thigh.
Three former officers of the law sat
in the Pima County District Court
while a jury was being empaneled to
try them jointly for murder. Deputy
Sheriff Wiley, Deputies Johns and
Salazar faced charges of numbering
the wife of Captain Bates, an army
officer, while she was returning home
after a theater party in Tucson six
months ago. The former deputies de-
clared they fired revolvers at an auto
in which they thought burglars were
fleeing. In the machine Capt Bates
and his wife were riding. She was
struck twice and died almost in
stantly.
Eleven bootleggers were delivered
to County Engineer ]. F. Ryan at
Tombstone by Sheriff Wheeler, to be
taken to the Bisbee extension road
amp.
A new company, the United Jerome,