The Benson signal., 1916-01-15
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

ment unparalleled in the history of
the city.
w. H. Howe, who escaped from the
asylum was the man who was burned
to death on the Black Canon road
near Phoenix.
Three men are supposed to have
lost their lives as the result of fire
that destroyed part of the Miami re-
stricted district.
At Tucson, by unanimous vote, j.
Knox Corbett was elected president
of the Arizona Pioneers Society, sue
ceeding B. G. Brichta.
Over 400 cowboys, cowgirls and
ranchers attended the three-day from
tier celebration which closed at Camp
Verde with barbecue.
Andrew Alvarado a trusty of the
state prison at Florence, was shot and
seriously wounded while trying to es-
cape after robbing a jewelry store.
Manuel Guaderrama of Ell Paso,
Tex, was killed when he was thrown
from an automobile, which his broth
er, David, was driving, near Here
ford
An unprecedented snowfall at Flag
staff caused the opera house roof to
collapse and other roofs to buckle
The snow reached depth of fifty two
inches.
Lon l.. Harmon of Tempe and Phoe-
nix has been appointed to the place
On the Live Stock Sanitary Board left
vacant when r. G. Brady of Tucson
resigned.
What is said to be a very large area
of disseminated copper was recently
discovered in Mohave county, and is
being developed by the Copperfield
Porphyry Mining Company.
Five Mexicans, all suspected of hav-
ing been implicated in the murder of
Chinese merchant at Solomonville,
are in the county jail at Globe, await
ing hearing of their cases.
Mariana Sainz, the young Mexican
boy, who was shot by one of the Mex
lean thugs who murdered Lee Wah,
the Chinaman, in his store at Solo
monville, died at the hospital in SAT-
| ford.
Representative of all commercial
| bodies in Arizona will meet at Pres
colt on Jan. Is to consider the offer
of the management of the San Diego
exposition to free space for an all
Arizona exhibit.
Indian corn, commonly known as
"squaw corn is proving banner
crop in the Chandler district. G. A.
| Sutton, local farmer, harvested 225
bushels from five acres, Or foIGy-five
bushels per acre.
It is reported that Colorado mining
men are making an investigation of
| the Old Peck mine in the Bradshaws,
with the object of finding out the
| tungsten values which have been re-
| ported to be good.
| Albert G.. Watkins, for the past
eight or nine years a foreman in the
employ of the Copper Queen Consoli-
dated Mining Company at Globe, was
smothered to death in No. stope of
the Southwest mine.
The face of the work on the Silver
Crown is all in fair ore, carrying gold,
silver and copper, and it is thought
some ore can be shipped from Pata-
gonia at present prices. The ore gets
better as depth is secured.
| After being separated for fifty-two
years and each believing the other to
be dead, Mrs. Eufino Peralta, of Los
Angeles and Mrs. Jesus Moreno of
Florence, half sisters were reunited
| at the home of Pete Avenenti
The Renfro mining property, COM
prising forty claims, has been bond
ed to John Devine of the Ray Cop
per Company for $125,00O. The Rem
fro adjoins the Troy-Manhattan group
northwest of Ray and six miles north
Of the Hayden smelter.
A tentative agreement eliminating
the Western Federation of Miners
Union from the strike situation in the
copper district Of Clifton, Morenci
and Metcalf, was apparently arrived
at between the legislative committee
of the striking employees and the man
ayers of the mines, at Ell PasO.
In order that the employees of the
three mines in the district might par
ticipate, with the companies, in the
present prosperous condition Of the
copper industry, the Copper Queen
Consolidated Mining Company, the
Calumet and Arizona Mining Compa-
ny, Gncluding the Superior and Pitts
burg) and the Shattuck-Arizona Cop.
per Company published new sched
ule of prices which provides a sliding
scale to and including copper at TWEEN
ty-five cents.
Another attracticn-i has been auded
to Tie game resources of the Chirica
hua range. Two thousand young rain