The Benson signal., 1916-03-04
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOX COMING EVENTS.


DATES FOX COMING EVENTS.
April 12.-State Teachers Association
meeting at Tucson.
Nov. 13-18.--Arizona State Fair at
Phoenix.
Graham county is to have farm
adviser. M
Douglas is planning for clean
up week.
There is a shortage of hay in the
Mesa section.
The Arizona State Fair will be held
Nov. Ii to 18, inclusive.
The Salt River Valley is rapidly be-
coming one big stock farm.
Miami X. P.'s celebrated the fifty
second anniversary of the order.
The Lincoln mines in the Prescott
district are to be actively operated.
Curt Miller, of Temple, is the new
chairman of the State Board of Par
dons.
Ari2ona's population is now given
by the U. S. Census Bureau as
255,544
Colorado mining operators now con-
troll the tungsten mines of the Tiptop
district
Tucson business men made a trip
to New Cornelia, the newborn minins
town at Ajo.
Tommy Woods, for twenty-five
years a popular miner of the Bisbee
district, died at Phoenix
The Chandler Farmers Union has
decided to raise more OF the supplies
required by it's members.
The Rivers and Harbors bill in Con-
gress provides 100000 for work on
the Colorado river at Yuma.
The Mascot Copper Company will
rebuild it's power plant, which was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss OF
500, 900.
Three new bulletins have been is
sued by the Arizona State Bureau of
Mines on tungsten, magnesite and
mercury.
Two trunk loads OF really good
whiskey constitute the latest Miami
contribution to the steadily increasing
stores of the sheriff
George Haigler secured judgment
for $4,000 against the Higgins Leas-
ing Company, for damages, in the
Superior, Court at Tombstone.
A six-foot body of rich ore has been
struck in drying the crosscut to in.
tersect the "glory hole in the Union
mine in the Chapparal district.
The Great Mogul group Of mines
was bought some time since for $50,
and has now been bonded for 100000
by George Daily 10 Denver men.
Almost half a million cattle were
handled in Arizona during the year
1915, according to figures made pub
lie by the Live Stock Sanitary Board.
There is money in hogs in the Sui
phur Spring Valley, according to Reed
Burritt, who has thirty five acres of
alfalfa fifty-five miles north of Nc
Neal.
In an encounter with a highwayman
at Phoenix, Bernardo Secna, who
runs store, received severe scalp
wound from a shot from the bandits
revolver.
Accused of padding and falsifying
his expense accounts, Leonard Os-
borne, former auditor in the quarter
masters department, was arrested al
Tuscon and taken to San Antonio.
The proportion of Copper Basin
mines in the Prescott district which
make gooa" when even a moderate
amount of development work is done
in them seems to be about 100 per
cent.
Because he stubbed his toe on a
portion of pipe extending three inches
above the sidewalk in Tucson, Ira
Van Dyke, an oil driller, is suing the
municipality of Tucson for $4,000
damages.
Arizona will receive $117,512 year
from the government for road i'm
provement if the ShackelfOrd bill,
which recently passed the House OF
Repl esentatiy by a vote OF 2S1 to
81, becomes a law.
Reports received at Flagstaff that
Leo Crane, Indian agent at Keams
Canyon, Arlz., had been killed by
Indians, were denied by arrivals from
that town. Mail received at Gallup,
NJ M, from Keams Canyon said that
quiet prevailed there, according to
advices from Gallup.
1t is not crime to possess or drink
liquor in Arizona, therefore it is not
a crime to import it for personal use.
There are no states eXcep, Idaho and
South Carolina that prohibit the use
of liquor, therefore they are the only
really dry states in the Union, says