The Benson signal., 1916-04-01

Miami's baseball park is about COM
pleted.
Work on Tucson's new city hall has
been started.
An artesian we'll has been brought
in at Duncan
Two alleged Villa officers were ar
rested in Clifton.
A $4,000 theater building is to be
erected in Blsbee
Casa Grande farmers are planning
to build a diversion dam.
Arizona mines use 40 per cent of
the states timber production.
Early reopening of the Silver King
mine at superior is indicated.
Motion picture artists aru the lat.
est to embark in mining in Yavapai
county.
The Gold Ore Mining Company be-
gan making shipments of ore from its
property to- the Goldroad mill.
Harry T. Southworth of Prescott is
the new grand commander or the
Knights Iemplar of Arizona.
Salt River valley. growers are be-
ing offered rs cents pound for long
staple Egyptian cotton on contract.
Eighty Springfield rifles have been
added to the equipment of the cadet
company OF the Tempe Normal school.
A second large artesian well has
been brought In on the ranch of Leon
ard Barry, twenty-nine miles north o.
McNeal.
Coronado and Chiricahua national
forests will be consolidated under one
forest supervisor with headquarters
at Tucson.
The case against Sam Yahura of
Globe, who imported liquor for per-
sonal use, was dismissed by the Su-
preme Court
A general order exiling the Cath
olic clergy from the Sonora district
of Mexico is being enforced at No
gales, Ariz
Survey for an aerial tramway from
the end Of the Twin Buttes railroad
to the San Xavier mine, eight miles
distant, is heing made.
Development of the Green Flower
claims, located on what is known as
the "hog back" in the town of Jerome,
is to be commenced at once.
Nogales will be the next meeting
place for the Masonic bodies of Arl-
iona, which closed a most success
full meeting at Tucson with the in
stallation of officers.
Oliver Creech, formerly a resident
of Globe, who, while at Miami, mar
ried Miss Belcher, was shot and bad
ly wounded at Phoenix in scuffle
with his brother, Cecil.
Unpatented mining claims are real
estate and title thereto is vested in
| the holder, not the government This
| is the decision of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia, in an Ari-
zona case.
An eighteen-inch vein of gold ore,
which runs $74 to the ten, has been
struck by Archie ani William Hender
| son of Prescott, who are operating
| the old Cottonwood mine in the
| Walker district.
That new railroad will be built
from the Nogales branch of the
| Southern Pacific to the Mineral Hill,
| Paymaster and other mining proper
| ties in the San Xavier district is re-
| ported at Tucson.
Over $4,000 will be spent in i'm
| provements at the government expert
ment farm at Sacaton
Denver mining men are arranging
to take over the Powell placer prop
eity Just across the Hassayampa
river from the White mine at Wick
enburg. Equipment for the new mine
has already arrived.
One Mexican sheepherder was
killed and another badly wounded in
a battle between flock owners in tho
Black cailon range. Mixing of two
bands of sheep was given as the rea-
son for the trouble.
Gov. George w. P. Hunt tele-
| RrapnGQ TO the war department. ASK
ing for 5000 carbines and $4,000
rounds of ammunition to arm "home
guards" in border settlements an
| towns which asked protection.
Lawrence Smith, age II, of Snow
flake, member of the Snowflake Boys
Pig Club, has won the state champion
ship for 1915 in the Arizona Boys
and Girls Pig Club contest as pro
noted by the Agricultural Extension
Service of the University of Arizona
in cooperation with the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Elvin Lines,
age ID, Gilbert, won second.
Judge Sawtelle of the Federal Court
dissolved the injunction restraining
the sheriff of Mojave county from
carrying out a mandate of the ST.
perior Court ousting 100 defendant
from what is known as Oatman Cit!
and dismissing the bill.
| Resolutions urging Congress tC