The Benson signal., 1916-05-06

Chandler district.
A lodge of the Camels of the World
was organized in Oatman.
A compressor arrived in Oatman
consigned to the Telluride.
The Stafford Infantry Company has
completed its organization.
A large concrete mixer arrived in
Oatman for the United Eastern.
Over 1900 people attended the
Texas day celebration at McNeal.
Another 100000 has been set aside
for improvements at Fort Huachuca.
The registration of electors for the
September primary election started
May |.
The Arizona Good Roads Associa-
ton meeting will be held at Phoenix,
May 1916.
George Olson, the 9-year-old son OF
Olaf Olson of Douglas, is i'll with
spinal meningitis.
The Murdoch extension. mine at
Kingman is owned and operations di-
rected by women.
Over $1O5,OOO worth of new build
ings were started in Tucson during
the month Of March.
An election is to be held at Gads.
den to vote ON bonds to buy a site
and erect a schoolhouse.
w. Ashley Manning of Douglas has
been left an estate of 100000 by an
aunt who lived in Ohio.
A shipment of 8,640 pounds of tung.
sten concentrates, valued at $6,1SO,
was made from Tucson.
The contract for the construction
work on Yavapai's new court house
has been awarded for $480,000.
Vital statistics for the last six
months of 1915 show 1922 births in
Arizona as against I'LL deaths.
In the Tennessee mine at Chloride
there has been disclosed an eighteen
inch streak of ore in the Great Lead
vein ON the 1,400-foot level.
Mrs. Alice M. Saunders has filed a
claim for $4,000 for alleged injuries
sustained when she tripped and fell
on a faulty sidewalk at Prescott.
Kirby D. Little of Miami has been
appointed assistant county attorney,
succeeding C. c. Faires, who rendered
his resignation to take effect May Is.
John Marrison's was the seventh
death from meningitis in Bisbee, and
the quarantine will probably stay un-
til May z.
A party Of gypsies, eight men, nine
women and twenty-five children,
passed through Douglas, travelling in
five autos.
The 25-horsepower hoist for the
Esperanza passed through Oatman on
. the way to the property, about two
miles south Of town.
The crosscut on the 500-foot level
of the Big Jim at Oatman penetrated
the vein twenty-six feet and samples
gave results of better than $12 per
ton.
Complaint against the rates charged
by the government-owned railroad in
the Yuma valley has been filed with
the corporation commission by the
Gadsden Vegetable Growers Associa-
tion
Deputy Sheriff Percy Bowden, at
Silver Creek, arrested w. G. Hanson
for bringing seven cases of whiskey
and four barrels Of beer to Bisbee.
Advices received from Pearce are
that case of spinal meningitis has
developed and that considerable
alarm is felt by the residents of that
town.
After a four horr struggle in the
Salt River with a seven foot alligator,
Frank Davis and his four sons of
Phoenix, succeeded in capturing the
brute.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the State Corporation Com
mission by the Chandler Water &
Power Co., with a capital stock OF
100000.
The Tombstone district at present
Is the scene of more mining activity
than for some time. The Bunker
Hill Company has nearly 500 men on
the pay roll.
Bootleggers and gamblers have a
sorry day of reckoning coming to
them in the near future, if City Mar
ghal Allison's campaign for cleaner
Bisbee bears fruit.
With TIE United Verde Copper Com
pany arranging to increase the out
put of its Clarkdale smelter to more
than 100000 pounds a month, the
United Verde Extension Company is
planning to build it's own reduction
plant at Jerome.
Mining operations in Copper Basin
section Of Yavapai county that is
directly tributary to Prescott, are be-