The Benson signal., 1916-09-30

nix.
The superdreadnought Arizona Will
be commissioned Oct. Is.
Eleven were caught in raids on
blind tigers" in Tucson.
Over $50 students are enrolled al
the University of Arizona.
The Tucson Indian school has
opened for the 1867 season.
William Jennings Bryan addressed
an audience of 5000 people at Tue
son.
A Phoenix store floorwalker has
confessed stealing $1,000 worth OF
goods.
An examination for clerk will be
held at the Kingman pOstoffice on
Oct. 81.
Levy Brothers, brokers, with Of
fees in Denver, and Bisbee, closed
their offices.
There is a strong undercurrent or
sentiment in Oatman in favor Of in
cooperating the town.
There are over 1900 Arizona
voters registered this year, compared
with little over $4,000 last year.
In the course of week or so the
Gold Range is scheduled to join the
active properties of Oatman.
Automobiles driven about the
streets of Phoenix will soon be re-
uuired to have DINNERS in their head
lights.
Mrs. Fannie Fry, former Globe
woman, was found dead in the noun
tains near Kelvin, with her head
crushed.
The Arizona Mayflower Copper
Company has purchased of S. D. Cor
ley his group of seventeen claims To-
Gated at Wampo, about fifteen miles
north of Duncan.
Two divorces from the same man
within seven months is the record Of
Mrs. Emma Clark, of Phoenix, who
has just been separated legally again
from Charles Clark.
simultaneously with the installa-
ton of centrifugal gold separator,
and the starting up of it's mill, comes
the information that the Gold Dust
mine has made a big strike.
The Copper Queen has made
declaration of it's long expected work
on Sacramento hill and of the build
ing of a $500 ton concentrating mill,
according to a Bisbee dispatch.
A rich strike seems probable at the
Goldroad Bonanza. At first there
were a few stringers in the crosscut,
but now the andesite pans so many
colors as to classify it almost as ore.
The Oatman-North Star has re-
sumed, with full force of miners,
it being another to give physical
denial to the reports that all the
mines of Oatman were to shut down.
Not since the days of the Green
Monster flotation has any mining
company in the Verde district met
with such instantaneous success, or
aroused such widespread interest, as
has the United Verde Consolidated at
Jerome.
On request of the State Fair Asso-
citation, the date of the fall southern
Arizona fair has been changed to be-
gin Oct. 27, the fair to beopen for
three days. Other fairs will begin
this year as follows: Stafford, Oct 4;
Nogales, Oct. 5; Prescott, Oct. 1S;
Yuma, Nov. 3.
The first flight of an army aero
plane from Columbus, N. M, to Doug
las approximately 115 miles, was
made in one hour and thirty-five min
utes by Lieutenant Thomas S. Bowen
and Carl Spates.
Applications on the part of married
pioneers who with their wives desire
to be admitted to the Arizona Pioneer
Home at Prescott are being denied
because the state is without funds tc
furnish the new addition, recently
/ erected for married men and wome1
pioneers, according to c. R. Osborn
secretary of the Board of Control.
The Republicans named the fol
lowing candidates for state offices il
the recent primary: Joseph H. Kib
by, U. S. Senator; Henry L. Eads
representative in Congress; o. ]
Baughn, Supreme Court Judge; Thos
E. Campbell, governor; Joe V. Pro
chaska, secretary of state; Doane
Merrill, state auditor; John A. Camp
bell, state treasurer; John L. Gunst
attorney general; H. E. Mathews, su
perintendent of public instruction; J
H. Cloonan, corporation commits
sioner; Norman J. Mckenzie, mine
inspector; George H. Smalley, state
tax commissioner.
Following is the ticket nominated
hy the Democrats at the recent pri
r.ary: Henry F. Ashurst, U. S. Sen
aror; Carl Hayden, representative il
Congress; Henry D. Ross, Supreme
Court judge; Geo. w. P. Hunt, gov
| ernor. Sidney P Osborn, secretary