The Benson signal., 1916-12-23

Fire ruined the home of George F.
Welland at Patagonia
Clarkdale is to have new, modern,
$4,000 Methodist church.
| Bisbee officials are insisting that
local dairies furnish pure milk.
Judge VIM. Fenimore Cooper, of the
Superior Court of Pima County, died
at Tucson.
The punch board that has had a
popular run in Winslow fer some time
is now under the ban.
Three persons were arrested on
charge of engaging in a free-for-all
fight in billiard hall at Bisbee.
Tucson people expect that Gerald
Jones will succeed Samuel l.. Pattee
as Assistant United States Attorney.
Con P. Cronin, state law and legis.
lative reference librarian, is assembl-
| ing the complete tabulation of the re-
cent election.
The First Battalion, California field
artillery, with $50 men and 400 horses,
arrived in Tucson from Nogales and
| went into camp.
Copper water has been struck on the
| 1640=foot level of the Arkansas & Ari-
zona, at Jerome, and the drills are
coming out green.
Over 100 cars of lettuce will be ship
ped from Glendale to eastern markets,
according to estimates of the crop
made by railroad officials.
J. G. Cash, who was defeated for re-
election as sheriff, filed complain in
| the Superior Court at Clifton, and
asked recount of the votes.
Fear of contagion of typhus fever
has prompted the Santa Fe railroad
to order every section and bunk house,
occupied by Mexican laborers, to be
fumigated.
Public dance houses in Arizona may
be compelled to close down as the re.
suit of complaint filed against the
| management of Miami resort by
John A. Davis.
Fifty-six cents a pound for mohair
is the price offered Arizona growers
Ny AIdOCCAA Ouy dCCO1 O1uS W w.
s. Holder, owner of a large goat ranch
near Kingman.
Within ninety days the ten-stamp
mill at the old Eta mine, nine miles
south of Jerome. will be turning out
gold bullion, if the new owners,
cary out their present plans.
Lengthening of the lines of copper
| productive area in the Warren dis
| trict, which is now confined to small
| acreage, in comparison to the world of
apparently y-mineralized ground, is the
| topic of conversation in Bisbee at the
! present time.
Nearly quarter of a million dollars
was put into circulation in the Globe
district and the prospectors who orig
inally owned the property now owned
by the Miami Consolidated Mines
Company received second cash pay
ment for their ground
Reverting to the savage instincts of
| it's ferocious forebear, the wild boar,
domestic hog belonging to Pete and
Steve Galich, in the Cottonwood Sec
! tiOn near Jerome, disemboWeled two
horses and attacked COW before
bullet put an end to it's existence.
Governor Hunt signed proclama-
ton in which was embodied the dec
laration of the carrying of the prohi-
bition amendment, the anti-capital
punishment BILL and a revised game
law. The three laws sWent into effect
| when the proclamation was signed.
The Mexican bandits who robbed
the bank at Buckeye and killed Chas.
Miner, have not yet been apprehended,
but one of the posses in pursuit fol-
lowed so closely upon them that they
abandoned their course north of the
Arizona canal, northwest of Phoenix.
1t is stated at Phoenix that while
| Tom Campbell is elected governor on
the official count, and will receive
a certificate of election and take his
seat January 1, unless the courts
should decide Governor Hunts con-
date, the governor-elect has given no
| attention as yet to appointments, al
though there are many applicants for
| positions.
Nine lists of land selections were
filed in the Phoenix land office by the
State Land Commission as follows:
For university purposes, 7,5O5.36
acres; normal schools, 1,964.16 acres;
payment of principal and accrued in
terest on the bonds of Yavapai, Mari
copa, Coconino and Pima Counties,
8,29918 acres; agricultural and me-
chanical colleges, 1850 acres; insane
asylum, 3,547.77 acres. Total 21,675.4
acres.
On the declaration of the Secre-
tary of State, that in the late election
Thomas E. Campbell, Republican, re-
ceived 27,976 votes for governor, that
Governor Hunt had received 27,946
and that Mr.. Campbell was elected,
Governor Hunt instituted a contest in