The Benson signal., 1916-01-22
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

LStdIy VI SIELO.
The government has accepted from
the contractor the new buildings erect
ed at Fort Huachuca.
Live stock raising is rapidly be.
coming the most important industry
in the Chadler district.
Over two hundred head of high
grade Holsteins are being distributed
among Tempe dairymen.
The new state highway between the
rivers is nearly completed.
The output of gold, silver, copper
lead and zinc at mines in Arizona in
1915 was valued at sS8,551 900.
Preparations are being made for
big mining operations on the Golden
Star mine at Mineral Park.
Gila county's $35O,OOO bond issue
for county highway system has been
solo at premium of $4,000.
Over 100000 sheep will be sheared
in the Salt River valley this sea-
son according to sheep owners.
George B. Ayres went to Kingman
from Goldroad with a bar of bullion
weighing $4,000, the cleanup for the
week.
The s31,5OO damage suit brought bv
c. D. Young against Daniel Campbell,
Hugh Campoell and Daniel Francis
n
Nine claims in the Seneca mining
district have been purchased by the
Billy Mack Mining Company and act
i've development work will be com
menced
A new record for enrolment for
state institutions has been set by the
Tempe Normal, which has just
opened the 1915 term with over 400
students.
The activities of the Moctezuma
Copper Company, for some time cur
tailed by the Villa invasion of So
nora, are getting back on a normal
basis again.
Walter w. Kermeen, sentenced to
die for the murder of j. P. Harrell,
former Los Angeles bank clerk, was
given a reprieve until March 10 by
Governor Hunt.
An active campaign for the exter-
mination of rabbits is being carried
on by the farmers of the Mountain
View district, who killed over 700 in
one days hunt.
Walter w. Kermeen, sentenced to
die for the murder of J. P. Harrel,
former Los Angeles bank clerk, was
given reprieve until March 10th by
Governor Hunt.
Witchcraft is the charge brought
against Mariana Lucera, an old Mexi-
can woman at Tucson who has been
arrested for practicing medicine
without a license.
Henry B. Hovland, of Miami, who,
with Hoval A. Smith, bought the Live
Oak and sold that mine to the Insplra-
ton, has been granted a patent FOR
ore concentration.
r. w. Kramer of Miami received
from United States Attorney General
Thomas Watts Gregory an appoint
ment as deputy United States district
attorney for Arizona
Whether the importation of LIQUOR
into Arizona for personal use' is in
violation of thet Arizona state prohi-
bition law is to be definitely decided
soon by the State Supreme Court.
Only the explosion of a stick of dy-
Mantle in the cellar saved Thomas
Irwin and 1amily of st. Johns from
being cremated when their house was
burned. The explosion awoke the
family in time for them to escape
Ten new banks were organized in
Arizona during 1915
Quarantine regulations prohibiting
the further importation of olive trees
into Arizona was considered at a
meeting of the State Commission Of
Agriculture and Horticulture at Phoe-
Xix.
Mariana Sainz, the young Mexican
boy who was shot by one of the Mex
ican thugs who murdered Lee Wah.
the Chinaman, in his store at Solo,
monville, died at the hospital in SAT-
ford.
Speaking of the Commonwealth Fix.
tension while in Tombstone, Manager
Charles Hicks stated that six feet of
$44 ore was struck in the shaft at
about the 220 level, and that every
indication points to a further enlarge
ment of the vein as the shaft is
sunk.
Unless the preliminary negotiations
known to be under way fail of con-
summation, the great mines of the
Tom Reed and the United Eastern
mining companies at Oatman, twenty
six miles southeast of Klngman, will
come under one management in the
near future
For injuries alleged TO have been
caused by negligence of the In
spiration Consolidated Copper Com