The Benson signal., 1916-03-25

NCt. S-6--M Getting New Mexico Bank
ers' Association at Grand Canyon.
Now 13-18--Arizona state Fair at PhOe
nix
Jerome held it's first Mardi Gras
this year.
Suffrage leaders from all parts of
Arizona attended the conference at
Tucson.
Ground has been broken for the
new passenger station OF the Arizona
Eastern at Globe.
Trapped in burning bunk house
near McCabe, John Dohl, 80, barely
escaped cremation.
Two Mexicans were injured when
small bomb exploded under the tent
of carnival company showing at
Lowell.
The charge of numbering Pablo
Romero, against Francisco Romero
alias Jesus Garcia, was dismissed at
Tucson.
By sending revolver bullet crash
ing through her brain, Mrs. Eta Kim
mis- ended a life of sorrow and pain
at Phoenix.
Militiamen were placed on guard
around the national guard armories at
Phoenix and Tucson, as precau-
tiOnary measure.
Arizona's Navajo Indians in Apache
county may have to pay the state
taxes on their herds of sheep grazing
on the reservation.
An electrical power plant capable
Of supplying current to three towns
in Navajo county will be erected by
r. C. Smith, of Snowflake.
Henry M. Livesey of Prescott, has
taken over the Schuber copper mines
in the Copper Basin and will at once
establish camp and begin develop
ment work.
Leaning against the side of an op-
Grating table at a Phoenix hospital
Mrs Annie Brought was remarked to
her former husband after being di-
vorced Tor a year.
Secretary of State Sidney P. Os-
born issued '7,488 automobile licenses
during the month of January and Feb
ruary, or ITO more than were issued
in the entire years 1915.
For '-he month of February miners
received $4.90 per shift at Bisbee an
advance of SO cents over the wages
paid during January. And they now
get an additional 25 cents.
The government crop report esti-
mates stocks of grain on Arizona
farms March 1, as follows: Wheat,
$4,000 bushels; corn, 10000; oats,
10000 and barley, 117,000 bushels.
After being out ten minutes the
jury at Tucson in the case of Ramon
Matos, charged with violating the
prohibitory law, returned verdict Of
guilty and recommended clemency.
Southern Apache county farmers
have forwarded a petition to Wash
lngton asking government aid in ex-
terminating prairie dogs in the st.
Johns district. Resolutions adopted
by the Apache County Stock Raisers'
Association have also been forwarded.
Three hundred thousand rounds Of
rifle ammunition, first shipment of
consignment of 100000 rounds was
delivered to General P. Elias
Gales, military governor of
Sonora, by the local customs
officials. The cartridges are to be
used by the detachment of Carranza
soldiers led by Col. Dato Campbell in
aiding United States troops to cap
ture Francisco Villa and his bandits.
The largest selection of land ever
made by the state of Arizona has just
been filed on by the State Land De-
partment The land amounts to over
100000 acres and is mostly in the
Altar Valley in Pima county just
west OF the new Pagosa Reservation.
Armed with a double barrelled shot
gun, a rifle and all of the accoutre-
ments of a successful hOld-up Charles
Bergan and B. F. Smith were arrested
at Bisbee near the top of the divide
by county officers. In the arrest the
officers forestalled daringly planned
robbery of the Bisbee-Tombstoue
stage.
The Democratic State Central Com.
mittee, in resolutions adopted dt
Phoenix, favor initiating laws prohib.
iting the intra-state shipment of in
toxicants, requiring the destruction of
liquor seized by peace officers, max
ing possession of a government Ii
quor license prima facie evidence of
law violation, declaring any place
where liquor is sold Or given away
public nuisance and closing it for one
year and prohibiting liquor advertis-
ing in newspapers and moving picture
shows or by any other medium.
A detail of militiamen to guard the
Roosevelt dam, seventy-eight miles
northeast Of Phoenix was asked Of