The Benson signal., 1916-07-15

Miami is to have a new Catholic
church.
Tucson women are forming an aux
iliary home guard.
Miami is taking steps to organize
a Board of Trade.
Arizona will organize many Red
Cross associations.
In the Kenilworth district, 16O acres
of barley was destroyed by fire.
Fourteen alleged bootleggers were
taken in a wholesale raid at Bisbee.
The jury in the Johnson-Kilcoyne
case returned a verdict of not guilty.
About 1000 persons at Miami have
already registered for the fall cleo,
tiOnS.
The Commercial Hotel at Phoenix
was destroyed by fire, with an esti
mated loss of 100000.
Just now there is quite an activity
in mines and mining properties
throughout Pinal county.
Three Mexicans were killed and
six injured, while working on the
roads near Metcalf, by an explosion.
Ore that runs anywhere from $40
TO $10O per ton is being found in
punches in the drift in the Black
Range.
Twenty-Five residents of Douglas.
all arrested on charges of boOtleggine
were escorted through Bisbee on their
way to Tombstone.
A deposit of high-grade copper ore
of promising possibilities has been
encountered at a depth of 400 feet in
the workings of the Black Rock Com.
pany in Yavapai county.
The Arizona Supreme Court de-
clared unconstitutional the initiated
law adopted by the voters in 1914, pro.
viding for mothers and old age pen.
sions.
Tucson hotels, restaurants and soft
drink places, on charges of violating
the prohibitory law, followed raids by
county officers.
Four thousand dollars worth of
gold bullion and carload of high
| grade concentrates is the monthly
output from the Tiger Gold property
| in the Bradshaw mountains.
In the Superior Court at Tombstone
c. l.. Brinkley, who was brought back
from Los Angeles under extradition
papers, on the charge of embezzle-
ment, entered plea of guilty.
The output of American mines for
7 1916, as seen in production for the
tirst six months Of the year, will
reach new records the government
bureau of mines statement says
A tragedy of the mines was discov-
cred at the Gold Trails property,
lbout twenty miles southwest of King
nan, Randolph Alger and wife and
an unknown miner being the victims.
Congress will be asked to relieve
miners from doing their assessment
work on claims near Ajo, on account
Of being compelled to abandon their
claims owing to war conditions on the
border.
United States soldiers of the bor-
der patrol at Douglas made their first
crossing into Mexico territory, but re-
turned to the Arizona side in few
minutes The soldiers crossed the
line in pursuit of Private Edward
| Stone, a deserter from the Arizona
militia.
Some excellent samples of asbestos
are on exhibition at Phoenix from
Arizona mines.
Preliminary steps toward the con
struction of narrow guage railroad
from Branaman station on the Phoe.
nix & Eastern Railroad to the Snider
mining property are being taken by
George B. Crittenden.
A comely young American girl is
thought to have been the cause of an
attempted murder, perhaps successful
and a suicide at Douglas, when Dave
Kuri, a Syrian chauffeur, shot Fran
els J. Sullivan, an eX-soldier and
then turned the gun on himself, blow
ing his brains out.
Record productions of all metals
are predicted for the mines and smelt
ers of Arizona this year. At the rate
they are now working they will pro
duce 6OO,O00,000 pounds of copper
against 450,000,00O in 1915. A CORE
spending increase is noted in the out
put of precious metals, and in that
of lead and zinc, which, at the great
Iy increased prices, will probably
make the total value of the output iI
1916 nearly double that of 1916, which
was about $S8,000,000.
Gen. p. Elias Gales, military com
mander in Sonora, issued a statement
through Consul Ives G. Lelevier a
Douglas, that he intended to preserve
the best possible relations between
Mexico and the United States, an(