The Benson signal., 1916-01-08

Jan. lO-lZ.-Annual Convention Ari-
zona Cattle Growers Association at
Prescott.
The state poultry show was held at
Tucson.
A bootlegging roundup in Douglas
netted four arrests.
A new $4,000 round house has just
been completed at Prescott.
The new Warren school is to De
constructed on the most modern lines.
1t is reported that the Tom Reed
and United Eastern Mining companies
are to consolidate.
BY decision of the State Supreme
Court, the Arizona National Guard
will get it's money.
The Copper Queen Company has
donated $4,000 to Bisbee for the bene-
fit of the park fund
Dry farmers along Oak creek are
preparing to install pumps and tap the
water supply in that valley.
Forty carloads of lettuce are to be
shipped from the Salt River Valley to
Eastern markets this season.
A contract for constructing a sub
way under the railroad tracks at
Tucson has been let for $56,700.
Contract for the construction of a
modern fire-proof hotel three stories
in height has just been let at Miami
A big strike of ore was reported in
the mines of the Arizona Tellurium
Mines Company in the Kingman dis
trict
At Tombstone the jury in the case
of the State vs. Pablo Ramirez, re-
turned verdict of murder in the
second degree.
Governor George P. Hunt has made
arrangements to commence the erec-
ton of suburban home a mile north.
east of Phoenix. {.
From it's three-acre date orchard,
two miles south of Tempe, the Uni
versity of Arizona has this season
realized net profit of $4,000.
The Phoenix City Commission has
ordered Washington street, from Sew
enth avenue to the state house, paved,
the material to be decided later.
Stabbed about the face and neck,
Fred Coulter of Scottsdale in in a
hospital at Phoenix as the result of a
dispute over a mortgage with H. l..
Lynn, rancher.
Jesse Loveless, the negro soldier
convicted of rape committed on the
Fort Huachuca military reservation,
was taken to Leavenworth, Kan, to
serve a life term sentence.
That one of the biggest strikes ever
made in the Patagonia district was re-
Gently uncovered in Red Mountain,
about two miles. from Patagonia by
R. R. Richardson is reported at King
man.
Citizens of Phoenix and Temple held
a good roads meeting New Years to
plan road to Hole-in- the Rock, a
natural scenic wonder in the Sahauro
National Park, midway between the
two cities.
Governor Hunt received from the
State Department request that
Americans be warned not to venture
into those parts of Mexico not effec-
lively under the control of the de facto
Carranza government.
Suit against George w. P. Hunt,
J. c. Callaghan and Charles r. Osburn,
members of the state board of control,
and A. G. Kingsley has been filed in
the Superior Court at Phoenix by
George S. Foster, Jr., who asks $4,000
damages because the sewer from the
State Insane Asylum empties On his
land, two miles south of that institu-
ton.
Judge Sawtelle, in the Federal
Court at Tucson, issued temporary
restraining order prohibiting any in
reference, on the part of the Western
Federation of Miners, with the doing
of the assessment work by the min
ing companies operating in the Cliff
ton -Morenci district on their unpat-
ented claims.
In a special train of two sections,
the Seventh United States cavalry
arrived at Douglas from San Fran
cisco. On the first section were
troops A, B and c, which were i'm
mediately switched to Hachita, where
they will relieve the three troops of
the Ninth cavalry now stationed there
when they leave for the islands.
Oatman and the Tom Reed-Gold
district is not the only location in
Arizona TO be attracting the eyes of
prospectors for gold. For it is thought
that the lode from which the placers
of the Huachucas originated, has been
found 1t is located in the north fork
of the Ash canon, ard the claim on
which the discovery was made is
owned by Len Kelly, Ben Morgan and
William Ryan. The property has
been named the Lost and Found
claim.
Over $4,000 in gold bullion, repre-
senting a recent short run of the
Crosby mines at Santa Maria has been
taken to Prescott for shipment. The