The Benson signal., 1916-10-14
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


Oct. 16-1S-Scottish Rite Reunion at
Tucson.
Oct: 1s-21-Northern Arizona Fair at
Oct. 2729-Southern Arizona Fair at
Nov. 13-1S-Arizona State Fair at Phoe
nix.
Thos. F. Weedin, register of the land
office, died at Phoenix.
Andrew Isaacson of Emmett, Idaho,
committed suicide at rooming house
in Yuma.
An interesting feature of the Coun-
ty Fair at Sonoita will be the Better
Babies exhibit.
At Tucson a receiver was asked for
the Copper Bell Mining Company by
John B. Wright.
A family quarrel resulted in the
shooting Of Virgil Hayes by his bro
ther, Zee Hayes, in Globe.
1t is stated that violators of the
prohibition law will soon be put to
work on the state highways.
J. L. Brooks, who pleaded guilty at
Tombstone to conducting disorderly
house at Bisbee, was fined $100.
August Lund, miner, was found
dead of thirst in an old tunnel at Gold
Hill, about forty miles northwest of
Kingman.
Policeman Geo. Gray, of Douglas,
shot Rev. Edward Jones, pastor OF
the Colored Baptist church, on the
church steps.
Approximately 1900 acres of state
land, bringing a revenue to the state
of Arizona of about $4,000 were sold
at public auction.
Miss M. E. Leverich, one of the mosl
prominent land attorneys of the South
west, has retired from a business she
has conducted for fifteen years.
Governor Hunt has appointed a
large number of delegates to attend
the twenty-third annual irrigation
congress at Ell Paso, Tex, Oct. 14-18.
From Honolulu has been received
news of the death of Abram S. Hum
phries, once a we'll known Arizona
lawyer, with residence in Florence and
Phoenix. -
The farmers in the vicinity of Mesa
had a meeting recently for the pur-
pose Of organizing a farm loan associ-
alton as provided for by the rural
credits law.
The total assessed valuation of the
state of Arizona for the ensuing fiscal
year amounts to $486,000,000, which
is gain of approximately $66,OOO,OO0
over last year.
Five times married, only to find that
her fifth marriage is unhappy, Mrs.
Francis E. Woods of Phoenix is suing
her husband, Alfred NJ Woods, for di-
vorce on the grounds of cruelty.
Private Abraham Engelnick. aged
%, native of England, was fatally
wounded at Douglas at sub-calibre
practice with E Battery, Sixth Field
Artillery, Of which he was member.
w. E. Kimsey and wife, parents of
Mrs. Thomas E. Marshall, wife of the
Vice President, are among the twenty
residents of Scottsdale who signed a
petition for the suppression of a pool
hall.
Film (Rusty) Tulk, cowboy, we'll
known throughout the southwest as a
rider and roper, was bound over to
await the action of the grand jury at
Douglas on the charge of robbing the
United States mail.
Four persons were injured, one sus
tanning broken jaw, when an auto
mobile driven by two Mexicans ran in
to and practically demolished a dairy
wagon belonging to Earl Mckinney on
the Bisbee-Douglas highway.
An angry bull attacked and serious
ly injured M. P. Phillips, three miles
northeast of Chandler. Three ribs
were broken.
Unqualifiedly indorsing President
Wilson, Governor Hunt, the Arizona
delegation in Congress, and all the pol
icies of both the national and state
Democratic administrations, the Dem
ocratic state platform is one of the
longest on record.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
at Prescott by jury in the United
States District Court in the murder
trial of Ashley Wilson r Nash and
D. M. Robertson, employees of the
Western Navajo Indian reservation, in
northeastern Arizona, for the shooting
last January of Taddy Tin, an Indian,
on the reservation.
Progress and prosperity, working in
unison as close as a miner and his
single-jack, are on the job in Yavapai
county and vicinity. Through thei1
agency the cOuntV'S mining industry