The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1916-08-12

celebration.
Bisbee fire insurance rates have
been reduced.
Water is 215 feet deep in the Roose-
welt reservoir. &
State money will soon be loaned to
Arizona farmers.
The strike at the Gold Roads mines
has been settled.
A $4,000 grain elevator is being
erected at Tucson.
The old Empire mine at Chloride
has been unwatered.
Mrs. Teresa Martinez was killed by
lightning at Sahuarita.
The proposed Arizona game law is
declared to be faulty.
Tucson may be chosen as location
for a recruiting station.
The paving of Flagstaff's business
center is about completed.
During the fiscal year 100000
acres of land we're surveyed.
A new 100000 ice and cold storage
plant is to be erected in Douglas.
Sheelite has been discovered in the
Hassayampa district near Prescott.
Express companies are now accept
ing liquor shipments from any point.
The trustees will sell the Impatient
ed claims of the Pioneer Smelling
Company at Tucson.
Two miners were injured about the
face and hands by an explosion in the
Shattuck mine at Bisbee.
More than 300 Mexicans were made
homeless by fire which broke out
in the Mexican quarter at Miami.
A heavy cloudburst caused the big.
gest flood down Deception gulch.
south of Jerome, that has occurred in
years.
Charles F. Williams was bound over
to the Superior Court at Yuma on two
counts, both for passing spurious
| checks.
After being in the Salt river for
eighteen days, the bodies of Samuel
and Isaac Appel of Phoenix were re,
| covered.
Two Pioneer mine contractors were
held on a charge of permitting an EN-.
| ploye to work more than eight hours
in one day.
In a battle with Mexican cattle
thieves, Jose Francisco, Papago In.
dian, was shot through the breast at
Indian Oasis.
Serious damage by washouts was
sustained by the Chloride branch OF
the Santa Fe, but the ranges were
greatly benefited by the rain.
An association of secretaries q
commercial organizations in Arizona,
New Mexico and West Texas is the
latest scheme for boosters of the
Southwest.
BY change in management which
affects both Phelps, Dodge & Co. and
the Copper Queen Consolidated Min.
ing Company, Douglas becomes head
quarters of both these organizations.
D.. M. Locey, who expects to start
work very soon on group of mines
near Prescott, is an aviation expert
and proposes to use biplane on his
journeys between the city and the
mining camp.
At Tombstone the jury in the Nal.
donado case returned a verdict of
murder in the second degree.
From the July crop report of the
United States government Arizona s
prospects for this year are estimated
as follows: Corn, $4,000 bushels;
wheat, 100000 bushels; potatoes,
$4,000 bushels.
For 100000 H. G. Murphy of Phoe-
nix, representing Washington capital
lists, has bought the Woodbury. Copper
Company holdings at Superior. The
property consists of 120 claims said to
be the largest surface showing in Ari-
IONA.
Only few more little crooks and
turns of wrenches, rivets, hammers,
bolts and pulleys and the big gallows
frame at No. 2 shaft of the United
Eastern will be hosting the big buck
cts of rock from the 375-foot hole at
Oatman.
Instead of complying with the three
cent-fare law the Arizona Eastern,
Southern Pacific and Santa Fe will
give coupons for excess charges, the
same to be refunded provided the fed
eral court does not sustain contention
of the railroads.
That Private James G.. Alden of the
hospital detachment of the Fourteenth
infantry came to his death from heat
prostration was the verdict of the cor
oners jury at Douglas.
Max Findlay was killed and Lyle
Cooke was badly injured at the
Thumb Butte property at Union Pass
by the explosion of a charge of dyna-
mite that had hung fire.
| Miss Funjcn WingO who was wi11ed