The Benson signal., 1916-02-19

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Mrs. Mabel Watson of Bisbee and
her father were arrested at Douglas
on a charge of bringing liquor into
Arizona from Texas.
Full and complete confession to the
killing of j. e. Smith has been made
by Daniel McCarty, charged with MUIR
der at Wagner last December.
The big bodies of high grade ore
encountered on the 1,40O level of the
Little Daisy, some time ago, certifies
the important feature of the mine.
Falling in line with other schools
of the state in the general prepared
ness movement, Phoenix High School
is preparing to organize a rifle club.
Fifteen thousand head of outside
cattle are being fattened in the Chand-
the large number Of dairy cattle on
pasture.
Profiting by the example Of Oat-
man, Chloride, one of the Oldest and
most productive mining camps in Mo-
have county, has established pub.
licity bureau.
A 600 foot shaft is to be sunk on the
Jack Knife claims of the Bendigo
Mining Company, according to an an.
nouncement by officials of the COM
pany at Parker.
A tract of $50 acres just east of
Wickenburg has been purchased by
w. w. Bass, the Grand Canon guide,
who will establish a large sanitarium
and winter resort.
A new steel bridge, costing half a
million dollars, will be erected by the
Arizona Eastern to replace the bridge
over the Gila river at Sacaton carried
out by the recent floods.
BY order of the postmaster general
the postoffice of Cliffs has been dis
continued. Mail for this important
lumber camp will be sent to Flagstaff
and delivered by rural carrier.
Residents of the Parker district are
jubilant over the showing of the first
of the states experimental wells,
which has just been subjected to a
48-hour test. The we'll ran 1000 gal.
Ions a minute.
The gift of $4,000 for Y. M. c. A.
at Miami by the Miami Copper Com
pany and donation of $4,000 for a
Y. M. G.. A. building at Hayden, made
by the Arizona Smelling & Refining
Company, were announced by Secre-
tary w. H. Day.
DR.. r. N Looney, state superintend-
ent of public health, has purchased
all the cattle holdings and range
rights of Charles Puntenney for $780,
900. The holdings, which include a
large tract of unpatented land, are
located in southern Coconino county.
Seventy-five bushels of Sacaton
corn from one pound of seed is the
record made by R. L. Thiebaud, a
Chandler corn grower
Farmers living in tracts embraced
in the Salt River valley irrigation pro-
ject will be required 20 pay $64 per
acre toward the projects cost, accord
ing to estimates of the central cost
review board appointed by Secretary
Lane. One hundred and seventy-two
thousand acres are subject to pay
ments.
A flood that washed away over
three feet of the roadway near the
Commercial camp in the Copper Basin
was responsible for the discovery of
what promises to become one of the
most important copper properties in
Yavapai county. A dyke of native
copper two feet in width was exposed
by the flood.
Five thousand residents of the
northeastern portion of Arizona are
alarmed over reports that the Hopi
tribe of Navajo Indians are threaten
ing to go on the ''warpath" There
are approximately $4,000 Indians liv-
ing on the reservation, but it is not
known what proportion of them is in
volved in the threatened uprising.
Copper output of the Copper Queen
and Calumet & Arizona smelters in
Douglas for the month of January
amounted to 2O,OOO,0OO pounds. The
output of the Copper Queen amounted
u 100000 pounds, which was an in
crease over the month of December,
while the Calumet & Arizona pro-
duced 100000 pounds, the same as
for December.
Ethel Hollingshead and George Won
Schaak, who separated three hours
after their wedding at Tucson, April
II, 1914, have been granted divorce.