The Benson signal., 1916-07-29

The Chloride mining bureau has
been reorganized.
A dozen cars of cantaloupes a day
are being shipped from Mesa.
Bisbee has been granted material
reduction in fire insurance rates.
Out of probably 100000 voters, only
about $4,000 have so far registered.
Ten initiated measures will go on
the ballot for the November election.
Freight receipts at Chloride have in
creased 800 per cent in less than a
year.
Douglas lodge of Elks, No. 955, will
dedicate their new $4,000 home
Aug. 5.
The old ore dump at Patagonia has
been torn down to make room for
new one.
A paving district covering the prin-
cipal residence section of Douglas is
to be created.
The badly burned body of Michael
O'Brien was found in his dugout about
two miles west of ChiltO.
Mrs. Ralph Raphael committed sui
eide by drinking a solution Of cyanide
at her home in Clarkdale.
The new flotation plant of the Stod-
dard Mines Company on the Aqua
Frio river, has been completed.
Site for club house to be used as
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been donated by the Iron Cap Com
pany.
Seven county prisoners will be en-
ployed in surveying party, which is
laying out a new road into the Pinal
mountains.
Chloride's postoffice has grown oul
of it's former class several months
ago. At the present time it is crowd
ing third class.
VIM. Curtis was killed by lightning
in one of the worst rain and electric
storms that has visited the Tombstone
section in years.
The compressor plant house of the
JeromeO Oatman Mining Company was
destroyed by fire, causing loss
placed at $25O,0OO.
A three-foot body of gold ore has
been struck on the Old Homestead
mine in the Walker district at depth
of seventy-five feet.
Samuel and Isaac Appel, brothers
of Phoenix are believed to have been
drowned in the Salt river three miles
from Roosevelt dam.
Civic improvements amounting to
100000 are being held up pending
the approval from a legal standpoint
of bond issue recently voted at Cliff
ton.
Henry and Willis Azbil, convicted
at Flagstaff of the murder of Henry
o. Thomas, were sentenced to be
hanged on Sept. 29 at the state peni-
tentiary.
Whether it is ledge or stringer
is as yet undetermined, but ore that
pans free gold has been struck at the
bottom of the shaft of the Oatman-
Combination.
The net valuation of all property in
Cochise county for taxation purposes
is $114,S14,72656, and the tax rate is
expected to be about 81 as against
SLOT last year.
High grade sulphide ore has been
struck in the $50 foot tunnel being
driven to drain the old 80 foot Wine
at the Long Pine Verde mine in the
Jerome district.
Twenty-seven men of Company D,
First Connecticut infantry, were tax
en- ill with ptomaine poisoning at
Tucson as a result, it is said, of eat
ing canned food.
With his bride more than two thou
sand miles away, Private Louis Banse-
mer, Company H, First New Jersey
infantry, was married at Douglas to
Miss Ethel M. Sergent, Of Newark,
N. J.
A $4,000 legacy was left Miss Eu-
nice Wingo, a trained nurse of Phoe-
nix, by Mrs. Harry E. Kirk, who
pdSS0u away dC AOI nOAuS Ill OOuSldo
two years ago for caring for her hus-
band.
Another case of cerebro spinal
meningitis appeared in the Warren
district when Alonzo Garcia, the
eleven-year-old son of J. Lozano PERI,
formerly Villa consul at Naco, died OF
the malady.
A mammoth monument, constructed
of thousands of pieces of the various
kinds of ore to be found in the Casa
Grande district, will be erected in a
park near the Southern Pacific depot
by the Casa Grande Chamber OF
Mines.
An order prohibiting swearing on