The Benson signal., 1916-04-29

ers' Association at Grand Canyon.
Nov. 13-18-Arizona State Fair at Phoe.
nix.
Egyptian cotton is up in many parts
of the Salt River valley
The Security State Bank of Glen
dale has been Incorporated
Paul Pitchlyn has been made for
est supervisor of the Sitgreaves forest.
The shaft on the Telluride mine at
Oatman is in ore at depth of 230
feet.
There are now fOrty-one active local
farm improvement associations in
Arizona.
w. H. Plunkett, former state exam
iner, has been appointed auditor of
the city of Phoenix.
The annual meeting of the Arizona
Good Roads Association will be held
in Phoenix, May 15 and 16.
A fund of $4,000 will be available
for the construction of a highway
from Clifton to Solomonville.
Vital statistics for the last six
months of 1915 show 1892 births in
Arizona, as against LII deaths.
The annual meeting of the grand
lodge of Arizona, |. O. O. F., at Bisbee,
has been postponed until May Is.
Over $1,000 of the fund of $4,000
needed to erect new Methodist
church at Kingman has been raised
A. B. Ballantyne of Utah county,
Utah, has been appointed farm ad-
wiser for Graham and Greenlee coun,
ties.
The bids for Yavapai county's new
court house may all be rejected be-
cause they exceed the amount of the
bonds voted.
An election to vote on the question
of a $4,000 bond issue for municipal
lighting plant will be held at Thatcher
on May 8.
Petitions asking the supervisors of
Navajo county to call an election to
vote road bonds of $125,0OO are being
circulated at Holbrook
Preparations are being made to ap
ply for the release on parole of Louis
Y. Eytinge, serving life sentence in
the state prison for murder.
Oatman is experiencing genuine
mining boom, and many old-timers
from the early days of Cripple Creek
Tonopah and Goldfield mix again with
the throngs of newcomers.
The Arizona members of the defense
board named by Secretary Daniels are
J. B. Girand, Phoenix; John c. Green
way, A. G. McGregor, Warren; David
w. Jones, Clifton; Frank N. Guild,
Tucson. M
Believing that oil and gas have been
struck in paying quantities in a well
lin, Greenlee county, residents Of
that district are rushing to file on
every available tract of land.
The bodies of J. Whit Stanfield.
A years old, and Mrs. Joe Collins, 2S,
former residents of Cloverdale, N. NJ,
sixty-five miles from Douglas, were
taken to Douglas following their death
as a result of an automobile accident
while they were en- route to Douglas
The suffrage special bearing TWEEN
ty-one members of the Congressional
union, visited Phoenix, Tucson and the
Grand Canon in their trip over the
country to obtain support in their en-
deavor to obtain the passage of the
suffrage amendment.
Prof. J. G. Uphof of the agricultural
school of the State university, was re-
Gently advised that fortune of $780,,
900 had been left him by his grand
mother in Holland.
Mrs. w. Butler of Tempe was killed
and four other occupants Of an auto
mobile were injured at a crossing Of
the Arizona and Eastern railroad four
miles east of Phoenix. Their automo
bile was stalled on the track within
$50 feet of an approaching train.
On account of recent destruction of
the ore bins at the smelter of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany at Hayden, the corporation com
mission has granted a special rate
of $1.85 per ton on ore from the Christ
mas property of the company to Sasco.
AS last resort attorneys for Perez,
Chavez, Peralta and Rodriguez have
filed motion in the Supreme Court of
Arizona for a rehearing of the appli
cations for writs of habeas corpus,
recently denied. This action is the
last move possible to save the four
men, who have been under sentence
of death for five years. They have
been reprieved seven times.
Advices from State Engineer Lamar
Cobb, who is in Washington, state
that the area factor has been retained
in the Bankhead bill providing feo-
eral aid for state highways, and that
the bill has been endorsed by the ex-
ecutive committee of the American