The Benson signal., 1916-04-15
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

| nix.
New Cornelia has a cooperative
store.
Nine arrests were made in Miami
for bootlegging.
| Prescott's Pioneer celebration will
| be held July At.
The Republican state convention
will meet in Tucson, May 6.
Pardons have been issued to six in
mates at the Arizona State Prison.
One shift of miners is working
steadily on the Merry Widow at Oat-
man.
Little Jimmie McClane of Tomo-
stone was killed when kicked by a
mule.
! About 1000 pounds of tungsten ore
was shipped from Benson to Phila-
| delphia
w. H. Hooking shot and killed his
wife at Miami and then committed
suicide.
Governor Hunt is out in an an
nouncement that he is candidate
for reelection.
| VIM. Delbridge has assumed his
| duties as secretary of the Warren
District Commercial Club.
The Latter Day Saints, of Miami,
are planning church building to be
erected in the near future
Thousands of trees, fruit and or
namental, have been shipped into the
Casa Grande valley this year.
| A few days ago a rich strike of
wolframite was made at a point 21a
miles southeast, of Tip Top Mine,
Prescott district
Figures compiled by the district
forester at Albuquerque show total
production of lumber in Arizona in
1915 of $4,000 900 board feet.
The body of an unknown man was
found at Hieroglyphic rocks near
Phoenix. The man had committed
suicide by shooting himself:
Big trucks are hauling twenty tons
of milling ore daily from the Gold
| Ore to the Goldroad mill, where ex-
cellent results are obtained in its
| treatment
The Big Jim Gold Mining Company
has disposed of it's interest in the
Blue Bird claims at Oatman and a
company has been organized for their
| development.
| Yuma has over 100 men aside from
the two troops Of U. S. cavalry and
two National guard companies, all
ready for a pitched battle If worst
comes to worst.
A permit has been granted by the
Arizona Corporation Commission to
the Goldroad Red Top Mining Com
pany to dispose of a block of stock
for development purposes.
Harry Richardson of Kingman, who
pleaded guilty to charge of mis-
branding booze which he brought
into the state, was fined $3.50 by Fed
eral Judge Sawtelle at Prescott.
| The biggest, busiest revival"
meeting ever held in the southwest
will be held in Miami April Fl and
| May 6, under the auspices of the
labor unions of the Miami district
Mining and milling, the allied and
principal industries of Yavapai county
continue to advance in magnitude and
Importance under the impetus of de-
velopment and increasing ore ship
ments.
| The Pilgrim mine west of Chlo-
ride, in the Weaver district, will soon
be equipped with hoist and COM
pressor.
A shipment of 4,464,800 pounds Of
copper in forty-nine cars left Globe
recently over the Arizona Eastern
railroad, the destination being Perth
Amboy, N. j., where are located some
of the largest metal refineries of the
world.
The Supreme Court at Phoenix de-
MED writs of habeas corpus filed In
behalf of Francisco Rodriguez, H. B.
Chavez, Miguel Peralta and Eduardo
Perez, who are under sentence Of
death They were convicted of MUIR
der in 1911 but have been reprieved
| five times by Governor Hunt AMI
twice by the pardon board.
The report of Phelps, Dodge & Com
pany, for the year ended December
81, 1915, shows total receipts of $1O,-
9S1, 1,512, as against receipts of $6,664,-
839 in 1914. This is equivalent to
244 per cent earned on the $45,0O0,-
900 common stock, as against 14.8 per
cent. The surplus of the company for
the year was $720,475, as against
| $364,840.
In the Superior Court at Tomb
stone Judge Baughn sentenced Andy
Johnson and w. J. Murry, who were
found guilty introducing liquor into
the state. Johnson was given SEN
tence of 400 days in the county Jail
and a fine of $500, and Murry re-
ceivad sentence of 200 dayS and a