The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1917-08-25

western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Oct. 1S-20-Fifth Northern Arizona
3 Fair at Prescott.
The honor system at the Arizona
state prison has been abolished.
1t is expected at Phoenix that the
Hunt Campbell case will be called in
October.
Governor Campbell made a personal
investigation of conditions at the
mines at Bisbee.
E. A. Williams of Douglas was COM
missioned second lieutenant at the
Fort Riley training camp.
Charles r. Williams and Ella l..
Henry were taken to Globe from
Phoenix on an adultery charge.
In April, the stamp sales of the Je-
rome postoffice were $1,000; in May,
SILL; in June, $1,313; in July, 1,474.
A member of the Tax Commission
estimates that taxes will be raised
from 40 to about IS cents on the 500
valuation.
DR.. G. F. Freeman of the agricul-
tural department of the University of
Tucson declares that Arizona will
grow a large wheat crop next year.
w. D. Coakley, Tucson postal clerk,
who took $4,000 in $40 bills, on July
80 to Los Angeles, was captured at
Lebanon, Ind, by Postoffice Inspector
Ashton.
Booze worth approximately $7,4SS
was destroyed at Tucson under the
supervision of County Attorney
Moore, by being poured out on the
ground
Attorney General Wiley Jones in
an opinion delivered to Adj. Gen. Har-
ris, denied the power of the governor
to remove him from office or to abol-
ish the office.
A Phoenix report says blackleg has
caused more losses among cattle in
Arizona than any other one disease.
It is extremely prevalent throughout
all parts of the state.
A campaign has been started by the
women's committee of the Council Of
National Defense to secure a registra-
ticn of the women for voluntary serv-
ice in behalf of war preparedness.
/, Announcement that New Cornelia
will erect 5,000-ton flotation plant
and a 2,000-ton smelter at Ajo as the
result of the purchase of the Ajo Con-
solidated property was made in Tue
son.
Sheriff Tom Armer was named as
the defendant in a $4,000 damage
suit filed against him at Globe by
Thomas Leavy, an Industrial Worker
Of the World, whom the sheriff arrest
ed Aug. 8.
The dewatering of 1.-The old Stump
mine at Silyerbell, famous in romance
and story, will be begun within few
days by Hughes and DER, hackers of
the Magnate properties in the Twin
Butte district. g
At the recent closing of the books
for the first month of operation by
the government new flour mill at
Sacaton, headquarters of the Pima In
dian reservation, it was learned that
practically every Indian family had
presented wheat at the mill either. for
grinding or for sale. ~
All of the miners and smelters in
Arizona had been producing at cspac.
ity with very little interruption other
than of the labor strike in the Jerome
camp, up to the end of June, 1917. If
later trouble does not prevent, the
copper output in 1917, according to v.
G.. Hikes of the United States Geolog-
ical Survey, Department of the In
terror, will be greater than that of
1916, when the output was approx
mately 7OO,OOO,OOO pounds.
At Tucson, 645 youths. have been
called to cOlors for war in France. +
Names of the men who have won
army commissions from the reserve
officers training camp at the Preside
were announced at San Francisco.
Approximately 1,40O of the. flower of
the country's young manhood changed
the red, white and blue hatcord of the
candidate for the gold and black cord
of the commissioned officer and has
tened to place orders for uniforms
Arizona gets one major, ten captains,
eleven first lieutenants and forty
three second lieutenants in the. list
given out. ..
A stupendous project, embodying
the construction of an electric rail
road through three states, the open
ing of one of the largest bituminous
coal fields in the United States and,
also, the, opening Of the largest uncut
pine forests on the continent, was sub
mitted to the Arizona Corporation
Commission for it's approval and au-
tbority to organize and transact bust
ness. The petitioner is Rev. William
V. Shenk of Globe, and it is said that