The Benson signal., 1917-12-15
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service.

Cross Christmas seals is under way
in Arizona
Clarkdale has been included in the
gambling inquiry commenced at Pres
colt by the county grand jury.
The farmers of the Gila valley in
Graham county are devoting a good
deal of their attention to raising hogs.
Edward l.. Shaw of Phoenix has
been appointed inspector under the
federal explosives law.
Charged with stealing $2S5 from
the trunk of woman in the Jerome
redilight district, Edgar Spencer was
arrested at Cottonwood.
Work has begun on home in Aio
for Father GheldOrf. 1t is expected
that Catholic church will be built
there to cost 100000
Added to the already long list of
murders since the first of the wear is
that of an unknown Mexican-Indian
found dead near Wickenburg.
John j. Connor, railroad switch
man in Tucson, was arrested on a
charge of deserving his family and
taken back to the state of New York.
One of the oldest mining engineers
of the Southwest passed away, when
Otto Mechke, II years old died at his
home in Tucson, following a long ILL
ness.
On three-shift basis, with nineteen
men constantly employed, progress is
being made in development work on
the estate of the Queen Creek Copper
Company at Superior.
Men from the mine department of
the Old Dominion Copper Company at
Globe worked one shift for the Y M.
c. A. war fund, thereby raising near
ly $1,000 for the cause.
In the nine months ended Sept. 30th
last the Consolidated Arizona Smelt-
ing Company produced 13,930,000
pounds of copper, of which 100000
pounds were custom ore.
Major Neustatter of Tucson has re-
ceived his commission as scout master
from President Wilson, through the
channels of the National Boy Scout
headquarters at Washington.
A. S. Embree, alleged leader of the
I. w. w. organization among the
strikers at Bisbee last July, was
acquitted of the charge of rioting by
a jury in the Superior Court at Tue
son.
With the appointment of chairman
in every county of Arizona to direct
the work in that county in the state
to sell war savings certificates and
stamps, the thrift campaign is on in
Arizona.
James R. Welker, who has acted as
Bishop of Layton Ward in Graham
county for nearly 20 years was hon
orably released from his position and
Joseph W. Greenhalgh was ordained
as his successor.
Having received a reappointment
from national headquarters as depart
ment commander of the United States
Spanish War Veterans, Col. James 1.
McClintock will soon tour the state
to visit all the camps.
Production figures of the Ray Con-
solidated Copper Company for the
third quarter of 1917 shows an output
of 21,656,342 pounds Of concentrates
as compared with 22,255,59S pounds
in the preceding quarter.
During the month of November
there were shipped from Mexico to
the United States through the Doug
las port of entry 354 cars OF ore, to-
falling 1889 tons, with a value in
American gold of $2,S73,6OO.
Potatoes are quoted at $3.50 per
hundredweight at Flagstaff.
The cost of raising Arizonas first
quota of soldiers for the national
army from the time the first move
was made until they were turned over
to the railroads for transportation to
the training camps was $26, ,158.04.
Work ON the highways and bridges
of Arizona should not be discontinued
during the war, but should be active
ly prosecuted, according to Governor
Thomas e. Campbell in a communica-
tion to Thomas Maddox, state en-.
gineer.
A message addressed to Gov. Thorn,
as E. Campbell from Miles Merrill of
Bisbee, president of the Loyalty
League of America, asks that the gov
ernor and defense councils be advised
that the Loyalty leagues of this and
other mining states do not oppose
the employment of any Americans ex-
cept those who have been guilty of
reasonable acts and maintain the po-
sition that inquiry to determine the
character of strangers applying for
employment under existing conditions
in the important war industry repre-
sented by copper is essential to the
nations best interests.
Estimating Arizona copper produc-
tiOn for the wear at around $50 900 900