The Benson signal., 1917-02-24

| MarCn o-l-Apnual convention Ar1-
zona Cattle Growers Association at
Globe.
The postoffice at Kelvin was robbed
but only of a small amount.
Mrs. Mary Lapham was burned to
death on ranch near Aguilar.
Net earnings Of Arizona railroads
were shown to be small at the hearing
at Phoenix.
| Admission day, Feb. IA, was de-
clared a legal holiday in Arizona by
Governor Campbell.
In 1917, Arizona will get $137, 1927. .O4
from the federal appropriation for con-
structing post roads.
The production of the Old Dominion
Copper Company for January was 81
100000 pounds copper.
The Extension schools given by the
Agricultural Extension service for the
farmers and their wives are proving
popular.
The first bars of gold bullion pro-
duced by the big mill Of the United
Eastern were taken to Kingman and
shipped.
| Teh general appropriation bill intro
duced in the Arizona Legislature, pro-
vides for $4,000 for the Flagstaff
| Normal school.
Work is progressing nicely on the
new teaching plant being installed by
the Emerald Isle Copper Company,
near Mineral Park.
At Miami, S. w. Rautan was killed
in the Inspiration mine by cave-in,
and nj. Lomis was killed at the smelt-
er by falling on a concrete floor.
David Kinsey, veteran of the Civil
war, died at his home in Deception
gulch near Jerome, of asthma and
Bright's disease. He was 81 years
old.
Henry Strawbell has received a pay
ment of $5,77O on his Mendocino claim
near the Golconda in the Cerbat range
which is being operated under lease
and bond.
According to Kingman and Oatman
papers, the stampede from Mohave
county into the new Chino valley oil
field attained proportions not real
lied in Jerome.
The output of gold, silver, copper,
lead and zinc from mines in Arizona
in 1916 had record total value of
nearly $2O3,00O,O0O, compared with
$90,806,349 for 1915.
Owing to the heavy flow of water,
the work of sinking the Dundee-Ari-
zona shaft at Jerome to depth cannot
be resumed till a new compressor is
received and installed.
George w. Cakes, who rode with
Buffalo Bill in the brave days of the
West, died at Tucson, his mind at rest
and ready to follow Cody again on the
long trail over the divide.
Under date of Feb. 1, 1917, the In
terror Department designated 22,243
acres of land in Arizona as being sub
ject to entry under the enlarged home
stead act after March 10.
Five hundred and seventy-four deer,
597 turkeys, Is bears, % wolves and
80 mountain lions were killed by hunt
ers in the Arizona national forests dur
ing the season just passed.
The Arizona Butte Mines Company
at Kingman shipped a carload of rich
lead ore to the smelter. 1t was ex-
tracted from the adit drift, a distance
of about 1890 feet from the portal.
To fall eighty feet through a chute,
the larger part of which is perpendic-
ular, and to work through his shift,
was the experience of miner by the
name of Fox employed at the Junction
shaft at Bisbee.
zone of the best strikes made in
past years in Walker district" is the
way Joe Algert of Prescott puts it
when telling of the recent paystreak
opened up in the 140-foot level of the
Black Diamond mine.
The Arizona Legislative tangle was
still further complicated when the
state Senate by strict party vote of
IA to refused to confirm the nomina-
tions sent to that body by de facto
governor Thomas E. Campbell.
In spite of the fact that the appro-
priation committee of the Senate re-
ported adversely on Senator Ruther-
ford's bill appropriating $4,000 for a
bridge over the Verde river at
Cottonwood, the Senate in committee
of the whole approved the bill and
recommended that it pass.
The public was excluded from the
hearing of Esau Mills, chief of police
of the city of Tucson, who was bound
over to the Superior Court on a
charge of receiving a bribe from Viola
Lee, woman Of the underworld, to
protect her from arrest. His bond was
fixed at $1,000, which was Immediate
| ly furnished.
| A bill introduced in the Senate
amends the pardons and paroles Civ