The Benson signal., 1917-09-22

Gleeson is to have a new school
house.
Public dance halls in Douglas are to
be closed.
The first installment of 1917 taxes
is now due and payable.
Cashmere Martinez, a miner, was
shot and killed at Silverbell by Mex
lean.
The bridge over the San Pedro at
Charleston is completed and ready for
travel.
The new Mohawk mine near King:
man is in high grade ore on the sixty
foot level.
Several thousands of dollars worth
OF business property was destroyed by
fire at Needles.
Gov. Campbell pardoned w. w. Ker-
man, lifer, sentenced from Cochise
county for murder.
Stuart w. French, general manager
of the Phelps-Dodge corporation Of
Arizona, has resigned.
The first silk Arizona state flag ever
brought to the state arrived in Phoe-
nix for the First Arizona regiment.
Fire in the Mexican and Austrian
quarters at Jerome destroyed thirty
buildings, including several roomins
houses.
Three-year-old Beulah Grace Ander.
son was severely scalded when she fell
into tub of hot water at her home
in Phoenix.
The Wenden Salome Cunningham
Pass country in northern Yuma coun.
ty is anticipating a fall and winter
mine activity.
Interest in silver prospects 10
higher at this period than since the
palmy days of the metal in pioneer
times in Arizona.
The soldiers of the First Arizona
regiment, not the present First, but
one organized in 1864-65, will probably
be granted pensions.
Individuals and corporations paid
$359,681, ,226 income taxes last year.
Arizona corporations paid $685., 7,993.92;
individuals paid $200,33O75.
With the holding to answer of Mrs
Sam Briscoe to the Superior Court al
Bisbee the records of that court now
hold five cases of murder.
Prices for long staple opened in the
valley at from 65 to 70 cents pound
for the lint, the highest opening price
IL the history of the staple.
Deported I. w. WIS from Bisbee
now at Columbus, N M, are complain
ing because their supply of free food
and blankets has been reduced.
E. G.. Suman of Prescott has been
named as the new secretary of the
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
succeeding J. ]. Sanders, resigned.
Word has been received at Phoenix
that the cottage of Vice President and
Mrs. Thomas A. Marshall at SCOTS
dale is being put in condition for an
early visit of it's owner.
New Cornelia's acquisition of Ajc
Consolidated with it's 24,000,00O tons OF
demonstrated ore, means both steam
shovel and underground mining activi
ties in the camp on large scale.
The Ray Hercules has been able to
crowd its mill construction with such
rapidity that the property is now ex
pected to be able to enter the produc
ing list by the first of next year.
The recent changes in the worlds
demand for silver and consequent ad
vance in prices are of special interest
to the United States, which is now the
worlds largest producer of silver.
The Gold Ridge mine near Dos Ca
bezas, is showing some rich ore.
Kingman and Mohave county gave
public expression to their appreciation
Of the Liberty Boys, the first contin'
gent of which entered the military
training camp at Fort Riley, Kans.
Santiago Martinez of Magdalena
was arrested by Captain Beatty, chief
of the Immigration Bureau, and In.
spector Knudsen, who charged their
prisoner with being a white SLAYER.
What may prove valuable addition
to the mineral wealth of Cochise
county is the Central Butte mine 10,
Gated in the center of the county and
three miles from the Commonwealth
mine.
r. H Fuqua, a bootlegger serving an
18 months sentence in the county jail
of Maricopa county, was paroled by
Governor Campbell for 60 days, during
which time he might harvest his crop
Of alfalfa hay.
A committee from the California
sugar beet fields went to Columbus to
offer employment to the $50 remain.
ing refugees of the more than 1000
I.WW. members and sympathizers de-
ported from Bisbee.
The leasers on the Mary Bell at