The Benson signal., 1917-10-20
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Nov. 12-17-Arizona State Fair at
| Phoenix.
A customs smelter may be: built at
Patagonia. = e.
The cooks and walters strike in
Tucson is still on. 80
Business conditions in Miami are
daily improving.
Arizona's quota of Liberty bonds
will be $8,OO0OOO.
Assessment work ON mining claims
has been suspended for two years.
The Presidents commission has
paved the way for peace at the copper
mines. -, .
Mauser rifles have been ordered for
the arming of the Flagstaff home
guards.
John Schlalo, of Glendale, received
$10,700 for his potato crop from twen-
ty-two acres.
A woman named Maud Hill is re-
ported to have shot Ed Curtis at
Douglas hotel.
Plans and specifications are being
drawn for the Snowflake electric light
and power plant.
Miss Louise Cleveland has been ap-
pointed assistant attorney general of
the state of Arizona.
More than one-third of million dol
lars of state money has been loaned
| to farmers Of Arizona
A fall of ITO feet down an ore chute
in the Miami mine resulted in the in
stant death of a Mexican miner.
The truckers of the Southern: Pacific
freight yards struck at Tucson, de-
manding So a day and eight hours
work.
Work of rebuilding the mills of! the
Union Basin Mining Company at Col
conda, which were destroyed by fire
will begin Immediately.
J. R. Basket, organizer of, the In
dustrial Workers of the World for va
vapai county, is held in Jail at Jerome
for federal authorities.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed the mill of the Union Basin
Mining Company at Golconia, with
loss estimated at 100000.
The Mohave County chapter of the
Red Cross has received $1,000 as it's
share of the fund of $4,000 raised last
summer for the national society.
The boys of the high school at Doug
las who are taking military drill have
decided to wear the regulation army
service uniform of olive drab.
Seventeen carloads of machinery are
expected in Kingman to be hauled out
and installed on the property of the
Frisco Gid Mines Company.
Aurelia Morales, consort of Carlos
Guirribel, killed by Deputy Sheriff Sid
Simpson, was found guilty of bootleg
ging by jury in the Superior Court
at Tucson.
"Grandpa" Albert Minnerly,- one of
the first white settlers of the Snow
flake section, died at his home in Tay:
lor of old age. He was in his eighty
first year. 49,.
Bisbee, Globe and Miami mines have
added steadily to their forces since re.
sumption Of operations and DURING the
present month will all make material
gains. in output.
Mrs. Frank Lyman, wife of the judge
of the Superior Court of Phoenix, ten
dered her services to the War Depart
ment as an ambulance driver for &C
tive service in France.
In the progress of routine business
transacted by the Gila county super
visors, in session at Globe, the money
in the treasury was counted and it
was found that $918,735.82 is on hand.
Five hundred and thirty-six enlisted
men of a detachment of 691 negro
Cavalrymen of the regular army STA
toned at Fort Huachuca, near Bisbee,
subscribed to $47, 400 worth of Liberty
bonds.
Phoenix has been named as the
central accounting office for all the
third and fourth class postoffices in
Maricopa county; this including every
office except the ones at Tempe and
Mesa.
Transferred from the Second divi-
sion now stationed at Douglas, with
the significant notation, For imme-
diate service abroad" appended to
their orders, 100 men from the Seven
teenth cavalry have left Miami.
Notable among recently announced
steps taken toward increased output is
work begun by United Verde at it's
Clarkdale smelter which will increase
it's capacity from 100000 pounds of
copper the month to 100000.
From $4,000 dairy COWS in Arizona
at the end of 1913, the number in
creased to 1000 at the end of 1916,
and it is estimated that the number
will be increased to 10000 by the end
of 1917, an increase Of more than 100