The Benson signal., 1917-05-12
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 4-6-ElkS' Annual State Reunion
at Prescott.

A good citizenship meeting will be
held in the A. M. E. church at Phoe-
nix.
Forty-five Tucson women started a
campaign to raise $4,000 for the first
year of the Y. w. C. A.
Measles, pneumonia and smallpox
are reported prevalent in Douglas, but
no deaths have occurred.
Northern Arizona counties have felt
the countrys call for men and are re-
spending in an unprecedented manner.
H. Armand of Miami was fined 500
and given a ninety-day Jail sentence
for giving false testimony in an en-
rolling case.
At Kingman, the Middle Golconda
Mining Company received returns
from two carloads of ore that netted
the company about $500.
One of the busy mining centers in
Greenlee county at this time is the
Longfellow Extension, whose property
on Chase creek is humming with ac-
tivity.
Calumet & Arizona has plowed up
the beautiful park of several city
blocks extent at it's Warren general
office and townsite location and is
putting it to potatoes and onions.
At Ajo, the New Cornelia Copper
Company management has. steps un-
der way with the Papago Indians in
the valley country between Ajo and
Tucson which are bringing in many
calls for beans for planting.
Due to the departure of nearly every
university into the military training
camps or into agricultural service, the
University of Arizona held it's COM
mencement one month early.
Charles H. Meadows, for many years
q famous Snowman, and known the
world over as ARIZONA Charley" was
acquitted at Yuma on the charge Of
libel preferred by Mrs. w. Woodawise,
proprietress of root beer stand.
At Jerome the United Verde and the
Verde Extension are both planning ag-
ricultural development on lands they
have in the Verde valley, and will add
a considerable acreage of potatoes and
the like to the yield in the northern
part of the state.
X. Matsumoto, Japanese gardener,
living six miles south of the Mexican
line, near Sonoita, about thirty-five
miles from Ajo, is dead, and it is be-
lieved that another Japanese, Tamaka,
an employe, knows something about
the circumstances surrounding his
death.
Gov Thomas E. Campbell issued
proclamation offering reward of $3.50
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of those implicated in
Prescott, this in addition to a reward
of $1,000 already offered by Yavapa1
County officials.
A meeting was held at San Simon
and resolutions adopted urging the
farmers to raise the largest crops pos
sible this year, and urging the gov
ernor to call special session of the
Legislature to appropriate funds to
aid farmers, fruit growers and stock
men in their efforts to increase food
production
At the end of the five months gov
ernorship contest, instituted by former
Gov G. W. P. Hunt, judgment was en-
tered by Judge Stanford at Phoenix
for Thomas E. Campbell, de facto gov
ernor, who has held the office since
early in the year on an order from
the Supreme Court, sustaining his GER
tificate of election.
The rubber industry may be added
to Southern Arizonas assets.
Senator Henry F. Ashurst and Con-.
gressman Carl Hayden have intro
duced bills in the Senate and House
of Representatives during the present
session of Congress providing for an
appropriation of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of compiling report on the feas-
ibility Of constructing the Colorado
River Indian irrigation project.
In order that they may do their
share in the program of food conser-
vation and production mapped out for
this state by Gov. Thomas E. Camp
bell and the State Council of Defense,
the inmates of the State Asylum for
the Insane have for the past two
months been storing eggs for use this
fall and winter when the prices again
shall advance.
A fellow giving his name as Joe Bal
ley Marcum was taken into custody
by the officers at Gallup who con-
fessed that he, with two other men,
had entered into an agreement with
parties in Mexico that, for a consid-
Grafton of $4,000, they would dyna-
mite the coal mines at Gallup and the
Santa Fe bridges at Winslow and Can
yon Diablo.
Allowing for the importation of all
men available in this state for farm
labor in the Salt River valley and