The Benson signal., 1917-10-27


Petitions for the paving of the
streets of Douglas continue to be pre-
sented to the city council.
Members of the Arizona Cattle
Growers Association were liberal
subscribers for Liberty bonds.
Operators of copper mines in the
Globe Miami district have reached no
compromise with the strikers.
A hospital building to cost 100000
will be erected by the board of the
Deaconess Hospital at Phoenix.
Bert F. Craig has been appointed
postmaster at Bundle Bee, Yavapai
county, vice E. D. Cordes, resigned.
The farmers of the Mountain View
district near Wilcox, are busy filling
their silos for winter feed for tnelr
dairy cattle.
Carl M. Cloran and Herman Regard
have been appointed clerks in the
Tucson postoffice, and Ellen L. It's
wier at Phoenix
The State Council of Defense is
leading in an effort to place the Amer
lean flag in every business window
and On every home within the state.
Copper, cotton, capital and cooper
alton, the latter furnished by labor,
are four big C's on Arizona's banner
war work.
Judge John Mcbride, United States
conciliator for Arizona, was accident
ly killed by runaway horse at Flor
ence. The body was shipped to Colum-
bus, o., for interment.
R. H. Fuller, charged with having
received deposits when he knew the
Commercial Bank of Parker was in
solvent, was found not guilty by jury
in the Superior Court at Yuma.
Preston Fletcher, one of the old res
idents of the Warren district, acci
dentally met his death by falling off
phur Springs Valley and breaking his
neck.
Inspiration Copper Company Sep
tember production was 2,250,00O
pounds, against 11,15O,00O in June.
The properties were shut down in
July and August on account of labor
trouble.
While playing in front of her par
ents' home at Seventh avenue and the
Glendale car line, Phoenix, r. Mae
Williams, a 2-year-old child, was
drowned when she fell into an irriga-
tion ditch.
The governments call for volun-
teers in the engineers regiment to 60
to France to build roads and highways
has met with an enthusiastic response
on the part of engineers and road
builders in and about Phoenix.
The following patents have been
granted to citizens of Arizona: AlOnzO
Provost, Douglas; match box. Charles
M. Harris, Kingman; shoe fastener
William H. Hilligrass, Payson; hay
baler. James Neal, Phoenix; gate
latching device.
G. A. Peckingpaugh, residing on a
ranch near Douglas, has an interest
ing relic in the form of certified
copy of the discharge of his great
grandfather, Private Philip McCrack-
en-, from the Continental army in June,
1888, after six years of service.
With the announcement at Tucson
of the discovery of a large body of
high-grade silver-lead ore in the Qui-
jotoa mining district of Pima county,
arrangements are in PROCESS for the
organization of a company for the pur
pose of starting shipping operations
at once on a. large scale and for the
further development of the property.
From the best advices now obtain
able, the Arizona troops now at Camp
Funston will be given a sixteen weeks
course in military training in this
country. The men composing the
340th Field artillery will probably be
transferred to artillery ranges within
two or three months and all the troops
after a sixteen weeks course training
will probably be sent to military train
ing camps in the East to replace those
now there who will by that time be
training behind the lines in France.
The shaft on the estate of Queen
Creek Copper at Superior is now down
800 feet. 1t has passed entirely
through the Lodges of sugar quartz
carrying good gold values, and the cop
per ledge carrying about Is per cent
in copper content.
Alphonso Sassuerto, a 13-year-old
boy, is seriously i'll at his home in
Douglas, suffering from marihuana
poisoning. According to the police,
the lad was given the poison in the
form of a cigarette by Peg Costello,
a habitual user of the drug and who
is we'll known to the police.