The Benson signal., 1917-01-27

zona Cattle Growers Association at
Globe.
In 1916 over $27,000,000 worth of
copper was mined in Yavapai county.
The presidency of the State Senate
went to D. H. Claridge of Graham
county.
Gifts amounting to $4,000 were re-
ceived by the University of Arizona
during 1916.
Turkeys can be raised to better ad-
vantage in Arizona than anywhere in
the United States.
News of another big copper strike
in the Harcuvars, directly between the
Cobrita and Critic, reached Jerome.
Not many, perhaps no more than
one or two, Chinese in Tucson, will
celebrate the Chinese New Year this
year.
The Arizona desert will soon be
stocked with wild ostriches if the
plans of the state game warden are
adopted by the Legislature.
Ten thousand dollars worth of hay
went up in smoke at Temple when A.
J. Peters warehouse with it's entire
contents was destroyed by fire.
Grand Master Perkins of the Ma
sonic Grand Lodge of Arizona is max
ing his annual trip of inspection to
all Masonic lodges in the state.
A rush is on to new gold strike
made by George Duncan, II miles
southwest of Ajo. Assays run sew
eral hundred dollars to the ton.
An immense vein of vanadium and
tungsten ore has been discovered in
the vicinity of the old Ripsey mine,
six miles south of Ray Junction.
With the beginning of the new year,
the game laws passed by the voters
of Arizona at the last election as an
initiative measure, went into effect.
Tucson is prosperous, according to
the annual report of the merchandise
ing research committee of the Associ-
ated Advertising Clubs of the World.
Wm Faltin, the murderer that
lodged the gallows by being adjudged
insane and then escaped from the asy-
lum recently, was captured at Buck
eye.
Herman Schmidt, adjudged sane,
made good a threat he made when
he set fire to his ranch house east Of
Phoenix and burned to death as he
lay on his bed.
w. HI. Lewis, member of Company
M, Eighteenth infantry, was arrested
on the Bisbee road near Douglas while
driving an auto that contained nine
cases of whisky.
One of the most important plans of
the Arizona State Bureau of Mines is
to conduct legislative research bur-
eau for laws relating to mining, both
state and federal.
Bituminous coal output has now
passed the half billion ton mark, an
increase Of 127a per cent over the
previous year. Coke production in
| creased 80 per cent.
The land office at Phoenix is re-
ceiving from twenty to twenty-five
applications a day through the mail
| for live stock homesteads under the
new law recently passed.
Grief over his sweetheart's alleged
infidelity led Francis Flynn, a chauf-
feur, to attempt suicide at Phoenix.
Flynn shot himself in the stomach
with 32 long-caliber revolver.
The preliminary hearing of Kit Car
son, who shot and killed his brother
| in-law, James W. Roberts, three weeks
| ago, was held without bond to answer
to Superior Court at Tombstone.
Ten or twelve skeletons dug up at
Tucson by workmen excavating on the
sewer job in the front of the city hall
are believed to have been from a small
Mexican burying ground of the early
| days.
Twelve thousand acres of land in
the Bowie valley have been purchased
| by California capitalists and home
seekers who will at once begin the
work of converting the land into
| farms.
The last person of i'll fame" had
moved from Gay Alley, and the his
| toric restricted district of Tucson was
| closed permanently by the decision of
| Judge Pattee of the Pima county Su-
| perior Court.
Beginning on January 18th, Nogales
changed from Sonora time to Noun
tain time. There has been "a minutes
difference in time, Mountain time be-
ing "a minutes later than Sonora time,
which in reality is sun time.
In brief session of both houses
| of the Legislature the volume of en-
bryo legislation was measurably in
creased and the House put itself part
ly on record in opposition to the time
honored practice of junketing.
There will be no more legal hang
ings in Arizona, as the pardon board
| has cOmmuted to life sentence all who