The Benson signal., 1917-11-10
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Nov. 12-17-Arizona State Fair al
Phoenix

Thousands signed the food conser-
vatlon pledge card.
Arizona mining companies invested
large amounts in Liberty bonds.
The state fuel administrator for Ari-
zona is Will L. Clark of Flagstaff
Arizonans were exceedingly liberal
buyers of the second Liberty bonds.
More people than ever before are
planting rye grains in Tucson this fall.
Jesus Gutierrez, jitney driver, was
murdered on the Tucson-Nogales road.
Arizona gets $4,000 under the
Smith-Hughes vocational education
act.
Eighty new members have been
added to the Y. w. c. A. roll at Tue
son.
Chris Flordland of Phoenix commit
ted suicide by shooting himself. He
had been i'll.
The strike, affecting 1000 miners in
the Metcalf- Morenci-C Clifton district,
has been settled
The annual fair and fall festival for
the farmers of the Central Sulphur
Spring Valley was held at Light.
Miss Evelyn j. Costello, a Cochise
county girl, has been appointed as
sistant public defender at Los An
geles.
Dr. M. T. Uhler of Philadelphia
made the first payment on the pur-
chase of the Kay mines at Mineral
Park.
At a special election, the PROPOSE
ton for the forming of new city
charter for Tucson was approved by
vote of 341 to 27.
Cattle rustling in Santa Cruz county
has been broken up, according to E.
w. Stephens, secretary of the State
Livestock Sanitary Board.
The Molokans sent to Prescott from
Phoenix because they refused to reg
lister for war service last summer
have gone on a hunger strike
Twenty-Five million dollars is a con-
servative estimate upon money which
the mining industry planned to spend
in Arizona during the present year.
Tom Menden was convicted in Su-
perior Court on the charge of aggra-
waited assault, as the result of a cut
ting affray with Frank Sexton at
Chloride.
Cipriano Duran filed q damage sui:
in the United States District Court at
Tucson against the Arizona Copper
Company at Clifton, asking $4,000 for
alleged personal injuries.
Announcement has been made by
the State Livestock Sanitary Board
that hereafter no brands are to be
recognized by inspectors except those
that have been duly registered
Secretary Smalley of the State
Council of Defense forwarded $500
cards to Camp Funston and Linda
Vista for properly listing Arizona SOL
diers for the period of the war.
In sinking the shaft of the Abe Lin
coin mine at Wickenburg, body of
heavy chalcopyrite was encountered
at depth of ninety-six feet, and is
evidently the permanent ore deposit.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has declined to grant writ
of habeas corpus for John Reade of
Tucson, charged in the Federal Court
in Tucson with the murder of an In
dian.
Secretary of Labor William B. Will
son announced plan at Globe where
by normal production can be resumed
by the miners of the Globe-Miami dis
trict under orders from the federal
labor commissioner.
Mohave county won sweepstakes at
the Northern Arizona fair at Prescott.
With the opening hunting season
for deer, wild turkey, quail, white
wings, feathered game in full swing,
State Game Warden Joe V. Prochaska
Is making every effort to enforce the
Arizona game laws.
Bisbee, the mining camp town
which has attracted so much attention
recently because of the labor and /.
w. w. troubles, is one of the most
unique and picturesque of the old min
ing camps of the Southwest.
P. G. Beckett, for several years
manager of the Old Dominion mine
and one of the most prominent fig
ures in the affairs of the Globe Miami
district, has resigned his position at
Globe and will take another post in
the Phelps-Dodge service.
Judge James F. Duncan of Tomb
stone received his sixth badge from
the National Encampment of the G..
A. R. held this year in Boston. The
next encampment will be held at Port
land, Ore. The judge is the only sur
viving member of the G. A. R. in
Tombstone and prizes his badges very
highly.
o. L. Lindeville, Phoenix fireman
z-x4uo nm tho Corto Eo