The Benson signal., 1917-09-15
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Oct. 1S-20-Fifth Northern Arizons
Fair at Prescott.

JOAAsOA VI IIOUe, was SCdlueQ W
death in a tub of boiling water.
John S. Merrill of Benson has been
appointed superintendent of the Pho
neers' Home at Prescott by Governor
Campbell.
There was jail break in Mesa and
two Mexicans whe were held there
awaiting action of the court and Off
GERS, made their escape.
Governor Campbell is being urged
to grant pardon to W. w. Kermeen,
now serving a life sentence in the
state prison at Florence.
Fresh water fish may soon become
more popular than meat in Cochise
county, according to M. P. Cosby, dis
trict state game warden.
The death sentence imposed upon
William Faltin, January 25, 1913, will
be commuted it was positively stated
by Gov. Thomas E. Campbell.
Mrs. Dolores Ocha was arrested at
Phoenix on charge of shooting Mrs.
F. Alvarez, while the latter was sleep.
ing at her quarters at Scottsdale.
The weather bureau declares that
over the principal grazing districts in
Arizona forage is plentiful and stock
are generally in good condition.
Mining men who have seen samples
from the ledge cut west of the Jerome
Verde's Columbia shaft are agreed
that the copper content cannot be un-
der per cent.
Charles F. Willis, director of the
Arizona State Bureau of Mines, is
making trip covering practically the
entire state, arranging work of the
bureau during the next year.
With the lodging in jail of Enrique
e. Espinola, Mexican Of Courtland,
it is believed that the murderer of
John McClosky, the aged rancher of
Courtland, has been apprehended
w. F. Fairbanks of Chandler took
to the Mesa ginning plant the cotton
| to compose the second bale this sea-
son and thus wins the second prize
offered by the merchants of Mesa.
c. w. Chapman. Santa F6 brakeman
residing at Needles, was badly injured
when knocked from the top of a
freight car at McConnico. His right
leg was broken and badly lacerated.
Forty more young men were en-
rolled in the draft army, with the prob
ability that at least a dozen more will
be added from Douglas, as the result
| nf oiv1o OF
M. c. A. in Bisbee.
Two paroles and two combinations
of sentence in favor of prisoners who
have faithfully performed road work
at the various road camps under the
state engineers department were is
sued by Gov. Thomas E. Campbell.
At meeting Of the Loyalty League
of Globe it was decided that each
member is to adopt one of the mem
bers of Gila county's men called into
the United States service by the Sc
lective draft as his Buddy Boy"
Congressman Carl Hayden appeared
before the war industries board in
Washington and urged that in fixing
price of copper, purchased by the gov
ernment, great care be taken not to
reduce the wages paid to miners.
According to reports at Yuma the
body Of a woman was seen floating
down the Salt river. Cowboys at Tor
tilla flat are said to have first made
the discovery. The current was SO
swift that it was impossible to rescue
the body.
The track meet at Bisbee on Labor
day was one of the most successful
ever held in the Warren district.
Caught with powerful racing car
stripped down to the wheels and with
at least ten cases of whisky aboard,
some of it concealed in a false bot
tom, two women bootleggers were
rounded up at STEMS Pass by Consta-
BILE Whitley of San Simon.
The Alpha Copper Mining Company
is one of the home grown" enter
prises that seems to be making good,
with local capital and local manage
ment. The property lies few miles
SOuCu OIL TUCSON anu Has U00u huOW Ii
for it's silver ores since 1876. It's cop
per values also run all the way from
8 per cent up.
A strike of lumber workers en-
ployed in the camps Of four lumber
companies in the Flagstaff section re-
suited in the shutting down of opera
tions by the companies affected. The
strikers said approximately 500 men
had quit. The companies affected are
the Arizona Lumber and Timber Com
pany, Greenlaw Lumber Company,
Flagstaff Lumber and Milling Com
pany and the Saginaw Lumber Com
pany.
Abundant water and feed in the
mountains, with the country washed
clean and every outstanding cropping
and ledge brought forth in it's clear
colors of naturalization brings to the
| DrOSpector opportunity and lure such