The Benson signal., 1917-04-21
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 4-6-ElkS' Annual State Reunion
at Prescott.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 4-6-Elks' Annual State Reunion
at Prescott.
Chloride is to have fire depart
| ment
High grade ore is being shipped
from the Old Desert at Salome.
Governor Campbell has called all
able-bodied men, 18 to As, to colors.
The Mowry mine near Patagonia
has been sold, and work will start at
once.
Ten Mexicans seeking work gave a
Gila Bend family a scare, as the fam
lily feared a raid.
The Tucson City Council has passed
an ordinance making it illegal to have
liquor on the premises.
Federal aid has been asked in order
to get funds to repair the bridge over
the Gila river at Florence.
About 10000 acres of land excluded
from Crook National forest will be
subject to entry May 23rd.
The Campbell Construction Com
pany at Kingman has a large amount
of SIS ore ready for shipment.
A clue to the poisoning of 700 sheep
on the Arizona Utah strip has been
found, according to c. B. Stewart.
Judge F. o. Smith of Prescott re-
fused to accept the $500 per year ad.
ditional salary, under the new law.
The Golden Hammer at Chloride re-
Gently acquired by Prof. F. c. Smith
and associates, is in big ore in the tun-
mel.
Copper production for March beat
the best previous record for produc-
ton in the Douglas district, the total
being approximately 26,OO0,0OO pounds.
The Hunt-Campbell contest for the
governorship is just about where it
was when the contest started, slight
gains and losses having been made by
each.
The Twin Buttes Mining district is
rapidly nearing that stage where it
will be regarded as one of the great
copper producing camps of the South
west
Granite Reef Dam, the power house
and the canals near Mesa, together
with all the works of that diversion
project, are guarded by deputy United
States marshals.
Forty Tucson women gathered in the
Woman's club to assist the members
of the local clapter of the Red Cross
in sewing bandages and surgical dress
ings in preparation for war.
The production of the Old Dominion.
Company during March was 100000
pounds of copper. This includes Old
Dominion copper produced at the In
ternational smelter, Miami.
Cattlemen from all over the south
ern part of the state will gather in
Tucson on April 21st, to attend the
regular annual convention of the
Southwestern Stock Growers Associ-
alton.
Governor Campbell issued a procla-
nation designating April 8th as 10y
atty Sunday" and thousands listened
to patriotic addresses, and pledged
their allegiance to the Stars and
Stripes.
The Yeager Copper Company has
been formed for the purpose of de-
veloping a group of 26 claims north
and west of the old Yeager Canon
mine, about four miles and a half
southwest of Jerome.
Al full company of Yuma Indians,
MS part of a California regiment in
the event of war, was offered to Gov
ernor W. D. Stephens of California
in telegram sent by L. L. Ode, SUI
perintendent of the Yuma Indian Res
ervation.
E. M. Binford was in Kingman from
the vicinity of Bull Canon, in the
Wallapai mountains, where he has
been prospecting for month or more
and took with him samples of ore
that gave returns of better than 900
ounces silver.
Earl G. Stone waived preliminary
examination and was bound over to
await the action Of the Superior Court
on charge of numbering Harry VIII.
liams, whose body was found in a
prospect hole on the Davis ranch, ov-
er the divide near Bisbee.
William Wilson, Ajo mining pros
pector, accused of killing A. E. Con-
ley, one of his four partners, in a
gun fight in the hills twenty miles
from Ajo at Bisbee, appeared before
Superior Judge Samuel l.. Pattee to
answer to a charge of murder and
plead not guilty.
Equipment of Tucson with machine
gun, additional rifles and an ample
supply of ammunition to meet any
emergency was provided for at meet
ing of Mayor Parker, Sheriff Miles,
Chief of Police Bailey and the nine