The Benson signal., 1917-06-02


Tucson will raise $25,OOO for aid for
the Red Cross society.
Arizonas apportionment of the Lib
erty bonds is $3,000.000.
Nine new Red Cross chapters have
been formed in Arizona towns.
Registration day, June 5th, will be
memorable event in Arizona.
The Arizona state fair will be held
this year, despite the war situation.
Over $4,000 worth of new buildings
are in course of construction at Tuba
City.
Boy Scouts at Globe have started a
campaign for $4,000 to build club
house.
Patt R. Sullivan, well-knoWn Ari-
zona newspaper man, died at the Mi
ami hospital
Assessment work on mining claims
| will be suspended where owners be-
come soldiers.
Motormen and conductors on the
Phoenix street 1ailway have been
given raise in wages.
The Arizona three-cent railway rate
case will be called at Phoenix at the
October terms of court.
D. M. Gaddis of Kingman has been
| appointed fair commissioner, succeed
| ing T. D. Pulliam, resigned.
Among the first to respond to the
call of the country from Miami were
Alfred Anderson, John Badge, Harold
| Carter and Fred Stephens.
A ten-gallon keg of whisky, neatly
packed in new trunk, was seized by
Deputy Sheriff Hi ELAN at the Arizona
Eastern depot at Miami
Col Fred S. Breen of Flagstaff has
been named disbursing officer and reg
istrar under the federal selective
draft by Governor Campbell.
A beautiful flag, the gift of the
Woman's club of Parker to the people
of the town, was unfurled to the
breeze with appropriate ceremony.
Two Arizona mining companies
the Denn-Arizona and the United
Verde Extension-will spend two mil
lion dollars for additional work during
the year.
Antonio Armenia, miner, shot and
killed Juan Callanes, also miner, and
heavily armed, started to shoot up the
Rosemont mining district. Several
men reported wounded
Registration under the new con.
scription law recently passed by Con-
gress is to be taken in every city,
town, hamlet and rural section in the
United States, on June 5th.
Twenty-Five non-commissioned Off
GERS of the First Arizona infantry left
Naco in a private car for San Francis
&C, where they will attend the officers
training camp at the Preside.
G. G. Lemmons, inventor of an anti
left for Washington, summoned by the
government to demonstrate the inven-
ton before the naval consulting
| board.
High grade silver copper ore, assay
ing over $10O a ton, has been encoun-
tered by the Alpha Copper Mining
Company, in the property situated be-
tween San Xavier and Twin Buttes in
the Pima Mining district, according to
reports reaching Tucson from the
mine.
One of the greatest among the pa
triotic addresses ever delivered in the
Miami section was the appeal made
at the Gila county court house by
Capt. j. B. Nelson, urging young men
| to enlist in the First Arizona regi-
ment
David Michael, known as Jew
Mike" proprietor of a road house on
the Speedway at Tucson, was SEN
fenced in the Superior Court to serve
sixteen months in the county Jail and
pay fines aggregating $3.50 on two
charges of bootlegging.
The bond in the appeal of former
Governor Hunt from the judgment OF
Judge Stanford of the Superior Court
holding Governor Campbell to have
been elected last November, was filed
and approved in the office of the clerk
of the Superior Court at Phoenix. The
amount Of the bond is $4,000.
Members of the Jerome Miners
Union voted to call strike of en-
ployes of the United Verde mine and
smelter after rejection by the com
pany of the miners demands for q
closed shop, a checking system and
appointment of a grievance committee
Demands for an increase in wages o1
so cents day were granted.
His latest achievement, the capture
of a seven-foot leopard in small No
steel trap, e. J. O'Doughtery, gov
ernment trapper, is winning fame as q
hunter of the wilds in the Santa Rita
mountain section, according to R. L
Hensel of the United States forest