The Benson signal., 1917-07-07

Parker is to have a new state bank
with $4,000 capital.
CantalOupes are moving rapidly
from the Mesa district
After an illness of many months,
Frank M. Murphy, pioneer Arizonan,
died in Prescott.
Official figures show Arizona went
over it's quota of 34,814, by 2,118,
the total registration being 36,932.
Phoenix Knights of Columbus raised
approximately $4,000 for the Liberty
loan aside from individual subscrip-
'tions.
Douglas has been solved by the iden-
tification of the Mexican woman as
Cuca Sosa.
1t is reported that work is soon
to be started on the Tucson, Phoenix
& Tidewater Railroad extension IF the
Ell Paso & Southwestern.
Petitions asking the Board of Su.
pervisors to call an election for
bond issue covering good road con-
struction are being circulated in
Tombstone.
The sheriff's office at Tombstone re-
ceived word that e. G. Scarborough,
who escaped from the state peniten-
tiary at Florence, was captured at
Engle, new Mexico, by state officers
there.
Dependency over ill health was the
cause of the self-inflicted gun shot
wound which ended the life of Sam
uel Sidebotham at the home of his
brother, Thomas Sidebotham in North
Clifton.
The old Industrial School building
at Benson was sold at public auction
in front of the Court House in Tomb
stone, and was bid in by the Benson
school trustees. The buildings and
ground brought $500:
The establishment of a new camp,
on the Elk group of gold mines by
the Arizona and California Mining
Company, and the installation of all
air compressor to drive three drills,
marks the beginning of wider explor
alton at Prescott.
Two thousand men, out of 4,50O en-
ployed in copper mines of the Warren
district, failed to appear at the mines
June 28th as the result of the calling
of a strike by the Metal Mine Work
ers' Industrial Union, according to the
operators.
Word was received in Tombstone
that Mrs. Effie Jean Jones, aged %
years, wife of James j. Jones, was
accidentally killed when a pistol was
accidentally discharged at the family
ranch five miles from Elgin, Santa
Cruz county.
Six thousand two hundred and six
ty-eight more automobiles. are running
about Arizona today than were burn
ing gasoline at this time last year,
according to the records of Secretary
of State Osborn. The 15,7OOth motor
car license has been issued.
Appropriation of 100000 by the
Ray Hercules Copper Company for the
construction of another short line
railroad devoted solely to the copper
industry was a part of the week 5
contribution to the states develop
ment by the metal industry.
An artillery duel in which neither
side drew blood, was on the cards
for Chandler, when Jose Barajos, who
has been up for gambling, and Juan
Medregal, or Little Bo Peep, who
tends the sheep for the Chandler I'M
provement Co., met at the old swim
ming pool 1t seems that Bo Peep
sought to make love to the pretty wife
of Barajos in the latter's absence.
Hoyt Ash, Lawrence Land and Will
Eagle, three Tombstone boys, who
passed the examination to enter the
navy about month ago, received or
ders from recruiting headquarters at
81 Paso to report for duty.
Nogales will be host to more than
200 county officials, members of va
rious chamber of commerce bodies and
ming July 23rd and preparations are
now being made by the Chamber of
Commerce to entertain the guests
The occasion for the influx of visitors
is the meeting ordered by the State
of Arizona of all members of Boards
of Supervisors, State Tax Commission
and the State Board of Equalization.
While doing some renovation to a
stone house in the old Silver King
camp, Mrs. Hoskins, wife of Walter
Hoskins of Superior, accidentally un-
sealed an improvised vault built in the
stone wall of the house, in which she
found a box completely filled with
high grade silver ore. and a package
of coarse placer gold, which would
weigh, perhaps, forty or fifty dollars.
Miners who examined the find placed
a value of about $4,000 on the silver
and $50 on the gold.
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