The Benson signal., 1917-05-19

Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
July 4-6-Elks Annual State Reunion
| at Prescott.
Prescott will have Frontier Days
celebration
Thirty enlisted in the Arizona Ma
| t1Onal Guard from Clifton and Nor
enci
Arizona will draw attention during
the war by it's ability to supply the
nation with copper.
Arizona produced during the month
of April in the neighborhood of co.
100000 pounds of copper.
The famous Payroll mine has been
leased for ten years to L. F. Martin
and associates of Calexico.
About five sacks of whisky were
confiscated in raid on the home Of
Dan and Dick Thompson in Tombstone
Canon.
The City of Tucson has been en-
joined from tearing up public park for
the purpose OF making baseball
grounds
The annual spring reunion of the
Scottish Rite bodies of the Tucson
Valley we're held at the Scottish Rite
cathedral in Tucson.
Star Daley, murderer, robber and
violator of women, was lynched by a
party of Phoenix and Florence citizens
for killing Roy Gibson.
mine in the Patagonia district is going
up in good shape, and the road to the
mine has been completed.
Japanese farmers at Phoenix have
sent shipment of fruit and vegeta-
bles to the boys of the First Arizona,
gathered by the Red Cross.
Fire of undiscovered origin COM
pletely destroyed the shaft house, boil
er room and the change room at the
Higgins mine, near Bisbee.
There have recently been organized
twenty-one chapters of the American
Red Cross in the State of Arizona,
making a total of twenty-four.
The Arizona Corporation Commits
sion is now sending broadcast over
the state warning to the people not
to be imposed upon by stock statesmen.
| Announcement has been made that
the Mildred Gold Mining Company in
the Hassayampa district broke into it's
big blue spar gold vein in the main
| tunnel.
By far the best indications for a big
and permanent ore body ever found
at the Calumet & Jerome were en-
| tered by the shaft at a depth of
little more than 200 feet.
The Arizona Council Of Defense was
placed on record in favor of raising
volunteer cavalry regiment along the
border, as proposed by Senator Fall,
if not prejudicial to the principle Of
the selective draft.
With conservation and higher eff
cheney the dominating cry of the hour,
the world over, the copper mining or
ganizations of Arizona are setting
pace that is being equaled in no other
industry in the country.
A coroner's jury holding an inquest
regarding the death of Martin Null
roc, who was killed in the Shattuck
Mulroc "come to death by suffocation
while in the discharge of his duties"
In accord with the patriotic spirit
that is being evidenced in all parts OF
the country, Kingman merchants met
and agreed to open their stores ear
lier and close them earlier in the day.
The reason for this is that those en-
ployes who are members of the home
guard and attend drill may be able to
do so without inconvenience to them
selves or their employers.
Court house employees at Phoenix
have asked for larger salaries on ac-
count of the high cost of living.
Cooperation with the government in
the prosecution of the war was urged
by Prof. W. l.. Linville of the King
man High school in an address before
the Women's club. Professor Linville
discussed the financial and food situa-
tions of the war and pointed out the
various ways in which the women Of
the country can perform their "bit" in
| the matter of household economies
| and food conservation.
Inspiration Copper has started p1ow-
ing up tailings beds and in this we'll
fertilized material will grow potatoes.
The Detroit Copper Company at Nor
enci and the Arizona and Shannon
| Copper companies at Clifton ore also
making plans. Ray Copper Company
is arranging to assist considerable
farming in it's section and to start
some Of it's own. Magma Copper Com
pany is also making plans This COM
pany recently appropriated 100000,
amounting practically to gift, to as
sist farmers in it's section to more
| in for