The Benson signal., 1917-07-21
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS


640-acre tracts of land.
Arizona National Guard will enter
federal service August 5.
The State Loan Board has many
applications for state money.
The new Workmen's Loyalty League
at Bis.ee has 1000 members.
Several carloads of cantaloupes have
already been shipped from Mesa.
Two Austrians were shot at Globe
during an alteration over the strike.
Automobile travel in Arizona this
summer is greater than ever before.
Orson P. McRae and James Brew
were killed at Bisbee, as a result of
the strike.
John J. Birdno has been reappointed
receiver of public monies at the Phoe-
nix land office.
Arizona is to organize an American
Red Cross ambulance company for
service in France.
The Arizona State Council of De-
tense is being financed entirely by
private subscriptions.
Over $154,O0O for roads and 100000
for schools are proposed in the county
budget made at Globe.
Mrs. L. G. Mott was found dead in
her home at Oatman by her husband
on his return from work at the United
Eastern mine.
Gillespie oil interests of Oklahoma
have become interested in the Arizona
del Rio Company, operating in the
Chino oil fields.
About 10000 acres of the tepary
bean will be planted this year in the
United States, of which 10000 will
be planted in Arizona.
The LOO l. w. w. members and
sympathizers deported from Bisbee
were not allowed to detrain on the
18th at Hermanas, N. M.
At meeting of Globe citizens, esti-
mated at 500, resolutions were passed
declaring the l. w. w. to be public
enemy of the United States"
A site near the Koch ranch has
been selected for the Y. w. c. A. camp
in the Catalinas during August. The
ranch is about one mile from Oracle.
Metal Mine Workers., Industrial
Union No. 800, affiliated with the
I. w. w., called a strike for Sc and
the six-hour day, effective through
out the Verde district.
Illustrative of the great prosperity
of the people of Yuma valley, it may
be stated that this year the total value
of their cotton, alfalfa, grain and fruit
will be at least $3,1S3,900.
Strike warrants were issued at
Kingman for the arrest of Is leaders
of the 1. w. w. who called the miners
strike on the Golconda camp. It is
said the men voted 8 to against
striking.
Quiet: was restored at Kingman in
the copper mine strike situation, fol-
lowing the departure of Industrial
Workers of the World organizers, or
dered out of town by Sheriff J. N.
Cohenour.
The mill and warehouse of the
Tempe Milling Company, landmark
Of Arizona for forty years, and which
was built by the father of Represent
ative Carl Hayden, was destroyed by
fire. The loss will be about $4,000,
covered by insurance.
Acting on the grounds Of treachery
to the principles" of the Industrial
Union of Mine, Mills and Smelter
Workers, President G. H. Meyer of
that organization telegraphed from
Denver to the secretary of it's Bisbee
local, revoking it's charter.
A. M. Willis of Snowflake reports
an unusually heavy yield of hay from
his first cutting. He planted oats
with the alfalfa, thus reaping a big
crop of both oat and alfalfa hay, with
much improved quality of both.
Miners Of Arizona on strike during
the present month are probably los
ing the highest wage opportunity that
time. The Bisbee wage this month,
regulated by the price of copper in
June, will be $5.85 per day.
"The most cosmopolitan regiment
in the National Guard was the claim
made for the First Arizona infantry
by Adjutant General Harris as he
looked over the enlistment papers of
the last bunch of 46 recruits who had
ioined the regiment at Naco.
An appeal that President Wilson
take action to stop further deporta-
tions of strikers from Bisbee and
other Arizona strike centers, in order
to prevent sympathetic strikes and
industrial paralysis, was sent the de-
partment of labor July IL by Fed
eral Mediators John Mcbride and @.
W. P. Hunt from Globe.
An important strike in the old
Weaver mine in the Weaver Mining
District was made in the drift at