The Benson signal., 1917-03-17
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

| que DRIFT on the $50 foot level OF the
Carter mine at Oatman broke into ore
All the Senate and House bills for
the building of bridges or approaches
to bridges were passed by the House.
The town of Casa Grande has
awarded contract for a municipal
water, light and power plant, the
price being $25,O79.
The appropriation and classified
tion measures were the important
bills considered at the closing ses-
sion of the Legislature.
The board of supervisors of Navajo
county has called bond election to
pass on the proposition of issuing
$125,000 worth of road bonds. - I
Refugio Carrillo was ground to
death by the wheels of a Santa Fe
freight train when he fell beneath a
westbound train about seven miles
from Winslow. 49,.
A bill setting aside territories in
Cochise and Santa Cruz counties to
be known as the Huachuca State
Game Preserve, passed the United
States Senate. ..<.:.
A franchise has been granted for
the erection and operation of an elec-
trio light plant for the town of Tomb
stone The initial cost of the plant
will be $4,000.
Wake T. Benge, aged 81, died at his
ranch home, four miles north OF
Douglas, in the Sulphur Springs Val
ley, following an illness of eight days
from pneumonia.
In the army appropriation bill
which passed Congress, is $4,000. for
the construction of cantonement
buildings. for the regular army
troops to be maintained permanently
in Yuma. <
Two warrants we're sworn out in
the Bisbee City Court by Sanitary In
spector Sheppard, charging property
fowners with failing to COMPLY with
the city ordinance requiring garbage
can on every piece OF property:
A persistent rumor, that appears to
have first emanated from thes'"men
who work underground" is current at
Prescott to the effect that a. strike OF
high grade: copper ore has. been made
in the Jerome Verde workings. .
Charged with, having broken the
seal on a car containing whiskey
while en- transit to San Francisco, and
extracting forty cases of whiskey, P.
E. Burke and, Ed. Fremont were ar.
rested at>Douglas and placed in jail
An option deal which was closed at
Prescott, made it probable, that the
Iron King group 7of mines, owned by
the American Copper and Gold Com
pany, will soon pass, into hands. that
will revive this early-day holding.
The largest Shipment sof beans re-
| corded in Arizona were received in
Flagstaff from, little settlement
eighteen miles south of Snowflake liz
Navajo county. Sixty. :. thousand
pounds was the weight ,of. the ship
ment -:
! William Fowler, old time resident
of Cochise county and we'll knowr
mining man holding. valuable proper
ties in the Huachuca mining district
and for several years a fesident ,o1
Tombstone, passed away at Bisbee
from pneumonia = a..
Without medical attention anG
without even a bed, Nicanora' Guer
rero, wife of Bruno Guerrero of Flag
staff, died; in a shack in Mexican
quarters on the southeast. side of the
track, after giving birth to twins, one
of whom died with her.
Advance made in wages at Jerome
, in conformity with gain in the aver
age, price. of copper during February
will, put the payroll above. 100000 fol
the month. There .are now three pro
I dueing andr twenty-five developing
copper, mines in the district.
:. The. Arizona Cattle Growers Asso
i: citation, in the last session of the CON
vention held in Globe; elected the fol
lowing Officers: J. L: R.,;Harmon, presi
dent E. H. Crahb; first vice, presi
dent; Judge G. w. Shute, second WIGS
president; 3. W.. Isaacson, third vice
!, president; Fen S. Hildreth, treasurer
The Pom. Reed, pioneer in the
Kingman, section of the big district
known as Oatman, is the cause of ex
citement-the Tom Reed and Big jim
the former because of the discovery
of picture ore" in the Aztec Center
claim, and the Big Jim because few
more days will bring the 600 cross
cut into the huge ore body.
Among the bills passed in the Sen
ate were: For the giving credit tt
the counties pro rata, of interest OF
the bond redemption fund; making
appropriation for an artesian. well. IL
Apache county; combining the duties
Of city and county assessors the worl
to be done by the county >assessor
A bill amending the law creating tn
board of parSpns and paroles; bill
establishing a,tTaining school for tn