The Benson signal., 1917-11-17
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service.

Revival meetings were held by the
Free Methodists at Buckeye.
Samuel Echols, of Pima, was struck
and run over by an automobile.
Duck and small quail are plentiful
this year in the Salt River valley.
A total of 2,911 pledge cards were
secured in the canvass of Tucson.
Never in the history of Arizona
have the people enjoyed such prosper
ity.
A defective flue caused a fire at the
adobe house occupied by Sam Holman
at Solomonville.
has been made member of the uni
versity law faculty.
Dirt already is flying on the rail-
road that is soon to run from Hol-
brook to Ft. Apache.
The Presbyterian congregation in
Tucson purchased a residence that
will be used as parsonage.
Application has been made for Or
ganization of a garrison of the army
and navy league at Nogales..
Yapavai, mother of Arizona counties,
bids fair to add to the world-fame OF
the state as a copper producer.
Seven negro recruits left Bisbee for
! Camp Funston, Kan, where they will
go into training for the national army.
About 1,4OO boys in the high schools
and normal schools of Arizona now
are being trained in military course.
Possibly the first death among the
Arizonans in the national army is that
of James Peterson, at Camp Funston,
of pneumonia.
1t is learned that the Copper Chief
Mining Company, of Johnson, is get
ting ready to commence operations
on large scale.
Mesa is in the position of being the
only city in Arizona, which owns it's
own gas and electric plant, water
works and sewers.
J. X. Mcdonald, accused of passing
a number of worthless checks in and
around Douglas, was bound over to
the Superior Court.
Fred Elkins and H. M. Parker,
charged with killing man on the In
dian reservation near Holbrook were
caught at Deming.
Francisco Lopez, known as "Olc
PanchO," reputed to have been 106
years of age, is dead. For so years his
home had been in Yuma.
Col Geo. P. White, commanding a
battalion of the Seventeenth cavalry
at Globe and Miami, has been pro-
noted to full colonelcy.
Mrs Ethel Butts, convicted of kill
ing her sister-in-law, Mrs. Amanda
Butts, near Phoenix, was given ten
year suspended sentence.
Approximate estimated copper pro-
duction in Arizona during October
was 100000 pounds, compared with
100000 pounds in March.
Approximately $72,5OO represents
the total net value of the producers in
the Salt River valley of the Irish po-
tatoes shipped during the past season.
The Yuma city council decided
unanimously to call an election to
vote bonds for installing new elec-
trical, water and gas service systems,
at cost approximating $375,0OO
Fred Koch, a German, is under ar
rest at Tombstone in connection with
the attempted robbery of the First Ma
tional bank of Tombstone and the
shooting of Cashier T. R. Brandt.
Deputy Sheriff Lou Stevens tele-
phoned the sheriff's office at Nogales
from the old Harrison ranch that two
men had been killed and another
wounded there. No particulars were
given.
Seventy-one French fatherless chill
dren, through the efforts of the Bis
bee organizations to provide them
with necessities of life, have been
adopted by Bisbee and other Cochise
county people.
Arizona lost one of it's most able
and patriotic young men when J. e.
Sellers, statistician for the council of
defense and the United States food
administration, left for Russia to
serve his country.
In Phoenix they sent a man to pris-
on for having married a young woman
there while having another wife in
Utah, whom he married last June.
And the poor fellow was probably
only trying to do his bit.
Fire in the plant of the Southwest
ern Cotton Company at Tempe, caused
a loss in cotton estimated at 100000
and destroyed two of the four gins of
the plant. Two gins and tue office
buildings were saved.
The Presbyterian training school
for Indians near Tucson was placed