The Benson signal., 1917-03-31

Tucson is to have a municipal play
ground and athletic park.
Twenty-six blocks of streets will be
paved in Flagstaff this summer
Billy Heinze of Pirtleville was as
saulted and robbed while walking to
Douglas.
Flagstaff is to become the storage
point for California onions, according
to present plans.
A. party of Butte, Mont, mining
men are investigating property in the
Camp Verde field.
Dirt is flying on the right-of-way Of
the new railroad from Clarkdale to
the Extension smelter.
The matter of an historical pag-
cant for Tucson has been taken up
by the Luncheon Club.
John Reiney, for many years resi-
dent of Tombstone, was committed to
the state asylum for the insane.
Three cans and two jars of opium
and pipe showing considerable
usage were confiscated by deputy
sheriffs at Miami.
Gordon Wales, former member of
the Utah national guard, attempted
to end his life in the Lowell Jail by
slashing his throat with razor
Members of the Bisbee lodge of
Elks are planning to swamp Prescott
on July 4, 5 and 6, when the annual
state reunion of the order is held.
Deputy Sheriff Dan Armer ar
rested Frank Mirch, resident OF
Globe, in conjunction with the al
legged murder Of Joe Rogic, the Pinal
mountain miner.
That the districts around Mayer,
McCabe, Poland and Humboldt will
soon be in the limelight almost as
much as the Verde district is today,
is the prediction Of E. G. Koepke.
Mohave county produced more
metal in 1916 by many thousands of
dollars than in 1915, although the
Tom Reed and Gold Road only made
production during part of the year.
Cutler Wood, IA year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John@W Wood of Lower
Miami, was almost instantly killed
when he collided on a motorcycle
with a stage, driven by Ralph White.
An ore strike of considerable i'm
portance was made on the Golden
Hammer property in Mineral Park
assaying $7.2O gold, 80 ounces silver,
10 per cent zinc and 6.4 per cent lead.
Four Ajo citizens were captured on
the Ajo-Sentinel road, near Sentinel,
with an auto load of booze, and at
their trial at Yuma were held under
bond of $3.50 each to the Superior
Court T."
Lots on the Hogback have risen
from $1OO to $3.50 apiece in price
since it was announced that the
United Verde Extension is to build a
new town just below the Jerome city
limits.
About thirty-three business estab-
ments of Tucson, mostly cigar stores
and fruit stands, must throw away
their punch board, dice boxes, and all
other contrivances dealing with
games of chance.
Michael McEnroe, a miner aged 38
years, was fatally injured at Bisbee
when he drove his pick into missed
shot in a drift on the 200 level of the
Gardner shaft. He died at the Cop
per Queen hospital.
Three Yuma lads were arrested,
charged with breaking into box cars.
The Warren District Commercial
Club and the Warren Business Mems
Association gave the members of the
Ell Paso Pep, Push and Progress spe-
cial an auto ride over the district on
their visit to Bisbee.
To Bisbee belongs the distinction
of having the largest postal savings
bank in the state of Arizona, as we'll
as the twentieth largest postal saw
ings banks in the United States. Ihe
postal savings bank at Bisbee now
has total deposits OF $3O8,4O1.
p That Andrew Paavala, the 27 year
old miner, who was suffocated in
cave-in at the Miami Copper Com
pany's mine at Globe, met an acci-
dental death and that there was no
responsibility attached thereto, was
the verdict of a coroner's. jury.
In spite of the fact that the tung-
stem market is very low at present,
the owners of tungsten properties
should not be discouraged, says re-
port from the Arizona State Bureau
of Mines When tungsten was S110
per unit, it was entirely too high.
Manuel Castillo, one-legged boot
black, was taken to the Arizona hos
pital in Tucson for treatment of an
ugly knife wound in his left arm, and
Louis Facin, miner, was locked up
in the city iail on a charge of assault