The Benson signal., 1917-06-30
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 4-6-EIks' Annual State Reuni
at Prescott

Big shipments of cattle are being
made from the Salt River valley.
Douglas Liberty bond books closed
with total of 1891, 900 subscribed.
Arizona people "did their Bit in
subscriptions to the Red Cross fund.
All Saints church at Tucson was
destroyed by fire of unknown origin.
An artesian we'll is to be bored in
Mineral Valley by the State of Ari-
zona.
The Azetc Hot Springs Company
is the name of a new organization
at Clifton.
Several bootleggers plead guilty at
Tombstone and were fined $3.50 and
given Jail sentences.
Flagstaff is the highest city in Ar
izona being one and quarter miles
above the level of the sea.
Captain Edwin Stoner Tice, honored
| by all the residents of Globe, known
and admired throughout the West,
died at his home in Globe.
1t was announced that an accurate
crop survey of Arizona is now in
progress, under the direction of the
Arizona Council of Defense.
Oatman, Goldroad and other mining
camps in the county joined in hon.
oring the twelve men who left Oat-
man to join the First Arizona.
Loans of state money to the amount
Of $51,166 have been approved by
the state loan board since Senate Bill
No. 95 became law on June Z.
! One hundred and thirty-six men, in
Guiding Navajos, Moquis and Caucas-
ians registered for the selective draft
at the Moqui agency at Kearns Canon
June 5th.
No clue has been obtained to the
parties who tried to blow up the
house occupied by Sam Watt and
John Hartman, in the lower part Of
Tombstone.
| Operations are in progress at the
Venture Hill mine at Jerome on prac-
tically the same scale that prevailed
before the strike. Two shifts are be-
ing worked.
There will be no draft in Mohave
county, according to Col. Charles Har-
ris, adjutant general Of Arizona. The
county has filled it's quota by the vol
unteer system.
Nine hundred and ninety-two auto
mobile license tags were issued dur
ing May by the secretary of state,
record for the month. The fees
represent approximately $1,000.
John w. Bell was murdered in the
hay field of John r. Beasley, living
on the Hackney place, near Chandler.
Beasley surrendered to the sheriff,
saying he committed the crime in self
defense.
Either abducted by men or lost in
the desert in some fool-hardy adven-
ture, two girls, Alice Miller and Ma
rion Coyle, each aged IL, were miss
ing from home June 10th, and the
sheriff dispatched searching parties in
every direction.
Finding of more liquor cached at
the home of Jeff Cole, alleged king
of the wholesale bootleggers in Tue
son, brought the total amount cOnfis-
Gated in connection with Coles ar
rest by Sheriff Miles, up to forty-five
cases Or 1,080 pints Of whiskey.
With a carload of timber on the
ground, tents erected whim up and
the old shaft Strengthened up from
collar to bottom, operations are go
ing forward with vigor and vim at
the property of the Jerome Yeager
Copper Company, six miles west Of
Jerome.
The Cananea Consolidated Copper
Company, at Cananea, Sonora, fifty
miles south of Naco, AriZ., pulled fires
from it's smelters and mills and sus-
pended operations. A $3O,0OO,O0O
mortgage was filed by the American
Smelling Company at Globe.
The billion pound figure to which
Arizona is going this year, from 432,-
467,69O pounds in 1915 is the best ev-
idence of the great expansion in re-
|
she has made in and in which she
is at this time at the high tide Of
endeavor.
Six years ago, while drilling we'll
eight miles north of Bowe, on the
Lower Gold Gulch creek, oil sand and
asphaltum were discovered. Some
work was done and many claims To-
Gated, and now, as result of more
recent examination, there is another
rush to file oil claims in that section.
According to a copy Of letter re-
ceived by the sheriff's office in Tomb
stone, the governors office in Phoen-
tx and the board Of pardons and pa
roles will not consider any applica-
tions for pardons or paroles for par
ties convicted of violation of the pro-
hibition amendments unless they are
very unusual.
Governor Campbell appointed the
following members of the state board