The Benson signal., 1917-04-28

Chandler has formed rifle club.
The Mesa Rifle Club has formed a
drill squad.
Great patriotic rallies were held at
Globe and Miami.
Many improvements are being made
at Fort Huachuca.
Bisbee school children hazed a dis
loyal Mexican boy.
A Red Cross chapter has been
formed at Chandler.
A home guard company has been
organized at Bisbee.
Verde is the name of a new town
six miles from Jerome.
A copper mines celebration day is
being planned at Tucson.
Five state convicts escaped from
the county jail at Clifton.
The rates on ore between Clarkdale
and Globe have been reduced.
Fourteen Warren district girls
would act as Red Cross nurses.
At Bisbee, twenty-three young men
have enlisted in the U. S. navy.
Oil stocks bid fair to divide atten-
tion with mining stocks in Jerome.
| A permit has been asked to con-
struct water works system at King
man.
The Warren Defense League has
started plans for a census of the dis
trict
A woman hotel proprietor at Ajo
has been jailed on bootlegging
charge.
Sixty-five colored men at Globe
pledged themselves to enlist in the u.
S. army.
Governor Campbell has named a
State Defense Board of thirty-four
members.
A gang of I. W. w. agitators at Gal
lup were arrested and put to work on
the chain gang.
Rich ore has been found on the
Brown property at Needles Peaks in
the Kingman district
Governor Campbell has been offered
a company of Mormons to serve with
the Arizona state guards.
Four cowmen were arrested at Cliff
ton and confined in the county Jail
on the charge of stealing cattle.
Pima county sheriff has ordered
firing upon any airplanes flying over
city without identifying themselves.
r. H. Stanton, Spanish-American
war veteran, answered the last call
and was buried in the Yuma ceme-
terry.
Representative Hayden has intro
duced bill to make the appropriation
for the federal building in Globe
$4,000.
Ell Zaribah Temple, Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine, held a ceremonial ses-
sion at Douglas and initiated thirty
four novices.
A pool hall owner at Bowie was
fined $100 and sentenced to six
months in the county jail for desc
Grating the American flag.
Registrations of state enrolment
headquarters at Tucson reached to-
tai of more than 2,100, including 1,147
married and $50 single men.
The Warren District Commercial
Club started movement for higher
efficiency in agricultural, mining and
all other lines of endeavor in Arizona
James Hibbs, until recently foreman
at the New Jersey mine at Chloride,
left for the border to enter the serv-
ice of the United States army as a
civilian scout. He is 6S years of age.
If the United States army can use a
troop of 100 mounted Indian scouts,
some of whom served with Crook and
Lawton, it will be organized in the
Verde valley.
Home building has hit a. new rec
ord in Bisbee, and it is stated that
few mining districts can boast the
proportionate number of home owners
that the Warren district can.
lie OduCu0Z SIOup VI SOIu pIOpOI-
ties that have been worked by Mex
ican family for three generations, To-
Gated southeast of Salome, have been
transferred by D. Wiggers to A. B.
Richmond
Completion of the sulphuric acid
plant of the Calumet & Arizona smell
ter at Douglas has been reached, with
the attending tryout, establishing ca
pacity for the production of 225 tons
of acid day.
George T. Bean, digger" boss, at
the Miami Copper Company's mile,
was instantly killed, Henry Dodsworth
was probably fatally injured and Alex
Burkhart was seriously injured when
a charge of dynamite prematurely ex-
ploded.
At Prescott, as elsewhere through
out Arizona and the United States,
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