The Benson signal., 1917-11-03

Arizona's share of the second Lib
erty Loan was $7,000,00O.
The rural telephone line out of Nc
Neal now has ten patrons.
The State Loan Board met and ap-
proved a number of loans.
Three Tucson ministers have been
drafted for Y. M. G. A. war work.
Assessment work on mining claims
has been suspended for two years.
Fire in Clifton caused 100000 loss
to an electric warehouse and shop.
H. F. Kane, R. S. Culver, R. J.
Bobba, J. J. Oates and w. H. Lewis,
I. S. Bonham, postmaster at Rodeo,
attempted suicide with .32 caliber
pistol.
Fine exhibits and large crowds are
expected at the Arizona state fair,
Nov. 12-17.
John Schlalo of Glendale received
$10,700 for his potato crop from twen-
ty-two acres.
About $4,000 acres will be put in
Egyptian cotton on the Gila river the
coming season.
Dirt will begin to fly on the Jerome
Prescott road soon, and the Verde
bridge will be built
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
are domiciled in their Scottsdale
home near Phoenix.
T. K. Marshall of Tucson was
elected president of the Arizona Sun
day School Association.
Naco has had to add an extra teach
er to it's public schools on account Of
the crowded condition.
1t is understood that the labor COM
mittee of the State Council of De-
Tense is to be reorganized.
The young women of all physical
training classes in the University of
Arizona have been formed into mill
tary companies.
Another list of thirty registrants
has been certified for military serv-
ice by the Yavapai county exemption
board at Prescott.
Jerome Verde is on a substantial
producing basis, shipping fifty tons of
Is to 20 per cent ore daily to the
Humboldt smelter.
The Old Dominion Copper Company
of Globe announced that it would give
to each employe remaining with them
a year a Liberty bond of $50.
I. W. w. members arrested at Globe,
under the espionage act Indictment re-
turned in Chicago, were bound over
to the United States District Court.
The appointment of Will l.. Clark
of Jerome as fuel administrator for
the state of Arizona was announced
by the national fuel administration.
Herbert McCrutcheon, an l. w. w.
agitator, was given a preliminary
hearing at Phoenix and bound over to
the District Court of Illinois, his bond
being fixed at $4,000.
After passing through bar of hard
diorite, the south crosscut being
driven toward the Connor group, on
the 700-foot level of the Verde Com
bination at Jerome is in true Yavapai
schist we'll mineralized with chalcopy-
rite.
The regular monthly meeting of the
board of regents of the University of
Arizona was held in Phoenix for the
purpose of inspecting the date orc
ard at Tempe and the experiment
farm at Mesa. The date crop is un-
usually large this year and is being
marketed all over the United States
Tapping the second largest coal pro-
ducing district in Arizona and open
ing what will be the first producing
coal mines in the state, a railroad Is
now under construction from Hol-
brooks to Cuffs Cienega in the White
mountains.
More beans have been raised in the
fertile farm country of the Papago
Indians, stretching to the east from
the Ajo copper district for seventy
five miles, during the present season
than in all the past years of Indian
farming combined.
Born early Sunday morning on the
Southern Pacific train near Red Rock,
a perfectly formed boy was hurled
out of the window, according to a re-
port from Red Rock. 1t was found
dead on the right of way by a South
ern Pacific track walker.
Union labor leaders of the miners
now on strike in the Metcalf, -Morenci
and Clifton districts assured members
of the Federal Industrial Commission
investigating the Arizona labor stu
Ltion they would abide by any de-
cision the commission might make in
keeping with the agreement effected
at Globe and ending the mine strike
there.
DR.. Lorenzo BOido, formerly of
Tucson, was held by Justice Wheeler
of Phoenix, in $1,000 cash bond for