The Benson signal., 1917-06-23

Flagstaff will celebrate July Fourth.
The new sheep sanitary board has
appointed John Garret chief inspec-
tor.
The Mesa Rifle Club has outlined
big celebration for the Fourth of
July.
Cottonwood is soon to have the elec-
trio light and power service it has
so long desired.
Arizona has 1900 motor cars &C.
cording to the records kept by Sid
ney P. Osborn, secretary of state.
Former Senator w. A. Clark has
contributed $4,000 toward purchasing
silver service for the battleship Ar
izOna.
Sixty-seven hundred men between
the ages of 81 and 80 registered for
possible military service in Cochise
county.
A general strike at Ell Tigre mine,
sixty-five miles southeast of Douglas,
began June 10th. Five hundred en-
plOyes are affected.
Satisfactory progress is being made
by the New La Paz Gold Mining
Company in developing it's mines in
northern Yuma county.
Alexandra Marquee was found gull
ty by the jury in the Superior Court
at Flagstaff of statutory offense
against Natividad Hernandez, IL years
Of age.
At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Mesa Egyptian Cotton Ex-
change it was decided that their gin
would have to be enlarged in order to
take care of the big crop coming on.
The A. S. & R. Company has made
an appropriation of approximately a
quarter of a million dollars for con-
structiOn work to be done in the com.
ing six months at the Hayden plant.
Attempts to reopen tenderloin Sec
tion in Tucson were nipped when
Chief of Police Frank Bailey led
raid on Gay Alley" and neighboring
fifteen.
No motive has been disclosed for
the suicide of Francis A Berton,
young miner, who ended his life by
drinking solution of potassium cy-
anide at his home in Deception Gulch
near Jerome.
May shipments of ore from the
United Verde Extension at Jerome to-
tailed 1900 tons, 2,40Q tons less than
the shipments for April. The April
shipments were the heaviest in the
history of the mine.
J. B. Cykler of Denver and Ignatius
Rodriguez of Tucson were arrested at
Nogales by Department of Justice rep
resentatives. They are alleged to
have attempted to evade registration
under the selective draft bill.
Apache Indians in large numbers
may be secured to meet the labor
shortage in the Salt River Valley ac-
cording to message received by the
| defense council from Ernest Stecker,
superintendent of the San Carlos res
ervation.
An ore shipment made from the
Rainier Development Companys
ground, in Cunningham Pass, adjoin-
| ing the Black Giant, yielded returns
of twenty ounces of silver, three.
| tenths of an ounce of gold and 80 per
cent in copper.
The adoption of new wage scale
which went into effect June / was
the principal event in the Oatman dis
| trict The new scale is novelty
in mining, as the wages to be paid
under it are based upon the price of
electrolytic copper
Bisbee raised over $1,000 for the
Red Cross fund last week.
An important deal was closed at
Salome whereby syndicate of coast
and Arizona capitalists have secured
lease and bond on fifty-two claims
in the Cottonwood Pass district con-
trolled by doc" Crago and J. w.
Jackson and whereby immediate de-
velopment Of the ground is contem-
| plated.
Sentences ranging from one year
and one day in the federal penitenr,
ary on Mcneil Island to 60 days in the
Pima County Jail, were meted out by
Judge William H. Sawtelle in the
United States District Court to sey
enteen defendants, convicted Of viola
tions of the Harrison drug act, the
Mann act, the immigration laws or the
| neutrality act
Oliver Hart, employed as a cowboy
| by Millard Saul, near Douglas, saved
the life of small boy at the Ell
Paso & Southwestern stock pens when
| he snatched the child out of the way
| of a maddened bull which was charg-
ing on him. Hart did not escape un-
hurt, the bulls horn piercing one
finger and MASKING two others against
corral fence.
The Glory Hole at Salome is stated
| to be looking better than at any time
since work was started, both the east