The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 4-6-Elks Annual State Reunion
at Prescott

With spring weather, mining activ.
ity in the Prescott district is on the
increase.
Growing Egyptian cotton is becom.
ing an extensive industry in the Phoe.
mex section.
Standard guage railroad service for
Jerome - a probability of the imme.
diate future.
Two trunks of bonded whisky, &c
plnts, were nabbed by deputy sher
iff at Miami.
Reports from Douglas state that
Mexican bandits are looting ranchers
in that section.
Thirty cadets enrolled in the Off
GERS corps a. the University of Ari
zona at Tucson.
Governor Campbell has signed the
anti-tobacco bill which raises the age
limit from 18 to 81.
Mrs. Clara Fish Roberts took office
as trustee of School District No.
at Bisbee, April 7th.
The new million-dollar acid plant
at the c. & A. smelter at Douglas is
being operated at full capacity.
A. L. Conley was killed and John
Bach seriously wounded in gun fight
about twenty miles south of Ajo.
The Big Reef Copper Company,
corporation organized last November,
is opening up it's property near May
er.
Attacked by man in the uniform
OF a soldier as she lay in bed at her
home, q Douglas woman underwent a
narrowing experience.
Jerome will have a chapter of Roy
al Arch Masons as soon as the neces-
sary dispensation arrives.
Report comes from the Telluride
mine at Oatman that the drift on the
lowest level has entered excellent ore,
although the streak is not large.
Mayor Jacob Erickson of Bisbee, is
sued a proclamation asking residents
of the Warren district to display the
American flag over their homes.
John Croft, charged with completely
in the murder Of Stephen Hughes of
Tempe, was given his preliminary
hearing and bound over under $4,000
bonds.
The Middle Golconda at KingmaE
made q total shipment of raw ores to
the smelters during March far in ex-
cess of any other month of it's ex-
istence.
Ten per cent increases in passen-
ger and freight rates have been
granted the Arizona Southern Rail-
road by the State Corporation Com
mission.
Religious worship from the top of
the Agricultural building on the
campus of the University Of Arizona
was novel feature of Easter Sunday
in Tucson.
With the arrival of two new auto
mobile fire engines, costing $3.50
each, Tucson sprang into the position
of having the leading fire department
in the state.
Sam w. Proctor, chief clerk of the
house of representatives of the legis-
lature, has been appointed secretary
of the State Corporation Commission
to succeed w. L. Sangster, who be.
comes auditor of the commission in
charge of investments. Thomas B.
Cashel was made rate clerk.
An early morning blaze did $4,000
damage to two buildings in Bisbee.
Bert Morton, a Sulphur Springs
Valley rancher, is lying at the G. &
A. hospital seriously wounded, as the
result of a mysterious shooting scrape
at his ranch.
At Tucson, on american Sunday"
1000 men, women and children rev.
erently marched to the armory and
pledged their fealty to the Stars and
Stripes and all the lofty principles
of justice and honor bequeathed them
by their forefathers at Lexington, at
Concord, and at Bunker Hill.
Three persons were instantly
killed and one other injured when an
automobile in which the party was
travelling from Johnson to Dos Ca
bezas was hit by Southern Pacific
Train No. 2, half mile west of Co.
rhise. All of the killed and injured
were old residents of Dos Cabezas.
Because they were refused an in
crease in wages, more than 100 min
ers employed at the Big Ledge Cop
per company's mines near Prescott,
quit work and left the camp The
dismissal of a Japanese cook en-
ployed at the mines also was includ-
ed in the demands of the men.
G. J. Parker, Ray McVey and r.
l.. Kimmel, three Bisbee men, were
taken to Tombstone and placed in the
county Jail to await trial on boot
Logging charge.
An ore body, four and one-half feet
in width, was encountered at the 1000
root in q crOSScut from n vino fror,