The Benson signal., 1918-02-16
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

A lodge of Odd Fellows will be or
ganized in Casa Grande.
Danger of an epidemic of scarlet
fever in Jerome is rapidly passing.
w. G. Gilmore resigned as referee
in bankruptcy for Cochise county.
The Elks lodge in Phoenix is plan
ming new home to cost $15O,OOO.
Capt. Russell White of Tempe has
been appointed commander of the
Battleship Arizona.
j. w. Brown of st. Johns has been
| appointed member of the State
Board of Education.
Governor Hunt appointed Geo. E.
| Cornelius of Winslow a member of the
State Board of Education.
A bill authorizing the appointment
of an additional Judge for Arizona was
passed by the U. s. Senate.
A report from Somerton states that
thieves took $4OO worth of cotton from
widow, living near there.
Lola B. Tomlinson has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Bowie and
Paul B. Smith at Tombstone.
John Wingfield, aged 95, died at his
home at Camp Verde, where he had
lived for about thirty-five years.
w. R. Weems of Winslow raised
three tons Of beans on his ranch ad-
joining the government reserve.
At Silver Bell damage of $500 was
done by the burning of residence oc-
cupied by W. H. Buehman and fam
lily.
Governor Hunt has named Mrs.
Bette White of Douglas member of
the board Of regents of the State Uni
versity.
Actual construction work on the Ell
Zaribah temple on the lot adjoining
been started.
Sam Bihl was badly beaten up by
Chris Tomich and Jerry Korich, as he
was on his way home from work in
Upper Lowell.
At a meeting in Bisbee, arrange
ments were made to raise $1,000,000
in the Warren district in the war
thrift campaign.
Marriott Jackson McAllister was in
stantly killed at Steeplerock when he
fell from a horse he was riding and
received a broken neck.
Harold Gribble left Benson for
Brooklyn, N. Y, where he has a posi-
tion in the shipbuilding department Of
the Brooklyn navy yard.
Arizona is we'll to the front as a
stock growing state. There is approx
imately 100000 sheep and 100000
head of cattle in the state.
Douglas school children are show
ing their patriotism by purchasing
thrift stamps. Already they have
bought $500 and are still buying them.
Harry Lee, yardmaster for the Ari-
zona Eastern railway, aged A, was
killed in the Globe yards when struck
by car shunted by switching crew.
Thos. A. Flynn, United States dis
trict attorney for Arizona, and Joseph
P. Dillon, United States marshal, have
been re-appointed by President VIII
son.
Word was received in Phoenix Of
the safe arrival in France of Judge
Frank o. Smith, who resigned from
the bench for war service across the
sea.
The Buckeye Irrigation Company is
spending 100000 on submerged
dam across the channel of the Gila
river just below that streams juno
tion with the Aqua Fria. A new dredge
has been purchased and is being used
in widening the waterway for its en-
tire length of twenty-four miles.
Roosevelt will have a new hotel.
Since January 21, $1,000 worth Of
war stamps have been taken by the
1880 employees of the United Verde
mine and mechanical department at
Jerome.
Prof. D. Loper was elected
chairman of the Central Arizona chap
ter of the American Red Cross at the
meeting of the board of directors held
at Phoenix
The Indian appropriation bill which
has passed the House, authorizes the
expenditure of over $1,O00,O0O for the
benefit of the red skinned wards of
the government in Arizona.
The Wickenburg branch of the Cen
trail bank of Phoenix was robbed by
lone bandit just before the hour of
closing. The robber took what money
was on the counter, between $1,000
and $1,000, and escaped in an auto.
With the station and crosscut at
the 1,O0O-foot level of the Iron Cap
shaft at Globe more than twenty feet
in bornite ore and nothing as yet to
indicate near approach to the foot
wall of the vein, the Iron Cap Com
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