The Benson signal., 1918-01-05
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

is searching for his wife in Los An
geles.
Col. Breen will continue as military
aide to Governor Campbell until
further ORDERS
H. l.. Corl of Nogales has been ap-
pointed explosive licensing agent for
Santa Cruz county.
The Bisbee navy recruiting station
shipped out thirty men to Ell Paso for
enlistment in the navy.
All of the school teachers of No
gales have volunteered to do their bit
in the work of the next draft.
Twenty more writing tables to ac-
commodate the new soldiers are being
put up at the Douglas Y. M. C. A.
Joe Hood, a Douglas saddlemaker,
has received contract with the army
to repair 1000 pairs of soldiers
shoes.
Secretary Lane has issued regula-
tions under which permits may be OBJ
tanned to prospect for potash on pub
lie lands.
Lieutenant Wedden passed through
Tucson with six slackers en- route to
Huachuca, where the men will be
court-martialed.
Land is rapidly becoming scarcer
and harder to get, but there are still
some good sections in the Bowie val
ley open to filing.
| Gov. Thomas E. Campbell was the
recipient of handsome brown seal
travelling bag, the gift of Tucson lodge
No. 385, B. P. o. E.
The lowest per capita fire loss OF
any incorporated city in the United
States during the 1916 fiscal year has
won new honors for Phoenix.
This season, John P. Orme grew
224,000 pounds of wheat on seventy
acres, in the Salt River valley of Ari-
zona, or fifty-five bushels per acre.
1t is announced that during the
year 1918, the S. F. P. & P. Railway
will expend in general rehabilitation
of it's line and rolling stock over
$75O,OOO.
There has never before been such
demand for land in Arizona as at the
present time All kinds of entries
are being made in the United States
land office.
A farm of 800 acres in the Somerton
section has been leased for three
years for cotton growing, at an an
nual rental of $50 per acre, the high
est ever locally known for bare land.
Restoration to the public domain
from the Monzano national forest of
96,50O acres of land in Central and
Western New Mexico and 27,70O acres
in Northern Arizona was announced
by Secretary Lane. .'',
According to advices from Camp
Kearney, Harry G. Graham, serg-
cant of Company X, 158th infantry,
formerly the First Arizona, recently
qualified as the best rifle shot in the
regiment. Sergeant Graham enlisted
in Tucson in May, 1916.
Third in the series of bean fires
which have occurred in this valley un-
der most suspicious circumstances, a
big stack of unthreshed beans was
burned on the ranch of S. D. Tuttle
a mile north of Glendale 1t is esti-
mated that the loss may reach $4,000.
One alleged draft evader was in
stantly killed and two others so bad
ly wounded that their capture was
easily effected later when Ennis Thur
man, deputy sheriff of Pinal county,
and former police officer of Phoenix,
encountered the three in lonely
mountain section near Sasco.
On the old McCrackin mine near
Kingman there are now over fifty
men working, two different compan-
les operating different parts of the
property.
Charged with white slavery, Leucho
Balboa and Guillermo Rodriguez were
held in $1,000 and $500, respectively,
by United States Commissioner Jones.
Half a dozen Mexican girls told of be-
ing hired to work in cabaret at
Douglas, and found they were really
engaged for immoral purposes.
The lands of Boca float No. 8, COM
prising 99,289 acres and valued at
million dollars, which have been in
controversy between the Boca heirs
and the settlers for years were
awarded to the heirs by Judge Bled-
soc in the Federal Court. The lands
are located in the Santa Cruz valley.
The farmers of Arizona will receive
further services from the agricultural
extension service of the university
and the United States Department of
Agriculture during the coming season
in the form of assistance in handling
labor problems which threaten to be
more serious this year than ever be-
fore.
At the Shannon mine at Metcalf,
Mine Superintendent Mccoy of the