The Benson signal., 1918-02-09
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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Governor Hunt appointed G. P. Hen
derson as disbursing officer for Ari-
ZOna.
An Odd Fellows lodge will be insti-
tuted at Casa Grande with fifty chart
er members.
A total Of 100000 is to be allowed
for good roads work in Maricopa coun-
| ty during 1918.
General Pershing reported the death
of Private Samuel c. Havin of Co.
chise, of pneumonia.
The costs in the Hunt Campbell
contest case for the governorship
amounted to over $4,000.
Phoenix expended approximately
| $750,000 for new buildings in 1917. as
against $250,OOO in 1916.
The Knights of Columbus of Bis
bee have raised more than the $4,000
quota in the Warren district.
Reports from northern Arizona say
that the SHOWS and rains have helped
the cattle business wonderfully.
Governor Hunt has appointed Paul
G. Thorne of Oatman judge of the Su-
perior Court of Mohave county.
The dividends for eleven months Of
1917 from Arizona copper properties
amounted to more than $41, 100000.
Phoenix is in the midst Of an an
nual campaign to secure members Of
the Red Cross chapter of that city.
The annual convention of the Ari-
zona Cattle Growers Association will
be held at Nogales, Feb. IA, Is and 16.
A patriotic Navajo squaw at Blue
Canon has gained local fame by weav-
ing a blanket with the American flag
as it's design.
Active work of installing another
unit of the government pumping plant
at Parker has been begun by the In
dian irrigation service.
Henry Murphy, formerly switch
man in the Bowie yards, is now a
first lieutenant in the army. stationed
at Jacksonville, Fla.
Taxpayers of Globe will vote on the
question ia bond issue of $4,000
for sewer system and improvement
of the municipal water system at
special election, March 2.
A solid block of copper weighing 200
pounds and assaying IS per cent, was
taken from Stope No. IL at the Nara
gansett company mine. at Rose
mont, Pima county, according to re-
ports to the office in Tucson.
Joe Davis who was sent from Tue
son to McNeal's Island for robbery of
the Golden State Limited at Apache
seventeen months ago, and who was
later transferred to Leavenworth pen
itentiary, wants to go to war.
When Calumet & Hecla sets before
it's stockholders it's record of 1917 it
will be found that the item of costs
has jumped skyward, due, Of course, to
the tremendous increases in payments
for wages, coal, powder, steel, lumber,
etc.
The first Tucson woman to pack her
grip for France to join other Ameri-
of the spring drive of the allies when
the American troops go into the fight,
is Mrs. Harry Parker, wife of Fire
Chief Parker.
Under orders of the director gener-
al Of railroads, working through the
subcommittee of railway car service,
system of zone embargoes became
effective. Tucson is placed in the
Denver zone, and J. M. Brown, receiv-
er of the Denver & Rio Grande, is
made chairman.
A daily mail service is to be estab-
lished between Nogales and Ruby.
Arizona maintained her position in
1917 as the leading copper mining
state, with a mine output of about
688,000,000 pounds, which is more
than twice as much copper as her
nearest competitor. Montana, pro-
duced, according to Victor c. Heikes,
of the United States Geological Sur
vey.
AS the result of an automobile acci-
dent which occurred on the Globe
Miami highway at the intersection Of
the highway with the road which leads
to the International smelter, Thomas
Davies, master mechanic Of the Inspi-
ration mine, was killed, and B. M. Cut
shaw, mechanical craftsman of the
same mine, was seriously injured.
Refixing Of the price of copper at
23h cents for another four-month Pc
riod, or until June 1, the wage scale
at the same time being ordered kept
at the present figure, has stabilized
the situation insofar as determining
for employers and employees the con-
ditions they have to meet until the
middle Of the year, says a Globe re-
port.