The Benson signal., 1918-04-06
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Douglas is to have $135,000 canton
ment.
Tucson will have a $4,000 public
market.
In three years Holbrook population
has doubled.
A new road is being built from Ajo
to Gunsight.
A new $4,000 M. E. church is to be
built at Gilbert.
The old King mine at Superior is
expected to open soon.
Recent Oatman gold strikes mean
much to Mohave county.
A county Council of Defense has
been organized at Nogales.
The Phoenix Elks lodge is planning
a new $15O,00O club house.
The Williams mine at Kingman is
shipping tungsten concentrates.
Governor Hunt declares there is no
need Of a copper miners strike.
The Tom Reed mine at Oatman is
showing wide vein of rich ore.
The Sisson gold property at Aguilla
will start construction of new mill.
Arizona gets $4,000 for vocational
education under the Smith-Hughes act.
Pima Smelter and Refining Com
pany to expend $250,000 on smelter.
An emergency hospital and sixty
new houses are being planned at Clark
dale.
Standard Oil Company to erect sew
eral new buildings and tanks at
Chandler.
Scott White of Florence was nomi-
mated to be receiver of public moneys
at Phoenix.
The New Cornelia Copper Company
has ordered plans for a new and mod
ern school building for the housing of
900 children at Ajo.
John Chuk was awarded damages in
the sum of $2,75O in his personal in
jury suit against the Tres Metales Min
ing Company by jury in Judge Stan
ford's Court in Maricopa county.
George Philbrook, an Arizonan, is
receiving much publicity for his dar-
ing act in jumping overheard from a
training ship off of Tampa, Fla, and
rescuing a civilian from drowning.
Governor Hunt of Arizona and Gov
ernor Alexander of Idaho, were early
in the field in the issuance of procla-
nations for enrolment week of the
United States Boys Working Reserve.
Arizona Indians get $330,0OO for
subsistence, $145,000 for industrial
school. Indian irrigation projects re-
ceive 100000 and 100000 for open
ing up for settlement unallotted lands.
In response to the call for shipbuild-
ers, 1,149 men Of Arizona are ready
to leave for the shipyards at mo-
ment's notice. This number exceeds
the quota asked by the government by
R61.
According to w. S. Dorman, who has
been interested in getting the owners
of baled Egyptian cotton now held by
the growers of the valley, the entire
1918 crop is to be shipped east on con-
signment.
The following postmasters have
been appointed in Arizona: John T.
Hunter at Hoterilla, Claude R. Moss
at Torera, Ora L. Ashurst at Chiri-
cahua, and Mrs. Nora K. Lanahan at
Gadsden.
Answering the call of her country,
Miss Irene Miller, Phoenix girl, and
a graduate of st. Joseph's hospital
training school for nurses, left for
Camp Kearny where she will receive
her assignment for service in the Red
Cross.
The city of Tucson will grow its
own grain for it's own stock, as the
result of the backing Street Commis'
sioner Urquides received from the
city council in the purchase of plant
er for milo maize.
Frank Lacey, the Mohave county
deputy sheriff who has been on trial
in the Yavapai County Superior Court
for the killing of George Smith, an
Oatman stage driver, was convicted on
a charge of manslaughter.
Judge Prosper P. Parker, one of the
most prominent Masons in Arizona,
an honored member of the J. w. Owen
Post, G. A. R., and for about eight
years justice of the peace in the
Phoenix precinct, died at Bisbee.
Several hundred thousand head of
sheep are being sheared in the Salt
River valley, large proportion held
on the alfalfa and early grain fields,
though the grass is starting on the
plains, favored by the late rains.
Refusing longer to be made the in
nocent tool to further the sale of
stock or securities of various enter
prises in Arizona, the state corpora
ton commission took drastic action to
prevent such schemes in future.
President Wilson recently issued