The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-12
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS
Nov. 11-16.-Arizona State Fair at
Phoenix


Santiago Lopez was run over and
killed by freight train in the yards
at Wilcox.
The continued drouth is making the
ranges look like a blanket of some
breakfast food.
Ward of the base hospital at Doug.
las has received three beautiful ferns
from Mishawaka Indians.
A movement is on foot among mem.
bers Of the Elks living at Jerome to
organize lodge at that place.
The Arizona rifle team in the ma.
tional shoot at Camp Perry, o., secured
tenth place out of forty-nine civilian
teams.
Fire at Phoenix caused loss esti-
mated at $4,000 totally destroying the
warehouse and contents of Rabbit
Brothers.
The War Department has authorized
the expenditure of nearly 100000
for the erection of thirty-one buildings
at Fort Whipple.
The output for the month of Aug
ust of the Johnson mining district,
Appropriated 5000 tons ore, averaging
4 per cent copper.
The remains Of Sergeant O'Hara,
who committed suicide in Douglas sew
eral days ago, were shipped to Pitts
burgh, Pa, for interment.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the concentrating mill of the Red
Cloud mine, thirty-five miles north of
Yuma. The loss is 100000.
B. E. Russell, a mining man, we'll
known in Arizona and Sonora, was
shot and killed by discharged native
contractor at Morococha, Peru.
No less than six private wineries,
wherein raisins served as the material
for the Austrian wine makers, have
been discovered by Jerome officers.
The Camp Fire Girls at Kingman
are some kindlers and get more fire
than smoke. Since last May they have
raised $3.50 for the Red Cross fund.
Yuma valley cotton growers have
formed an association and assessed
themselves SO cents an acre to defray
the expense of bringing in labor for
the picking season.
Sergt. John Haynes, a Tucson boy
and former student of the University
Of Arizona, was injured ten days ago
in an airplane accident which occurred
at field near Memphis.
The new board of regents in the
State University has been organized
by the election of John T. Hughes as
chancellor, Mrs. Marshall, secretary,
and J. w. Bryan, Jr., treasurer.
A petition to the county commits
sioners asking that Douglas be one of
the cities to be voted on as a site for
the county court house when it is
moved is being signed in Douglas.
w. E. Musgrave, U. S. biological sur
vey, has ten hunters and trappers in
the field, and soon will double his
force. He is especially paying atten-
ton to mountain lions and Mexican
wolves.
Lieut.. Frank Luke, the youngest son
of Frank Luke of Phoenix, destroyed
three German balloons in thirty-six
hours on the Metz front, where the
Americans are staging an offensive of
their own
J. K. Finley, former auditor for the
Southwest Cotton Company, was
bound over to the Superior Court at
Phoenix to answer to the charge of
forgery. He is alleged to have forged
a check for the sum of $1,000.
Myrtle Moore was arrested at King
man for selling whisky to an Indian
Through an order issued by the
State Corporation Commission the
Globe Light and Power Company was
given permission on and after Oct. 1,
1918, to add to it's present rates for
electric energy surcharge amounting
20 10 per cent.
Eat less and waste less Save on
all foods. Practice thrift and economy
in everything" This in brief is the
food conservation program for the
next twelve months, according to Tim
othy A. Riordan, federal food admins
traitor for Arizona.
Advices received from Holbrook in
dictate that the activity that has
marked that new oil field for the past
several weeks is developing into 1actu-
al exploration ands that it will not be
many weeks until the field is proven
up one way or the other.
The Phoenix high school has about
1000 students at the beginning of the
term. Each has signed pledge of al
legiance to the country and to the
school, Military drill is exacted for
all boys above IA years, and all girls
must take physical training.
Horace Harrison, head Waterman at
the United Verde copper mine at Jer-
ONE, was shot and killed by an uniden-
titled Mexican who shot on being Or
dered to halt An hour later another