The Benson signal., 1918-03-09
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
March 15-16-Cattle Growers ASSocia-
tion meeting at Wilcox.

mere was big patrlOtlc parade aI
Tucson on Washington's birthday.
Rumors OF a strike for a seven-hour
$6-day, have reached Governor Hunt.
Two carloads of ore are ready for
shipment from the Puzzle Group at
Chloride.
The work on the state highway be-
tween Nogales and Tucson is nearly
completed.
Pete White has cut into big vein
on the Roadside mine in the Union
Pass section.
O. A. Turner, for many years res
ident of Mohave county, passed away
in Baltimore, Md
News of the death, at a camp in
Georgia, of Capt. Zimmerman, was re-
ceived in Nogales.
Governor Hunt asked the withdraw
al of troops from the Globe-Miami and
Ray mining districts.
Maricopa county will hold special
election to vote on proposition to
issue $2,000,00O bonds for good roads
J. w. Prisk, operating the Home
Pastime mine at Mineral Park, has a
carload of rich ore ready for ship
ment.
Every man who has been sent from
the United States to do overseas duty
has been supplied with full Red
Cross outfit.
According to reports made by E. }.
Carrillo, 1850 acres will be planted
to long staple cotton south of Chand-
ler this spring.
The price paid for the old Yaeger
Canon Copper property, recently taken
over by the Shannon Copper Company,
is given at $125,000.
Destruction of the ballots used as
evidence in the, recent governorsh1p
contest case took place outside the
city limits at Phoenix.
More than 100000 worth of war
savings certificates and thrift stamps
have been sold in Arizona since the
big drive was opened.
Congressman Carl Hayden has in
troduced bill in the House, providing
for the opening of thousands of acres
of unoccupied coal lands in the Indian
reservations in Arizona.
Sheriff Miles thoroughbred blood
hounds were sent from Tucson and put
on the trail of the outlaws at the
point where the Powers gang discard
ed their horses near Rucker gulch.
New Cornelia Copper Co. COM
menced production in June, and made
an output of approximately 2O,00OOOO
pounds of copper in 1917, of a gross
value of approximately $4,750,0OO.
James G. Colter father of Fred T.
Golfer, of Globe, state senator and
democratic national committeeman,
has been elected vice president of the
Pioneers Historical Society at Pres
colt.
Joseph L. Wiley and Ramon Salazar,
former Pima county officers, convict
ed of implication in the shooting to
death of Mrs. Mary Bates, will go free.
as the result of decision handed
down by the Supreme Court.
The reported discovery of potash
near Jerome is important, owing to
the fact that potash has been one of
the war minerals for which it has
been difficult to find a substitute and
new deposits of which are rare.
The memory of George Washington,
of Abraham Lincoln and of Paul
Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet,
were honored at the Tucson colored
school, named in honor of Dunbar,
when a large audience attended the
school warming.
United Eastern made a gold output
in 1917 of a gross value of $1,864,228
Approximately 95 per cent of values in
ore mined was recovered.
In the case of J. D. Kenney, appel
liant, vs. Bank of Miami, appellee, the
Supreme Court of Arizona held valid
the resolution of the board of super
visors of Gila county disincorporating
the town of Miami. Judgment was re-
versed and the case remanded for a
new trial.
Tom Sisson and the Powers broth
ers are holed up in some small cave
near the head of Turkey creek, in the
opinion of officers in charge of the
hunt according to a Bowie report. Cat
tie are plentiful in that part of the
country and it is believed that they
have killed beef and are hiding out.
Posses in the Chircahuas engaged
in the chase to apprehend John and
Thomas Powers and Thomas Sisson,
sought for the killing of three Graham
county officers February 10, reported
last week that Apache trailers with
Sheriff Harry Wheeler, of Cochise
county, have picked up a fresh trail.
Picked men under Sheriff Wheeler
and Sheriff Rye Miles of Pima coun-
ty, are following the trail.
At the Nogales meeting of the Ari-
ZOna Cattle Growers Association G.