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

be an elght-story structure.
John Gungl has been appointed II
censer of explosives for the Wilcox
section.
The University of Arizona has flung
to the breeze it's service flag and on
1t are over $50 stars.
A recall petition is being circulated
in Miami against Gordon and Fades,
members of the City Council
The Globe chief of police has been
designated by the attorney general as
a registrar of alien enemies.
Charles E. Ashley, selected as the
new accountant to the State Tax
Commission, has taken up his duties.
The Red Cross organized at San
Simon month ago with thirty mem
bers, now has membership Of eighty.
James R. Paddock, 81, Prescott pio
neer freighter, died at hospital due
to complications as a result of old
age.
Articles of incorporation were filed
In the offices of the State Corporation
Commission by the Griffin Lead and
Zinc Company.
A. Lopez, night watchman at the
Santa Rita at Tucson, was accidental
ly shot and killed. He dropped his
revolver and it was discharged.
The body of man believed to be
| or1CfM Mot I~x,
ranchers hanging from a tree near
Gadsden, fifteen miles from Yuma.
A delegation of Kickapoo and Usage
Indians from Oklahoma visited Phoe-
nix for the purpose of buying land in
this state for large surplus Of these
tribes.
The part the University of Arizona
is playing in the world war is told in
booklet issued by the university, en-
titled "The University of Arizona and
the War;"
Governor Hunt appointed Mrs. Betty
| White of Douglas as member of the
board of regents of the University of
Arizona to succeed DR.. J. w. Flynn of
Prescott, resigned.
improvements Of large dimensions
were planned for the Emerald Isle
Copper Company during the year 1918
at meeting of the directors of the
company, held in Kingman.
DR.. R. B. Won KleinSmid, president
Of the University of Arizona, has been
elected to membership of the state ex-
ecutive committee Of the Arizona
State Council of Defense.
Three new cases of smallpox among
the Mexican section people was re-
ported to the health authorities of
Kingman, two men and one woman
being attacked by the disease.
One hundred and fifty recruits from
New York, in command of Lieutenant
Greene of Fort Slocum, arrived in
Douglas to Join the First cavalry sta
toned at Camp Harry J. Jones.
Miss Nora Williams of Miami has
set a new fashion for wartime brides
When she married Thomas e. Tucker
she carried, instead Of the conven-
tional flowers, silk American flag.
AS fast as men and trucks can rush
the work new electrical equipment is
being taken to the Tennessee mine,
near Kingman, and before many
weeks that property will be in oper-
..tion.
Juan Campos, boss wiper and sup
ply man in the Southern Pacific car
shops at Tucson, was killed when he
slipped and fell from the engine he
was attending and was crushed under
the wheels.
J. B. Girand, who has been city en-
gineer of Phoenix the past two years,
has resigned that position to devote
his whole time to the project of build
ing a big dam In the Grand Caf1on at
Diamond Canon. :".
Governor Hunt has asked the state
Institutions Commission to provide
knitting needles and yarn for the in
mates of the state prison and reform
school, so that they may employ their
Vine knitting for the Red Cross.
Gen. P. Elias Gales, military COM
mander and governor of Sonora, and
P. G.. Soriano, acting governor Of
Sonora, held a conference at Nogales
with the operating heads Of all the
American owned mines in Sonora.
Each county in the state is to re-
ceive $3.50 for every one of the "cen-
sus children" in the county, which
sum is the amount the state is Civ
ing the counties for educational pur-
poses during the next six months.
Miss Leah Bennett, special represen-
tative of the food administration lin
Miami, issued an appeal to the resi-
dents of the district to refrain from
the practice of throwing rice at new
lyweds as a war economy measure.
Six months leave of absence has
been granted William J. Bryan, Jr.,