The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-12-21
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

/ MoCulACIy DScu LOT
30-barrel flour mill at Eagar.
The state road builders have a good
start on their way toward Fairbank.
Now that the war is over, Tucson
expects to get new federal building
Press and business men of San ST.
mon are united in an effort to get a
canning factory at that point.
1t is probable that the influenza
epidemic will cost the state of Ari-
IONA and it's counties at least 5000, 900
| Secretary Lane is developing gov.
eminent plans for placing many thou.
sands of returning soldiers on farms,
Word was received in Bisbee OF the
death in Phoenix of Mrs. Sidney P.
Osborn, wife of the secretary of state
The Copper Queen Company will re-
| employ all men who left the Bisbee
branch to serve their country during
the war.
Of the many companies organized to
| drill near Holbrook for oil, two now
are active. They are the Adamana
and Hopi.
The Leadville Mining Company, con
trolled by w. M Holmes of Court
| land, has resumed operation and ship
ment of ore
With both a governor and a gov.
ernor-elect in attendance, Arizona was
well represented at the eighth annual
conference OF governors held at An
napolis, Md.
There has been delay in construc
ton of the thirty new buildings of
the 100000 hospital plant at Whip
pie barracks, mainly for lack of COM
mon labor
Report from the United States Oil
& Refining Company, operating near
Bowie, is that arrangement has been
made to secure a standard drilling rig
early in the new year.
Fred T. Coulter, Democratic candi,
date for governor of Arizona, defeated
by Thomas Campbell, Republican, in
the fall election by 800 votes, said
he did not plan to contest Campbells
election.
All of the material to be used in
the construction of the highway from
Tombstone to Benson is now on hand
except that steel and iron culverts for
the section from ST. David bridge to
Benson
Earl Neumeyer was instantly killed
O no Vv1cr 1i1s.,t
when seven ore cars broke loose from
the cable on the 300 foot level and
dropped a distance of 500 feet to the
600 foot level.
The annual meeting of the Arizona
Chapter American Mining Congress
held at Phoenix was attended by re-
sumption of urgency on the part of the
chapter that the mining industry be
given seat in the national cabinet.
The following names of Arizona
men were included in casualty lists.
Joseph Smith Morris, Mesa, and Will
liam Igo, Turner, killed in action;
Richard Irwin Fisk, Phoenix, wounded
slightly, and August A. Junge, Pearce,
killed in action
Sgt. Jesse Sanders arrived in Tomb
stone from Camp Funston, where he
has been stationed, having been dis
charged from the service He is the
second Tombstone boy to arrive home
from Funston, Sgt. c. T. Smith having
arrived a few days ago.
The lifting of the influenza ban in
Bisbee acted much in the same man
ner as the kiss upon the lips of the
tabled sleeping beauty. Bisbee awoke
to a life OF normal activity and the
people enjoyed the first bit of liberty
they had had for more than nee
weeks
The annual report of Secretary J.
E. Curry to the members of the Ari-
zone Chapter of the American Min
ing Congress places an estimate upon
the years copper production which
exceeds by more than 100, OOO, 900
pounds the output of 1917, the pre-
vious high year in Arizona copper
production
Another eternal triangle" two an
gies of which were Monaghan and on
Caucasian, was broken up when All
Fee, husband of the white woman
known as Lucille Fee, was shot and
killed in the back room of his Clark
dale laundry by Chin Len Juan, who
has been following the occupation of
laundryman at Cottonwood
The peanut growing industry in the
Salt River valley of Arizona has made
long strides ahead in the last year.
From few scattered acres Of a year
ago the acreage planted to peanuts in
this section has grown until it now,
reaches 1000 acres. The product is of
the highest quality and the yield to
the acre averages 200 pounds.
In Jerome All Fee was shot by Lee
Ong and Mr.. Fee died the next day
Cause of shooting not known.
The success of the cooperative
store idea in the Ajo camp was made
evident by pre-Christmas order is
sued for the payment of 200 in
dividends to the patrons of the New