The Benson signal., 1918-04-27
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Parker is to have new hotel.
The Legislature will be called in
special session.
The S. P. depot at Tucson is to be
reconstructed.
Three cavalry regiments are to be
stationed at Nogales.
Texas Day. for Texas-Arizonians
was celebrated in Douglas.
Arizona's quota for the first call
under the second draft is 470
In the call for 49,S43 men May ]
to 10, Arizona will furnish 318.
The spring offensive of General La
Grippe has invaded the Warren dis
trict.
Many large purchases of third
Liberty Loan bonds were made in the
Warren district.
The Arizona Verde Oil Company
has recently been organized by Pres.
colt and Verde men.
State Bank Comptroller Jesse l..
Boyce issued license for the Round
Valley bank of Springerville.
Tucson hotel and restaurant men
have adopted the wheatless regime
until after the new crop is harvested.
A lumber yard and some small
buildings adjacent thereto at Tyrone
were destroyed by fire, the loss being
placed at $4,000.
Ray Consolidated Copper Company
for the year ended Dec. 81, 1917,
shows $615 earned on stock ($1O par)
against $742 in the previous year.
Chino Copper Company for the
year ended Dec. 81, 1917, had earnings
equal to $10.93 share ($5 par)
against $144o in the preceding year.
Dave Williams was tried in the Su-
perior Court on the charge of killing
Cashier T. H. Brandt of Tombstone
bank by Fred Koch, who implicated
Williams.
Oatman reported 100 per cent
oversubscription to the third Liberty
Loan bonds on the opening day.
Thatcher also went "over the top" on
the first day.
John Franks, aged 60, a deputy
sheriff of Gila county, under Tom
Armer at Christmas, was shot and
killed by Mexican named A. San
chez, according to word received in
Globe. ...
A Tucson branch of the American
Alliance for Labor and Democracy
was perfected at a public meeting
held in the Tucson Trades Council
rooms, which was addressed by A. A.
Worsley.
Chief of Police East, in his report
for March, to the Douglas City Coun-
Gil, showed III arrests, $1,242 col
lected in fines, $1,577 recovered in
stolen property and eleven policemen
employed.
1t was reported at Tucson that an
offer of $4,000 has been made for the
bond and lease of the North Star
mine, in the Twin Buttes district. A
hoist is being erected on the property
and operations are beginning.
Pledging themselves to support the
food administration in it's effort tC
win the war, seventy-five Cochise
county grocers met in Douglas anC
formed an organization to help exc
cute the orders of the food admins
| tration. -
| The Crimson and Crepin strike il
the Papago district, near Tucson, is
velopment of high grade lead and sill
yer ore than in the wulfinite at frs
encountered. Lead and silver run
ming as high as Ill ounces of silver
and AZ per cent lead was found en-
crusted in several inches of higf
grade wulfinite ore at a depth O.
about eight feet.
Phoenix postal receipts for Feb
urary exceeded those of the same
month last year by over $4,000.
B. J. Mustain of Ell Paso, Texas; J
M. O'Connor of Maxwell, N. NJ, ant
an unidentified Mexican, were killed
and five Mexicans seriously injured
when railroad motor car crashed
into a switch engine in the railroad
yards at Douglas
Ramon Duarte was arrested at Tue
son on the charge of criminal assault
the complaint being made by his al
legged victim, Rosario Flores. The al
| legged offense occurred near Greater
vile and the warrant was issued by
Judge Robinson of that precinct.
Jack" Greene, who was found deat
at Nogales with a discharged der
ringer beside him, according to papers
found among his effects, was the
Right Hon. Lieutenant Jackson Bar
gyle, son Of the Countess of Darnley
Of Gotham Hall, Gotham, Kent coun
ty, England, to whom he left a letter
His papers showed he enlisted in
1914 in the fourth battalion of the
Royal Irish fusiliers and was dis.
charged in March, 1917. He had three
bayonet wounds and a bullet wound
In his thighs.