The Benson signal., 1918-04-20
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

headquarters In jerome.
Capacity operations have again been
resumed by the Miami Copper Co.
J. nj. Russell, for several years past
postmaster at Chloride, has resigned.
Organization of the Arizona reserve
battalion has begun by Adjutant Gen
eral Hams.
Arizonas quota in the Third Lber.
ty Loan is $3,27O,OOO, and is being rap
idly subscribed.
Prescott's 40 Carnival sold about
$4,000 worth of War Savings Stamps
and baby bonds.
Three prisoners who escaped from
the county Jail in Phoenix were cap
tured in Yuma.
It is reported at Ray that the Bunk
er Hill mining property has been sold
to Pittsburgh parties.
The blackberry Mining Company
will build a 2OO-ton milling plant at it's
property in Mohave county.
Developments on the new eighth
level of the United Eastern at Oatman
are progressing satisfactorily.
The famous ruin at Casa Grande is
TO be made one of the "show places"
Of the national park system.
The churches of Miami have com.
bined in holding noon service each
Sunday at one of the theaters.
Orr Jones, a well known Tucson
boy. who went with. the first draft to
Camp Funston, has reached France.
DR.. Rosa Boido, charged with per-
forming a criminal operation, was
found guilty by the jury in Phoenix.
Two thousand gallons of water are
flowing each minute through the Unit.
ed Verde Extensions haulage tunnel
at Jerome.
1t is practically decided that the
long talked of dam on the upper Verde
shall be built by the Salt River Water
Users Association.
Chandler ranchers are as busy as
bees getting their ground in shape for
their crops, while the planting of cot
ton is nearly completed.
The drift on the bonanza ore body OF
the Tom Reed at Oatman now has
reached total length of 600 feet and
still is in rich milling ore.
The Red Gap mine, in the Weaver
district, has been optioned by Kean
st. Charles to eastern capitalists for a
price said to be 100000.
L. E. Brown was shot and killed at
Phoenix by Constable Haze Burch,
who was trying to arrest him on a
charge of illegal liquor selling.
The Phelps-Dodge Corporation at
Tombstone purchased $500,OOO of the
Cochise county highway bonds, just
half of the issue voted last fall.
Four I. w. w. agitators who had
been spreading their literature about
Tucson for several days were ordered
out Of town by federal officials.
Dewitt Wise, of Yolo, Colo, while
visiting the Salt River valley, told the
farmers and ranchers of Maricopa
county they should make an effort to
grow rice.
More than 100000 head of sheep
will soon be grazing in the Saeramen'
to valley of Mohave county. Heavy
rains followed by warm weather has
made pasture good
A suit was begun in the Federal
Court at Los Angeles to test the le'
gality of a decision of the Arizona
Corporation Commission to have in.
corporations pool stock while being
financed.
1t took the jury in the case of B. F.
Winsor, the Clarkdale smelter guard
accused of the murder of Manuel Or
ozco, forty-five minutes to declare the
defendant not guilty.
Gen. Thomas F. Wilson, one of the
pioneers of Tucson and long distin.
guished in his country's service as a
consul in Central and South American
countries, passed away at Los An.
geles.
With 113 delegates in attendance
and number of club women present
in an unofficial capacity, the sixteenth
annual convention of the State FEEDER.
alton of Women's Clubs held a three
days session at Phoenix.
About one hundred delegates from
high schools, Boy Scout organizations
and other organizations of boys, are
expected to attend an Older Boys con-
ference to be held at the Y. M. G. A.
in Tucson.
Mrs. Christian Agner of Phoenix,
American patriot of German birth, at
the age of 60 years, has enrolled as a
pupil at a business college in order
that she might read the letters from
her son, who is fighting for the cause
Of democracy.
After hearing objections urged by
ministers to carnival plans, Tucson