The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
March 15-16-Cattle Growers Associa
tion meeting at Wilcox

April 5.
The Dominion hotel at Globe was
damaged by fire.
A local Council of Defense was or
grained at Clifton
The Miami Woman's Club is plan
ming club house for girls.
Mesa is to have four blocks of paved
streets in the business center.
There are twenty-five German alien
enemies registered in Jerome.
The chief of police at Tucson has
ordered the "red light" district closed.
Land Commissioner w. A. Moeur
has announced himself candidate for
governor.
The Casa Grande Valley farmers
are preparing for a big cotton crop
this season.
The way that Arizona has responded
to the call for manganese ores has
been remarkable.
Thieves entered the home of H. J..
Tompkins in Douglas and stole $3.50
worth of diamonds and jewelry.
T. T. Blue, miner at the Leviathan
mine near Kingman, sustained brok.
en- leg when timber fell on him.
John J. Cummings, an old-time min
er and freighter of Quartzite, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
The Walkover mine, east of Hack
horny hoe nVtnrnl vain 0f
the body showing a width of IL feet.
The quarantine at Bisbee has been
lifted and schools, theaters and other
public places permitted to reopen.
Fire destroyed the mining camp of
w. D. Heath and Mrs. Louise Schuttig
in Healey's Canon, eleven miles from
Vail.
Many subjects of interest were dis
cussed at the annual meeting of the
Arizona Cattle Growers Association
at Nogales.
A letter from Howard Smith at
Camp Kearny, CAL, brought the news
to Kingman of his advancement to the
rank of corporal.
Every resident of the Globe-M Miami
district is urged to be vaccinated
either by their individual physicians
or by county health officer.
Nogales buried it's first war dead,
being the body of Raymond Barnes,
who died at Camp Lewis. The serv-
ices were conducted along military
lines and were unusually impressive.
Now that the Arizona Oil and Refin-
ing Company has spudded in it's first
well in Chino valley, and the extern
sive drilling operations are under way,
the eyes Of the country are on the
new oil fields.
Twenty small boys are under SEN
tence for the robbery of a warehouse
in Kingman of $50 bottles of near
bear," secured by the cutting of hole
just large enough to admit the small
est of their number.
Walter Travis, who admitted ''fram-
ing up holdup at Midland City that
resulted in fatal shooting, was SEN
fenced in the Superior Court of Gila
county to from one to fourteen years
in the state penitentiary.
At the twenty-fifth annual conclave
of the Grand Commandery of Arizona
Knights Templar at Tucson, Arthur S.
Hulet, of Phoenix, was elected grand
commander, and George J. Roskruge.
of Tucson, grand recorder.
Plans for mutual protection and to
assist the government in carrying on
the war to successful issue, were
laid out at the eleventh annual confer
ence Of the Arizona Cattle Growers
Association at Nogales.
Within six months the Verde Tun.
mel & Smelter railroad will be hand
ling freight and local passengers be-
tween Jerome and Clarkdale, accord
ing to H. Dewitt Smith, superintend-
ent of the United Verde mine.
OF the 359 refineries in the United
States twenty-four are idle. Most of
those not operating at present are in
Ou0 duu eighteen
new refineries are planned. 1t is es-
timated that the output of gasoline
will be increased 35 per cent. this
year.
The lead content of ore mined in the
United States in 1917 was about 640,-
600 tons, as compared with 622,967
tons in 1916, gain of $4,000 tons. The
Joplin district gained 5000 tons, Cali
fornia over 5000 tons, Idaho 1000 tons
and Washington and Montana 1000
tons each.
Former Patrolman Art Nelson was
arraigned in the Justice Court at Tue
son on a complaint charging conspir-
acy to rob Charles Loeb, proprietor Of
Pastime Park, who was killed in the
operation by Butch Sundeen and Bar
ney Schiller, now serving life SEN
tences on their pleas of guilty.
Consolidated Arizona Smelling Com
pany directors have declared an an
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