The Benson signal., 1918-09-28
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Nov. 11-16.-Arizona State Fair a
: Phoenix.

Marriage licenses issued at Tomb
stone keep up to standard.
On Oct. I'll, Arizona will send 216
men to Camp Kearny<Cal., under the
call for $4,000.
Private Henry Taught of Chandler
is reported in the casualty list as
missing in action.
Miami reports that several mangan-
csc properties have been opened up
in the Mongollons district
The September allotment of sugar
for Arizona was $4,000 pounds, COM
pared to 100000 pounds for August
The Apache railroad is being fin
lshed into Snowflake, to which point
regular train service is to be. estab.
lished.
AS a war measure the state board
OF health has ordered that children
who attend school must be vaccinated
against smallpox
At Jerome, the shaft at the Verde
Combination is to be sunk to a depth
of 100 feet instead of 1000 Schist is
the formation and it carries chalcopy-
rite and pyrite.
Customs Inspector Rochin of Aqua
Prieta was shot and killed by Theo-
dOre GRANTEES, former comisario at Ell
Tigre, in Nacozari as the result of a
political quarrel
cto To do
charged by hotels, restaurants and
other public eating places has been
ordered by the Federal Food Admin
istrator for Arizona.
Arizona shows eighty-five murders
in eighteen months after abolition of
capital punishment, as against thirty
: six murders for eighteen months be-
fore abolition Of hanging
TO encourage thrift, the Arizona
Fair Commission will give War Say.
ings Stamps and Baby Bonds as prem
iums in some of.the departments of
the fair at Phoenix during the week
Of Nov. II.
/ Seventy thousand pounds of rifle
and artillery range wastage have been
shipped to Tucson from Camp Cody,
n NJ, to be reclaimed at the plant OF
/ the Arizona Rare Metals Company, on
st. Marys road.
Thomas Farrell a Mexican, who
was convicted in the superior court
Of Cochise county on the charge of
having stabbed a soldier of the 158th
infantry, has been pardoned out OF
the state prison by Governor Hunt.
A mad bull deprived Uncle Sam of
one good Hun fighter by attacking
Nash Martinez at Granite, near Pres
colt. The bull gored young Martinez
| and stamped upon him, breaking one
hip and inflicting internal injuries.
With the mining industry in Santa
Cruz county booming better than
ever before the thriving city of Pata'
gonia is going ahead. 1t is reported
that each day sees marked improve
ment in Santa Cruz's mining center
The state treasurer has reported
loans made farmers of 1851 oil since
Inauguration of the system under au-
thority of legislative act. The loans
have been made to 234 individuals,
selected so far as practicable from all
counties
Funeral services for Corporal Frank
Whitworth, Company c. 35th Infan-
try, who died at the base hospital at
NOgales, as a result of injuries re-
ceived in the shooting affray on the
border several weeks ago, were held
from the base hospital at the camp
north of Nogales The body of the
deceased was sent to his nome al
Roanoke, Va.
Several test wells are being sunk
for oil in the HOlbroOk field.
L. M. Harrison, Arizona Field Agenr
for the Bureau of Crop Estimates,
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, reports that while the composite
condition of Arizona crops Sept l
was about 10 per cent less than their
average condition on that date, it is
gratifying to note that the total pro
uuCtlOn promises 10 U0 well ABOVE LHe
average. The wheat crop is estimated
at about 100000 bushels, which COM
pares with $4,000 bushels last yea1
H. "A Smith of Tucson, who once
was active in pushing the develop
ment of the new guayule rubber indus
try, now is interested in a new
scheme, the making of potash from
greasewood, the larrea Mexicana, 9th
erwise known as the creosote bush.
one of the commonest shrubs of the
Arizona plains, notable for it's dark
green, waxy, aromatic foliage. He
says that from. 100 tons of the raw
material can be made 7.3 tons of ash,
valuable in that form of fertilizing
material and worth $1,000 From 100
tons of ash could be extracted about
20 per cent of potash.
Never was there such a cotton crop
in prospect on the south side of Mesa
as at present, but the impatient grow
ers are having to wait yet a few days