The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Dec. 2-9-State Fair at Phoenix.

| ucSOn gets olRnL-Cont car 1aro.
San Simon wants a tomato canning
factory
Seventy bales OF No. / cotton sold
at Chandler at So cents
Phoenix has sold 100000 bonds to
construct drainage system.
Cochise County voted $1,000 900
bonds for road construction.
The Grand Canon of Arizona is to
be made into national park
The John Thomas SOO-acre ranch
near Arlington sold for 100000.
Hunters report that quail are
scarce in the foothills around Bisbee.
The United Verde hospital at Jer-
ONE has been converted into hotel.
Lieut.. James Higles of Phoenix has
been officially reported killed in action
in France
| The serving of fourth meal, in
any form, is taboo with the food ad.
ministratiGn.
A trained nurse, armed with Their.
mometer, is now affording protection
| TO the town OF Jerome.
On Thanksgiving day the completed
state highway from Bisbee to Tomb
stone was thrown open
| Two Arizona women are to be sent
overseas for service in the Y NJ C. A
during the rehabilitation period.
The roads of Arizona have been
| hnt hx, lot
nounced far smoother than for year
past.
Black Bess mine at Ajo is making
good ore showing. New mill in Gun
sight goldfields making district ore
tests
The influenza has been serious
among the NavajOs and there has been
number of deaths among the In
dams.
Douglas health officers lifted the
lid in that city and then were forced
to again place the influenza Quaran-
tine in force
Miss Alice Cooper, who for some
time was connected with the G.. I& A.
hospital in Bisbee, died at Ajo from
an attack of influenza
Advices were received in Bisbee of
the death of Arthur Sharratt, we'll
known Bisbee youth, on the western
front in France on Oct. %.
The Fourth State Legislature will
have IA Democrats and 5 Republicans
in the Senate, and 81 Democrats and
Republicans in the House.
| Henry H. Rothrock, Phoenix boy
| and aviator in France, died from in
| iuries received in a futile attempt tic
save the life of fellow aviator, Ar
thur Worden.
| Tombstone was visited by it's first
| Heath toll from influenza, when with
| in II hours four deaths were regis
| tered, due to pneumonia following at
lacks of influenza.
Three counties in Arizona certain
| to have honor trucks named after
them as the result of their part in
the United War Work campaign are
pinal, ella and Greenlee.
With life sentence passed at the
state penitentiary at Florence, Willis
| Woods must pay for the crime COM
mitted on Nov. S, when he shot and
killed Charles H. Lychon.
Orders have been received at dis
trict headquarters from the Southern
department to establish Machine
Gun school at Fort Huachuca for line
officers of the Arizona district.
Funds with which to aid in the
great work of establishment of the re-
| juvenated Polish government are be-
| ing collected in Bisbee and the War
rem district by a committee of Poles
James Barreaa, well known pioneer
Of Tombstone, principal owner of the
Mohawk mines, located in the Dragon
mountains, near the famous COchise
Stronghold, started work with a small
force and work of taking out ore for
shipment is we'll under way.
Complete official returns from the
state election show that all of the
propositions submitted to the people
at the late election, initiated and re-
ferred measures, were adopted except
two, the workmens compensation act
and the proposed statutory amend
ment to the land laws.
Through the passage by majority
vote in the election of legislative
redistricting amendment (No. 1922, to
the state constitution, it is believed
there has been attained a much near
er approach to equality of county and
community representation than ever
before known in Arizona
Another suit sprang out of the long
standing Baca float litigation at Tue
son, when Mrs. Guadalupe Vasquez
petitioned the United States District
Court for an injunction to prevent the
claimants or owners, or the United
| States marshal, from ejecting her
from land on which she resides.
Notification has been received by
| the U. V. Extension Company that its
reparation case against the S. F. P. &
| P. and other railroads, which was to