The Benson signal., 1918-04-13
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Arizona men from Camp Funston
are off to the war.
Twenty-six young men enlisted at
the Tucson recruiting station during
March.
Seven miles of new road will open
to the Rawhide and Cleopatra mines
at Kingman.
Tucson capital plans large concen-
traitor for production of tungsten and
molybdenum.
Fire of unknown origin practically
destroyed the warehouse of Armour &
Co. at Prescott.
At Globe, the Iron Cap mine has
opened vein on 9OO-foot level, which
shows big ore body.
Secretary McAdoo, in his tour for
the third Liberty loan, will speak at
Phoenix on April 1S.
Thrift stamp and baby bond sales
totaling $161O were reported by the
Clarkdale Boy Scouts.
Lettuce harvest in Salt River valley
continues, Glendale being the princi-
pal shipping point.
The Tombstone mining district is
more active today than it has been
probably since the early eighties.
A search was begun of territory sur
rounding Jerome for William Waldrop,
mine union leader, who was kidnapped.
Announcement was made at Tomb
stone that the mines of the Bunker
Hill Mining Company of that place
would close.
United Verde Copper Company de-
clared a dividend of 81 share, fol-
lowing a similar payment made about
a month ago.
Arizona exceeded by nearly 300 en-
listments, it's quota under the national
shipbuilding registration of the pub
lie service reserve.
1t is stated that the Jerome Verde
Copper Company has come into con-
tact with a body of 20 per cent ore on
the fourteenth level.
Miami Copper is back to about nor
NAL production from it's mill and now
Is increasing its daily capacity from
5000 to 5000 tons.
The student body Of the Northern
Arizona Normal school won it's strike
when the school board promised that
it would give DR.. Blome the hearing
for which thou ctrI1ok
w. H. Keegan, secretary of the Gila
County Taxpayers Association, has
been bound over to the Superior Court
of Gila county on charge of black
listing and illegal voting.
Warren district branch of the Ser
bian National Defense League of Am
erica was perfected with more than
200 charter members at meeting OF
the Bisbee colony of Serbians.
Tom King of Tucson has located a
number of claims in the vicinity Of
the Roadside mine, which, according
to assays, run from S.46 per cent to
So per cent copper, practically in out
groupings.
The lettuce crop of the Salt River
valley is nearly harvested, with 80 car
loads already shipped to New York
and Kansas City. Fifteen carloads are
said to have been secured from a sim
gle ten-acre tract.
Coming as a complete surprise to
the management as we'll as the public
of Tombstone, orders came to sus-
pend operations, on production work,
on the Tombstone Bunker Hill Mines
Company's properties.
Arizonians whose thoughtlessness
or selfishness have led them into a lax
observance of wheatless days are
strongly condemned in statement
issued by the Federal Food Admins
tratiOn for Arizona.
Deputy Sheriff Percy Bowden arrest
ed Remundo Mena of Pirtleville and
confiscated suit case full of booze.
Frank Creswell, one of the best
known cattlemen in Maricopa county,
is in a critical condition at the Sis
ters' hospital at Phoenix, as result
of an alteration with Gottored
Schmid, a Swiss sheepherder, about
four miles west of Phoenix.
Governor Hunt characterized the
tarring and feathering of Walter John
son, organizer for the l. w. w. at Bis
bee, and the similar treatment of Will
lam Waldrop, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Western FEEDER
alton of Labor, which occurred at Je-
rome, as deplorable and highly dan
gerous to the peace of the state.
F. H. Aronwood, an old-timer of
Wilcox, was shot and killed by Roy
Hearne, in the hills near the northern
Cochise county town. Aronwood is a
man between so and 60 years old.
Hearne is about 25 years old. The
murdered man was in the hills cut
ting wood when he was killed. A wom-
an was witness to the affair Hearna