The Benson signal., 1918-08-24
estern Newspaper Union News Service.


A plant for the manufacture of sui
phuric acid is to be erected at Pata-
gonia.
Sales of War Savings Stamps at the
United Verde mine at Jerome are over
$4,000
Arizona has passed the $2,0O0O00
mark in the sale of War Savings
Stamps.
The Home Oil Company's we'll near
Jerome is cased down to a depth of
over 900 feet.
Word has been received of the COM
pletion of the Florence bridge across
the Gila river.
Watchers, jewelry, ETC., said to be
worth 100000, were taken from Bis
bee pawnshop.
Arizona will get $4,000 of the s2,-
307,460 federal fund for vocational
education in 1888.
Francisco (Pancho) Monroy, a Blue
Point rancher, was robbed of about
$1,000 by two bandits.
approximately 1,775 Cochise county
young men are serving Uncle Sam in
war work of some kind.
Re. w. H. Fowle, Baptist clergy
man of Mesa, left for service as chap
lain on the French front.
Thomas Gil Samanilgo, Tombstone
Mexican, walked from that city to
San Diego, Cal, to get into the army.
What is said to be the largest silo in
southern Arizona has been built on
the Palo Verde ranch near Buckeye.
The July output of the Cananea
Consolidated Copper Company was
approximately 5,0S3,0OO pounds of cop.
per.
w. E. (Slim) Smith of Bisbee, a
cowman and miner, was killed when
he fell down the Portage Lake mine
shaft.
George Stewart of Winslow, fore.
man of Santa Fe wrecking crew,
was crushed ITO death by a falling
freight car.
The Bisbee deportation cases will
probably be tried at Prescott this
month, as the Federal Court is now in
session there
AriZona's 1ext contingent of drafted
men will be sent to Camp Pike, Little
Rock, Ark, during the five-day period.
beginning Aug. rs.
The seventh annual convention OF
the Arizona State Federation of Labor
adjourned at Miami to convene at
Phoenix next year.
Ellis Wilson and "Doc" Hines were
arrested at Mesa, with two Indian
girls from the Salt River reservation,
on serious charge.
Development work has been pushed
in the Queen Creek Copper Company
property at Superior and very good
ore has been encountered.
Sam Vlahovich, driving an auto.
mobile, was instantly killed near
Globe when his car crashed into
fence on the Globe-Miami highway.
Jesus Munez was shot and killed at
San Pedro, the Mexican part of Hay.
den. Differences over a woman are
thought to have caused the shooting.
Johnson camp, in the Dragon noun
tans, is quite active in spite of the
depression caused by the draft, which
has caused considerable shortage OF
men over the country.
Vital statistics for the state of Ari-
Zona for the six months period ending
Dec. 81, 1917, show total of births
for the state of 1856 and total of
deaths of 2,073, net gain in popula-
tion of 1888.
Official announcement has been
the Arizona State Fair Commission
ut Phoenix, of the securing for the
1918 State Fair the combined United
States government exhibit
Tom Eagan, for a year past secre-
tary of the Warren District Chamber
of Commerce, and active as an assist
INT in every kind of war work in
which the district has been engaged,
has joined the American engineers.
Full ownership of the Imperial Cop
per Company at Silverbell and the
subsidiary properties of the Sasco
smelter and the Arizona Southern
Railway, an industrial line which
serves the two, was acquired by the
American Smelling & Refining Com
pany.
The elimination of the study of
German in all schools of Arizona is
recommended in a resolution passed
by the Phoenix Chamber of Com
merce.
In an attempt by more than thirty
prisoners in the county Jail at Phoenix
to escape, Deputy Sheriff j. E. O'Neil
was stabbed in the back and seriously
injured.
Nearly $4,000 worth of bootleg
Whiskey and other intoxicating Ii
quors, seized at Phoenix, will prob
ably be turned over to the Red Cross
for medicinal use.