The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-19

sent to any soldier "over there this
year.
Construction work has been started
on the addition to the Capitol building
at Phoenix.
Farmerettes are invading the peace
full domain of the cotton plantations
surrounding Yuma.
After a suspension for half a year,
development has been resumed at the
Dundee-Arizona.
Al Keith, former deputy sheriff at
AjO, was killed in an automobile &C
cident on the Roosevelt road.
Arizona was allotted $4,000 pounds
of sugar for October This is an in
crease of $1,000 pounds over Septem-
Der.
Shipments of ore continue to go
forward from the Jerome Verde at the
rate of twenty to twenty-five tons
day.
A company of soldiers are now on
guard at Jerome to prevent any fur
Their possibility of On l. w. w. out
break
The Republican state ticket has
been completed by the nomination for
secretary of state of Harry Kay of
Phoenix.
Mining men held meeting in Phoe-
nix to consider matters pertaining to
developing many of the smaller mines
in the state.
Saturday, Oct. IL, was celebrated as
Liberty day in Arizona, and many
cities went "over the top for Fourth
Liberty bonds.
Barney B. Kellis, %, has been re-
ported killed in action in France He
was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J.
Kills of Wickenburg.
Reservations for box seats for the
state fair to be held in Phoenix Nov.
IL to s16, inclusive, are being received
by the fair commission.
By vote of 70 to Is, the municipal
bond issue proposed for the purpose
of providing Jerome with adequate fire
protection was approved
During September there were sent
through the entry port of Douglas
from Mexico, 357 cars of ores and con
centrates, totaling 4217 TONS
Alexandra Quintano, Jose Lopez and
Manuel Mendez were held in Douglas
to answer in superior court on
charges of unnatural practices.
Manager Mitchell Curley of the New
Cornelia Copper Company of Ajo has
applied for exemption for sixty of the
$40 men employed by his company.
Cotton pickers are scarce in the
Buckeye Valley, and the Papago In
dams refuse to work for the three
cents per pound offered by growers.
A small slide of rock from the face
of the 20 K stope on the 400-foot
level of the United Verde mine caused
the death Of Ed Williams at Jerome.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the greater part of 354-fOot trestle,
thirty feet high, on the Copper Hill
spur of the Arizona Eastern railroad
near Globe.
1t is reported that 500 cases of
Spanish influenza made their appear
ance at Winslow. An appeal was sent
10 Phoenix for doctors to assist in car
ing for the sufferers.
Officers returning to Globe from
the Black River district report the
murder of two young men, supposedly
by the third member of party which
was travelling overland from Wrinkle
man.
Calumet & Arizona Mining Com
pany's output for September was A.,
168,000 pounds of copper, compared
Nth 4,376,000 in August and 5,250,000
pounds in September, 1917.
Mesa cotton growers are taking
large quantities of the 1918 crop TO
the Mesa ginning plant. So fast is the
seed cotton arriving that some of the
bins are full to their limit.
The demand for additional housing
is being met at Clarkdale by the Unit
ed Verde company in the construction
Vi wv city l1NC-IOOUl COIIdSOO dllU
group of forty-eight patio tenements.
Louis Garcia, charged with the MUIR
der Of LATE Alfred, formerly of Mesa,
whose body was found in a canal near
Florence, has confessed to Pinal coun-
ty authorities, according to an unveri-
fled report reaching Phoenix.
Copper production of the leading
mines of America during August made
a slight gain in output over the pre-
vious month of approximately 431 600
pounds, the total running close to 1872
100000 pounds. While this gain is
nothing extraordinary it is gratifying
nevertheless to see any increases in
view of the unsettled labor conditions
The state food administrator has
moved back to Phoenix, after sum-
mer's stay in Flagstaff. It's first &C
ton was the announcement of an
agreement on cotton seed prices, that
the mills would buy at once ON the