The Benson signal., 1918-08-17
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A mining boom is predicted for the
blackberry district.
Garces people raised 1884 for the
Red C7Oss at an auction.
Petitions are being circulated for a
sewer system for Bakerville.
A forty-acre tract near Yuma sold
for the top price of $42O an acre.
, The Mormons are preparing plans
for a fine church building at Mesa.
The school budget for Maricopa
county next year amounts to $693, AGO.
The total railroad mileage of Ari-
zona is 2347.36 miles, valued at $685.
416,661.
Arizona has passed the two million
ings Stamps.
At recent meeting the Cochise
county highway commission rejected
all grading bids.
The city commission of Phoenix has
decided that all paving shall cease
for the duration of the war.
c. E. Adams has resigned from the
position of general manager of the
Ray-Hercules mines at Ray
The sale of War Savings Stamps in
the towns of Bisbee and Lowell for
the month of July amounted to $37,-
676.
Federal authorities in Douglas have
received report of the raiding of the
PesQuiera ranch, forty miles south of
Douglas.
A war garden cannery'' has been
opened in Miami by Florence Dunbar
Sandige, home demonstration agent
for Gila county.
The United Verde Copper Company
has arranged to erect many new build
ings at Jerome and Clarksdale during
the next few months.
The city council of Prescott pro-
poses to raise additional revenue by
making flat raise of 10 per cent. in
the assessed valuation of all property.
Pinal county has now become one
of the several first-class counties of
the state owing to the fact that it has
assessed valuation exceeding the sum
of 35O,000,00O.
Answering the call of suffering hui
manity in War-stricken Europe, Miss
Mary KavRnaugh left Flagstaff for an
east-coast port for immediate embar>
kation to France
Mrs. Fred Schmidt, otherwise
known 90 Rose the Healer" was
taken to the county Jail at Tombstone
to answer charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
There has been received in the
Phoenix land office from the general
land office at Washington approval of
the right of way and maps of the Tue.
son, Phoenix & Tidewater railway.
Otis Harbour of Douglas has been
appointed a second lieutenant in the
veterinary reserve corps and Ray.
mond II. Jacobs of Tucson has been
appointed a second lieutenant in the
national army.
The Arizona State Federation of La
Dor at Miami went ON record by an
overwhelming majority as opposed to
the proposed amendment to the state
constitution known as the workman's
compensation law.
The state road department is get
ting ready to commence the work
which will connect up the state high
of the state highway, where it ends
in the Empire ranch country.
At her home in the Smelter tract,
at Nogales, Mrs. M. l.. Collins was as
saulted by a stranger and knocked
senseless with a blow on the top Of
her head, a ree-sixteenths inch iron
pipe about two feet long being the
weapon used.
The outlook for this seasons cot
ton crop is most encouraging, judg-
ing from reports which come from the
territory around Mesa.
According to reports received in
Tombstone from cattlemen, many cat
tie are dying on the ranges in all parts
of the county due to a mysterious dis
ease, which is said to affect the eyes,
tausing death if not treated shortly
after infection.
George D. Woodhouse and Pearl
Woodhouse of Florence, and an I'M
identified woman were instantly
killed at Alhambra, Cal, when the au-
tomObile in which they were travelling,
was struck by limited train of the
Pacific Electric railroad.
To set at rest some misunderstand-
ing which has arisen of late in vari-
Gus quarters, it was officially given
out by the federal food administra-
ton for Arizona that there are no
longer any wheatless or meatless days
or meals in Arizona.
The campus of the University of
Arizona, ordinarily almost deserted
during the summer months, is a busy
place and there is every indication
that soldier training will constitute a
large part of the work of the institu-
ton for the duration of the war.