The Benson signal., 1919-04-12
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

that gives promise of developing into
a real producer.
Work has been started at the Verde
smelter which precludes all possibility
Of the plant being blown in again with
In three months.
Another big producer of copper, the
Swansea Consolidated near Bouse, has
suspended, and about 300 on the pay
roll have been discharged.
At the Kay mine drifting at depth of
about 63O feet is soon to be under way
and If it proves up the story of the
upper levels may bring that property
into the near proven class.
A sweeping order to close down ev-
cry gambling game and every game of
chance within the boundaries Of Mari-
copa county has been made by Sheriff
Montgomery and County Attorney
Laney.
The Carter Oil Company gives out
the information that in the well which
they are sinking west of Defiance sta
ton at depth of TOO feet they have
found conclusive indications of the
presence Of oil.
The Trench Consolidated Mines Com
pany at Harshaw is continuing it's de-
velopment work with a large force Of
men. Cross-cutting on the 7OO-foot lev
ell is still under way and the indica-
tiOns are favorable.
E. A. Wolfe of Flagstaff succeeds
f. R. Goodman as state division engi-
&heer and will rush the Prescott-Je-
rome highway to completion, upon
which over sixty men are now re-
ported to be at work.
Six thousand rounds of Mauser am
munition, with a quantity Of rifle
( scabbards and ammunition belts, were
seized at NOgaleS by custom author
tiles on suspicion that an attempt was
being made to smuggle them into Mex
leo. Seven dozen silk stockings were
seized at the same time.
Monotony, long hours of work and
study, lack of amusement, lack of suf-
ficient and suitable clothing, poor
housing conditions, these constitute
the indictment of the Fort Grant In
dustrial school presented by Mrs. RO-
land G. Bryer of Phoenix, appointed
by Governor Campbell to investigate
conditions at the school.
When Lucino Sheldon Hicks was ar
raigned before Justice Wheeler at
Phoenix on the charge of burglarizing
grocery he said he had stolen only
to obtain a square meal. Hicks said
that all he took consisted of a bit Of
fish, some crackers, a banana and a
bottle of soda pop, which he consumed
on the premises. He was bound over
to the Superior Court.
Chief of Police Brisbois and Depart
ment of Justice Agent Smith raided a
barber shop in Phoenix, arrested a
man who gave his name as Sam Far
rell and also reported the capture of
q large quantity of morphine, cocaine
and opium. The police for some time
have suspected the existence of drug
ring which has been bringing it's
stock across the Mexican border.
Nogales, Sonora, is no place for
American slackers,> said Adolfo Car
denas, presidente of that place, when
in his private automobile he delivered
to the local police of Nogales, Arizona,
two Americans he had arrested on sus-
picion of having evaded military serv-
ice in the. United States. Cardenas
raid that he had instructed his off,
GERS to arrest all unknown Americans
and turn them over to the authorities
on this side of the border.
The old custom smelter at Benson,
which is being rebuilt, will be ready
for operation May 10, according to
Charles E. GOetz of Benson.
Two Indians, sons of the Navajo
chief, Uatiltony, were captured by an
Indian policeman and are in jail at
Leupp, an Indian trading post. The
Indian policeman who captured the
two Navajos says that only one was
implicated in the killing of Hubbell.
He is q ye;irs old and the other is
his smaller brother. Charles Hubbell
was murdered at his trading post near
Oraiba on the night of March %, and
the post burned, his charred body be-
ing found in the ruins.
Alleged scandalous proceedings in
one of the public offices on the even
ing of the last day of the Legislative
session may lead to an official investi-
CATION. That more than one of the
young women attaches were tipsy
from the effects Of certain decoctiOns
which are said to have been dispensed
during the festive hours of the late
evening and early morning is one of
the stories being circulated about the
capitol, and happenings of an even
more sensational nature are limited at.
Although the highway commission
Oil failed to become a law with it's
G3,OOO,O00 road fund for two years.
a there is available to the state only 10