The Benson signal., 1919-03-08
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-Nov. 8 to 8, 1919.

through the House, but not until an
other stiff fight had been made against
it, the third since it has put in an ap-
pearance.
Sheriff Shute and his deputies raid
ed "mOOnshine plant" in Red Springs
canon, Miami, and confiscated a COM
plete whisky still, together with 100
gallons of ''wine brandy" and several
gallons of "dago red.''
Mrs Thomas E. Campbell, wife of
Phoenix Women's club, urged that the
wOmen'S clubs of the state take up the
matter of improvement of conditions
at the Fort Grant Industrial school.
Notification has been received in
Douglas from the adjutant general at
Washington that it would be impossi-
BILE to demobilize the 15Sth Arizona in
fantry owing to the lack of the neces-
The Lyman dam project, under con-
structiOn below ST. Johns, will cost
$175,O00 to complete, according to the
report of r. S. Cookingham, the Pres
cott engineer who recently made sur.
yey of the work for the state loan
board.
The Arizona Wholesale Produce
association at meeting in Phoenix
passed a resolution to be presented to
the Arizona board of agriculture and
horticulture protesting against the
bringing into the state of frozen and
Gull oranges from California.
The first airplane flight over the
Grand Canon of the Colorado was
made Monday by Lieuts. II. 0. Searles
and B. D. Jones in a de Haviland
bombing plane. They flew from King
man to the canon and returned, after
following it's course for many miles,
in two hours. The flight was made at
an altitude of about $4,000 feet.
J. G. Castro, charged with importing
opium into the United States, entered
a plea of guilty in the United States
District Court at Tucson. General"
Francisco Reyna, charged with violat-
ing the neutrality of the United States.
by shipping arms into Mexico in 1916,
has also plead guilty to the charge
against him.
The widow of man who was stab
bed to death last summer has launch
ed suit against the widow of the slayer
for $4,000 damages. The action was
instituted when Mrs. Avis Rogers, ad
ministratrix of the estate of r. A. Rog
ers, was made the defendant in the ac-
tion by Mrs. Lola Arbaugh, whose hus-
band was killed by Rogers.
Two sanguinary battles between Mex
ican soldiers and Yaqui Indians have
occurred near Nogales The last en-
counter occurred within nine miles of
Nogales, Sonora. Twenty Mexicans
were killed. The Yaqui casualties are
unknown. The first engagement took
place near Loquil, Sonora, twenty miles
east of Nogales. Its results are un-
known.
Mrs. Belle Pruitt of Ray, Arizona,
has been awarded the congressional
medal of honor of all it's decorations,
posthumously awarded her son, Cor
poral Pruitt,, 18th company, 9th regi-
ment, United States marine corps, for
Conspicuous gallantry and intrepid
ity above and beyond the call of duty
in action with the enemy at Blanc
Mont Ridge, France. October 3, 1918.
Corporal Pruitt single handed attack
ed two machine guns, capturing them
and killing two Of the enemy. He then
captured forty prisoners in dugout
nearby. This gallant soldier was killed
soon afterward by Shellfire while he
was sniping at the enemy"
Douglas Culver, an army aviation in
structor, writes friends at Miami that
he has obtained permission from the
War Department to use an army plane
in a flight from San Antonio, Texas,
to Miami, and that in the very near
future he will leave the Brooks field,
near San Antonio, for the journey.
State fair, which it was announced
will begin on Monday, November Sd,
and continue throughout the entire
week, is to be the biggest and most at
tractive statewide exposition which
the fair commission has ever under
taken and, toward that end, plans are
being made to create a more general
interest in the big amusement and ed
ucational event in all parts of the
state. In other words, it will be the
intention of the managers to put on
such varied and interesting program
of sports, speed events, displays and
amusements of all sorts that the en-
terprise will no longer be regarded as
a semi-local affair, but will be one de-
signed to attract the attention of prac-
tically every person in the state of
Arizona and the adjacent common
wealths.
officers and directors of the Arizona
AutO club. incOrDOrated. recently