The Benson signal., 1919-01-25
ARIZONA ITEMS.

1H0 new lnC0TurDdn between Jerome
ind Clarkdale will soon be in opera
ion.
1t is reported that Magma Chief
;akes over Sombrero Butte Claims at
Superior.
The Parker cutoff to Phoenix will
De rebuilt and made of red clay and
gravel, which will be a big improve.
nent over the old sand road.
The development around Maricopa
will transform that desert station into
an oasis if the present plans for eX-
;ensive agriculture are carried out.
Seven residents of Tucson and Doug
as have been arrested by federal Off
cials charged with smuggling arms
nto Mexico for new revolution.
Late advices from Washington in
iicate that no second federal Judge
for the Arizona district is likely to be
designated for several years to come.
County agriculturists have begun
campaign to promote apricot and plum
culture in the state. Conditions are
highly favorable for growing this
fruit.
An estate in California estimated at
more than 100000 for the benefit of
tuberculosis victims is disposed of in
the will of Mary Burns, filed for pro-
bate in Tucson.
A center of increasing activity,
none fit on a large scale but all hold
ing forth promise of development of
larger Importance, is the old Charles
ton district near Fairbank.
A considerable number of men are
expected to be thrown out of employ
ment during !. the, present month
through reduction of forces attending
the curtailment Of copper production
in Arizona.
Showing an increase of receipts
from $13,842.57 in 1913, to $780,
o32.79 in 1918, during the seven years
Of occupancy, the final report Of Sid
ney P. Osborn, Secretary of State,
has recently been filed.
United Verde mine employees lent
Uncle Sam nearly 100000 last year
to help him fight the war for human.
ity and then, when that important job
was finished, to bring his fighters
home.
The industrial readjustment from
war to peace basis is bigger job
than preparing for war. Let our leg
slators, state and nation, encourage
industry and hold taxes and regula-
tlOns to a minimum.
The new Mining and Engineering
Building, which has been under con-
struction since May, 1917, was opened
on January 2. This building is the
finest on the university campus and
has been constructed and equipped at
total cost of $210,000.
Report of Interstate Commerce
Commission shows operating incomes
of railroads for October, 1918, $780,
1925; September, 1918, $101, $780,
600; October, 1917, $105, ,768,633. OPP
Grating expenses show constant in
crease. This in spite of 25 per cent
advance in freight rates.
The fotation mill of the Shattuck
Arizona Copper Company, in which
lead ores were concentrated, have been
closed at Bisbee, while miners en-
gagged in getting out lead ore were
laid off, eighty-fve men being affected.
The company announced that this was
done because of the low price of lead
and the impossibility of marketing the
output at present. No reductions are
expected to be made in the copper min
ing division, it was said.
After a search of more than forty
eight hours in the foothills surround
ing the Sulphur Springs valley, near
Bisbee, Miss Ethel Hutcheson, aged
Is years, said to be violently insane
as an after effect of recent attack
of influenza, was discovered by sher-
ifs posse near the Forty Four ranch,
several miles from the home of her
father, A. Hutcheson, prominent
rancher of Servoss, Ariz.
Two heavily armed Mexicans hel9
up store owned and operated by two
Chinese on the Sonora river, thirty
miles south of Cananea, shooting and
killing one of the proprietors and
badly wounding the other, then rob-
bing the store, according to arrivals
from Cananea. Tie Mexicans are re-
ported to have started northward, and
to have slept at Ojo de Aqua, the
pumping station for the Cananea
water works. Mexican officers are re-
ported in pursuit of the bandits, whose
identify is said to be known
There has been some confusion and
controversy as to whether or not the
anti-gambling law approved in No
vember is yet in effect as law. The
Secretary Of State gives the infor-
nation that all the laws adopted at
the November election were put into
full force and effect by proclamation
of the Governor on December 5.
Phoenix. fourth Arizona State
Legislature convened at noon. The
Senate organized by electing A. A.
johnson of Yavapai county president
and L. F. Sweeting of Clifton, secre-
tary. The House elected A. c. Peter
son of Graham speaker and Sam P.
Bradener of Maricopa chief clerk. Fol
lowing the organization the Senate
adjourned for the day. The first bill
introduced in the Legislature, after
the introduction of the usual bill max
ing appropriation for the current and
contingent expenses of the session,
was one by A. ]. Eddy of Yuma, a
member of the lower house, propos-
inp an amendment to the cOnStjtll-