The Benson signal., 1919-02-22
ARIZONA ITEMS.

/ 'ndfSe Dy Tie OIdlo corporation CON-
4 mission.
The high cost Of living has begun
down to 80 cents dozen, a drop of
10 cents. First grade butter has, fall
IN with eggs and is selling at 65 cents
pound.
| Six feet of snow in the White
| mountains and a serious shortage of
fuel at Fort Apache were reported to
| The United States weather bureau at
Phoenix in communication from
George ]. Henry, observer.
| A joint memorial was introduced in
the House at Phoenix asking Congress
to allow the discharged soldiers and
sailors 5000 bonus and permission to
keep their uniforms The ocean-to
ocean highway was also endorsed.
Announcement was made at Phoe
nix by Arizona Veterinary Associa-
tons officers that a bill was prepared
| by the association for submission to
the Legislature to provide for State
Veterinary Board and examinations.
The rig fol. the first we'll of the
Holbrook Oil Company, of which
George d. Meiklejohn, former lieuten-
ant governor of Nebraska, is presi-
dent, is now on the ground, two miles
from the, Hopi well. Drilling will be-
gin very shortly.
| The Mexican government has can
celled it's regulation requiring Ameri-
| cans to wait stwenty days for their
passports to be vised by Mexican con-
sulss before being permittedHto enter
Mexico, according to an announcement
made at Nogales by Mexican Consul
Garcia Zertuche.
A recommendation to Congress that
all aliens who failed ito register for
the draft, Orwho left the country tenn
porarily to avoid registering be imme-
diately depOrted was adopted in the
lower house of the Legislature of Ari-
zona The memorial was introduced
by Mrs Hayward of COchise county.
The sale of goods in Arizona by
| fraudulent advertising will end if
bill introduced in the House becomes
law. The measure would provide a
maximum penalty of $3.50 or ninety
days in jail for the first Offense and
maximum fine of $1,000 or a years
Imprisonment for subsequent offenses.
The State Corporation Commission
| issued an order raising the Jerome tel
ephone district to. class A. This was
done, it was said at the office of the
| commission, in consideration of the es-
| tablishment at Jerome of a new and
| up-to-date exchange. A small exchange
| at Clarksdale near Jerome also was
approved.
| After more than year of steady
work on the 400. foot drift to develop
| the property of the Junction mine OF
the Calumet & Arizona Mining Com
pany, adjacent to the known ore zone
| of the Denn-Arizona, promise of re-
ward is beginning to be given by the
working which has encountered high
! grat1e copper oxide ore in a crOsscut
thirty feet from the Denn line.
"The action My the United States
railroad administration of making
rates 33 per cent higher in Arizona
! than are charged in other similar dis
trictS is unjust and unreasonable and
unduly discriminatory against the peo-
pie of Arizona" This is the keynote
|
Of memorial prepared by the State
Corporation Commission for submis-
sion to the Legislature.
The Bisbee deportation cases, re-
sulting from the sending out of Ari-
| zona in 1917 under armed, guards of
221 men accused of attempting to in
| terfere with employees of copper mines,
| is now before the Supreme Court. An
appeal was filed by the government
| from. judgment dismissing indictments
returned against twenty-five residents
of Arizona charged with aiding in
their deportation.
A convicted 'bootlegger" giving his
name as Rice Began was arrested at
| Yuma on suspicion or implication IN
the murder of 17-year-old Henry But
Ter at inland, Cal, on Jan. 81.
Z Alertness on the part Of the military
police probably saved the Douglas Y.
M. c. A. building from being blown to
atoms by deadly bomb of unique de-
sign which was filled with nOtro-gly-
| cerine The bomb was found under a
small bridge that spans one Of the
small canals on the east side of the
j\building. The clock on the bomb was
set for 10 30 and it was only few
| minutes before that hour that the in
fe1nal machine was found.
Four new arrests were made at Jer-
ONE by Department of Justice agents,
but no disorders were reported as
result of the order of the United
Verde and United Verde Extension
Copper companies closing down for
period of from three to eight months.