The Benson signal., 1919-01-18
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
stern Newspaper Union News Service.

Inc FIaSStatI marble Monument
| works, is the name of new firm that
will open business in Flagstaff with
in the next few weeks.
| In the presence of thousand cit1-
zens representing every section Of
| the state, Thomas e. Campbell was
inaugurated as governor Jan. g.
The Clifton strike is costing the tax
payers of the state of Arizona mora
than $1,000 per day for military ex-
penses only, according to reports.
The new Johnson strike, fifteen
miles southeast of Quartzsite, is re-
ported to have been sold to ST. Louis
company for 100000, most of the sum
to be paid at once.
The Central Bank of Wickenburg
has been organized for the purpose
o. taking over the business of the
branch bank of the Central bank of
Phoenix, now operating in Wicken-
burg.
With the mercury reaching min
n.um of Is degrees above zero, resi-
dents of the Globe-Miami mining dis
tricts New Year day experienced the
coldest weather since December 8,
1898
A storm, said to be the worst in
years, has seriously damaged several
thousand acres of agricultural land
with loss of partly matured crops, in
the state of Sinaloa, Mex, was re-
ported in Nogales.
According to advices received at
Bisbee from Jerome, Judge Frank Ly-
man has appointed Attorney R. B.
Westervelt of Prescott as receiver for
the Jerome Portland Mining Company,
succeeding Frank Fl. Dyer of Jerome.
Miss Bertha Smith of Phoenix, who
prefers to be known as, "Bride-elect," ;"
has Incorporated $2,OOO,OOO company
for the purpose of building an inter
national and INSTRUMENTATION
temple of worship in Paradise valley,
northeastern extension of the Salt
River valley, north of Scottsdale.
The mine output of copper increased
from 712,166,891 pounds in 1917 to
nearly TT 100000 in 1918. In spite of
this increase of nearly 65,000,000
pounds in quantity, the value of the
output decreased from $194,421,56 in
1917, to little over $192,00O,000 in
1918, as the average price of copper
decreased from 27.3 cents to about
24.75 cents pound.
John Hance, better known as Cap
tain Hance, known to almost every
tourist who ever visited the Grand
Canon of the Colorado, is dead at his
home in Flagstaff from a paralytic
stroke. He was "a years old. Cap
tain Hance, who always claimed to
have built the first trail down into
the canon, has for years been chief
guide in the employ of the railroad
and hotel company at the canon.
Another Arizona soldier has been
awarded the distinguished service
cross for extraordinary heroism in ac-
ton. He is Joseph N. Kerwin of
Stafford, and the official announce
ment of the award made by General
Pershing follows: "Sergt First Glass
Joseph, N. Kerwin, Company F, 316th
Engineers, CA. S. No. 2,273,726.) For
extraordinary heroism in action at
Audenarde, Belgium, November /,
1918"
Pausing at Phoenix on his way to
California, j. w. Sewers, vice presi-
dent of the Farmers State Bank OF
paperman of eastern Kansas, learned
of the presence in Phoenix of Miss
Eliza Telford of Baldwin, Kan. An old
time courtship was renewed when the
two met and they were married i'm
mediately. Accompanied by his bride
Mr.. Sewers resumed his journey to
the coast where the honeymoon will
be spent.
Warren has been advancing stead
lily throughout the year just closed,
in spite of war = conditions, labor
shortage and other deterrent factors.
Nineteen eighteen compares favorably
with the previous year, which was the
banner period of the townsite's exist
ence. Eighty-seven houses, 40 per
cent of which were built of brick tile,
concrete or other fire resistant ma
terial, and approximately 60 per cent
frame were built. Their estimated
cost was $150,000
Hiram Wordell, a miner of the Har
qua Hala range, was rushed to San
Antonio, Texas, to undergo treatment
at sub-station of the Pasteur insti-
tute for the bite of Gila monster.
Wordell and a companion were sitting
on a hillside in the Harqua Halas
when Wordell idly laid his right hand
on slanting rock. Soon thereafter
he felt something gripping his hand.
He jerked the hand away and with it
came Gila monster about seven
inches long, hanging on like grim
death. Efforts to pry it's jaws apart
were fruitless until Wordell's compan-
ion cut the big lizard in two with a
butcher knife. Even then it required
effort to break the vise-like hold Of
the renti1p'S laws