The Benson signal., 1919-06-21
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-NoV. to 8, 1918

| Justice Pltney held the Arizona state
employers liability law constitutional.
AS a result of the strike at ROose-
velt dam, causing the shutting down
of one of the four power plants there,
the water supply for the Salt-River
valley was cut down about % per cent.
What is believed to be the first sue
cessful consignment of cotton from
the Chandler district, was made re-
Gently by George Frye, who sold four
teen bales, through the Peoples Ma
tional Bank of Boston, for 541z cents
a pound.
The average cost of copper produced
in Arizona during 1918 is estimated to
be Ill cents per pound after crediting
gold and silver values, deducting Op-
Grating expenses, depreciation, taxes,
and making proper allowance for ore
depletion.
The Supreme Court of the state Of
Arizona affirmed the judgment of the
Maricopa Superior Court in the libel
suit of Adjutant General Charles Har-
ris against the Arizona Republican.
the lower court having awarded Har-
ris verdict of $4,000.
Work has started on the construc-
tion of a diversion dam on the ella
river, twenty-four miles north of Gila
Bend and eight miles south of Airing
ton, the purpose of which is to OBJ
| tain water for irrigation of $4,000
acres of land in that section.
Announcement that the Mormon
| church authorities had approved plans
| for the erection of Mormon temple
to be built at Mesa, Ariz., to cost ap-
proximately 100000 has been made.
! The church will contribute 100000,
| MormOns in Arizona the remainder.
Plans for the big Frontier Days cell
ebratiOn at Prescott for which the
Mile High City is famous, are now
under way and it goes without say
ing that the 1919 Frontier Days, which
will be held at Prescott, July 2, 3, 4,
and 5, will be the best and biggest of
it's kind ever staged by the Frontier
Days Association of that city.
Arizona's production of copper in
1918 was One-third that of the entire
United States, including imports. Ac-
cording to metal statistics Arizona
produced as much copper in 1918 as
Michigan, Utah and Montana COM
bined, which is equal to one-fourth the
copper production of the world. The
United States supplies 64 per cent Of
| the worlds copper.
Alfredo Flores and three ranch
hands fought off band of Mexican
bandits that attacked the Flores ranch
house at Janoverachi, twelve miles
west of Cananea, Sonora. Two of the
bandits were killed, according to the
passengers on the train arriving from
Cananea. Travellers said the bandits
were believed to be discharged miners
of the Cananea Consolidated Copper
Company.
The date and place for the annual
state tax conference has been set by
the Tax Commission. The conference
will be held at the Grand Canon dur
ing the week beginning July 21st, with
headquarters at El Toylar and Bright
Angel. More than 100 persons are ex
pected to attend, including the mem
bers of the Tax Commission, and coun-
ty assessors, members and clerks of
the various boards of supervisors, rep
resentatives of the cattlemen, sheep
men, merchants and manufacturers,
mohair producers, telegraph and tele-
phone companies, Oil companies, rail-
road tax agents, auto dealers repre-
sentativeS, representatives Of the va
riOuS county and state taxpayers as
sociations, press representatives and
many others.
Jack Burns and Jim Could were ta-
ken to Douglas by a sheriff's posse,
which made a raid on an illicit still
concealed in a cave in a cliff on
Burns ranch, twenty miles northeast
Of Douglas. This still, small guam
tity of raisin brandy and considerable
paraphernalia found in the cave were
taken in with the men. Fifteen fire
arms, consisting of rifles, ShOtgunS and
one ancient revolver claimed by Gould,
who said he had owned it for twenty
two years, were found by the officers,
but no attempt was made by the al
legged mOOnshiners to use them.
Eddie McGoorty, an American mid
dleweight boxer, knocked out an Eng
lish fighter, "Bandsman" Rice, in the
first round of a fifteen-round bout.
The fight took place at BlacktoOl,
summer resort on the Lancashire
coast.
The Mexican government has or
dered the withdrawal of the Mexican
delegates from the Pan-American
commercial congress as a protest
against the speech recently made be-
for the congress by Speaker Gillett Of
the House of Representatives.
DR.. M. B. Shipp, head of firm O
advertising physicians at Salt Lake
Citv was shot and nrOh0hIV fatally