The Benson signal., 1919-03-15
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Arizona State Fair-Nov. 8 to 8, 1919.
The educational code was recon-
mended for passage in the House. In
stead of compulsory inspection it will
be left to parents or guardians wheth.
er the children shall submit to a medi-
cal examination.
Marshal Foch Of France will arrive
in the United States in May, according
to an announcement made at Phoenix
by Jas. A. Flaherty, supreme knight of
| the Knights of Columbus, which or
ganization will present the marshal
with a baton as a memento of his
visit.
A jury returned a verdict for $500
against the city of Mesa for damage
done to a stock Of shoes in the base
ment of Mesa store when they were
flooded by water from a connection
with one of the city's mains. The
plaintiffs claim originally was for $5,-
312.
Secretary Welch of the Chamber of
Commerce of Phoenix received a let
ter from Edward Fletcher of San
| Diego, president Of the Dixie Overland
Highway Association, suggesting that
movement be inaugurated in Arizona
to build a good road to Yuma and de-
claring Arizona to be "the greatest
stumbling block in the way of the
transcOntinental highway"
The Senate has sent two bills to the
governor. One was the measure to
wipe out the practice of drawing bank
checks without funds. This was
amended to give the drawer of such a
check five days in which to cover it
before action would be started, and
the Senate approved the change. The
other bill which went to the chief ex-
ecutive was that embodying the mil
lion dollar school levy.
Lieut.. G. G. Downing, formerly
lawyer of Los Angeles and recently
discharged from the United States
aviation service, has come to reside
| permanently in Arizona and has been
chosen secretary of the newly organ
lied army and navy club. Lieutenant
Downing will take charge of the plan
to extend the operations of the club to
every point in the state where there
are discharged service men.
Four MeXicans were injured in an
automobile accident at the Globe ceme-
terry when the car in which they were
riding turned turtle on the steep In
cline leading up to the new cemetery
site. BobelO Romero and another
Mexican, whose name could not be
learned, were taken to the county hos
pital in a Semi-uncOnSciOuS condition.
The other occupants of the cars were
taken to the Miami hospital for treat.
ment.
J. B. Van Ritter has been taken to
the state prison at Florence to begin
serving his sentence of from thirty
years to life imposed of which he had
been convicted earlier in the week of
assaulting William Woolf with intent
to commit murder Van Ritter shot
Woolf last August following an argu-
ment over the sale of an automobile.
After the shooting he held q large
crowd at bay with his revolver till he
was overpOwered through a ruSe.
The State Land Board decided to 60
ahead as advertised with the sale of
! 100000 acres in Yuma county and 35,-
| 600 acres in Maricopa county, the first
named lot to be disposed of at Yuma
and the second to be at Phoenix on
March 20. The assessed valuation of
the land is SO per acre. There has
| been some discussion as to whether
the sales would be postponed, owing to
proposals from different quarters to
make arrangements for their purchase
for soldiers settlement schemes, but
the board decided to follow the origi-
1al plan.
The Inspiration Consolidated Copper
| Company has inaugurated a regular
passenger train service between Lower
Miami and the Inspiration mine. The
| trains will be operated on a schedule
to allow employees of the mine and
mill to reach the property from any
shift
Working hours for women is the
subject of a bill which has been intro
| duced in the House by Howard, by
request. 1t limits female employment
| in stores, bakeries, laundries, hotels
| and telephone and telegraph offices to
| fifty-six hours week with at least an
| extra hour for meals. The eight hours
,'ork must come within a tWelve-hOur
period, unless the employe lives at the
place of employment or within 400
yards of it, in which case the eight
hours work may be spread over
fOurteen-hour period. In establish
ments where women work only six
days a week one day may be length.
ened to ten hours. The bill would not
apply to women in telephone or tele-
graph offices with staffs of three or
ess or to female nurses. A similar
measure was introduced in the Senate