The Benson signal., 1919-06-14
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-Nov. 3 to g 1919

The fruit conditions of the state are
well above the average, according to
the Bureau of Crop Estimates. Ex-
cept for frost in some localities
peaches and apricots will produce an
excellent crop.
All surplus labor in Arizona has
been placed in employment, according
to Federal Employment Director Hy-
we'll Davies, who lacks about 300 men
to fill calls from mining camps. All
soldiers who returned to the mines are
in jobs, while large numbers of Ari-
zona miners have gone to Texas or
California.
Thirtyfive pints of whiskey and
gallon of wine comprise too large a
consignment Of the prohibited wet
| goods to be classes as "influenza rem
| edy," according to the Mesa police,
who arrested Mrs Annie Murry of
Arizona and California as she stepped
from the stage with two heavily loaded
suit cases in her hands.
Nelson Artunoff, a Bulgarian of
Hereford, AriZ, died from a head
wound which he inflicted upon himself
in the corridor of the Superior Court
building in Boston, where proceedings
were under way for his extraditiOn to
| Arizona, from which state he was al
| legged to be fugitive from justice
He was wanted on charge of larceny.
| Active production of the copper at
| of hn r+oi IN ob 80 y,
Phelps-Dodge corporation at Tyrone,
N. NJ, has ceased, according to state
ment made at the Phelps-Dodge office
| at Douglas, AriZ. Several hundred
men were affected. 1t was explained,
| however, that the bulk of the men thus
laid off would be employed in develop
ment work.
The big shaft of the Arizona Moss
back Mines Company has reached a
depth Of SIG feet and is going down
at rapid rate. The ore that was
encountered in the shaft below the
500 level continues, showing splendid
values in gold. The contractors eX-
pect to have the station cut at the 700
level by the first of July, which will
be a record for shaft sinking in that
district
What promises to be one of the rich
est bodies of silver ore ever uncov
cred in Arizona has been located near
Bowie by Mrs. Fannie Bartlett, J. o.
Spurgeon and G. A. Sterling. Mrs. Bart
lett discovered the ledge several years
ago but until recently did not find a
suitable party that she cared to trust
with the development and sale of the
property. Several assays have been
made of the ore showing II to 65
ounces of silver and So gold.
Homeless Mexican dogs, abandoned
their homes south Of the Mexican bOr-
der, have reverted to the savage state,
many of them joining bands of wolves,
and are preying on the cattle of the
Arizona ranges. So serious has the
situation become, said M. E. Musgrave,
predatory animal Inspector of the
United States Biological Survey, that
strenuous drive has just been inaug-
urated to wipe out this menace to the
cattle.
Final settlement of what has been
known in Arizona as the million Dol
lar Mining Suit" in which John Glee
son sought to establish a partnership
in mining claims of the Courtland dis
trict, and in which Mrs. Mary M. Cos
tello, widow of Martin Costello, was
defendant was secured when the Su-
preme Court of Arizona denied the
motion of the plaintiff for rehearing.
The case has been before the state
courts for the past six or seven years
and has attracted wide attention
throughout the state.
Evidence gathered in an investiga-
tion of charges that several officials
of COchise county, Arizona, were in
collusion with Mexican authorities in
the kidnapping at Douglas last Decem-
Der of five men who later were ex-
ecuted across the border, has been
transmitted to Governor Campbell of
Arizona by the State Department. 1t
is understood that action in the case
of the men was suggested. Kidnap
| ping is a violation only of state laws
md the Mexicans involved could not
be eXtradited for such an Offense.
The body of Mrs. Carrie He'd
strom, who disappeared from her sis
ter's ranch home near Phoenix May
9th, the day she arrived there from
Los Angeles, was discovered at the
| top of Squaw Peak, a mountain over
looking the city. Despite her 56 years
and her recent sickness, the woman
evidently had walked the nine miles
from the ranch to the mountain and
negotiated the 2,7OO foot climb in a
pair of house pumps. The body was
found wrapped in steamer rug which
Mrs. Hedstrom's sister, Mrs. H. Fish,
noticed was gone from it's place after
she missed her sister.