The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS
Arizona State Fair-Nov. to 8. 1919

| Governor CampDell has signed two
bills which will enable cities and towns
to improve state and county highways
running through them.
The governor has signed a bill es-
tabllshing part time schools for en-
! ployed children and the bill regulating
the employment Of children between IA
and 16 years of age
Basil Pandar, who pleaded guilty to
the murder of James Antonio at
health seekers camp, was sentenced to
| thirty years or life imprisonment by
Judge Stanford at Phoenix.
Arizona leads every state in the
union in paying up its pledges in the
United war work campaign with 96 per
cent of all subscriptions in. This state
ment was made by Director S. e. Lind
The total of appropriations made by
the Legislature for the years 1919 and
1920, according to recapitulation an
nOunced from the governors office is
i $12,716,17O as compared with $7,414,-
AL made for the years 1917 and 1918
| CtlI-OIu UOy, IIdCh IOWHS0MO
of Nogales, was February's champion
predatory animal hunter for Arizona
and probably for the Western states
while his father, J. A. Townsend, set a
new monthly record for killing noun
tain lions.
COnstitutionality, of the Arizona act
of 1913, limiting employment of women
to eight hours day, was upheld by
| the Supreme Court in diSpOSing of ap-
pealS in which the act was attacked on
tween the employment of mattresses in
i railroad restaurants and other restau-
rants.
Arizona now has full authority to go
ahead in cooperation with the federal
government on a soldiers settlement
scheme. Governor Campbell has signed
the bill which enables the state to aid
in the proposals advanced by Secre7
tary of the Interior Lane to spend
S1OO,OOO,OOO in placing returned fight
| ing men on farms
! Governor Campbell set the official
seal of approval of the state of Art
/ zona on the campaign for truthful ad-
i vertising when he signed the bill re-
j Gently passed by the Legislature, which
makes it a miSdemeanOr to "miSrepre
sent or falsely advertise in connection
| with the sale or disposal of merchan-
/ disc, real or personal property or serv-
ices
A ride Of four days and nights across
the desert, hungry and cold, man and
| a girl on each horse, LOchinvar STYLE
was the story told to the sheriff's dep
uties at Phoenix by two pretty Mexi
can girls of their trip from Parker in
company with Angel OroZoco' and Jose
Garcia. The two men are being held
pending an investigation of the owner
ship of the horses.
The State Supreme Court reinstated
the 100000 tax suit appeal of the
state against the Inspiration Consoli.
dated Copper Company and the Inter
national Smelter Company. These
/ suits were ordered dismissed recently
when the attorney generals office
failed to make an appearance. Later
| the state made a motion to vacate the
order of dismissal which was granted
The charred body of Charles Hub
bell, brother of former State Senator
Lorenzo Hubbell, was found lying be-
side the cash register in the ruins of
fire which destroyed the trading post
| IND vii IIa Of
sixty miles northeast of Flagstaff. 1t
is believed that Hubbell, who had
charge of the trading post, was robbed
and murdered by Indians and the post
set on fire to hide the double crime.
A complete distilling plant, capable
of producing twenty gallons of raisn
| brandy, known lOcally.aS white mule"
was raided near McNeal, twenty miles
north of Douglas, by federal and coun-
| ty officers. Matt KeatOn, alleged own-
er of the plant, and James Afford, an
employe, were arrested. The two men
are now in jail in Douglas
Assays of the Big Bug ore Of the
| Mayer district all show values above
30 per cent copper And the shaft is
| all in ore No crosscut has been run
to determine the width of the ore A
| thousand feet away on the same dixie
| the Big Bug company has the same ore
| in a 3O-foot shaft. There, however
more glance, and gray copper show
| than in the main shaft. Only four men
are employed at the Big Bug and they
are sinking the shaft by hand, the
company being without compressor
or drills. 1t is expected, however, that
| Il plant will soon be installed and the
scope of operations materially en-
| larged. The cOmpanys treasury is linn
| tied, but with the showing it now has
1t probably will not experience much
| difficulty in raising the peeded funds
| to open the mine.
Ten half gallon galvaniZedsiron CON
| ta mars filled with whisky and r.