The Benson signal., 1919-03-22
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS

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Phoenix, with population estimated
at $4,000, cast only SOB votes at the
city primaries.
Secretary of State Nit Simms and
Ben Clark, deputy state land commits
sioner, were held up at Phoenix and
robbed by two youths. The footpads
obtained So.
Two children, brother and sister.
aged 5 and 8, were burned to death in
a fire which destroyed the farm home
OF their parents, Mr.. anG Mrs. Frank
Webb, five miles from Tucson.
Fire, believed to have been of incen-
diary origin, destroyed $4,000 worth
OF merchandise in the Mexican Gus
toms warehouse at Nogales, Sonora.
The building was total loss.
A new bill was brought into the Sen
ate to appropriate $4,000 to purchase
one-eighth OF section Of land adjoin-
ing the state fair grounds at Phoenix
and add it to the fairs land holdings.
A lengthy petition signed by resi-
dents Of Globe and the vicinity was
presented to the Senate urging the
passage Of bill now before the Leg
islature which would make it possible
to have twenty-round boxing contests
in the state.
The House committee of the whole
finished with the appropriations bill,
the final total it CARED being in the
neighborhood of $5,1OO,OOO. This
amount does not include the S75OOOO
school fund or the state road fund Of
between $8OO,O0O and 100000.
Organization of the Arizona Daily
Newspaper Association, embracing
nineteen out of the twenty daily
newspapers published in the state of
Arizona, was perfected at Tucson
when the representatives of the daily
press met in convention. The organi-
zatiOn is nOn-Sectarian and non-politi-
cal in it's aims and purposes.
In the Red Cross survey of nursing
resources in the Pacific division,
which recently was completed by the
division bureau of nursing, there was
found to be total of 1926 nurses
in California, Nevada and Arizona In
that number California has 9,416; Ari
zona, 6O7, and Nevada, 1884, this will
be increased as belated reports reach
headquarters.
Governor Campbell has signed the
following bills: House bill 60, pro-
viding that for school terms which
have been broken by epidemics the
funds required shall be computed on
the basis of the previous years at
tendance. House bill 40, providing for
the administration Of small estates.
House bill SO, providing for the annual
school levy. Senate bill 10, an appro-
priation for the northern Arizona fair.
P. r. Mines, private secretary to
Governor Campbell, has been served
with papers in a 100000 libel dam
age suit launched by L. B. Whitney,
:awyer, against the Prescott-Journal
Miner Publishing Company, Of which
Mr. Mines is an officer. The suit is
based on an article printed in the
Jou, lal- Miner dealing with an alleged
resolution of the Prescott Bar AssOci
alton, following the trials of so-called
I. w. w. members.
Holders of stock in the Jerome
Portland Copper Mining Company,
fraudulently issued to them by A. B.
Frame, the former manager, have
brought suit in the Superior Court at
Prescott with a view to setting aside
the transfer of the Jerome-Portland
holdings to the newly organized Je
rome Bisbee Copper Company The
stock in question was fraudulently is
sued by Frame 10 himself and frau
dulently sold according to the ruling
of the Superior Court which preceded
the appointment of receiver.
Governor Campbell has transmitted
10 the Senate message bearing his
eto of Senate highway bill II, which
would create a highway board COM
posed of the governor, secretary of
state, state treasurer, president of the
Senate ond speaker of the House, to
name a state highway commission,
which the governor asserts, is his
light. The vetoed bill carried a two
year appropriation of $3,OOO00O with
another 100000 to meet federal aid
requirements.
Search for the body of Mrs. M.
Artunoff, believed to have been slain,
ended when deputy sheriffs discovered
what had been reported as the burial
place of the body and found instead
barrel of whisky. After searching
the Artunoff ranch for weeks In
fruitless effort to find the grave in
which it had been reported Mrs. Ar
tunOff was buried, officers finally dis
covered spot where the sod was
sunk below the level of the surround
ing ground The place answered the
descriptions of the supposed location
of the grave" and the hole was again
opened At depth of six feet the Of
ficers found not a coffin but a barrel
Of whisky.
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