The Benson signal., 1919-01-11
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

1ne new Imperial una PROJECT, en-
bracing an all-American canal, now is
figured to cost $31 100000.
Arizona Egyptian cotton is to be
handled hereafter by the same Eastern
agencies that handled Arizona wool.
D. D. Williams, field clerk of the
Arizona military district, at one, time
body guard of President Garfield, died
at Douglas.
One hundred and fifty people who
are vitally interested in the HOlbroOk
field met and formally organized the
Holbrook oil district
Following, it is said, Christmas
card party at their home in Phoenix,
Robert Glenn was shot and almost in
stantly killed by his wife.
Bud Stephens, convicted of the muir
der of Albert j. Miller, whom he shot
to death in Prescott clothing store,
has been granted a new trial by the
Supreme Court.
Old Dominion was much advanced
and during 1919 these should be i'm
portant reflection of it's gains. Iron
Cap made phenomenal record of in
creased production at the height Of
war requirements.
Phelps-Dodge operations in the War
rem district brought their properties
at the peak of war requirements of
copper to the highest production of
metal in their history, upwards of
100000 pounds a month.
Shattuck Arizona in 1913 gave most
endeavor to opening up it's body OF
low grade lead-silver ore and has
shown the way to making the Bisbee
camp the largest producer Of lead as
well as copper in the state.
When Maricopa county officers
broke into trunk consigned from
Los Angeles to Miamian named
Jones, they found it filled with rub
ber hot water bottles. Each bottle
was filled with corn whisky.
With a banquet and ball, the new
sixty-room hotel which the United
Verde Extension Company has had
built for its employees on the hillside
above the Edith. shaft at Jerome was
opened on New Years eve.
Arizona Commercial maintained ex-
cellent production and also gained i'm
portantly from development In the
Clifton -Morenci district, Arizona Cop
per, Shannon Copper and Phelps
Dodge scored a new high record for
metal output of the district during the
time Of the allies greatest need.
Convicts J. C. Wunder, alias Frank
Warden and Emmett McDaniels were
arrested at Douglas by the military au-
thorities and taken back to the Flor
ence penitentiary. With the convicts
was Pat McDaniels, brother of Emmett
McDaniels; Laura Foreman of Flof-
tnce, and Grace Barnes of Scottsdale.
Kidnapped and held prisoner in the
mountains for week, Mrs. NabOr
Cordova of Tucson escaped and noti-
fled the sheriff's office her husband
had been killed by an unidentified
man at their ranch near Rillito. Off
GERS found the hidden body of Cordo-
va, shot through the heart. Mrs. Cor
dova said the killing occurred week
ago. The slayer, Mexican whom she
did not know, forced her at the point
of a pistol to accompany him to the
mountains, she said. They had been
without food or shelter since the kill
ing.
Stamp sales at the height of the
Christmas rush season reached $4,000
in one day at the Phoenix postoffice.
In the Globe-Miami district the 1918
andeavor required to get back to nor
nal in mine operations following the
1917 strikes was very great and can
not be said even yet to have been
wholly accomplished. Nevertheless
the Globe district managed record pro-
duction for the year.
Governor-elect Campbell announced
appointments as follows: Game war
den, Joe V. Prochaska of Gila county;
sealer of weights and measures, Rob
ert Merritt of ella. Merritt takes the
place of Charles F. Price Of Maricopa,
whose appointment had been recently
announced Price is shifted to the
secretaryship OF the State Fair Com
mission. The members of that COM
mission are: Henry A. Clark of Co
chise; Charles K. Pishon of Maricopa,
and John B, Ryland of Pinta. Mem
bers of the live stock sanitary COM
mission are: F. P. Moore of Cochise;
E. II. Crabb Of Navajo, and John Bar
Der of Maricopa. Ed Stevens of Yava-
pal is made secretary of the commits
sion.
Precedence has been won by New
Cornelia Copper Company in all con-
sideration OF great accomplishments
made by Al z0na mines in 1918