The Benson signal., 1919-02-01
ARIZONA ITEMS.

Inc Ilu is reported DIS UelIlS OH W
stay in Jerome.
The jury in the Otto Maher case at
Tucson disagreed and were discharged
by Judge Sawtelle. Maher will be
tried again.
Mr.. r. S. Hawkins, the recently ap-
pointed assistant agronomist at the
university has arrived and taken up his
new duties. -
After shooting and killing an In
dian farmer at San Xavier, Graviel
Floyd, formerly student at the Phoe-
nix Indian school, escaped on a bi-
cycle.
Positive confirmation of the report
that the Carter Oil Company, SUBJ
sidiary of the Standard, is drilling
well, near Fort Defiance, some eighty
miles north of Holbrook.
Jumping off the fast moving train
en- route for Fort Grant, Charles Will
liams, committed to the industrial
school from Maricopa county, made
his escape from. the deputy in charge.
Frank McCabe of Flagstaff, Ariz.,
has been granted a fifty years fran
chise by the United States govern
ment to build scenic railroad from
Flagstaff to the top of San Francisco
peak. The road will be fourteen miles
long.
University of Arizona Bulletin No.
95, High School Courses in Home
Economics" which has just been is
sued by the Home Economics Depart
ment of the university, will be of in
terest to the school teachers through
out the state.
Road building on an extensive scale
| is predicted by government officials
for the coming year. It. is estimated
by the bureau of public roads that
over $500, 100000 will be spent on pub
lie highways and the amount allotted
to Arizona will be 100000.
A message has come from the direc-
tor of the United War Work campaign
stating that one of the victory huts
! in France will be named after Ari-
zona because it was one of the first
group of states to reach it's assigned
quota in the recent campaign.
| The Bureau of Mines extension lee
ture work on sMineralogy for the Pros
| pector" has met with great success
and is proving to be filling long felt
want in the mining industry, and Civ
ing many people in Arizona an oppor-
tunity of appreciating the advantages
| offered by the university.
/ In Quantity of ore shipped the Je
| rome Verde broke all it's records. in
| December. Jerome Verde shipments to
the Humboldt smelter totaled 651 tons
in December, against 481 in November
and 541 in October. October and No
vembor shipments were low because
of influenza and other difficulties.
| The famous Bullard mine of the
Wickenburg district has been taken
over on lease and option. This
| startling bit of information leaked out
in mining circles at Phoenix together
with the news that Ben G.. Wilson, well
known mining man of Casa Grande,
is one of the men who stands in the
out of the deal.
The drilling rig of the United Chino
Oil and Refining Company, in Chino
valley, which was recently purchased
from the United Chino receiver by the
Holbrook Oil Company, has been dis
mantled by crew operating under
the direction of Dad Hastings AT
present the rig is being loaded on
freight. cars and in day or two it
will be moving toward Holbrook,
where it will be put into operation
Referring to the l. w. w. as a claw
less organization" and stating that
techniIalities may now be employed
to interfere with course of justice, Gov
ernor Thomas E. Campbell, in his
message ito the Fourth State Legisla-
| ture today recommended the enact
ment of a law which will establish as
a felony the doctrine of syndicialism
which advocates crime, sabotage and
i violence as means of accomplishing
industrial and political reform.
| Reports from Prescott Saturday in
dicate tha& the Silver Belt Consoli-
dated mine, operating near Humboldt,
has, exposed a ledge of high grade and
second grade silver-lead ore twelve
feet in width at 125 feet in the pres
ent shaft now being sunk in the old
workings About twenty-five feet more
will be required to tap the mother
shoot, and another favorable indication
| is the increased water flow now being
encountered which is kept in control
by the big pump. M&
Fort,five head of thoroughbred
Hereford cattle. seeking water to
drink, crowded out on the ice ton a
lake at Fred T. Golfers ranch, beyond
Springerville, few miles, broke
through and all were drowned.