The Benson signal., 1919-04-26
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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1t has been announced that the al
falfa crop of Arizona last year was
valued at $13,5OO,O0o. - .-s: 49, ~,
Yaqui Indians have crossed the bor-
der from the state of Sonora, Mexico,
into the United States, obtained a
large quantity Of arms and amlnuni-
lion and then recrossed into Mexico.
That Holbrook will have a real oil
boom sixty or ninety days hence is the
prediction Of men in that region. All
now have enough land to make them
rich in case somebody strikes Oil in,
that field. ~
The 1920 convention of the State
Federation Of Womans Clubs will be
held at Bisbee. This was decided at
the conference committee before it
closed the business sessions of the
convention at Yuma. -
M. Artunoff, under arrest for Ari-
zona authorities and being held at
Lynn, Mass, will be brought back for
trial, the extradition papers having
been issued. Artunoff is alleged to
have passed bad check for $500.
Lawrence G. Aves, wanted in Ros-
well, N. M, on felony charge, was
arrested in Phoenix by the city police
while driving through the business dis
trict in an automobile. Ayes refused
to discuss the charge, but waived ex-
tradition. -
One more corporation was added to
the list of four now under investiga-
ton or to be Investigated by the State
Corporation Commission when orders
were issued that the Clerq-Vig Com
pany turn in it's books and records for
inspection.
Roy O. Fourr, aged "A, son of Will
lam Fourr,.a pioneer cattleman of the
Dragon mountains, and brother of Of
ficer J. W.. Fourr Of Douglas, was
killed in battle while fighting with the
American Siberia forces against the
BOlsheviki hOrdes
The legal battle over the laying Of
spur track across the property Of
the Ray, Ariz., Protestant Episcopal
church was carried into the State SUI
preme Court when the Arizona Her
cules Copper Company appealed from
the decision Of the lower court. :.
A protest against Governor Camp
bells action in failing to veto the ten
round boxing bill and in vetOing the
bill providing for the study of the
Bible in public schools, lodged by the
Arizona district conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
has been made public in Phoenix
! At an all-day session the State
Board Of Education decided to adver-
'tise- for q large number of new text
books Bids will be called for to be
in; May Z. Among the books wanted
are language texts, all grades; more
texts on human anatomy, physiology
and hygiene, intermittent history and
home economics, upper grades.
= Wiley Shirley of Wilcox the we'll
known lion hunter, was In Stafford a
few days ago after a successful lion
hunt, In which he killed four lions
one in Tripp canon, two in Merijilda
cafon and one in Rapier cahon. The
lions have killed a large number of
beef cattle belonging to local cattle
men, whose cattle range in this sec
tion.
=. Anita Lugo, Mexican woman, has
launched $4,000 damage suit
against the city Of Phoenix, based on
the allegation that city police officers
while arreSting her April 25, 1917,
broke her arm. The complaint states
that the woman's arm was fractured in
two places above the elbow and that
the shoulder joint was dislocated. She
was arrested on a charge of having
violated a criminal ordinance.
The total valuation of producing
mines in Arizona, including machin-
cry and equipment, increased from
'153,3S5,383 in 1915 to S467, ,941, 1913 in
1918. In 1915 the valuation of the
mining property was 361a per cent of
the assessed valuation of the state: in
1913 the mine valuation had increased
to So per cent. These are some Of the
figures shown in Che report of the
State Tax Commission just issued.
= : The regular annual~ session of the
Grand Lodge, Grand Encampment and
Rebekah Assembly, I. @. O. f., of Ari-
zo1'a, convened :. in the city of Yuma.
April q. 4Ehe@ annual session lasted
three days. On -the1 afternoon of
"Wednesday the delegates We're taken
on an automobile trip through the
Yuma project One of the important
matters before the annual session of
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows this
year. was the. Odd Fellows Home.
John, Fitzpatrick, who was the ref
cree in the fight in Mississippi City in
which John 1. Sullivan won the
worlds championship from Paddy Ry-
an and the seyenfy-five-round fight be-
tWseen Sullivan and Jake Kilrain at
1Riclhbnrg, Miss, is dead at this home
ia New Orleans. -
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