The Benson signal., 1919-11-15

held in st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 1922.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place all over the United States
from December l to 10, 1919.
Silvestre Mirabal of Valencia coun-
! ty, N. Mex, closed deal with the
Mckinley Land and Lumber Company
for 175,00O acres of the companys
holdings in the Zuni mountain region.
| The farmers of MosQuerO, N. Mex,
who reccntlv held a farm demonstra-
ton in that town, have organized a
company to cinance a large flour mill
which is 10 he built in tie near future.
Tucson was chosen for the 1920 con-
vention city by delegates to the Eighth
| annual convention of the Arizona State
Federation of Labor just before adj
| iOurnment at Phoenix The selection
vas made unanimously.
Ninety days in the Yavapai county
| Jail was the sentence imposed by
| Judge Neterer on Daniel O'Brien and
Samuel Thompson, who were found
guilty in the Federal Court of viola
tion of the Mann act at Phoenix.
B. L. Connell, editor and owner of
the Ration Reporter, Ration, n. Mex,
was drowned in Maxwell lake while
hunting ducks. A. G. Leggett, Connells
companion, had a very narrow escape
| from similar fate. The boat from
which the men were shooting capsized
Both men were clad in heavy clothes
To
| Thorough analysis of waters in the
various canals under the Salt River
valley project has been ordered by the
board of governors of the Salt River
Valley Water Users Association. The
| order was entered at the adjourned
| meeting of the board in Glendale, Arl-
zona, and followed complaint of wa
| ter users being served by the Salt
canal.
The State Highway Department has
received notice that the secretary OF
agriculture has approved project state
| ment No. SO, involving six miles in
Sandoval county to cost $48,73S. This
section of highway begins at the coun-
| ty line where it connects with project
No. 26, the proposed concrete road
| from Albuquerque and runs north to
within a short distance of Bernalillo.
Messrs. Vincent and ]. p. Cantau of
Riverton, WyO., spent several days
around Carrizozo, n. Mex, looking for
range for $4,000 sheep for the winter
Owing to the long drouth in the north
ern states many of the big sheep men
are looking for other ranges for their
| flOcks for the winter. According TO
reports the parties will lease large
tract of grazing land near the Gallinas
mountains.
Harry Ball of Ration, n. Mex, a
trainman on the Rocky Mountain
branch of the Santa Fe, which runs
from Ration to CimarrOn, was serious
ly injured by being thrown from the
train on which he was riding. Ball
| was sitting in the door of the caboOSe
and as the train struck rough place
in the track he was thrown from the
car and both bones Of his legs were
broken above the ankles.
At the completion of the preliminary
hearing before Judge Edward Mechem,
sitting as a committing magistrate at
Las Cruces, n. Mex, Major f. M. Scan
land of Fort Bliss was held without
bond on the charge of first degree mur-
der, to await the action of the grand
will hn % a
shooting near Lanark, N. Mex, of John
T. Hutchings of AlamogordO, who took
part in the El Paso to Phoenix auto
mobile race.
BY the fifteenth of this month trains
will be running into the United Verde
Extension mine through the haulage
tunnel at Jerome, AriZ.
Frank Murphy of Gallup, n. Mex,
is in the st. Josephs hospital in Albu-
querque as the result of an accident
in the mills of the Mckinley Land and
Lumber Company. Mr.. Murphy was
employed as a sawyer and was caught
between some logs in such a way that
his right leg was broken in two places.
He was at once taken to the hospital
where he was given medical attention
and according to the latest reports is
rapidly recovering.
A movement set on foot in Cananea
recently has as it's motive the repair
ing of the automobile road from
Cananea, Mexico, to Naco, Arizona
where it joins the Naco-Bisbee high
way. To raise a fund of $4,000 for
this purpose the larger companies,
business interests and automobile men
have been assessed a stated monthly
sum by the Cananea chamber of COM
merce. According to the present pro-
pOsal, $500 per month is to be raised
to be expended upon the highway.
Valencia county, n. Mex, won the
$100 prize given by the state headQuar-
ters of the American Legion for the