Arizona state miner., 1919-11-14
Southwest News
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NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

"SStSiA 4NSWSpdpeI Union NEWS OSl HAC0'
COMING EVENTS.
Twenty-second annual convention of
the American Mining Congress, to be
held in St Louis, Mo-, Nov. 17-22.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place all over the United States
from December l to TO- 1919.
Silvestre Mirabal of Valencia coun-
ty, N. Mex, closed a deal with the
Mckinley Laud and Lumber Company
for 175,000 acres of the company's
holdings in the Zuni mountain region.
The farmers of MosQuero, N. Mex,
who reccntIv held a farm demonstra-
ton in that town, have organized a
company to cinance large flour mill
which is to be 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 ad
journment at Phoenix The selection
was 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
ton 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, ConnelPs
companion had very narrow escape
from a similar fate. The boat from
which the men were shooting capsized.
Both men were clad in heavy clothes
and neither kLew how to swim.
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, Ari-
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. 36, involving six miles in
Sandoval county to cost $48,738. 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 j. 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 muir
der, to await the action of the grand
jury in connection with the fatal
shooting near Lanark, n. Mex, of John
T. Hutchings of AlamOgordo, who took
part in the Ell 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 its motive the repair
ing of the automobile road from
Cunanea, Mexico, to Naco, Arizona,
where it joins the Naco-Bisbee high