The Benson signal., 1919-10-25
Southwest News
From All Over
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
western NEWSPAPER union News service
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-Eov. to 8, 191

the supposed owners.
The military department at the uni
versity of Arizona under Major Boni~
face, has completed it's organization
with an increase of more than 100 in
it's personnel over last year.
The number of automobile licenses
issued by the secretary of state of New
Mexico to date, has reached 1879
which is just 100 fewer than the high
est number last December.
Federal aid project No. 36 has been
submitted for approval to the Depart
ment of Agriculture. This is a road,
six miles in length, extending from the
southern boundary of :Sandoval county
to the city of Bernalillo Its estimated
cost is $4S,OOO.
Uhe directors of the Chamber Of
Commerce sof Phoenix, appointed a
committee to arrange for the housing
of the large numbers of visitors eX-
pected from all parts of Arizona dur
ing the state fair November 3rd to 9Th,
inclusive. The committee will cooper
ate with the State Fair Commission.
The Arizona Cattle Growers AsSO-
citation will call a special convention
to be held in Phoenix, probably in No
vember, to decide what will be done by
the association in the matter of the
Kenyon and Kendsick bills, now be-
fore Congress, for the regulation Of
the packing and cattle industries.
Perry Bean of Roswell, New Mexico,
who has one of the most up to date
dairies lin the state, has just recently
installed $1,000 milking machine to
handle the products of the dairy. The
new lmachine will milk four cows at a
time and Mr.. Bean says it insures alb
>solute cleanliness in the handling Of
the milk.
Governor LarraZOlO of New Mexico
again extended executive clemency
when he cOmmuted the sentence and
then granted conditional pardOnS to
Bonnie MacKinnOn and his brother, w.
Bonnie MacKinnon of Grant county,
who had been sentenced to serve ten to
fifteen years in the penitentiary in 1917
for second degree murder.
Owing to the unusually large crops
which have been raised around Roy
New Mexico this year and the scarcity
of threshing machines, the farmers are
now facing a possible loss on account
Of not being able to get their grain
threshed. Nearly all the machines in
the vicinity are working day and night
and>still it is thought that some of the
grain will mot be threshed before
Christmas.
f.The laboratory and clinic for Doug
las, Arizona and vicinity has been
opened to the public. The laboratory
is in charge of Miss Villa McNitt as
technician. She received her training
at the Philadelphia Polytechnic hospit-
al ;and has been employed in several of
the large laboratories of the east.
Special attention will be given Wasser.
mann tests and for laboratory expert
mental work, guinea pigs, mice, sheep
and rabbits lhaving ALREADY been pro
cured.
President Wilson has signed a proc-
lamatiOn adding 29,440 acres to the
Crook National Forest, AriZ. The
lands added are located in the Win
chester mountains and southeast of the
GaliurO division of the Crook forest.
They are rough and broken in charac-
ter and are not suitable for agricultur-
al purposes. Practically the entire
tract is covered with a stand of oak,
juniper, ,and cedar timber of fair quail
ity
I'm the TijeraS eadaon road project a
piece of work for which the contract
was SIS, 8,00O, is nearing completion and
will be ready for traffic in a day or
two. The project covers the road
through Tijeras canon in New Mexico.
and Was surveyed by the Good Roads
Bureau, the contract being let to the
Springer Company. The location sur
vey for the road from Tijeras post
office to the Ellis ranch is completed.
The advance estimate amounting to
S165. 900 will be rectified when the sur
vey is complete.
Investigation of the wholesale and
retail places in Phoenix where grocer
les, meat vegetables or fruit are for
sale, conducted by members Of the food
administration under George H. Small
ley, Federal Executive Secretary, at
the instance of County Attorney Laney
has revealed the fact that many deal
ers are charging excessive prices in
one or more lines of goods. The re-
port made by the men of the food ad-
ministration, who investigated 1O4
dealers in the county, has been turned
over to Federal Food Administrator
Timothy A. Riordan and United States
Attorney Thomas A. Flynn.
The New Mexico highway depart
ment has received notice that the di-
rector of storage Of the War Depart
ment has been directed to ship the fol-
lowing War Department supplies for
use in highway construction in New
NFov;oo. Ono 10-tOp Holt fra ctOr and