The Benson signal., 1919-10-25
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.



The federal grand jury which closed
it's session at Santa Fe reported seven
teen indictments and four no true bills,
making a total of thirty six indict-
ments for the session.
EamOnn de Valera, provisional presl-
dent of the Irish republic, has been in
vited to speak in Phoenix, Nov %. If
he speaks in Phoenix the address will
be given under the auspices of the
Friends of Irish Freedom.
Within few minutes Francisco San
chez was arraigned in Phoenix in the
Superior Court on charge of burglary
at Mesa, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced by Judge A. G. McAllister to
serve from three to ten years in the
state penitentiary at Florence.
Work on the Steward observatory
progresses on the u of A. campus at
Tucson, Ariz., and it will not be a long
time before the university will be able
to boast of a 36-inch reflector. The
foundations are in and the first story
is we'll under way. The structure is to
cost 100000 and will be up-to-date in
every way. The large lenSe is being
made now.
The Clovis council at it's regular
letting the pool halls operate in the
city, and formally rejected all the ap-
plications for licenses which had been
sent in. Several of the city fathers de-
clared that the pool halls in the city
had become a nuisance and the council
voted unanimously to reject all appli-
cations in the future.
That the only important asbestos
field yet discovered in the United
States is in Gila county, Arizona, is
fact not realized locally, but is well
known to manufacturers of this indiS-
pensable mineral fiber in the East,
where Arizona asbestos has become a
strong competitor of the Canadian pro-
duct, which formerly enjoyed monop-
oily of the American market Much of
the asbestos found near Globe is long
fiber and of superior quality.
The board of regents of the Normal
University at Las Vegas, N. NJ, by
unanimous vote has named the main
building of the institution springer
Hail." in recognition of Frank Spring
er's interest for quarter of century
in the Normal University. The new au-
ditorium is to be a memorial to Mrs.
Ilfield by her husband, Charles Ilfield
who gives $4,000 to complete the fine
new structure which is to be dedicated
at the commencement next spring.
Seven million Red Cross Christmas
seals have been received at the head
quarters of the New Mexico Public
Health Association at Santa Fe. This
is said by Clinton P. Anderson, secre-
tary Of the association, to be more
seals than have been sold in New Mex
leo since the Inauguration of Christmas
seal sales in 1911 The seals will be
distributed during the intensive drive
for funds with which to fight the
spread of tuberculosis which will be
made December to 10 next.
Two men were shot at Gallup, n. NJ,
when they attempted to escape from
the town marshal. They had been Gre
ating a disturbance in the Harvey
house and were placed under arrest by
the marshal and as they reached the
station steps both tried to get away.
The marshal drew his revolver and
fired two shots, one entering the arm
Of one Of the prisoners and the other
striking one Of them near the eye. They
at once gave up and were lodged in
the city Jail, Neither of the wounds was
serious.
According to reports just received
from United States Game Warden
Lawrence Tamme, about fifty band-leg
pigeons have been discovered in the
Gallinas caflon, New Mexico These pig
cons are supposed to be almost extinct
and it was not known that there were
any in the state, or even in the whole
southwest.
The state highway department of
New Mexico has been advised that the
secretary Of agriculture has approved
project statement No "a, involving fif-
teen miles, from Portales to Clovis, to
cost $123,475, and also project state
ment No. 25, involving fifteen miles
from Curry county line via Clovis to
Texico to cost $122,353. These projects
are now being surveyed.
Simplicio Torres, convicted of murder
in Flagstaff, will be executed Nov. if
motion made in the Supreme Court
by Wiley e. Jones, attorney general, to
dismiss his appeal, is granted. The mo-
tion was based on the ground that the
appeal was premature. Jones asserted
the appeal was made July q, follow
ig the verdict of the jury, and before
the sentence was pronounced by the
court Aug. H.
The hearing before the railroad ad-
ministration which was to have been
held in San Francisco on the matter OF