The Benson signal., 1919-10-18
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS

at Gallup, New Mexico, seized COM
plete opium smoking outfit and several
parts of a whiskey still and arrested
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 road,
six miles in length, extending from the
| southern boundary of SandOval county
to the city Of Bernalillo. It's estimated
cost is $4,000.
| The directors of the Chamber Of
| Commerce of Phoenix, appointed q
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 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 Kendrick 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 in the state, has just recently
| installed $1,000 milking machine to
handle the products of the dairy. The
new machine 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 committed 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
/ IL oil bn oh ir1OS n
the vicinity are working day and night
| and still it is thought that some of the
| grain will not be threshed before
| Christmas.
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 having 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 agrcultur-
al purposes Practically the entire
tract is covered with stand of oak.
iuniper. and cedar timber of fair quail.
ity.
In the Tijeras canon road project a
piece of work for which the contract
was $4,000, is nearing completion and
will be ready for traffic in day OF
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 tc
S165, 900 will be rectified when the sur
vey is complete.
Investigation of the wholesale ant
retail places in Phoenix where grocer
les, meat, vegetables or fruit are fol
sale, conducted by members Of the fooc
administration under George Fl. Small
ley, Federal Executive Secretary, al
the instance of County Attorney Laney
has revealed the fact that many deal
ers are charging excessive prices ir
one or more lines of goods. The re
port made by the men of the food ad
ministration, who investigated TO-
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
4 ment has received notice that the di
rector of storage of the War Depart