The Benson signal., 1920-02-21
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Western Socorro county, N. NJ, has
been attracting the attention Of the
wise men" in the oil game, and that
section will be one of the first portions
of the state to be fully prospected, is
now an assured fact.
Montezuma University is the name
that has been chosen for the Baptist
College at Las Vegas, n. M. Lee A.
Woodford of Las Vegas, member of
the faculty of the New Mexico Normal
University, was chosen as vice presi-
dent and field agent for the institution
at salary of $4,000 per year.
Arizona met her quota by 130 per
cent in the national Roosevelt memor-
ial campaign, according to report filed
with Governor Thomas e. Camp
bell by Colonel James III. McClintock,
director of the Arizona campaign COM
mittee Arizona's quota was placed at
$12,5OO, and the sum of $16,151.74 was
subscribed.
The American Legion Of Roy, N. NJ,
is getting into the game right. They
are adding to their membership right
along. Many Of the boys. who have
seemed to want to forget everything
connected with the army are getting
interested in this organization and rec
ognizing it's influence for good and
modern Improvement.
At the meeting at Clayton the Clay
ton News and Des Moines Swastika
were both designated as official papers
for Union county, N. NJ, the News to
publish the commissioners proceedings
for the year 1920 and the Swastika to
publish the delinquent tax list. The
Swastika was also given the contract
for the job printing Of Union county
for the present year.
Trinidad Sandoval was taken to Las
Vegas, N. NJ, from Holman and sub
jected to an x-ray examination to de-
termine the location of the bullet that
is lodged in his brain. SandOval was
shot near Holman by MacariO Valdez
during the course of an argument over
Sandovars daughter and has been in
critical condition ever since. The
bullet penetrated his temple and
lodged in his BRAIN
Title to the Sonoita land grant-ly-
ing adjacent to the townsite of Pata-
gonia, Ariz., was awarded to the Ely
Real Estate and Investment Company,
by the United States Court of Appeals,
according to word received from San
Francisco The decision reverses the
decision of the United States Court at
Tucson, which had awarded the land
to Cornelius G. Watts and Dabney c..
Davis, heirs Of Marie CabeZa de Baca.
A large increase in the number of
motor vehicles in use in Arizona was
indicated in figures made public by
Secretary of State Mitt Sims, showing
the number of licenses issued during
January, the month that the licenses
are issued and license tax paid. Re
January, 1919, were $1OO, ,291 25, the
secretary said, and $12S694.72 for the
same month in 1920. In January Of
last year 16694 licenses were issued as
against 21,566 this year.
Convicted ON charge Of gang fight
ing in which a shotgun, revOlvers and
knives were flourlshed but not used, a
group of small boys at Douglas, Ariz.,
have been sentenced by Judge Alfred
c. Lockwood in the juvenile section of
the Cochise county Superior Court to
remain at home nights and to refrain
from attending motion picture shows
for period Of two months to year.
The boys and their parents consented
to the sentence rather than have the
boys sent to the State Industrial
School,
The Copper Belt Silver and Copper
Mining Company have struck a rich
oody of ore in their property at Silver
hill, near Magdalena, N. NJ. There were
several hundred pounds of ore uncov-
cred at the time, and conservative es-
Inmates made by experienced miners,
state that this ore will run at least l.
400 ounces of silver to the ton.
An estate worth $15O,O0O with no
heirs will become the property Of the
state of Arizona, it has been announced
by State Treasurer Harry S. Ross, fol
lowing a trip to appraise estates and
compute the states share of inher-
itance taxes. Treasurer Ross said he
stumbled upon the unclaimed estate at
Stafford and ascertained there were no
heirs
Benjamin H. Weaver, the printer who
set the type and ran the press to get
out the first issue Of the first Arizona
newspaper on March 9, 1864, died at
Prescott He was in his 83rd year. In
his personal effects were found copies
Of the Arizona Miner, organ Of the ter
ritorial pioneer governors, published
for the first time in camp in Chino
vaIley. eightT-five miles north Of Pres
.Ott, with soldier escort guarding the
aarty against Apaches.