The Benson signal., 1920-02-28
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service


for new eighty-room hotel which will
be erected at Tucumcari, N. NJ.
The state of Arizona is eight years
old this month. Eight year ago, Feb.
IA, Valentine Day, Arizona emerged
from a territory into a sisterhOod of
states.
Captain Jaces N. Gladding, former
" city engineer of Albuquerque, and
recently from military service over
seas, has accepted the position of city
manager of Albuquerque.
Much interest is being evinced by
members of organized labor in the
Miami district over the projected
plans for the construction of new
labor temple in Miami.
Oscar Price and Mabel Shaw were
arrested in Phoenix on a federal war
rant charging them with conspiracy to
aid federal prisoner to escape from
the custody of the United States mar
shall
The annual convention of the New
Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers AS
sociation, which will be held in ROs-
well, N. NJ, March %, 80 and 81, will
be one of the most important in the
history of the association.
Every session full of interest and
every intermission full of entertain
ment is the aim of the committee in
charge of the New Mexico Wool Grow
ers' Association convention which will
be held in Roswell March and 9.
Valuable equipment, which will be
used in the construction of roads, has
been given by the War Department to
the State Highway Departments of
twenty-nine states. The states re-
ceiving the apparatus include Arizona
and New Mexico.
At meeting of the local post of
the American Legion at Deming, n.
NJ, the members went on record
unanimously as favOring the Organi-
ZatiOn of a troop of National Guard
cavalry and directed the adjutant to
send a copy of the resolutions pledg-
ing "active support" to the adjutant
general.
Formal acceptance of the personnel
of a state advisory board for New
Mexico, to cooperate with the Saliva
ton Army and it's county advisory
boards in New Mexico, in the eXecu
ton of the army's 1920 home service
program, has been announced by Lieu
tenant Colonel John w. Cousins, COM
mander in the inter-mountain province.
negro who gave his name as
James Williams but who answers the
description of Arthur Sims, wanted
for the murder of Patrolman Law
renee J. Bear, at Swan Creek, Mary
land, on December II last year, has
been arrested at Albuquerque. He ad-
mitted being in Maryland on the date
of ithe murder but denies he is Sims.
Admission by James Patrick O'Mal-
ley, an admitted /. w. w. organizer
and applicant for citizenship papers,
that he favored squeezing out the
employer class" by reduction of hours
and increase in wages, drew from EX-
aminer A. E. Eldridge of the bureau
of naturalization a denunciatiOn Of
radicalism at Prescott, who refused
OAIalley citizenship papers.
Banks in New Mexico made a gain
in total resources under call of $7,804,-
21221. J. B. Read, state banker eX-
aminer, in his report for the calendar
year of 1919, filed in the governors
office, shows their total resources un
der call on November II, 1919, as $780,
7S9,O2S.9O On November Is, 1918,
there were $57, ,9S4,S1669. The fig
ures are for both national and state
banks.
A verdict of $1,000 damages has
been awarded Sophie Martinez, admin
istratriX of the estate of Carlos Mar
tinez, against the Southern Pacific
railroad in the United States Court
at Tucson. The suit resulted from
smashup of an automobile by train
at COchise station a few years ago.
Two armed bandits entered the
bank at Camp Verde, sixty miles
northeast of Prescott, Ariz., held up
Cashier Butler and escaped with ap-
proximately $1,000. After completing
the robbery, the bandits carried
Cashier Butler one mile out Of town,
and there left him under threat of
death if he summoned help. Butler,
later returning to Camp Verde, re-
ported the hOldup.
Five of the six bandits who early in
the morning of November a, 1919, at
tempted to loot the home of Abran
COntreras at La Joya, N. NJ, and in
the pistol duel which followed shot
Contreras through the arm, resulting
in the death Of COntreraS December
p, entered pleas of guilty to murder
in the second degree Pedro SaiS was
sentenced to life Imprisonment and
the other four were each sentenced to
serve -hirty years.