The Holbrook news., 1920-12-31
Southwest News
 From All Ouer NelU MexiCO
 and ArizOnd
Western Neuspaper Union News senIcs.

| III De0SOn.
 Good news to the mining industry
 was contained in wire to the effect
 that the Senate has passed a bill ex-
 tending the time for doing the 1920
 mining assessments until July l, 1921
 A 1. per cent reduction on Pullman
 rates between Phoenix and Los An
 geles has been granted by H. P. Glenn ents. general passenger agent of the Pullman company.
 The annual meeting of the Farm Blu reau was held at Roswell, N. M. The attendance was large, farmers and
 stockmen from every section of the country being present.
 Livestock conditions in Arizona are very gratifying, according to Dr. F. L.
 Snyder, inspector in charge of the fed eral bureau of animal industry, w.t.i headquarters at Albuquerque, N. NJ.
 A statewide drive for members in the American Legion will be started the first of the year according to an an- nOuncement by Tom G. Trammel, de- partment adjutant and finance officer of New Mexico.
 More than $5OOOO drainage work is to be done immediately in the Peoria district northwest of Phoenix, Ariz., according to an announcement by F. C.. Hersliaw, secretary of the Salt River Valley Water Users Association.
 Reports from the mines at Chloride state that the development work is gO- ing ahead rapidly and that by the first of the year all the claims will be pro- duciEg tin ore which will be the best ever mined in that part of Arizona.
 Three hundred men employed by the Arizona Commercial Mining Company, with properties at Copper Hill, on the outskirts of Globe, AriZ., were thrown | out of work when the entire operations of the company were suspended for an indefinite period.
 What is said to be one of the most promising coal properties in New Mex ico is being developed by a syndicate of Fl PasOans on the Cebolleta grant, about thirty-five miles northwest of | Cubero, a station on the Santa Fe rail- road, in Valencia county.
 Ben Johnson was acquitted by jury in the Superior Court at Phoenix of charge of murder arising out of the fatal shooting of Paul Legerski at the latter's ranch near Humboldt, Septem- Der 24 last, when Johnson was consta- ble of Humboldt precinct.
 At a recent meeting of the Roswell council it was voted to improve the fire fighting equipment of the city by building q tower for the drying of the hose and to remodel the entire build ing so that it will be one of the most modern in the state of New Mexico.
 Arizona copper companies are suf- fering from competition from their own copper, gleaned from the battle fields of France and used over again, according to Henry Edwards, an Eng fish mining engineer in Prescott. Ed wards said that large amounts of sal vaged copper are being used in Eng land and that the country has enough on hand to last for an indefinite period.
 L. NJ. Reynolds, president of the Hol brook, Ariz., state bank which closed its doors recently, has been arrested in Phoenix on a warrant obtained by de- positOrs of the institution charging him with embezzlement After the bank had suspended business, it is charged, Reynolds removed S40,000 worth of se- curities and turned them over to coun- ty supervisors to prOteDt county depos It's.
 The sixteen Fillistas who have been held at the peritentiary under an 1n- junction since they were pardOned shortly before Thanksgiving day, were rearrested by a deputy sheriff from Luna county, \. NJ.
 The first shipment to be mode by the | Calumet-New Mexico Mining and Mill ing Company at Pinos Altos, near SiI- yer City, N. NJ, occurred when a car | load of zinc concentrates was shippe1 | ;o the Western Metals Company of Ok l9homa.
 Reports on crop conditions Decem- Der l by the Department of Agricul- ture, through the office of State Statis- ician R. F. Hare, estimates that New Mexico has planted this season 284, 900 acres. The condition of this wheat is last falls revised estimate of 25S,000 acres. Thee Ondition of this wheat is % per cent normal, compared to condition Of 9S per cent fo- last years cop at thi; time. If conditions re- Iilin favorable, New Mexico will pre- duce the largest wheat crop it has ever produced. The acreage of the rye crop in New Mexico is estimated at only B. GOO acres, which is 80 per cent of the acreage planted last year. The condi- tion is 95 per cent of normal on Dec. 1.
 The State Supreme Court of New Mexico set Jan. IA as the date for the hanging of J. O. Starr, convicted of murder for the killing of Sheriff Dwight Stephens of Luna county, fol- lowing the failure of Starr's appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Ex- ecutive clemency is Starr's only re- hope.
 Construction of a new $25O,OO0 post office at Santa Fe, N. M., has been as- sured The building, which will be a two-stOry structure, will be one of un- usual architecture. Excavation will start in the early spring.
 J. A. Houchin, a convict, escaped from the New Mexico state peniten- tiary. He was storekeeper and a ship ment of suits for discharged convicts had just been received. Tines upposi- ton is that HOuchins donned one of