Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-01-30
Southwest News
From Al Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona

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The coming special session Of the
Arlzonn Legislature will vote unani.
mously for the Susan u. Anthony
amendment, according to A. A. Johns,
president Of the Senate.
The New Mexico Wool Growers As.
ISOLATION VIII hold lis state conven-
ton In Roswell on March s and 0, II
was decided at n meeting OF the state
executive committee at Albuquerque.
Effective Mt once. all dance halls
and public dancing places In the city
Of Phoenix must close nt midnight
euch night, and must not operate at
all on Sunday, under the terms Of nm
ordinance passed unanimously by the
CITY Commission.
The Tenajn district OF Colfax u
ty, n. NJ, will dedicate Il icy $4,000
school 0l LlncUln's birthday, Assist
ant Superintendent OF Public Instruc-
ton John V. Conway, was advised In
n letter from County School Superln-
tendent Il. O. BOnncy.
Il. NJ. Johnson, II brakeman on the
Santa Fe, was seriously injured ut
Belen, n. NJ, by coming In contact
with Il live wire.s He was badly
burned about the legs and body and
was unconscious for nearly six hours
after the accident.
The Bank of Springer, N. NJ, be-
came the First National bank on Jan
uary /, and Mt the present time Is re-
garded as one of the most solid instl-
tutlons In the state. The bank was
organized In the early SOS In connec-
ton with the Springer Mercantile
Company and be nme the Bank of
Springer under the territorial laws In
1905.
Almost trebllng It's receipts OF 1918,
the Arizona State Land Board took In
S~TT4,505.40 for the year 1910, accord
ing to figures submitted by Sales
Agent George A. Macdonald. The
land department represented an an
nual deficit Ia. the state up TO the
year 1915, Macdonald says, and since
then has becn showing bigger receipts
for every year.
Boys In the agricultural depart. snt
of the Colfnx county high school at
Iinton, N. NJ, n Smlth-Hughes instltu-
ton, made their experimental work
pay them well. II. ID. Smith, super
visor of vocational agriculture, who
made u visit to Ration, found that
they made nm income OF from $500 to
$500 from their projects last summer.
One who planted wheat got nm income
of $3.50 from his crop. .
An important change In the admin
lstrntlon OF lenscd lands OF the state
came into effect through the signing
of nm order by Samuel l.. Pattee, Judge
OF the Superior Court, making house
bill number 60 q law, The law re-
vlses the state land code of Arizona
and abollshes the long recognized but
unsatisfactory system of dummy
tenantry," which stOckmen were be.
lleyed to be using In order TO rent
lands In the state domain IN the pro.
portions that their interests required
Denying his right to occupy down
town offices in Phoenix at the ex-
pense of the state while regular Of
flces are furnished him In the Capitol
building, Attorney General Wiley H..
Jones of Arizona announced that he
proposes To continue his use OF the eX-
trn downtown offices and that he will
pay the bill therefor out Of his own
pocket, II necessary, but that he be-
lieves there will be no occasion 10 do
so and that he hopes the governor and
The public In general will judge him
US he judges himself.
That auto tourists are being given
some wrong advice about Arizona
roads and are being routed from El
Paso and Demlng by way of Bowie,
Wilcox and Benson, instead OF the
bOrderlnnd route through Douglas,
Blsbee and Tombstone, Is the state
ment Of j. s. williams, contractor,
who has been working for the last
few months on the grading and sur
fnclng OF the highway through VIII
cox dry lake.
The school budget for New Mexico
for tho present school year ending
June 30, 1920. amounts To S3,74S,S75,
says the Taxpayers Association Of
New Mexico. For comparison II may
be stated that the expenditures for
the state fiscal year ending Novem-
Der 30, 1918, were s2,65s, 700.S0 and
for the previous fiscal year, $685.
0lb.b0. OF the total OF three and
th%ree-quarter millions that will be ex'
pended during the present year, near.
ly S3,OOO,0O0 win accrue from the 1915
state, county and district school levles
II may be mentioned In passing that
more than one-third Of the taxes