The Snowflake herald., 1921-09-16
Southwest News
From All OUer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
ewestern Newspaper Union News Service.

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| cry old member is said to have signed
| up for another year.
Work on the big paving program at
Las Cruces, n NJ, has been started,
and when completed will cost nearly
| $4,000 Practically all the principal
| streets of the city will be paved. -
| The new highway between Clovis
| and PortaIes, n. NJ, has been con
nected up. The road is open TO travel
and when all completed will be one
Of the finest stretches of highway in
| that part of the state.
| The American National Bank OF
| Tucumcari, y. NJ, will soon celebrate
| it's seventh anniversary The business
of the institution has been greatly in.
/ creased during the past year and the
bank is now one of the soundest in the
state.
Livestock men in the vicinity of
| Magdalena, n. NJ, report that the
ranges are the best for many years
and will carry double the stock that
there is now grazing on them. Grass
1 II louIlu cN0EN W 1ltIc anu IL iIIcIC Is Il
! fair winter there will be plenty of feed
for all the stock that can be placed on
the ranges.
Belief in the possibility that the
mines of Arizona and New Mexico
would open about the first of the year
was expressed recently by DR.. l.. ID.
| Ricketts, of Warren. AriZ., consulting
engineer for the Inspiration Consoli-
| dated Copper Company, the Cnnanea
| Consolidated Copper Company and the
International Smelling and Refining
| Company.
Preliminary work on the constrlc
lion Of power dam over the Pecos
river near Dexter, ~. ~. has been
started and the sQundingS of the
stream has been taken. A concrete
dam 800 feet in length, 20 feet in
height, is proposed, and it is esti-
mated that with the normal flow of
water at this point several thousand
horsepower can be developed.
Joe Virgins, former convict. who
killed two men and wounded two 9th
ers at ii dance at Allison, y. NJ vowed
to his friends as he left Gallup earlier
that evening that he would kill five
mem before morning. according TO
their statements. They thought him
Joking He picked five men in cor
ner and fired five times With his re-
tolver. Ramon Garcia and j. f. Alca-
mo We're SO badly injured that they
died, and Ben Ortiz and Dave Gr.nco
were seriously wounded
Two important appointments of
/ Ari6bna men have just been made al
| Washington. The first was that of
Frank l.. Thomas, who successfully
passed the examination given by the
comptroller OF the currency for Ma
rional Bank Examiner and has been
commissioned at q salary Of $1,000 Il
year and expenses and assigned to
Los Angeles district The second is E
@. Norman, who has received the ap-
pointment as Register of the Farm
Land Bank at Berkeley, Calf
| Manuel Garcia and Jose Perez were
found guilty of first degree murder
at Tombstone for Staying Jess Fisher.
| foreman Of the John Slaughter ranch
on the AriZonaS Sonora border. eighteen
| miles east of Douglas. AriZ., on May
| last The jury deliberated two hours
and thirty minutes before reporting its
/ verdict. which carried Il recommends
| ton that the court sentence Perez
| and Garcia to life imprisonment. Mr..
| Eichnp Shnt ,slll1 L,illaI VIII
| siSting an attempt to loot the stores
| on the Slaughter ranch
During a heavy electrical storm,
lightning struck the line of the Noun
tain States Telephone Company be-
tween Winslow and Flagstaff. Ariz..
| splntering about twenty poles and
| putting the line out of commission. II
| took the repair gangs nearly two DAYS
To get the line working properly again.
r. Martin. confessed robber of the
bank at Curlew, Iowa, learned that his
| companion i'm the robbery double
| crossed him out of $3,65O of the rob
| berry proceeds: Sheriff J. n. Jackson
| of EmmetSburg, Iowa. told Martin this
| when he came to Globe, Ariz., to take
! Martin back to Iowa Martin got only
$3.50 Of the total Of $500 cash and ST.
600 bonds taken in the Aug 10 rob
| berry
The program committee of the Tri-
| State Hereford Breeders association
| has completed the list for the first
show which will be held in Fort Sum
ner, \. NJ, the middle of October. In.
| dicatons are that This viii be one Of
| the most successful shows of it's kind
| ever held in this part Of the state and
| many of the breeders are now making
preparations to enter the exhibit. Lib
eral prizes will be awarded to the win
| nerS.
| A jack rabbit drive will soon be
started in the eastern part of New
Mexico under the direction of County
agent VIII of Roosevelt county. 1t is
aynnctaH that brnHradS % e. 80,