The St. Johns herald., 1921-10-27
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(Westsrn Newspaper Union News Service


 will be over 100 students. Miss Bes- sic Pitcher, formerly at Santa Fe, will join the local staff
 Sales of land amounting to $172,012 were made by the state, through the state land department, at public auc- tion in Phoenix The next sale to be conducted by the department will be in Florence on Oct. 25, when graz ing and agricultural lands will be sold.
 All the furnishings for the new high school at Gallup, N. Mex, have been received and the building will soon be completed so that they can be in- stalled. When the building is ready for occupancy it will be one of the finest of it's kind in the southwest.
 Fat Arizona range cattle will find a ready market in California this fall, in the opinion of Edward w. Stephens, secretary of the live stock sanitary board. He based this view, he said, on prevailing conditions in the live stock industry of the state, coupled with expressions from many of the leading growers.
 A friendly suit to test house bill 35 has been filed in the superior court | at Phoenix. House bill 35 provides that county superintendents of schools may issue warrants marked mo funds' to be registered with the county treas urer and to bear interest at the rate 1 of XxThn funds are exhausted.
 The Masonic lodge of Springer, N. Mex, has purchased a lot and will soon start the work of excavating for the new building which is to be built. The building will be of brick and two stories high, the upper room to be the lodge room and the lower floor will be rented for a mercantile establish ment.
 Two men were killed instantly, a third badly crushed who died eleven hours later and two others seriously hurt late Saturday afternoon in a pre- mature explosion of a blasting charge in Devils canon, near Superior, Ariz., on the new Miami-Superior highway now under construction. All five were employees of the state highway depart ment.
 Arrangements have been completed by which the development of the rich silver mine, known as the Old Volcano, is now assured. The Volcano is said l by mining men to be the richest strike of the year in New Mexico and as the mine has been a good producer in the past it is thought that it will again come back and no doubt will be one of the richest silver finds in the country.
 Final arrangements for raising l s, 800 to repair the Las Cruces armOry and erect barn and stables were com pleted Oct. 1 by John M. Bowman, cashier of the First National bank, and w. s. Sutherland, representing the Bowman Bank and Trust Company. The state has subscribed $1,OOO, making a fund of $4,S00, the amount required to make the improvements, upon which work will begin Nov. 1.
 Total value of imports and exports in the Arizona district during Septem- Der was $877, ,140, according to a re- port made public in Nogales by Charles L. Fowler, district collector of customs. The value of the exports was $611,000. Articles exported through the port of Nogales were val ued at $4OO,OOO and those through Douglas at $165,O0O The other ex- ports went through Naco' and Yuma.
 Civic improvements, estimated to cost $35,000 will be made in Las Cruces, N. Mex, in November The work includes paving Convent street to connect with Main street with the national highway between Las Cruces and Fl Paso, and Alameda boulevard from Convent street to Griggs street, distance of more than a half mile.
 D. B. Clayton, inspector for the State Live Stock Sanitary Board at Wilcox, Ariz., informed Ed Stephens, secretary of the board, that 5000 steers and feeder cows had been con- tracted for in that vicinity, deliveries to be made in October and November ClaytOn's letter also said that indica- tiOns were that many more steers and feeder cows would be sold in the near future.
 Jose Manuel Arnijo, 12-year-old son of MT. and Mrs. D. ArmijO of TOas, N. Mex, died at his home as the re- suit of being bitten by large rattle enake. The lad was gathering pifons in the hills north of the city with sev- eral other boys when the rattler struck