The Holbrook news., 1921-04-22
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10 nave been made very SatlS1actOr1ly-
 Production of copper from it's mines in Bisbee and reduction of ore in it's smelters at Douglas, Ariz., has been suspended by the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company.
 Improvement work at the Montezu- ma College in Las Vegas is well under way and is being pushed as rapidly as possible by the contractors in charge. If possible all the work will be com pleted in time for the opening of the fall term in school.
 The first annual show of the Auto Dealers Association in the Douglas avenue armory in Las Vegas, opened with big parade of practically all the automobiles in the city, the start being made from Lincoln park. Every space in the armOry was filled, most of them occupied by Las Vegas deal CTS.
 Members of city commission of Phoenix have instructed City Attorney Sloan to prepare an ordinance calling for a city bond election. The election will be on the question of issuing bonds for paving, purchase ten acres in Uni versity Addition for a city park, and to aid in building a protective dam on Cave creek.
 Hundreds of persons joined in the search for Edgar, the 3-year-old son of Ray Spencer of Tucumcari, who wan dered away and was lost while his parents were picnicking in Red River | cafion, near Tucumcari Bloodhounds were put on the trail but only a coat worn by the boy and his tracks near the picnicking spot have been found.
 High schools in Arizona have shown | rapid development since 1916, ac- cording to a survey just completed by A. O. Neal, registrar for the univer- sity at Tucson. Comparative reports from the four-year high schools in the state in 1916 and 1920 give proof that the number of teachers, students and graduates has gained rapidly, he adds.
 The Holbrook, Ariz., board of alder men has awarded the contract for the building of the water and sewer plants to the Ormon Construction Company. Ike contract calls for $10S,09S, the contractor paying par for the $135,O00 bond issue voted last summer There will be about $29,000 paid into the town treasury for the bonds, with ac- crued interest, aside from the compile tion of the work, according to the con- tract.
 Augustina Romero has been arrest ed at Greaterville, and Ignacio Var gass at Rosemont, by agents of the De pertinent of Justice of Tucson. Both are charged with being draft evpders. They will be tried in the Federal Court According to government agents number of slackers are returning from Mexico to the United States in the belief that they will no longer be molested. After raid, however, they hurry back across the border. the fed eral men have found.
 The New Mexico crop report, just issued by the bureau of crop estimates, states that the crop of winter wheat in the state has condition of 90 per cent, which forecasts a production for this year of 4,600,OOO bushels, if no un- favorable conditions prevail to har- vest 4lllS VIII CACCCu plCNlOuS records of the state. Last years crop was estimated at 100000 bushels. The report shows that the supply of farm labor in New Mexico this year is 135 per cent of lasf years supply at this time
 The Animal Husbandry department of the University of Arizona, under the direction of E. B. Stanley, as- sistant animal husbandman, is the experiment farm at Mesa to determine the feeding value and use of whole cotton seed under the present conditions as a feed for fattening steers.
 Deposits in the United States postal savings system were approximately S161, ,15O,000 Aprils1, the Postoffice De partment announced. Phoenix, Ariz with deposits for March totaling $15S,- 064, led in the gains for the month and jumped from 139th to 5Sth rank. Bos- ton came second, with $146,S92; New York third, with $S4, ,491 and Globe, Ariz, fourth, with 21.700
 Maud Doster, serving from three to four years for killing Capt Wade Dos ter at Columbus, N NJ, has been par doned from the penitentiary by Acting Gov. w. H. Duckworth. Mrs. Doster was tried but the jury disagreed, and she then entered a plea of guilty to second degree murder and was sen fenced May Q, 1920 Eleven members of the jury recommended clemency in a petition to the acting governor.
 The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce has distributed for planting here 5000 of the young spruce and fir seedlings furnished by the forest service, which means, if only One-fifth of them grow, a siZable- forest of beautiful trees add ed to Santa Fe. In ten years time they should be handsome and big trees.
 Thirteen of the fifteen members of | the Albuquerque fire department re- signed when City Manager James N. | Gladding, acting on orders of the city | commissioners, instructed them to | withdraw from the firemen's union, which they joined several days ago.
 At the annual meeting of the Ari- zona Daily Newspaper Association in Phoenix, c. A. Stauffer of the Phoenix Republican was elected president of the association and j. H. Westover of