Williams news., 1921-07-01
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexiCO
 and Arizona
fwestern Newspaper union News ser,ice.l

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 NJ. for the new Methodist church Soutf
 which, when completed, will be one o1
 the finest in that part of the state anC
 will cost over S15,O00.
 Clad in leather chaps and buckskins | and riding their favorite mounts, hun
 dreds of veterans of the plains will
 gather in East Las Vegas, N M., July
 4, 3 and for the seventh annual Las | Vegas cowboys reunion.
 In one of the dry-farming counties | in New Mexico the women have shown | their interest in improving the sur | rOundings of their ranch homes by
 making home Identification project | in the county program of work.
 Governor Stephens of California has
 signed the bill appropriating $35O,OOO
 for the construction of the paved high l way from San Bernardino, via Holt | vile, to Yuma. This money will be- | come at once available and it is a cer- | tainty that the road will be under con- | structiOn this fall or sooner.
 According to census figures an
 nounced in Washington, 39, 131 persons | 10 years of age and over in Arizona in l 1920 were unable to write. The per centage of illiteracy is 15-3 compared with 20.9 in 1910. Of native whites 2.1 per cent are illiterate, while 27.5 per cent of foreign born whites are unable to read
 Red WhSkers" Burnet, escaped convict, suspected of the murder of MariOna Teague, ranchman near Globe, AriZ-. for whom search was conduct
 ed the last three weeks through the
 Pinal mountains by the sheriff and
 posses and cowboys, was shot and in stantiy killed by a rifle in the hands of a member of a posse.
 Postmaster Long R. Bailey of Bis bee, Ariz., has confessed to postoffice inspectors that an alleged robbery of the Bisbee postOffice April 3 was a blind to conceal a shortage in his ac- count, according to a report received by Stephen H. Morse, chief postoffice inspector. A total of S17 $50 has been recovered from Bailey, whose alleged shortage is supposed to be S43,O00, ac- cording to this report.
 Louis Quackanbush, taxicab driver, was found murdered in clump of bushes near the main highway, four miles northeast of Douglas. He was shot through the head His pockets had been rifIed, police said. John Xii ser. negro, who had engaged Quackan- bush for trip, is being held i'll con nection with the murder Quackan- bush's automobile was found on the highway not far from the body.
 Riding into San Simon. d small town eighty miles northeast of BiSbee, AriZ., on horseback, a lone bandit held up at the point of gun A. E. Nelson, cash fer of the San Simon Valley Bank, swept all the money in sight into his pockets and then rode out of town. Several citizens pursued and engaged the bandit about two miles east of the town. After four shots had been fired at him the bandit fled into the brush
 A cloudburst in Tijeris cafion about fourteen miles east of Albuquerque, caused considerable property loss to ranchers. The state and forest service highways through the canon were washed out. The flood waters hit the Santa Fe railway tracks near Barr sta tion, south of the city, and tied up traffic for several hours, water flow Ing over the tracks four feet. Ranch CTS along the Rio Grande where the | arroya flows into the river, were l flooded for distance of several miles. | Farmers who were driven from their | homes took refuge in a school house.
 The tax commission reduced the | valuation of grazing lands in New | Mexico 25 per cent after hearing pro- tests that the valuation was heavier | than the livestock industry could car ny and further disaster would result | unless the relief was granted. It was estimated the reduction would slash | S10,O0O,OOO from the tax roll, but it was cOntended it was not the commissions duty to foot the Leg F islature'S bill, but to assess the prop erty value.
 The range stock business in Arizona is looked upon an industry entirely separate from farming, and farming with stock raising. Reports received by the United States Department of Agriculture show that the old type of range is not continuing as profitably as it was decade ago. The old-time antagonism between stOckman and farmer is being overcome gradually There is now a reaction from the prac- tice of homesteaders of breaking up the pastures by settling on land where they could not make a living In some instances miles of fences are being and the ranges established where dry farming has been found to be unprofitable.
 Construction work has begun on the Charleston dam. twenty-two miles be- low Benson, Ariz., and its completion will mean the irrigation of 47,OOO acres