Williams news., 1921-04-22
Southwest News
 From All Opey NelU MexiCo and Arizona
twes.ern Newspaper Union News service.)

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 apleted 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 a 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 10 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 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 caflon, near Tucumcari. Bloodhounds were put 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
 il cir -cording to 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. The contract calls for $1OS,O9S, the contractor paying par for the $135,OO | bond issue voted last summer. There | will be about $29,OOO paid into the | town treasury for the bonds, with ac- crued interest, aside from the compile | ton 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- partment of Justice of Tucson. Both are charged with being draft evaders. They will be tried in the Federal Court. According to government agents a number of slackers are returning from Mexico to the United States in the belief that they will no longer be nolested. After raid, however, they hurry back across the border, the fed eral men have found.
 The New Mexico crop report, just ssued by the bureau of crop estimates, states that the crop of winter wheat in he state has a condition of 90 per ,ent, which forecasts a production for his year of 4,6OO OOO bushels, if no un- favorable conditions prevail to har- est. This will exceed all previous of the state Last years crop vas estimated at 100000 bushels. The report shows that the supply of arm labor in New Mexico this year is 35 per cent of last years supply at his time .
 The Animal Husbandry department | . f the University of Arizona, under the Erection of F. B. Stanley, as- istant animal husbandman, is , feeding test at { he experiment. farm at Mesa i 9 determine the feeding value and use ' whole cotton seed under the present , onditiOns as feed for fattening : teers. f
 Deposits in the United States postal I lvingS system were approximately = l61, 15O, ,OOO April 1, the Postoffice De artment announced. Phoenix, Ariz-, ith deposits for March totaling $15S,- 54, led in the gains for the month and l. lmped from 139th to 18th rank BOs- ,n came second, with S146S92: New ork third, with $S4,491 and Globe, / rig, fourth, with $21,7OO Maud Doster, serving from three to 'ur years for killing Capt. Wade Dos ( r at Columbus, N. NJ, has been par u ov. w. H. Duckworth. Mrs. Doster h as tried, but the jury disagreed, and le then entered a plea of guilty to cOnd degree murder and was sen need May 9, 1920. Eleven members h
 the jury recommended clemency in h petition to the acting governor. = The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce IS distributed for planting here 5000
 the young spruce and fir seedlings rniShed by the forest service, which cans, if only one-ffth of them grow, sizable forest of beautiful trees add
 to Santa Fe. In ten years time ey should be handsome and big trees.