The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW Mexico
 and Arizona
cuestern Newspaper Union News ser,iceD

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 of westbound Santa Fe passenger train
 No. 9, J. c. Woodward, station agent
 ut Hebron, N Mex, was instantly killed.
 Thrown into the Eastern canal, probably by the kick of d horse, Mrs. w. H. Wrenck, wife uf a sOuthside
 rancher, was drowned near Phoenix. The body was recovered after d search of nearly three hours.
 One of the largest shipments of cat
 'le to be made from the yards at Mag lalena, N. Mex. was shlpped by Field, Payne & Medley, when they loaded
 over 1000 head of two-year-olds. The price was S20 per head.
 Many properties are getting ready to work in the Tombstone district that nave not been producing in the past. l The chance of the Huachuca Water | Company being able to furnish water will start many of them soon.
 The first annual session of the Montezuma Baptist Assembly will open II the MOntezuma College at Las
 Vegas, N. Mex, July 20. and will close
 July 27, and preparations are now be- ing made to care for q large crowd. The Chamber of Commerce is mak- ing ;In effort to improve the city by futting new signs on all the streets, ;:nd every street in Gallup, N. Mex, is now marked. Many other improve raents will be made during the sum- mer
 Curry and Roosevelt counties, New Mexico, are making plans to hold joint teachers institute some time in he fall If the present plans are car ried out, the institute will take place u Portaies from August 29 to Septem- Ter 2.
 Fire which started in the Mazata range in the Tonto National Forest, northwest of Roosevelt, Ariz., broke away from the thirty-five fire fighters and. driven by high wind. cut deeply into the forest on two sides before it was eXtinguished.
 The C. & A. Mining Company, op- erating near Lordsburg, N. Mex, will sink the shaft another $50 feet at once. This will make the main shaft 1850 feet below the entrance of me tunnel. About thirty men will he added to the force during the coming week.
 Marching four abroad, 250 Mexicans paraded down Washington street to he capitol building at Phoenix recently
 in an effort to induce Governor Camp bell to intercede in their behalf with the Mexican government toward Ob- taining food and to assist them ill re- turning to Mexico.
 A free hotel for ex-soldiers who are out of work and strangers in the city soon will be established in Douglas, AriZ., by the American Legion. The building will be equipped with cots, dishes and cooking utensils, so that for a few cents the hungry strangers can prepare meal.
 While attempting to pass another car on the narrow canon road along the Cimarron river, north of Roy, N. Mex, the automobile driven by J. w. Rob- ertson jumped over an embankment and rolled down the hill into the river, turning over three times before it landed in the water.
 More than @ per cent of the 1,4OO men stationed at Camp Harry J. Jones, near Douglas, Ariz., have expressed desire to leave the service before the expiration of their enlistment period, following receipt of orders from head quarters granting camp officers the privilege of dscharging men who are dissatisfied
 A resolution adopted by the joint meeting at Flagstiff, Ariz., of the Ari- zona Cattle Growers Association urged consumers of meat in Arizona to demand reduction of GO per cent. in the retail price of meat to core spOnd with what the resolution de- cared had been the decline in the price paid for livestock in the last year.
 Crop conditions in Arizona on July l were generally better than on June 1 of this year, despite the fact that crop conditions over the United States were poorer on July 1 than on June l, ac- cording to report issued by L. NJ. Harrison, agricultural statistician, in charge of the local office of the United States bureau of markets and crop es- inmates at Phoenix.
 At conference of the border off cials of the Salvation Army in Fl PasO during the past week, it was decided | to establish three new >corps in the state of New Mexico, these being at | Santa Fe. Las Vegas and Las Cruces. Most of the counties in the state have raised their quota in the drive for funds, and it is thought that there will | soon be plenty of money to finance the | new corps.
 Elida, N Mex, has one of the finest | city parks of any town of it's size in the state. The block in the center of | the town has been fitted as a park. l and many large trees have been plant | ed during the spring and summer, | which will soon make it the beauty | spot of the town.
 The women of Tombstone, Ariz., are going to have a children's day on La bor Day, Seutember ,. All kinds of races for prizes will be held. and all the children of Cochise county are in vited to come and bring their parents. It will be strictly a chiIdren'S day.