Taiban Valley news., 1921-02-04

belonging to l.. E. Freeland of Vana-
dium n. NJ, was completely destroyed
by fire, the loss being estimated at
over $1,000. S
A bill to prohibit dancing in the pub
lie streets of Arizona has been intro
| duced in the lower House of the State
Legislature. 1t provisions would in
clude the state university. The Sen
ate ia committee of the whole dis
cussed bill to make the "blue sky"
law more stringent.
Following angry outbursts of ranch
ers in the foothills, near Douglas,
Ariz, four alleged cattle thieves, all
of them Mexicans, were arrested by
officers in the Swisshelm mountains.
Stolen beef, found in their possession,
was confiscated. Ranchers have been
missing cattle for some time.
The farm of Cipriano Solano, one
mile west of Springer, N. NJ, was WIS.,
ited by bad fire which destroyed five
stacks of alfalfa and several small
outbuildings. A call for help was an
SWGIeu ny llC lhC uCPdiI
ment but upon it's arrival there was
little that could be done except to
save the house. The origin of the fire
is unknown.
Gov. Thomas E. Campbell gave
signed approval to Senate memorial
No. / of the Arizona Legislature, urg-
ing recognition by the United States
of the government of Mexico. Al
though his signature was not neces-
sary, the governor said he was so
heartily in favor of recognition that he
took opportunity to manifest approval
of the memorial by his signature.
Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah,
Washington and Wyoming, the iron
ore producing states in the West, are
estimated to have mined and shipped
734,OO0 gross tons of iron ore in 1920,
an increase of per cent as compared
with the quantity mined and shipped
in 1919. No large stocks of iron ore
are maintained at Western mines.
Sudan. grass has proven to be one
of the most reliable hay crops for the
dry farming sections of Arizona. Dur
ing the season of 1920, one of the dry
est on the Prescott dry farm, Sudan
grass produced two cuttings of hay.
The first cutting in the test plat yield
ed 1850 pounds of cured hay to the
acre. The second cutting yielded 1880
pounds to the acre.
f.. C. w. Pooler, district forester for
New Mexico and Arizona, has an
nounced that a rigid prosecution Of
persons who start fires on the nation
al forests will be carried out during
the coming year. Reports OF rangers
from the different forests show that
over half of the fires are caused by
human agency The district, of which
California is part, last year secured
$50 convictions of persons who started
destructive fires. =
The new hospital which has been
under construction at Eordsburg, N.
NJ, during the past summer and Win
ter is nearly completed and will be one
of the finest institutions Of it's kind
in the Southwest Visitors from the
Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore
visited the new building recently and
stated that the new hospital was in
Keeping with the best institutions of
its kind in the East. The building
will be absolutely firepro0f and will
Lo,,o +ho bact onocihla autIinmQnf If
will be ready for occupancy in about
one month.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
handle 10000 Mexicans going back to
Mexico from the Salt River Valley Of
Arizona, according to an official OF
he road, who says the men are cot
ton pickers.. The men are without
work and short of food.
The S-year-old son of Mr.. HObson
of Roy, N. NJ, was fatally crushed in
the elevator shaft of the Cooperative
Company and died shortly afterwards
from his injuries. The lad with sew
eral companions had been playing near
the elevator and attempted to- grab
nOIu VI lHC SuuAlf NhiNh WHo ~N'NA~'N
with frost. His wet mittens froze to
the shaft and he was pulled under 1t
and crushed between the shaft and
the ground.
The University Of Arizona will this
year offer summer courses at both
Flagstaff and Bisbee. At the former
place it will cooperate with the
Northern Arizona Normal School, and
at the latter with the Tempe Normal
School. At both places the university
will undertake to meet somewhat gen
eral needs of persons desiring to pur-
sue summer courses of university rank,
but will give special attention to the
needs of those preparing to teach.
The plans for the new highway be-
tween Clovis and Tucumcari, N. NJ.
were approved the first of the year,
and If the government win cooperate
on the fifty-flfty basis the road will
be built during the present season. The
improvement called for consists Of
grading surfacing with Caliche the en-