The Holbrook news., 1921-06-17
Southwest News
 From All OUer Neu Mexico
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funds. A. feature of the program will
 be wild west events.
 In order to boost the tourists travel
 over the route through Socorro, N NJ,
 several of the business men of the city
 have subscribed the money to erect a filling station at Los Lunas The
 roads in the SocOrro district are said
 to be in good condition.
 While cleaning a double-barrel shot
 gun, Dr. w. J. Lee, well known physi-
 clan of Las Vegas, N. NJ, accidental ly discharged one of the barrels which
 had been left loaded. the full force of
 the shot taking effect in his left foot,
 necessitating amputatiOn.
 The New Mexico law imposing an
 excise tax upon distributors of gaso-
 line was held valid and the imposition
 of an occupation tax by the same law
 partly valid by the Supreme Court of
 the United States. The decision of the
 lower federal courts was reversed.
 Fifteen miles of standard graded
 road will be added to the route bo- tween Espanola and Chama, N. M, ac- cording to a report of the headQuar- ters of the forest service. The new road will extend south from the set clement of Cebolla through Canjilon, and when completed will cost over $1O0,OOO.
 There is no Restitution among the Mexican miners at Jerome, Ariz., des- pite the fact that between 15O and POO mine workers have been discharged there, P. k. Milnes, state immigration commissioner, declared on his return to Phoenix from trip to Jerome and other points in the northern part of the state.
 State Water Commissioner Norviel of Arizona has accepted for filing the application of the Southern California Edison Company to develop hydro-elec- tric energy from the Colorado river. Promoters of the project say it in- wolves an ultimate expenditure of about S300,000,000, or twice as much as the sum spent on the Panama canal.
 The possibility of opening up an aerial passenger service through the Grand Caflon of the Colorado is being considered by the War Department. Lieut.. Alexander Pearson, Jr., trans continental flier, has been ordered to make an investigation to find landing fields and then make an aerial ohser- vation trip to ascedtain air conditions at different times of day and note landing fields.
 The local troops of Boy Scouts of Gallup, N. M., will have fine week of the business men of the city are carried out A splendid camp ground has been selected about twenty miles north of the city in the tall pines, and this will be equipped with a real log cabin which will have all the comforts of home and will provide the boys with a fine place to spend the week ends during the hot weather
 According to the census report of 1920, Union county leads all the coun- ties of New Mexico in agriculture, there being 2,515,522 acres in farms in the county. There are 2,30S farms in the county operated by the owners and only 344 by tenants. The nearest ap- prOach to this record is Colfax coun- -y, where $50 of the farms are oper- ated by the owners and POP by tenants. The report shows that out of the g. 54S farms in the entire county only four of them are operated by colored farmers.
 William H. Evans, 40 years old, of Los Angeles, Calif., died in hospital 1t Phoenix as a result of a broken neck, which he suffered in an auto | mobile accident. The accident oc- .urred four and one-half miles east of | Phoenix, when the automobile in which | Evans was riding collided with milk | ruck from the state hospital for the nsane
 An address by Governor NJ. c. | uechem of New Mexico will be a fea- | ure of the celebration to be held on he Fourth of July at the official | opening of the new highway over the | Black Range. A big meeting of the | chambers of commerce of Silver City, | 1illsboro and Hot Springs will be held shortly, when the plans for the cele- ,ration will be completed.
 As previously announced, Wilcox, Sriz., will have Fourth of July cele- ,ration to begin Saturday, July 2, and asst until Monday evening, July 4. During the celebration number of cal sports will be featured, including Iorse races, baseball games, foot races md other sports, with dancing Satur- lay and Monday nights of the celebra- ion and big free barbecue.
 Several people were injured, none se- iously, when the northbound train on he Denver & Rio Grande, leaving santa Fe, N. M, went into the ditch t EspanOla, thirty miles north. Soft rack as result of the terrific rains $ supposed to have been the cause
 Andrew Straup of Albuquerque, N. l., has been appointed supervising ederal prohibition agent for the bor- CT department, with headquarters at T Paso, Texas. Dudley w. Snyder of layton, N. M., was named federal pro- ibition director for the state of New IeXico
 Following an alleged confession by Iatt Keaton of Bisbee, Ariz., that he -as implicated in the robbery of the )caI Dostoffice on the night of April |