The Snowflake herald., 1921-10-28
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspaper Union News Service. !,

oA the 1nsGltutl0n, asking that it be
made effective not later than Jan. /.
1922.
Cotton picking in the Pecos valley
In the vicinity of Roswell, N. NJ, is GO
ing ahead rapidly and there is a small
colony in the fields every d.y. 1t is
estimated that the total production for
the valley for the season will be about
5000 bales.
William Singleterry of Clovis. N. NJ.
has fine crop of peanuts this season.
Some of the samples will be sent to
the big fair which is soon to be held
in Dallas, Texas. The acreage will be
increased during the next year
throughout the county.
Believing that the boys of the city
can do much to aid in the prevention
of fires, the Las Vegas, N. NJ, fire de-
partment has enlisted the aid of the
local Boy Scouts in the work. At the
suggestion of the firemen a lecture
was given by the district attorney on
the prevention of fires to the troops
of scouts at the Y. M. G. A.
Patrick T. Brennan, who, in COM
pany. with two other navy enlisted
men, is accused of having absconded
with $4,000 of the paymasters' office
in the navy yard at Norfolk, Va, on
Dec. %, 1920, was arrested at Phoenix.
Brennan's story was told in a written
confession made by the prisoner, ac-
.i,,rr 70 ~. e. ~
partment of Justice.
The contract for the Grady highway
out of Clovis, \. NJ, will be let the 1st
of November and the work will be
started as soon as the material and
equipment can be placed on the
ground. The new highway will run
north out of the city for thirteen miles
and will be hard surfaced with caliche,
and when the job is completed the to-
tai cost will be over 100000.
w. 2. Walker, former deputy Co
chiSe county treasurer, on trial since
Oct. 10 at Tombstone, AriZ., for al
legged embeZzlement of county funds,
brought his trial to- close by enter
misappropriating $234.48, the first of
eighteen charges filed against him in
volving shortages in the county treas
urerS office said to total $35,000
Perry Hooper, negro, one of the
twelve prisoners who escaped from the
Santa Cruz county Jail on June 8, was
deporte6 from Mexico at Nogales,
AriZ, and was Immediately arrested
by Sheriff George White and placed
in the county Jail. Hooper was taken
to Florence to serve life sentence in
the state prison for killing Della ROg
ers, also negro, last November.
Returns to the Farm Bureau Mar
keting Association from G. III. Weaver
4 Co., Chicago, who handled part of
the cantalOupe deal in the Mesilla val
ley, n. NJ, this season, show 0,575.41
total net for 55,767 crates or an aver
age of 36.9 cents a crate. Thirty
three growers in this deal devoted 234
acres of land to melons. The average
acre yield was 1882 crates. The aver
age net acre return to the growers was
$S6.91.
A limit of 40 per cent was fixed by
the Automobile Club of Arizona with
respect to the number of auto dealers
who may be signed up as dealer-mem-
bers of the club in any one commun-
ity. This action was taken as protec-
ton against dealers who have already
signed up and who felt that they would
receive no particular benefit from this
membership if every garage and re-
pair shop in the town should become
members.
Miss Edith Snowden of Phoenix was
appointed chairman of the State Board
of Nurse Examiners by Governor
Thomas e. Campbell to succeed Miss
Bertha G.. Rowe of Tucson, resigned.
New Mexico's first state fish hatch
cry is now completed and will be
ready to start Matching fish by the
first of the year, according to report
by Game Warden Thomas p. Gable.
The superintendents cottage is now
under construction and it. is thought
by next spring the hatchery will be III
position to release at least million
lrout for the streams of the state. The
'otal cost of the hatchery, including
he cottage, will be about $4,000.
The county supervisors of Pinal
county, as well as Santa Cruz, have
voted to cooperate with the Automo-
bile Club of Arizona in the posting or
permanent road signs, according to an
announcement from state headquaf-
ters of the club. Santa Cruz agreed
to help pay for the signing two weeks
ago. Agreements have been entered
into whereby the counties will contrib
ute at the rate of $1.25 for each mile
of road signed, this being equlvalenl
to about 80 or 40 per cent OF the en-
tire cost.
Promises have been made at Phoe-
nix that silver, zinc and lead mines In
The vicinity of Patagonia VIII be de-
x,oIoDod on an extensive scale as SOOH