The Snowflake herald., 1921-07-22
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News serrIca.1 )

- - NOouWdFu, station agent
at Hebron, N. Mex, was instantly
killed.
Thrown into the Eastern canal
probably by the kick of a horse. Mrs
W. II. Wrenck, wife of a southside
rancher, was drowned near Pboenix
The body was recovered after a search
of nearly three hours.
One of the largest shipments Of cot.
tie to be made from the yards at Mag.
dalena, N. Mex, was shipped by Field
Payne & Medley, when they loaded
over LOCO head of two-year-olds. The
price was $50 per head.
Many properties are getting ready to
work in the Tombstone district that
have not been producing in the past.
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
at the Montezuma College at Las
Vegas, n. Mex, July 20, and will close
July p, and preparations are now be-
ing made to care for large crowd
The Chamber of Commerce is max
ing an effort to improve the city by
putting new signs on all the streets.
and every street in Gallup, N. Mex. is
now marked. Many other improve
ments will be made during the sum-
mer.
Curry and Roosevelt counties, New
Mexico, are making plans to hold a
joint teachers institute some time in
the fall. If the present plans are car
ried out, the institute will take place
Mt Portales from August 20 to Septem-
ber 2.
Fire which started in the Mazata
range in the Tonic National Forest,
northwest of Roosevelt, Ariz., broke
away from the thirty-five fire fighters
and, driven by a high wind, cut deeply
into the forest on two sides before it
was eXtinguished.
The c. & A. Mining Company, op-
Grating 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 the tunnel
About thirty men will be added to the
force during the coming week
Marching four abroad, 250 Mexicans
paraded down Washington street to
the capitol building at Phoenix recently
in an effort to induce Governor Camp
bell to intercede in their behalf with
the Mexican government toward OBJ
tanning food and to assist them in 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 ]. 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 90 per cent. of the 1,4O0
men stationed at Camp Harry j. Jones,
near Douglas, Ariz., have expressed a
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 discharging 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 a reduction of 60 per cent.
in the retail price of meat to CORE
sDond with what the resolution de-
cIared had been the decline in the
price paid for livestock in the last
year.
Crop conditions in Arizona on July
1 were generally better than on June l
of this year despite the fact that crop
conditions over the United States were
poorer on July / than on June l, ac-
cording to a report issued by L. NJ.
Harrison, agricultural statistician, IN
charge of the local office of the United
States bureau of markets and crop es-
timates at Phoenix.
AT conference of the border Off
cials of the Salvation Army in El Paso
during the past week, it was decided
n establish three new corps in the
state of New Mexico, these being al
Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Las Cruces
Most of the counties in the state nave
roised their quota in the drive for
finds. and it is thought that there VIII
soon be plenty of money to finance the
new corps.
Elida. n. Mex, has one of the finest
city parks of any town OF its size ID
tbe state. The block in the center "
tbe town has been fitted as a PARK
and many large trees have been plant
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