The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
twestern Newspaper Union News Service

| place one mile east of Portales, n.
Mex, raised by G. F. Clark and Claude
| Jones.
| Wagon Mound, n. Mex, is one of
| the largest producing communities in
the state is proven by the fact that the
| Sante Fe bills out to other points an
average Of a little over five cars of
| livestock and produce, grain, beans,
etc. every day. This excels any previ-
ous shipping records of the town, and
local merchants and shippers claim
that the heaviest shipping has not yet
commenced.
A meeting of the county board of
| education was held at Mosquero, n.
Mex, and $4,000 worth of bonds OF
school district No. 1, Abbott, were sold
| at par, the buyer to pay cost of print
ing the bonds. The same company al
SO submitted the lowest bid for the
erection of fine new hollow tile
school house, and was awarded the
| contract and will commence immediate
work on the same.
Wonderland Topics" will be the
name Of the official publication of the
| Automobile Club of Arizona, it was
made known at Phoenix in connection
| with the announcement of prize win
nerS in the clubs name contest, which
has attracted statewide interest dur
| ing the past several weeks. The first
| prize, consisting of $40 cash and Il S12
membership in the club, goes to Ana
| nf n
| Phoenix, Arizona.
Sunday dancing has been stopped in
Rernalilo County, y. Mex, according
TO Sheriff Tony Ortiz. For some time
| the Sheriff's force has been obliged to
| give up their much-needed day Of rest
on account Of the many dances which
have been held all over the county on
Sunday. The sheriff has issued in
structions to the justices of the peace
all over the county, forbidding them
| 10 issue any more licenses for Sunday
dances as they have been doing in the
past.
Definite steps looking 10 the estab-
lishment of a public playground in
New Mexico were taken at Las Cruces,
when til e southwestern National
Park Association OF the Las Cruces
| Chamber of Commerce selected Ell
/ PaS0 as executive headquarters. See
| retary Falls original suggestion was to
convert parts of the Mesealero and
Lincoln forest reserves into national
| park, and connect them by highway
With the Elephant Butte dam and lake
1t is expected that part of the Alamo
forest reserve will be added when the
bill for the park is drawn.
Governor Thomas f. Campbell, of
! Arizona. is in receipt of a letter from
| Governor ID. w. Davis, of Idaho, in
forming him that the active co-opera-
ton and backing of the United States
| Chamber of Commerce has been OBJ
tanned for the reclamation policy be-
ing urged upon the national govern
ment by the League of the Southwest
| of which Governor Campbell is presi-
| dent, the Western States Reclamation
| Association and other organizations
which are working in the interests of
/ a comprehensive national reclamation
| policy The surplus motor vehicles
turned over by the War Department to
the Department of Agriculture for dis
tributiOn among the various states for
road building purposes have been dis
| tributed through the bureau of public
roads. Up to July /, last, total of
22,577 motor vehicles had been so dis
tributed, 302 of such were allotted to
| Arizona.
Clay McGOnagill, world champion
roper, is dead. He passed away al
| Casa Grande, Ariz., and was buried in
Carlsbad, n Mex. Here one of the
famous characters of the southwest
| dies--a wiz with the rope and the
I bronco, who has been phenom ever
since the old days when he used to
perform at the territorial fair in Albu-
| querque.
The judgment Of the Maricopa coun-
| ~ Superior Court in convicting Tomas
| Roman of murder and sentencing him
| to death has been affirmed by the
| state Supreme Court of Arizona. The
court held that none of the alleged
! errors in the trial of the case on which
counsel for the defendant appealed the
case were material or prejudicial to
| the defendant.
| Imports to and exports from the
| United States through the district of
Arizona during October were valued
at S93,5S1, according TO a report made
public by Charles l.. Fowler, collector
of customs at NOgales, Ariz. The ex-
| ports and imports going through No
gales We're valued at $6S7 ,062, those
through Douglas at $14S, 100, and those
through Yuma, Naco and Lochiel
$5S,329
| Eleven hundred and thirty ears of
corn were entered and exhibited at the
second annual Valencia County corn
show, held at Los Lunas, n. Mex The
first prize for the best corn grown in
| the Rio Grande Valley was won by Mr.